President Barack Obama’s health care bill is on the fast track to no where. He made a radical, socialized medicine, health care bill the center piece of his legislative agenda in 2009, even though unemployment had reached a high we have not seen in a quarter of century. Those who opposed a bill that would lead [...]
From McClatchy [Bold emphasis mine] WASHINGTON — Small businesses would have an easier time banding together to offer insurance to employees. Consumers could cross state lines to buy coverage. There’d be no big government expansion. Those are among the ideas that Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to push later this week, as lawmakers [...]
November 3, 2009 | Posted in
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We are told, daily, about the “exploitative” profits being made by the large health insurance companies in the form of premiums. The “huge” amount of dollars collected should be grounds for the massive take over of health care by the government, we are often told by the media. Politicians discuss these companies like preachers from [...]
October 29, 2009 | Posted in
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Kevin Price |
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Why Joe Lieberman caucuses with the democrats, I will never know. But between him and Sen. Robert Byrd (D), the Democrats have no chance of gaining 60 votes to pass Reid’s health care plan. Still, the fight is not over until the liberals plan is dead and true health reform, that is in the publics [...]
The Canadian health care system, which is often touted as the future of medicine, has been the subject of controversy for years. So much so, in fact, that the Canadian government is seriously entertaining privatizing major elements of the system. The surface of the program should discourage most. It is touted as free, but is [...]
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 [...]
October 12, 2009 | Posted in
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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 [...]
October 12, 2009 | Posted in
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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, [...]
October 8, 2009 | Posted in
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If you thought the public option was dead, think again. Fox News reports that the Senate Finance Committee plans on wrapping up a compromise that could be finalized Thursday night. However, the compromise is between the democrats, not with the Republicans. This can only mean one thing, the plan will lead a path straight to [...]
President Obama and other Democrats have gone on the record saying that you will not be taxed if you do not purchase health insurance. Obama engaged in a debate with Geroge Stephanopoulos on the issue, in which Obama was obviously taken back when George brought up the definition of the word Tax. Republicans, on the [...]
September 30, 2009 | Posted in
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