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    WORD COUNT: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  November 19th at 06:10 AM  | 

    Don’t be fooled, no state is going to turn down federal money.  This is a scam, just the same old socialized health care.  ‘Opt-Out’ only appears ONCE in the text of the legislation. http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf opt-out: 1 shall: 3594 subsection: 1644 section: 3055 penalty: 95 criminal: 29 $: 329 prison: 2 fined: 363 rule: 153 tax: 405 impose: 124 enroll: 475 enact: 215 law: 204 restrict: | Read More »

    Health care: Jam it down their throat

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 31st at 09:23 AM  | 

    In the left’s latest attempt at the takeover of health care (http://www.gop.gov/download?folder=misc&file=111_ahcaa.pdf) starting on page 512 titled ‘Congressional Procedures’: PROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION.—A motion in the Senate to proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution shall be privileged and not debatable. …all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 hours. Debate in the Senate on any debatable | Read More »

    The Public Option Option

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 27th at 05:39 AM  | 

    “the best way to move forward is to include a public option with the opt-out provision for states.” -Harry Reid The opt-out provision…So I guess this means states have a choice to have socialized health care or not.  Does this seem odd to anyone else?  IT ALREADY EXISTS! If a state wants a government health care plan then they do it.  Look at TennCare in | Read More »

    How the Senate Finance Committee deals with tort reform.

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 20th at 06:31 AM  | 

    From page 1211 and 1212 of the Senate Fiance Committee health care takeover bill: Subtitle H—Sense of the S Regarding Medical Malpra SEC. 3701. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDIN MALPRACTICE. It is the sense of the Senate that— (1) health care reform presents an opportunity to address issues related to medical malpractice and medical liability insurance; (2) States should be encouraged to develop and test | Read More »

    Snowe voting for Democrats

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 13th at 01:24 PM  | 

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul I think we should take this opportunity to let Olympia Snowe what we think of her now since she has voted in favor of Obamacare. This can be done here –> http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email I think we should start a movement to have her resign as a Republican United States Senator.  She has shown us all she is a turncoat and has zero loyalty to the | Read More »