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We The People,
Of FreeThinkUS Do Not Endorse This "Healthcare Bill." For One Basic
Reason. It imposes a Finacial Penalty on Those Without Insurance.
Massachusetts has that penalty now and It has destroyed more family budgets
because of it. Stop this Bill! Use our links. Contact your Politicians!
We encourage your thoughts on this debate. What makes sense to you?
We do know healthcare costs are going up and something should be done but,
just anything is not acceptable.
We do encourage tort reform but, we here need your input, your suggestions as American Citizens. What do you want to tell Our Politicians in Washington and in Our local Governments.
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GOP lawmakers change tune on costly health plans, others claim GOP hypocrisy
ReplyDeleteBy Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer , On Saturday December 26, 2009, 7:21 am EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are troubled by the inconsistency of Republican lawmakers who approved a major Medicare expansion six years ago that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits, but oppose current health overhaul plans…..
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The Obama Plan: Stability & Security For All Americans
ReplyDelete"It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government"
-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
FROM WHITEHOUSE.GOV ON 2010-01-07
YOU READ AND YOU DECIEDE
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Pelosi vows to defend House healthcare bill
ReplyDeleteBy Jared Allen and Jeffrey Young - 01/07/10 06:46 PM ET
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday told her caucus she would not let the House be forced into signing off on the Senate’s healthcare bill.
Pelosi spent two hours addressing her Caucus via conference call on Thursday for the first time since she agreed to let the Senate bill serve as the vehicle for delivering a congressional health reform bill to the White House...
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Finally.
ReplyDeleteThis is the message that should be shouted and is just another reason NOT to pass this Crap.
If you live in Massachusetts,You got screwed by this already.
I do find it strange that this penalty was created by a Republican and already put in place in Mass.
Thanks Mitt Romney, you screwed us but now keep silent.
Updated January 07, 2010
Final Health Care Bill May Require Proof of Insurance on Tax Returns
By Molly Henneberg
- FOXNews.com
As if U.S. tax forms aren't complicated enough, Congress is expected to include in the final health care reform bill a requirement that nearly all Americans have health insurance and prove it on their tax returns or face a fine...
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In these already difficult Economic times,
ReplyDeleteOur Citizens should not be forced to have and pay for Health Insurance. What is worse is that they should not be forced to pay a PENALTY.
It will accumulate yearly!
Those that are on the edge financially will be pushed over that edge!
I am one of those who do not get sick. When I am able to retain work, I carry Health Insurance. Why should my premiums and now a proposed penalty be used for someone else.
I am one of the Millions that fall in between.
Massachusetts already does that to me.
Millions of TEMP workers across the US are not offered Health Insurance or are offered little care at a Huge Premium.
Now if I become homeless due to paying these Premiums instead of my rent or starve because I can't buy food...
Then I can try to be on Welfare but not accepted because I am able Bodied...
Stop The Madness!
Drop this Payout to Insurance Companies and initiate tort reform!
Tell your Politicians to vote NO!
Government health insurance option appears doomed
ReplyDeleteHouse Democrats pursue alternatives to government-run insurance option in health care overhaul
By David Espo, AP Special Correspondent , On Saturday January 9, 2010, 5:43 pm EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are pushing for other measures to rein in private insurers...
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Schwarzenegger says health care bill a 'rip-off'
ReplyDeleteSat Jan 9, 7:57 pm ET AP
WASHINGTON – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says concessions made to Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson to win his vote on the health care overhaul bill were a "rip-off" for his state and is urging California lawmakers to vote against it.
In an interview airing Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Schwarzenegger says giving extra Medicaid benefits to Nebraska to secure Nelson's vote, critical to Senate passage of the measure, was "like buying a vote." In Sacramento, he says, "it is illegal to do that, to buy votes."...
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Pulse, hopes fading, immigrant seeks heart
ReplyDeleteStatus as illegal could be fatal complication for one Brazilian man
By Maria Sacchetti
Globe Staff / January 10, 2010
The 34-year-old father of two suffers from cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart that is slowly eroding the rest of his body. His family is raising money to pay for a transplant, fearing that he could die within a year. But he faces an additional hurdle in the race to save him: He is an illegal immigrant, and that fact has mired his case in confusion as time ticks away...
