Visualizing ObamaCare....you might need some glasses.

Here is ObamaCare for you to feast your eyes and twist your brain.

In addition to capturing the massive expansion of government and the overwhelming complexity of new regulations and taxes, the chart portrays:

* $569 billion in higher taxes;
* $529 billion in cuts to Medicare;
* swelling of the ranks of Medicaid by 16 million;
* 17 major insurance mandates; and
* the creation of two new bureaucracies with powers to impose future rationing: the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payments Advisory Board.

Brady admits committee analysts could not fit the entire health care bill on one chart. “This portrays only about one-third of the complexity of the final bill. It’s actually worse than this.”

Where is your annual Trustees' report on Social Security and Medicare?

Did you know the annual Trustees' report on Social Security/Medicare was supposed to be published in mid-April or May? Did you know they asked for an extension through the end of June? Did you know the report still isn't out?

Yeah, me either and it seems the only people who care are Investors Business Daily.

Are Overdue Reports Concealing ObamaCare Impact On Medicare?

Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May. Now it's July, and there's no sign of this year's report. What is the Obama administration hiding?

The annual report includes detailed information about Social Security and its financing over the next 75 years, produced by the Office of the Actuary of the Social Security Administration.
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(But) The implications for Social Security aren't what the Obama administration is hiding by delaying the annual trustees reports. Those annual reports also include information regarding Medicare over the next 75 years. What the administration is trying to hide are sweeping draconian cuts to Medicare resulting from the ObamaCare legislation, which the annual report will document.

Exactly. Aren't all the deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid how they are paying for this thing? To top it all off, they can't ever actually get those cuts passed into law, so there will be no savings from it. Apparently though, these figures are going to show up in the report and they know the doctors will start screaming when they see that. I wonder how those AMA Docs will feel about ObamaCare then.....

Missouri-TONIGHT: Prop C Literature Drop in Kirkwood

Tonight I will be taking part in a literature drop/informational session in Kirkwood, MO. We hope to get out and educate the folks on the Healthcare Freedom Act that will be on the ballot this August. It is an important amendment to our Missouri Constitution, keeping us in Missouri free to pick what ever healthcare we want (or don't want, as the case may be) and re-instituting our States Rights as laid out in the Constitution of the United States.

Missouri is the first state in the nation to hold a binding referendum on ObamaCare on August 3. Here’s another chance to help.

Caroline Mueller and Cynthia Rice are organizing a lit drop near Grace Episcopal Church in Kirkwood on Tuesday, July 13, at 6:30 p.m. The church graciously (see what I did there?) cancelled a pro-ObamaCare event because of its political bent. But the late change could provide an opportunity for friendly and optimistic voter education and canvassing. Activities may include:

• Educate any people who may show up for the cancelled pro-Obamacare event.
• Distribute Prop C literature, yard signs, and bumper stickers.
• Go canvassing the surrounding neighborhoods in Kirkwood.
• Do an impromptu rally at Kirkwood City Hall.
• Go out for burgers, etc…

Please join the cause

Location

Grace Episcopal Church (MAP)
514 E. Argonne
Kirkwood, MO 63122

I don't think I will try to livestream it, but I will take video, photos and be Twittering throughout. If you want to follow along you can follow me.

Britain moves away from centralized heathcare, wants free market solutions.

Oh wow.

Hey look all you single payer lovers.....even Britain has finally realized what a crap system it is and that it is unsustainable in it's current form.

It's premature to tell you we have no funding for the IRS in health care either....

With each passing day we learn of some new law, requirement, agency or fee associated with that "awesome" new health care bill passed by our lawmakers just a few short months ago. It does seem though, the biggest beneficiaries of jobs creation will be the IRS. With nearly every page turn there is some new mandate, tax, fee or tax paper work that will now go through the IRS in order to be sure we all have health care that is unaffordable and unsustainable.

In addition to the new 1099 filing requirements-the one that is a complete and total small business killer, swamping them with massive amounts of unnecessary paperwork-there are other new requirements.

