Senate Health Overhaul Bill Lays the Trillion-Dollar Groundwork for a Government Takeover of Health Care

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 18th at 06:02 PM  | 

The Orwellianly-titled American Health Choices Act, a health care overhaul bill the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed Tuesday with a 13-10 party line vote, contains a two-pronged mechanism for increasing government’s already enormous footprint within the health care market, and for driving private insurance into the ground. When the first public draft of the American Health Choices Act (AHCA) was released | Read More »

Chris Dodd throws himself, lefty defenders under the bus on bonus clause in Porkulus

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 18th at 07:58 PM  | 

Here’s video of Sen. Chris Dodd (DEMOCRAT) telling CNN he wrote the bonuses-are-OK loophole into the Porkulus bill that not one Senator nor Representative read before voting on: So…what now? Congress and the president are talking about having those executives who, under this law written by Democrats and lobbyists, passed by House Democrats without one single Republican vote, passed by the Senate with only Benedict | Read More »