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Title: Kill the Bill, ObamaCare Repealed!
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The Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47831.html
Published: Jan 19, 2011
Author: CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
Post Date: 2011-01-19 18:15:41 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Die ObamaCare, Die!, Kill the Bill
Views: 14525
Comments: 28
House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care plan Wednesday, taking their first major step toward rolling back the massive overhaul that has dominated the American political landscape for almost two years. The vote was 245 to 189, and unanimous GOP opposition gave the vote the same partisan feel of the March vote to pass the law, underscoring once again the hardened political lines of the health care debate. Only three Democrats backed the repeal, a smaller number than Republicans had once predicted. The bill will head next to the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised to block it. If it did receive a vote, the repeal bill would be unlikely to draw support from even a majority of senators. Even so, House Republican leaders have challenged Reid to give the bill a vote since Democrats, who control the chamber, have little to fear. Republicans rejected a procedural maneuver by the Democratic minority to make repeal ineffective unless a majority of the House and Senate withdraw from the federal health benefits program within 30 days after passage by each chamber. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said the effort was “an attempt to derail an appeal of the Obamacare bill.” House members flooded the floor throughout the day, delivering short but occasionally impassioned speeches that echoed their party’s talking points. Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) called the law “a trillion-dollar tragedy.” Rep. John Duncan (R-Tenn.) described it as “job-killing” and “socialistic.” Rep. Kevin Duncan (R-Texas) said “health care is too important to get it wrong, and Obamacare got it wrong.” But Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) took the debate to a new level late Tuesday night, suggesting to an empty House floor that Republican rhetoric around health care reform is akin to Nazi propaganda that fed anti-Semitism during World War II. “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said, referring to a Nazi propagandist. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing.” Reps. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) agreed Wednesday afternoon that the health reform law creates jobs, but sparred on their merits. Pallone said it’s a good thing that the new law creates jobs in the health care sector. He also said he was glad to hear Stearns say that the law will create jobs, a point, he says, Republicans won’t concede. But Stearns fired back, saying the measure creates the wrong kind of jobs. “Perhaps the gentleman of New Jersey didn’t listen to me when I just spoke,” Stearns said. “It’s creating 150 new government agencies. And these are all government jobs. When we talk about job creation here, that’s government jobs.” The House will vote Thursday to instruct four committees to draft alternative health care proposals that reflect Republican priorities, such as reducing medical malpractice lawsuits, prohibiting the denial of coverage to people with preexisting conditions and barring the use of taxpayer money for abortions. But House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Republicans won’t put a deadline on drafting an alternative to the Democrats’ health care reform law. “I don’t know that we need artificial deadlines set up for the committees to act,” Boehner said. “We expect them to act in an efficient way, allowing all of their members on their committees to be heard, both Democrats and Republicans.” Republicans introduced alternatives to the health reform legislation in the last Congress but have said they want to start those conversations anew in the several House committees with jurisdiction over health care. Democrats tried to score some late political points amid the repeal vote by calling on members to give up their health benefits — the very kind of government-run health care Republicans rail against. “It’s time for those who support repeal to give up the federal health benefits they currently enjoy as Members of Congress – the same benefits and protections they are voting to take away from millions of Americans,” a House Democratic leadership aide said. “Americans have a right to know that those who support repeal are willing to live without the same benefits they are denying their constituents.” Simmi Aujla contributed to this report.
House passes health law repeal
House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care plan Wednesday. | AP Photo
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
This sounds like a cynical bone tossed to the unwashed. This won't get past the Senate. Business as usual.
Its possible something could occur in the way of an amendment to Healthcare. To keep the illusion of representation,.....the Bankers may give some concession and raid elsewhere's.
I just heard Wendel Porter say the same thing.
I just heard Wendel Porter say the same thing. BILL MOYERS: But you had, all these years, seen premiums rising. People purged from the rolls, people who couldn't afford the health care that Cigna and other companies were offering. This is the first time you came face to face with it? WENDELL POTTER: Yeah, it was. You know, certainly, I knew people, and I talked to people who were uninsured. But when you're in the executive offices, when you're getting prepared for a call with an analyst, in the financial medium, what you think about are the numbers. You don't think about individual people. You think about the numbers, and whether or not you're going to meet Wall Street's expectations. That's what you think about, at that level. And it helps to think that way. That's why you-- that enables you to stay there, if you don't really think that you're talking about and dealing with real human beings.[excerpt end] Parrot: Was listening to a Interview on Radio Liberty - Dr. Russell Blaylock - Attack Vaccines. When we see the game/racket that is run via Corp/Gov Healthcare,...and then the obvious tier of Malthusian Genocide, VA hospitals are filled with young men and women the Military has doomed with the stacked vaccines they were required to take.
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#12. To: Rudgear (#1)
This sounds like a cynical bone tossed to the unwashed. This won't get past the Senate. Business as usual.
Barky can Veto aswell in concert with the Senate's blocking manuever.
Social Security is what the Bankers really really want to get at.
Webster Tarpley opines that they have every intention on fooling the American public with fake struggles in legislation,...while targets are eventually obtained over time windows.
The sheeple drink the koolaid that the Hill is actually fighting for them.
#13. To: Parrot with speed dial (#12)
Its possible something could occur in the way of an amendment to Healthcare.
#28. To: lucysmom (#13)
Its possible something could occur in the way of an amendment to Healthcare.
Blaylock mentioned that the Aluminum and Mercury in Vaccines did more than cause Autism ,...it blew out Immune systems and cause Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
he said Untold Millions around the world would be getting Diabete's,...and then the needed Insulin may not be available,.....meaning for certain,....untold Millions will die ,...not maybe,....will!
its obvious the business side must need mindless automatons to push paper and legislation.
Yet,...its evident aswell that these are also sycophants who know exactly what they are doing and are quite competitive in their malthusian practice.
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