It also falls to the IRS to administrate the whole kit 'n' caboodle of the health care bill.

Under the new law, the IRS will be required to verify incomes for households applying for premium assistance credits on insurance exchanges; determine whether businesses are eligible for small-business tax credits; ensure that individuals are complying with the mandatory coverage requirement; and collect penalties from those who aren’t.

The best part? Oh all of that new stuff (and MORE) is completely and totally unfunded. That's right. The expense of adding new agents and all the processing that will have to be done on the paperwork and what-not wasn't included in the cost of this legislation.

It's ok though, IRS spokesperson Robert Marvin and Senator Max Baucus think we will just worry about that tomorrow.......(can't you just hear Scarlett O'Hara's voice.....)

IRS spokesman Robert Marvin said Friday that the agency hasn’t yet determined how much extra funding it will need.

“While the IRS has already started work on the healthcare provisions, many of the key components are several years away from implementation,” Marvin said in an email. “It's premature to discuss funding issues.”

The office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee, echoed that, saying Friday that funding and staffing levels won’t be decided until the IRS comes up with an implementation strategy.

Of course it's premature to discuss funding issues, the November elections haven't happened yet.

Obamacare identical to Massachusetts-a great big #FAIL

For all the warnings and "fear mongering" that was done in the blogosphere about Obamacare and talk of rationing, price controls and ultimately the ruination of the country, we were eviscerated. For all the research and case studies we looked at and then reported back to people we were called stupid. For all the pointing to the British system and saying "They're already denying drugs to people over there because they are too expensive!" we were put on Homeland Security watch lists as possible domestic terrorists. For all the screaming we did, we were told we had nothing to fear; Obamacare would be "just like" the Massachusetts system that is such a great success.

Well guess what? Now the Massachusetts health care system is going bankrupt, politicians are trying to control costs by rationing and price controls and insurers in that state are about to go bankrupt. They also have the highest premiums in the country........hey wait just a stinkin' minute.......

President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is "essentially identical" to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees.

As events are now unfolding, the Massachusetts plan couldn't be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The state's universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics.

In the first good news in months, a state appeals board has reversed some of the price controls on the insurance industry that Gov. Deval Patrick imposed earlier this year. Late last month, the panel ruled that the action had no legal basis and ignored "economic realties."

In April, Mr. Patrick's insurance commissioner had rejected 235 of 274 premium increases state insurers had submitted for approval for individuals and small businesses. The carriers said these increases were necessary to cover their expected claims over the coming year, as underlying state health costs continue to rise at 8% annually. By inventing an arbitrary rate cap, the administration was in effect ordering the carriers to sell their products at a loss.

In addition, as I have said hundreds of times, right here on this site-rationing and health control were the goals all along. No longer will the left even concern themselves with talk of lowering health care costs-sorry sweetie, that was never the real goal. When you re-write history, you can say the goal was anything you want it to be.

The deeper problem is that price controls seem to be the only way the political class can salvage a program that was supposed to reduce spending and manifestly has not. Massachusetts now has the highest average premiums in the nation.

In a new paper, Stanford economists John Cogan and Dan Kessler and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia find that the Massachusetts plan increased private employer-sponsored premiums by about 6%. Another study released last week by the state found that the number of people gaming the "individual mandate"—buying insurance only when they are about to incur major medical costs, then dumping coverage—has quadrupled since 2006. State regulators estimate that this amounts to a de facto 1% tax on insurance premiums for everyone else in the individual market and recommend a limited enrollment period to discourage such abuses. (This will be illegal under ObamaCare.)

Liberals write off such consequences as unimportant under the revisionist history that the plan was never meant to reduce costs but only to cover the uninsured. Yet Mr. Romney wrote in these pages shortly after his plan became law that every resident "will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced."
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In other words, health reform was a classic bait and switch: Sell a virtually unrepealable entitlement on utterly unrealistic premises and then the political class will eventually be forced to control spending. The likes of Mr. Kingsdale would say cost control is only a matter of technocratic judgment, but the raw dirigisme of Mr. Patrick's price controls is a better indicator of what happens when health care is in the custody of elected officials rather than a market.