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Health Care Reform: Pelosi Faces Debate on Insurance Tax
ReplyDeleteBy KAREN TUMULTY / WASHINGTON Karen Tumulty / Washington – Mon Jan 11, 4:55 am ET
With the House set to return to Washington this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself walking a narrow line on President Obama's top domestic priority. She had only two votes to spare when the House passed its version of health care legislation back in November, and now her restive caucus is telling her that they will not move too far in the direction of the Senate's more conservative version of the bill...
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Democrats break logjam on tax dispute, reach for final deal on health care bill
ReplyDeleteBy Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer , On Friday January 15, 2010, 3:34 am EST
WASHINGTON (AP) --
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats stand within days if not hours of striking final deals on historic health care legislation after key labor unions won concessions and pledged their support...
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CALL, WRITE, FAX, BE HEARD! STOP THIS NOW!
ReplyDeleteFinal frantic run for Health Care!
Unpredictable Massachusetts Senate race gives urgency to health care talks with end in sight
By David Espo and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar,
Associated Press Writers , On Saturday January 16, 2010, 6:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like a roller-coaster ride on its last twisting turns, President Barack Obama's campaign to remake health care is barreling into final days of breathless suspense and headlong momentum...
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For health care, a frantic ride in the final days
ReplyDeleteBy DAVID ESPO and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writers David Espo And Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writers – 41 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Like a roller-coaster ride on its last twisting turns, President Barack Obama's campaign to remake health care is barreling into final days of breathless suspense and headlong momentum...
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Democratic leaders may push Senate health care bill in House
ReplyDeleteConsider options to save legislation if Brown wins vote
By David M. Herszenhorn
New York Times / January 19, 2010
WASHINGTON - The White House and Democratic congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republicans win the special election in Massachusetts today, have begun laying the groundwork to ask House Democrats to pass the Senate version of the bill, which would send the measure directly to President Obama for his signature...
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Good Luck Mr.Brown. Please stop this Bill.
ReplyDeleteGut-check for Obama and Dems on health care
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – 3 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Abandoning the health care overhaul is not an option, the top White House political adviser said Wednesday, after President Barack Obama's signature issue took a devastating hit with the Democratic loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat...
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Democrats place new roadblock to health care bill
ReplyDeleteBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – 51 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Two centrist senators Tuesday threw up a roadblock to salvaging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, as Democrats agonized over whether to push forward or shift to idle until political resistance subsides...
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JUST A REMINDER:
ReplyDeleteThe State of the Union Address is Tonight.
Both sides of the Isle should watch. If only to gather Information.
The President is still pushing Healthcare.
ReplyDeleteLet us follow this closely. Maybe, just maybe. A shorter, more direct reform will occur.
Without Pay or Penalty.
Health care moves to back burner
ReplyDeletePolitico Carrie Budoff Brown – Thu Jan 28, 8:11 pm ET
Democrats in Congress said all the right things Thursday to show they were dutifully heeding the president’s call to keep plugging away on a health reform bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada convened a strategy session with his top lieutenants. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California pledged to leap over any hurdle that got in her way.
But listen more closely, and it’s clear health care is already falling to the back of the legislative line, behind the Democrats’ feverish new focus on jobs and the economy...
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States seeking to ban mandatory health insurance
ReplyDeleteDavid A. Lieb, Associated Press Writer – 36 mins ago
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates...
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Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill
ReplyDeleteBy Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – 41 mins ago
WASHINGTON – After insisting for a year that failure was not an option, President Barack Obama is now acknowledging his health care overhaul may die in Congress...
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Obama invites GOP leaders to health care talk
ReplyDeleteBy Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer 27 mins ago
WASHINGTON – In the first major step to revive his health care agenda after his party's loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Republican and Democratic leaders to discuss possible compromises in a televised gathering later this month.
Obama's move came amid widespread complaints that efforts so far by him and his Democratic allies in Congress have been too partisan and secretive...
