$1 Trillion Attack on Health Care

Here is an AP story. Frankly, it seems to me they are in favor of it. How about a bill that has NO TAX INCREASES?

Obama puts forward $1 trillion health care plan

It starts out this way: WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is putting forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year health care plan that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriated consumers. Really? Who wrote that, Rahm Emanuel or David Axelrod? Instead of mentioning disastrous price fixing controls that will cripple the entire healthcare industry… Let’s hope the GOP can do their job and KILL THE BILL:

Boehner: President’s Health Care Proposal Jeopardizes Summit, Doubles Down on Failed Approach Americans Have Already Rejected

GOP Leader: “The President has crippled the credibility of this week’s summit by proposing the same massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan bill the American people have already rejected.”

White House: If GOP Filibusters, We’ll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation

The game of chicken commenceth — right now. In the course of unveiling Obama’s new health reform proposal on a conference call with reporters this morning, White House advisers made it clearer than ever before: If the GOP filibusters health reform, Dems will move forward on their own and pass it via reconciliation. Scary.

Obama healthcare plan nixes Ben Nelson’s ‘Cornhusker Kickback’ deal

That’s the headline, but it leaves the LOUISIANA PURCHASE, and I’m sure lots of other things “negotiated” behind closed doors. Obama’s bill, however, does not specifically remove $300 million of Medicaid funds pegged for disaster relief for which Louisiana is the only state eligible.

Republicans dubbed it the ”Louisiana Purchase” and said it was a corrupt bargain to win the support of holdout Sen. Mary Landrieu (D).

So where is the transparency? * As expected, the plan has no public option — but this does not preclude a reconciliation vote on the public option later.

* The proposal boosts the threshold for the “Cadillac” tax on the most expensive health plans from $23,000 for a family plan to $27,500. That’s actually a better deal than some labor officials were expecting, though some House Dems will still be angry that the tax is being included at all.

* The proposal also preserves the Senate bill’s state-based exchanges, and does not have a national exchange, as the House bill did.

* However, House Dems will be cheered by the fact that Obama’s compromise closes the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” coverage gap.

* Also, the bill nixes Ben Nelson’s Nebraska deal and boosts Federal financing for Medicaid expansion in all states.

* And finally, as expected, Obama’s proposal creates a Federal panel to monitor and block exorbitant rate hikes and other unfair practices by the insurance industry.

The federal government gets to decide what is “exorbitant” and what is “fair?” They want to takeover healthcare – a power grab.

The Obama plan: Price Controls, Mandates… Is Obama’s New Health Plan Unconstitutional?

How is this not redistribution of wealth: Marxism? And after months of losing the messaging war on health care, the White House put a new frame on the subsidies for lower-income Americans to purchase health insurance, describing them as the “largest middle class tax cut for health care in history.” At the same time, the plan would raise the Medicare payroll tax on couples earning more than $250,000 a year. A “healthcare subsidy” is not a “tax cut.” I think that is downright deceptive. Why should we start believing them now? That’s a start, that’s all I have time for right now. Stay tuned!

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