Well, there you go. There it is in black and white. I wonder how all those folks will feel when it is their child, parent or even themselves who suffer at the hand of the rationing class.

Massachusetts health care system is a great big #FAIL. We don't want or need this as a nation, but we have little control over what the nation as a whole is going to do.

If you really want to be protected, take action at the State level as we have here in Missouri. Not only are we going to vote in August to protect our citizens from this health care travesty, but as announced today, our Lt. Governor Peter Kinder will be suing the Obama Administration for the unconstitutionality of Obamacare. Help them out-they're not using tax payer money for this suit.

Health Care rationing? PFT-Of course you silly people

Obama's pick to lead Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Donald Berwick, should make seniors run for the hills. If you don't fit the proper age, disease affliction or socio-economic status you aren't worth saving according to Dr. Berwick. As just one more radical czar in a string of radical czar's, Dr. Berwick is perfect to work in the NHS because he would love to dispense medicine according to social rules rather than medical need. I know this isn't called rationing, but .....

In his Triple Aim plan, Berwick laments that US health care is "designed to focus on the acute needs of individual patients." He argues for a different focus, social justice.

Instead of doctors making decisions autonomously in the interest of their own patients, he wants a nationwide plan allocating resources "to anticipate and shape patterns of care for important subgroups." These subgroups -- which can be defined by age, disease affliction or socio-economic status -- should be the "unit of concern," not the individual patient.
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Berwick confessed, "I am a romantic about the NHS. I love it. All I have to do to rediscover the romance is to look at the health care in my own country." He praised the NHS for its central planning, frugality, wealth redistribution and rationing.

I'm excited too-who wouldn't be with our future head of Medicare/Medicaid touting wealth redistribution and rationing.

And treating people's illnesses? Yeah, that's silly. Why in the world would we want to tend to actual sickness? We should just let a bunch of people who aren't doctors tell us what treatments we deserve. Good thing we passed that Heath Care Bill so we could see what was in it.

More rules that are just like Socialism........Business REQUIRED to continue offering Insurance

Once again this Administration is meddling in the private operation of private business. This week the Health and Human Services Committee unveiled a new plan to require all businesses to continue to offer their existing health care plans and not shift a significant portion of the surely skyrocketing cost to the employee. Now that it has become clear the health care bill passed is a social and fiscal nightmare that will bankrupt the country, it is certain they want to be sure it will take evil business down too.

The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them.

The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant” new burdens onto employees — a considerable penalty that would subject those plans to all the consumer protections in the Democrats’ new healthcare reform law.
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The new rules say that employers can make “routine and modest” adjustments to their premium, deductible and co-pay requirements, Sebelius said, but “significant” cost hikes or benefit cuts would cost them their exempted status. The goal is to ensure that grandfathered plans “don’t use this additional flexibility to take advantage of their customers,” she said.

“We don’t want a massive shift of cost to employees,” Sebelius said.

They don't want a massive shift of cost to the employee, but they have no problem bankrupting the business? Are they unfamiliar with who actually creates the jobs in this country? Legislation like this will only serve to freeze hiring and wages even more than they are already, forcing many businesses to shut down entire segments that will no longer be cost effective to keep open. There is nothing like threatening the wage creators right in the middle of the highest unemployment and economic turmoil in recent history. Yeah, that outta make things better.

Another noteworthy consequence of this move? There is no way that many insurance plans will not loose their "exempt status" because of these new regulations. This will absolutely result in a massive shift of employees to the government option. Keep what you have? Right.

Please do not call this an unintended consequence-they know exactly what they are doing.