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Live From Washington! It's Obama health care drama
ReplyDeleteBy Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – 51 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Coming soon to daytime television: America's long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.
President Barack Obama summons anxious Democrats and aloof Republicans to a White House summit Thursday — live on C-SPAN and perhaps cable — and gambles that he can save his embattled health care overhaul by the power of persuasion. Adversaries and allies alike were surprised by Obama's invitation to reason together at an open forum, as risky as it is unusual...
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Healthcare reform:
ReplyDeleteDo House Democrats have the votes to pass it?
For House Democrats to win passage of healthcare reform, 216 lawmakers must vote 'yea.' The vote could come as early as this week.
The Christian Science Monitor
By Judy Nichols Douglass Staff writer / March 14, 2010
Both Democrats and Republicans are digging in for a week that may – or may not – produce a vote in the US House on healthcare reform.
For the House to approve the legislation, 216 lawmakers must vote “yea.”
“I think we will have the votes,” David Axelrod, President Obama’s senior adviser, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It’s a struggle, but I believe we’re moving in the right direction.”
But later during the CNN program, House Republican leader John Boehner said there was “bipartisan opposition” to efforts to pass healthcare reform. “I’m doing everything I can to prevent this bill from becoming law,” he said...
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Next front: Selling what Congress did
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Jeanne Cummings – Mon Mar 22, 6:16 am ET
With sweeping health care reform almost reality, another battle is about to begin to define what it means for a skeptical public.
Whether it is the Democratic definition that prevails or the Republican one, the outcome will have huge consequences for the 2010 midterm elections, and ultimately for President Barack Obama’s chances of re-election in 2012.
Starting Monday, a coalition of progressive groups — from labor unions to health care advocates — will sink millions of dollars into television advertising and sponsor grassroots events in swing House districts thanking Democrats for passing the law and highlighting its importance for average Americans...
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I may not agree entirely with this now new law but the following reaction is CRAZY.
ReplyDeleteStates' lawsuits not likely to stop health overhaul
By James Rosen, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Tue Mar 23, 6:54 pm ET
WASHINGTON — The top prosecutors in 13 states — 12 of them Republicans — filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the health-care bill minutes after President Barack Obama signed the landmark legislation into law.
In a suit filed in federal district court in Tallahassee, Fla. , the attorneys general claimed that the new law's requirement for all Americans to buy health insurance is unconstitutional.
"This bipartisan effort by attorneys general around the country should put the federal government on notice that we will not tolerate the constitutional rights of our citizens and the sovereignty of our states to be trampled on," Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said. "I will pursue this litigation to the highest court if necessary."
Louisiana Attorney General James "Butch" Caldwell is the only Democrat joining the lawsuit. The others represent Alabama , Colorado , Idaho , Michigan , Nebraska , Pennsylvania , South Carolina , South Dakota , Texas , Utah and Washington state .
Virginia's Republican attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli , filed a separate suit...
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FACT CHECK: Spinning the new health care law
ReplyDeleteBy Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 23, 5:26 pm ET
WASHINGTON – The tumultuous health care debate that brought you death panels and socialism has spun off a catalog of popular myths that will keep growing as President Barack Obama and all sides battle toward the midterm elections this fall.
At a White House signing ceremony Tuesday, Obama ventured the hope that Americans on all sides will judge the legislation for what it actually says and does. "When I sign this bill," he declared, "all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of reform."
Wishful thinking, Mr. President.
Facts are stubborn, the saying goes. But myths about the legislation are likely to persist as well. And a lot of people don't agree on which is which.
"People have taken away from the debate a number of beliefs about the bill that are very difficult to shake based on objective reports," said Robert Blendon, a Harvard public health professor who follows opinion trends. "There is enough skepticism out there that questions about how it's going to help the country are likely to continue."
Here's a look at some of the myths and realities, from both sides of the issue:
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ALL RIGHT ITS IS NOW LAW!
ReplyDeleteHOW DO WE GET IT TO WORK CORRECTLY AND DO THE BEST SERVICE TO US ALL?