March 18th, 2010
“Reconciliation” bill out & House Democrats in Disarray. Help Keep Them That Way!
House Democrats “are in disarray” according to Congressman Mike Pence and are still 5-10 ”yes” votes short.
Your calls to the Capitol are helping to keep this pressure on the Democrats. Keep calling! Read the rest of this entry »
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March 18th, 2010
by AAPS Director, Richard Amerling, MD
Years of debating liberal friends and colleagues has brought me to an understanding: This question is at the core of the debate. The absurd notion of a “right” to health care underlies the movement towards socialized medicine. If this right does exist, it becomes a moral imperative to guarantee it for all, i.e. “universal coverage.” Read the rest of this entry »
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March 18th, 2010
Reconciliation Bill Posted
CLICK HERE TO READ
Dems defeat effort 222-203 to force separate vote on Senate Bill:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/87683-dems-defeat-gop-effort-to-force-separate-vote-on-senate-health-bill
Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad says unlikely the Senate will be able to pass a health care reconciliation bill unchanged from what the House passes.”
http://www.rollcall.com/news/44356-1.html
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March 18th, 2010
House Budget Committee Ranking Republican Paul Ryan (WI) issued the following statement:
“The Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that there is currently no official cost estimate. Yet House Democrats are touting to the press – and spinning for partisan gain – numbers that have not been released and are impossible to confirm. Rep. James Clyburn stated he was “giddy” about these unsubstantiated numbers. This is the latest outrageous exploitation by the Majority – in this case abusing the confidentiality of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office – to pass their massive health care overhaul at any cost.”
According to The Hill:
“The comprehensive health reform legislation will cost $940 billion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Thursday.
“The nonpartisan budget office told lawmakers that the health bill set for a vote this weekend would cut the deficit by $130 billion over the next decade, and $1.2 trillion in the second decade of the plan’s implementation.”
Text of CBO analysis and Text of actual reconciliation package are expected later this morning.
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March 16th, 2010
The proposed charade is not the “up-or-down vote” the president says he wants. Of course, he is demanding an “up” vote, not a “down” one. This is how the Slaughter/reconciliation procedure would work to deliver it.
We have a Senate bill that is a concoction of arsenic, mercury, botulinum toxin, snake venom, lead, and 2000 other things that nobody knows much about. It got 60 votes before the Massachusetts election, and now can only get 59. The reason it can only get 59 is because the whole country helped to unelect the person who would have been #60. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 16th, 2010
Patients and physicians are descending on the US Capitol Tuesday to let Congress know that they do not want the massive government-run plan that Pelosi, Pres. Obama, and Reid are trying to force through this week. For more information visit http://www.americangrassrootscoalition.org/ and http://www.doctorsandpatients.org .
If you cannot be in DC Tuesday, there are events in your area to express your displeasure with the bill. Americans for Prosperity are asking citizens across the country to “Honk No” Tuesday at Noon. Details and a printable sign to hang from your car window are at http://honkno.com/about/ . Read the rest of this entry »
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March 15th, 2010
By: Dr. George Watson, President, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
All Americans should be familiar with the KISS principle—Keep It Simple, Stupid! But it is past time for Congress and the President to employ this principle. So I will present a few simple steps.
Keep a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, Congress, and Mr. President. it is the law of the land that you swore to uphold. It is short and it is simple, so all citizens can understand it, including you. The first question to ask about any proposed legislation is this: “Is it Constitutional?”
If there is any question about Constitutionality, then it isn’t. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 14th, 2010
Late Sunday evening House Democrats posted the shell bill for the Health Care reconciliation package. This is just a shell bill that will be gutted and replaced later in the week. An explanation of this process can be read at: http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/15/the-health-care-shell-game-beg .
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March 13th, 2010
In this alert:
1) Doctors & Patients Needed at Code Red Rallies in DC & other events.
2) House Members to Target with calls, faxes, emails.
3) Videos of physicians speaking out against government medicine.
Speaker Pelosi, President Obama, and Harry Reid have seemingly forgotten the forceful rejection in Massachusetts of their radical agenda. They are now using every strong arm tactic in their playbook, and even inventing some new ones, to push through healthcare “reform” against the wishes of the American people. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 11th, 2010
“If you take their money, they’ll tell you how wide to make the door,” said W.R. Keith, seventh-grade math teacher, c. 1958, concerning federal aid to education.
“When you extend your hand to take the money, that’s when they put on the handcuffs,” said Robert (“Jag”) Jaggard, M.D., c. 1983, regarding Medicare and Medicaid.
“If you take the stimulus money to computerize your office, they will own your patients’ medical records—and possibly your practice,” Read the rest of this entry »
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