NEW CBO Numbers-DEFICITS WILL RISE 3/19/10

What a nasty little surprise right before the Demon Vote that will likely take place tomorrow. At the request of House Budget Ranking Republican, Paul Ryan, the CBO now says the "doc fix" will ADD $208 billion to the cost of the bill.

Contrary to recent claims, the Democratic health care overhaul will increase Federal deficits by atleast $59 billion, and more likely $260 billion, over the next 10 years.

New analysis from the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] provided at the request of House Budget Ranking Republican Paul Ryan, indicates that including the “doc fix” in the Majority’s health care overhaul adds $208 billion to the cost of the bill, increasing the deficit by $59 billion over the next 10 years.

There are also a number of other policy and budget items that were challenged and found to be either unrealistic or an outright fabrication in this report. At this point it is completely realistic and probable that the actual cost of this bill will "increase [the deficit] over the decade following 2019 “in a broad range around one quarter percent of GDP.” Using the Majority’s own methodology, this amounts to a second decade deficit of $600 billion."

So....there go those pretty savings and all the making your life better crap..........

PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THING RIGHT HERE.....

Protests breaking out all over the country-CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?????

As a direct result of the slamming, jamming, lying, deceiving, arm-wrestling, maneuvering, prostituting.......................

Code Red Rallies in D.C.

Rallies all over locally-call to action by St. Louis Tea Party

More than 50% are against the health care reform in it's current form.

Demon Pass is a bad idea...even the Blue Dog Leader thinks so.

And finally, a President that doesn't care one single thing for rules or process.....

Is there any clue to be had from all of this?

Lies, with a chance of thievery.

There are no truths more abhorrent than those told by this Administration as of late. Deceiving the American people in such a way, simply to say you have done something historic? A pathetic attempt to be great in ones own mind.

If this piece of crap is passed it will historic alright; it will mark the beginning of the end or it will mark the beginning of something awful. If this Administration truly believes shoving this legislation through will have no consequences.......well, I will only say they clearly don't talk to the same people I talk to.

Lies of the savings from passing health care reform.......which is only a saving because you pay for it for years before there are any outlays of cash. Lies of savings with little to no mention of the new taxes and fines being imposed on the hardest working among us-"the rich"; you know, the small business owners and job creators in America. Raising tax rates and imposing new fines does not save ONE DIME on health care; they only rape and pillage the villagers, stealing the money to pay for it. The lie of "savings" floating in a sea thievery.

How about the lie of following the Constitution and proper law making procedures? How is it our own President tells Bret Baier of Fox News: "I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate."? I thought the President was the last defense against abuses on America, the Constitution, and the American people. I know, I know.....it's far too much trouble to actually know how to be the President, than it is to preen and primp for the cameras, concerned only with passing this legislation at all costs. I'm glad he is unconcerned with procedural rules.....I just hope he extends the same courtesy to those unconcerned with civility rules. As the American child is disregarded by it's parent, the child learns how to play the game in the future. We learn that following the rules when we really want something, when we really believe in something, is unnecessary.

Finally, the continual lie that we (and lawmakers) will be given 72 hours to read whatever final bill comes out of all the wrangling and arm breaking going on right now.

Cutting short the period for legislators and the public to evaluate the bill would raise hackles. But Democratic leaders are prepared to take the hits. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer signaled as much last Friday on the House floor in an exchange with GOP Whip Eric Cantor. "We will certainly give as much notice as possible, but I am not going to say that 72 hours is going to be the litmus test, per se, because that which we have voted on already in the House and the Senate have given Members months of notice and the American public months of notice on the substance of the propositions that are pending before us," Mr. Hoyer said.

To longtime Congressional observers, Mr. Hoyer was clearly saying he is not going to be bound by the 72-hour rule if he thinks following it will break the momentum to jam the bill through.

