WASHINGTON (AP) – Forget Sarah Palin. The female maverick of the Republican Party is Sen. Olympia Snowe.
The 62-year-old, moderate Maine lawmaker voted on Tuesday for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party and giving a major boost to President Barack Obama’s drive to expand coverage to millions of Americans.
“When history calls, history calls,” [...]
From the Republican Party of Texas:
The US Senate Finance Committee voted today to pass the so-called Baucus Bill for health care reform. The bill is not yet a bill yet, it’s only “conceptual language.” It’s not real legislation. It’s a collection of brainstorm ideas. It’s “vaporware.”
But what we know of the concepts it includes are [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies aren’t playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate, and threatens President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
Democrats and their allies scrambled on Monday to knock [...]
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies aren’t playing nice any more on the health care overhaul. The industry put out a report Monday concluding that the Senate’s health care legislation would drive up costs to consumers, delivering a dire message at a crucial point in the debate and [...]
Re-Post from HotAir:
Until now, the health-insurance industry has mainly held its fire against the ObamaCare proposals in Congress, hoping that its givebacks would be enough to sate the Democratic class warfare that erupted this summer. Now, however, they have apparently taken off the gloves with a new analysis by accounting firm PriceWaterhouse Coopers. The study [...]
If you think that the omission of the Public Option from the Baucus, or the final senate bill in general, will kill the public option…think again. The democrats have a plan in place that will be hard to combat if it gets far enough. It does not matter what is in the Senate’s final bill, [...]
From DickMorris.com:
Faced with a need to scrounge for revenue to fund his plan for health care, President Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus have come up with a brilliant new idea: Tax the sick!
In a new amendment to the health care bill, they propose to limit the deductibility of medical expenses on [...]
The latest estimate of the Senate’s health care proposal will cost an estimated $829 billion. This projection comes from the latest analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), based on the “plain language” version of the bill, which includes a revised estimated $81 billion to the federal deficit over a 10-year period. At first glance, [...]
From Fox News:
Fearful that they’re losing ground on immigration and health care, a group of House Democrats is pushing back and arguing that any health care bill should extend to all legal immigrants and allow illegal immigrants some access, The Washington Times reported on Monday.
The Democrats, trying to stiffen their party’s spines on the contentious [...]
Sen. John Cornyn (R – Tx) addressed Sen. Max Baucus on the issue of his health refom proposal. Cornyn proposes a medical malpractice amendment (i.e. tort reform) that would cap a jugement at $1 million (Cornyn amendment D 13). Currently, there are 27 states that have some sort of medical malpractie laws, both Democrat and [...]
That Racist DEA
TEA Party Video: Forget about Spreading the Wealth, Let’s start Spreading the Truth!
A Nation of Cowards
In Massachusetts, “Obama style” care is leading to firms canceling coverage
Major worries about the US economy
Dick Morris endorses Natalie Nichols, citing her as a “rising, young star” in the Republican Party
Chris Christie brings style and substance to New Jersey Politics
