Less than 1/3 of Americans want this damaging Health Care bill, which is “expansion” (not “reform”) and doesn’t solve the problems (in spite of 100 bills introduced by Republicans that have been rejected: see Nov 4 NCN post)!  And apparently many senators couldn’t find enough merit in the Senate version of the bill to vote for it either.  Well, unless they had a little incentive—click here for an MSNBC video that gives a list of all the Read the rest of this entry…

Great diagram of the process of the Health Care Bill.

Glossary for Healthcare.

FAQ/primer on Healthcare from New York Times.

“ ACORN Qualifies for Funding in Senate Health Care Bill”:  See Weekly Standard article here.

“Reid Bill Says Future Congresses Cannot Repeal Parts of Reid Bill” says Weekly Standard article, for instance, the Independent Medicare Advisory Board.  And what exactly is that?  Dick Morris explains.

Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Dec 22 on the Senate version of the bill facing a vote this week: “The biggest surprise for people will be to find out that 40% of them will have their benefits cut because of the Senate tax on health care plans.  The CBO says that the money will come, not from the health care plans, but from cuts on the plans so that providers can avoid the tax.  How will you explain this to….. Read the rest of this entry…

“5 things conservatives hate” and “5 things liberals hate” about Senate health care bill: click here to see video

Last week, the President warned in his speech, “If we don’t pass this health care bill, here is the guarantee:

1. your premiums will go up;
2. Your employer put more cost on you and potentially drop you because they cannot afford increases;
3. The U.S. will be bankrupt because Medicare and Medicaid are unsustainable.”

BUT….THE 2,000 PAGE BILL WON’T CHANGE THIS!!  The proposed bill gives us higher taxes, medicare cuts and higher premiums!  This is NOT MEANINGFUL REFORM!  Go to NCN’s first post to see how we think fiscal conseratives want Congress to SOLVE this health care problem: http://newconservativenetwork.org/2009/10/what-we-support/ and http://newconservativenetwork.org/2009/10/healthcare-reform-falls-short/

Speaking of “bankrupt”, does it help that (instead of paying down the deficit) the House passed another bill last week to use money that was repaid from TARP to extend unemployment benefits AGAIN?

Olympia Snowe rightly commented that she could not see the big need to rush when the benefits don’t go into effect for 3 years (even though Congress starts taxing us right away so they can save up a pool of money so they can say that “over 10 years, it’s deficit-neutral” even though it really ISN’T—-note the CBO concerns and click here for a great article by American Spectator called “CBO Finds Revised Bill Raises Taxes and Spending More than Original One” which includes a link where….. Read the rest of this entry…

Congress has been on a massive spending binge this week and hope you are shopping and don’t notice the $2 trillion worth of spending….

1.  Spending Bill = $1.1 trillion that the President just signed to fund Defense Spending (click here to see good recap by nasdaq.com) 

2.  “job” bill = $154 billion.  It does NOT CREATE “jobs” of course, but rather extends unemployment (again) and extra Social Security payments (remember that bankrupt program?) and ….. Read the rest of this entry…

“Current law requires cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, but since 2003, Congress has suspended those cuts year by year.  However, both Senate and House Health Care bills rely on these Medicare cuts so they can deceitfully flaunt them as ‘deficit reducing’ bills.  

If this “doc fix” bill passed in the House becomes law, the Health Care bills will actually cost over a Trillion dollars and add billions more to the deficit — two things President Obama pledged his health ‘reforms’ would not do.”  Read this Nov 20 blog by John Stossel The True Cost of the Health Care Bills  here.   John goes on to Read the rest of this entry…