The irony there is the bill constantly changes. There is no bill that has already been voted on and agreed upon by the House and Senate. There is no bill that has been read by the American people. The bill(s) being pushed on members right now are in a constant state of flux, with more and more pay-offs and vote buying taking place every day. The concern of course if if they don't hurry up and vote on it, the American public will voice their concerns to the people who are supposed to be representing them--and that might cause them to vote no. It is amazing to me they would say that right out in the open. They don't want constituents getting to lawmakers for fear the lawmakers will listen to them? The end game has come into full focus now hasn't it?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot indeed......

Capitulating does not mean you took a stand......

It can now be said our nation is under DICKtatorial rule, rather than acting as a functioning Democratic Republic. As our Representatives prepare to take over health care regardless of what the American people want, they are also readying to sneak in a measure to obliterate the private student loan industry. Because the rules of reconciliation require that it can only be sent through once, it would appear that everything but the kitchen sink will be crammed in there if it goes down this way.

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), a top lieutenant to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said Democratic leaders would pair a student loan bill with healthcare reform, throwing a new wrinkle into the health debate. Miller confirmed that leaders would attach a controversial student loan bill, a high priority of President Barack Obama's, to a healthcare "sidecar" bill that will pass under budget reconciliation rules.

"That's how the reconciliation [package] will come from the House, that's
our instructions," said Miller. "That's going to be done."

Miller, the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, crafted the student loan bill as well as elements of the House healthcare bill."You can only send one budget reconciliation [package]," Miller said. The lending legislation would make the federal government the originator of student loans, essentially eliminating the private student loan industry. Under the proposed reform, private banks would still service the loans.

So there it is folks....the people you elected have just waged war on the American people. They will do their will, not ours. They have clearly forgotten they are to vote the conscience of the people they represent. If this bill is passed through reconciliation they will have health care and education by the short hairs and we as a people will have become the enslaved, indentured servants of those in Washington D.C. While they continue to take from the states what is not theirs to take and then prostitute it's people to get what they want, our Representatives are concerned only with passing this nightmare in any way possible. Sadly, if those who don't want this legislation passed don't do absolutely everything in their power to stop it, they are not representing you.

No matter what side of the fence you come down on concerning the health care debate is it not frightening what is being done to make it happen? They are bending, breaking, ignoring and perverting every tactic and "special rule" they can find. It is disgusting and scary. Even those on the left should be worried....if they will do this to pass health care, what will they force on you that you don't want?

.......you know they have been taking about population reduction for years.....

Reduce payments, reduce patients....

It was inevitable; as states cut back on Medicaid reimbursement rates to doctors, doctors cut patients from their rolls. I wonder how it is this Administration believes adding more people to a system that is not only broken, but is losing money faster than a bucket hit with buckshot, will somehow be better. While Obama travels the country praising the current Medicare/Medicaid system, real people are being dropped like a hot potato when they get too expensive to treat. Doctors can no longer afford to see these patients at a loss.

It has not taken long for communities like Flint to feel the downstream effects of a nationwide torrent of state cuts to Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor and disabled. With states squeezing payments to providers even as the economy fuels explosive growth in enrollment, patients are finding it increasingly difficult to find doctors and dentists who will accept their coverage. Inevitably, many defer care or wind up in hospital emergency rooms, which are required to take anyone in an urgent condition.

There is no reasoning adding more people will drive costs down-no matter how high you raise taxes. A key piece in the entire debate? There is little talk of how to actually lower costs; most talk centers around how to pay for health care. While both sides will never agree on every step to take it is unbelievable to me we cannot start with processes that will lower the costs of health care. We do not need to pay for insurance competition across state lines or tort reform or allowing more people to take advantage of health savings accounts. All of those things and may others are free to implement and are an excellent beginning to lowering the cost of health care. However, as Obama likes to often point out, there isn't much else in this process but partisanship and bickering-I would just disagree on who's creating the blockade.

Let's make the Health Care Bill better by REALLY screwing the public.

