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An Open Letter to Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC)
8 hours ago ago from The View from Abroad
Dear Senator Hagan, It is with great disappointment that I contact you about your support of the Senate’s version of healthcare reform. Not only will the legislation that you and 59 other misguided souls passed today not address the ills facing our healthcare system, the measure is plagued by the 4 “c’s” – constitutionality, cost, corruption, and consent. I realize that questioning the constitutionality of Congress taking up ...
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22 hours ago ago from Welcome to Finance World
The health care reform bill approved by the Senate on Thursday would do more than any proposal yet to reduce the deficit over time - by an estimated $132 billion over 10 years and by substantially more thereafter. But reducing the deficit is not entirely synonymous with the oft-stated goal of health reform: reducing the growth rate in health care costs and expenditures - often referred to as bending the cost curve. That growth rate ...
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10 hours ago ago from TalkLeft
This NYTimes editorial is almost surreal. In almost every respect it finds the Senate bill wanting and prefers the House bill but we all know that the final bill, the bill Obama wants, is the Senate bill. So a read of the editorial is basically a litany of everything that is is wrong with the health bill: Here are the major differences: FINANCING The Senate bill has the better financing feature to help subsidize coverage of the ...
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1 hour, 6 minutes ago ago from Speaker\'s Journal
This is hardly news since the "public option" was never expected to survive into legislation, but at least two House Representatives seem to withdrawing their support for the "public option" which supposedly the majority of all Americans want. The health care bill, now described by President Obama as a "health reform" bill will look more like the current Senate Bill than anything else... Democrat Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina claims ...
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12 hours ago ago from Liberally Conservative
Christmas Eve had Barack Hussein Obama delaying his trip to Hawaii while his Senate elves prepared coal for American citizens and their Christmas stockings. We hope our Jewish friends, 74-percent who voted for Obama and his ilk enjoy their holiday gift as well. That is, unless we are able to overturn the outrageous actions to have government turn a free society into leftovers from the Bolshevik Revolution. Harry Reid led the Democrats in ...
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GOP looks for defectors on health bill
6 hours ago ago from NBC
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10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Politico : Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year. "I am communicating that in every way I know how," says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's ...
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