In an effort to make something that is awful even awfuller, rather than removing unnecessary spending and sweetheart deals the White House is now considering extending some of those deals to every state. Because they cannot garner the votes needed to pass some kind of health care bill-even through reconciliation-the Administration is now considering extending special considerations like increased Medicaid funding and kickbacks to build hospitals not only to the original benefactors, but to all states that might "qualify".

The White House is backing down from efforts to drop "sweetheart" deals poisoning health care legislation as House Budget Committee Democrats meet Monday to craft a "fix-it" bill that does not yet have a price tag.

In a new take on its policy, White House top strategist David Axelrod said President Obama only objects to state-specific arrangements, such as an increase in Medicaid funding for Nebraska, ridiculed as the "cornhusker kickback."

But instead of dropping them, the concept behind those deals could be widened so that all states benefit.

How excellent is it that in a time when we are broke, President Obama is fine with expensive, unnecessary special deals as long as all the states can get in on it. This outrageous spending and careless business sense in running the country must stop. How is it not understood that the outrage from the people does not come because one state got a special deal, but because we can afford NO DEALS. We can't afford the health care bill, even if you take special deals out. Extending those deals further doesn't make it better. It is insulting to me and every other American that we continually be forced to pay for things like this that have no place in health care legislation. It has come to the point where it is clear Obama, Pelosi and Reid have no concern at all what the American people want. They only care they pass this legislation no matter the cost to the American people or the toll it will take on our quality of life.

Ed Martin LIVE "We the People Healthcare Summit" 7pmCST

Ed Martin is holding a "We the People Healthcare Summit" tonight from 7-9pmCST. Hoping to be the Republican challenger to Russ Carnahan this fall, Ed has invited Russ to attend, but at this time Russ has given no answer......Watch LIVE HERE:

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PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES-part of this townhall broadcast got cut off due to technical issues. There is about 10 minutes, then the second part picks up about 10 minutes later.

I'll take our eleventy billion ideas and four of yours......

President Obama indicated today he would be open to four whole ideas, offered by Republicans at the heath care summit last week. In a letter to congressional leaders Obama began what could essentially be construed as closing arguments in the long, drawn out health care debate.

President Obama signaled Tuesday that he will embrace four Republican ideas on health care, including a greater investment in medical malpractice tort reform, as he begins what an aide agreed was the "final act" in the administration's effort to overhaul the health-care system.

In a letter to congressional leaders, Obama said he is also "open" to increasing Medicaid reimbursements for physicians, stepping up efforts to combat fraud in the health-care system and ensuring that people who buy insurance on so-called insurance exchanges could participate in health savings accounts.

Is it nit-picky of me to notice he seems to be applying a band-aid to a dismemberment injury and that there are some outright factual problems?

First off, what in the world does "a greater investment in medical malpractice tort reform" even mean? Does that mean we will have tort reform? I know we have all be told a zillion times that tort reform is meaningless; it will save pennies compared to the overall cost of health care. What is a greater investment? They will take even more money from trial lawyers to ignore the problems that out of control medical malpractice suits bring? Who is making the investment.....the taxpayer, like when we invested in GM or the lobbyists, like when they invest in getting their way? I'm afraid if any Republican lawmakers talk about this as a good thing my head will explode. This is clearly politician speak for "we won't actually do anything."

President Obama also talks about increasing Medicaid reimbursements to doctors. That's a GREAT idea....or not. First off, we all know the Medicaid system is already going broke AS IS. Increasing payments won't make Medicaid cost less. Also, I thought they were getting a whole bunch of money to pay for the new, improved health care system by decreasing reimbursements to doctors. Did President Obama forget he said that? I didn't. This administration keeps spending money we don't have. I'm all for increasing reimbursements to doctors, if the system can support it. Under the current system and any thus far proposed, it can't.

This is clearly a ploy to either get a few Republican votes or to appear to give Democrats the cover they need to vote for this behemoth. Neither is acceptable and neither should happen. The entire plan needs to be scrapped and a new small steps need to be taken. The government should not be involved in health care in any way, shape or form. It is ridiculous for President Obama to try to paint these four-and mostly pathetic-ideas as "bi-partisanship". Its a pat on the head to Republicans at best and should not be enough to sell them on this crap.

White House wants a Bend over and Grab 'em vote.

It is expected this week that Obama will announce his preferred process to get a vote on Health Care going in the House and Senate. However many Dems are calling to pass a merged bill with reconciliation-which would only require a simple majority for the bill to pass.

The White House and congressional Democrats are calling for what they are framing as an "up-or-down vote" on a health care overhaul bill, signaling that they are preparing to pass it through the controversial reconciliation process.

President Obama is expected to announce how he wants to proceed on the bill this week, but Democrats on Capitol Hill are already trying to rally around using reconciliation, which would eliminate the chance for a Republican filibuster.

Republicans have already accused Democrats of using the procedural tool to pass a major social-policy change, which they say was never how it was intended.

Not only has no other major, country changing legislation ever been passed this way. Those calling for this procedural move are clearly prepared to ignore what more than half the country wants. The latest polling shows 52% of folks strongly oppose the health care plan in it's current form.

Trying to pass legislation that will change the face of our country this way-burdening not only you, but your children and generations as far as the eye can see is unconscionable. Reconciliation has been used in the past for other types of legislation, but never something of this magnitude. It was never meant to be used in this manner; the original intent of reconciliation was to speed up budget resolution goals-it was never designed to pass major legislation. There are budget restrictions that go along with passing legislation through the reconciliation process, but it remains to be seen if they will abide by those guidelines if they use it to pass health care. Because they would take this route to pass a bill like this, it seems there would be little concern for budgetary rules contained within the process either.

Just another fine example of your government givin' it to you, just the way they like it......

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result

Which is exactly what Republicans are allowing by continually electing RINO's like this to office. Now that Snowe and Collins aren't going to screw us over the health care take over, Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) would really like to.

Voinovich isn’t seeking reelection to the Senate this year, which makes him perhaps the most dangerous Republican in the Senate given his proclivity for stabbing his party in the back sorry, crossing the aisle. RedState’s Erick Erickson tweeted
yesterday that Voinovich is reportedly meeting with President Obama today,
and Weapons of Mass Discussion also reports that Democrats are going to target Voinovich to become their 60th vote for ObamaCare should Scott Brown be elected in Massachusetts.

Of course this is the same guy who cries about the children when talking about the nomination for United Nations Ambassador, led the charge on the auto bailout, and thinks amnesty is swell.

Excellent. Thanks Voinovich-please pass the lube first.

Ed Martin's Health Care Town Hall-LIVE 7PM CST

Broadcasting LIVE starting at 7pm CST from Ed Martin's Health Care Town Hall

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Wouldn't it be nice if Health Care exploded from the inside.

While a few select Democratic lawmakers are working backroom deals and selling the souls of the American people to get a health care deal done, there are some in the party who are none too happy.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) issued a blunt, angry statement on Wednesday,
accusing the Senate of conducting negotiations with the House while holding "a
gun to our head."

"The House has shown deference to the Senate in this process. But I am tired of hearing how hard it was to get 60 votes in the Senate — getting 218 votes to pass our healthcare bill in the House wasn’t easy," said Weiner, who has taken an increasingly prominent role during the healthcare debate.

Democratic leaders are working to reconcile the House and Senate bills, particularly a handful of issues — including a tax on "Cadillac plans" and restrictions on abortion funding — that have the two chambers at loggerheads

I can relate....I don't like being forced to buy something with a gun to my head either.

Funny though, while the left likes to point to Republicans as being the party of no and the reason this deal has not been done, it is clear that the most radical on the left cannot reconcile with the more moderate Dems. When you have some in their own party that want nothing to do with abortion funding or a public option and yet others that will not pass it without either, it would seem they have a loooong way to go. Fortunately, Obama has flown in on his white horse to make sure they get it done-no matter the cost to the people.