Obama: 'Critical Milestone' for Health Overhaul

President Barack Obama's vow to reform the U.S. health care system cleared a key hurdle Tuesday with a bonus vote from a moderate Republican whose backing could be key to final passage. (Oct. 13)

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[LastPosterStanding]

Your taxes already go to pay for health care of those who don't have insurance when they show up in the emergency room because they have no coverage. You will now be pay less because they will need less emergency room visits, so you should be praising this for saving you money.

[themarycity]

Good job Mr. President.  I'm behind you 100%!

[bigtex501]

WHY ***AMERICA REJECTS*** OTHER COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE PLANS! **TAX FREEDOM DAYS** (Date "you" PAY TAXES until you get to KEEP YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY!) US.... April 13th (Date "they" PAY TAXES until.. for "their" universal health care) Spain.. May 21st UK......May 14th Canada.... June 6th Germany... July 8th France...... July 16th Sweden.... July 29th NOTE: numbers do NOT reflect the NATIONAL SALES TAX "THEY" pay in comparison to the US... US 9%, UK 17.5%, France 20%

[bigtex501]

The latest as reported by..The Budget Committee....

They have determined that the Finance Committee Bill, as introduced, will cost....

$1.8 trillion over 10 years

The HELP Committee bill will cost...

$2.2 trillion over 10 years!

House bill will cost...

$2.4 trillion over 10 years.

These estimates do not include the "savings" or TAXES to be implemented until one of these bills pass nor do they include TAXES collected by "penalties to individuals or employers" failing to buy insurance!

[bigtex501]

Wideawake,

Too true! I've never seen anything like this! Usually it'll take a politician at least a few years to have so much "dirt" on him... but obamer's easily surpassed Jimmy Carter's 4 years of distruction!!!

Kind of like a tornado headed your way.. you hate to see the destruction but it's interesting at the same time!

[wideawake123]

GO bigtex! And the list keeps growing by the day. Now, he's throwing his handpicked field commander in Afghanistan under the bus, as well as the NATO troops there.

[mvbeckril]

You said it better than I can.. I can't stand this self-important leftist Celebrity in Chief! Nor the way his ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR comrades lick his boots. And don't even get me started on Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, and others.. But of course in today's age if you even have an opinion challenging this America "transforming" fool you're labeled as a racist white trash rush listening bigot! He is scared of 2010 believe me you!

[bigtex501]

CBS NEWS

BROKEN PROMISES BY OBAMA

"LOWER PREMIUMS by $2,500 for a Family of Four" ????

"If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan," obama said on 10-15-08 debate against McCain. "The only thing we're going to try to do is lower costs so that those cost savings are passed onto you. And we estimate we can cut the average family's premium by about $2,500 per year."

[bigtex501]

"LOWER PREMIUMS" (cont)

CBO.. "For most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall.

The legislation from the Senate Finance Committee could result in higher premiums for customers.

The insurance industry is threatening that the $6 billion industry-wide fee & other taxes Sen. Baucus has proposed will be passed on to consumers.

This means.. it may be years or decades before any overall savings from obama's plans materialize.....if at all."

[bigtex501]

CBS NEWS

BROKEN PROMISES BY OBAMA

"The Government to negotiate drug prices"

obama.."We'll negotiate with the drug companies for the cheapest available price on drugs"

LA Times

"Tauzin (Chief Pharmaceutical Lobbyist) secured an agreement with OBAMA!

"In return for pledging $80 billion in cost savings over 10 years, the OBAMA administration has promised to BACK OFF FROM PRICE-SETTING on the Medicare Part D drug program as well as from importing cheaper drugs from Canada or Europe!"

[bigtex501]

CBS

BROKEN PROMISES BY OBAMA

"Transparency"

obama.. "I will bring all parties together, & NOT negotiate behind closed doors, & broadcast those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are."

Obama has announced deals with groups like the pharmaceutical industry & the insurance industry after they were worked out in backroom deals.

Meanwhile, Baucus, not only shut out the public, but shut out most of his own committee from his "bipartisan negotiations."

[bigtex501]

CBS

BROKEN PROMISES BY OBAMA

"No individual mandate to buy health insurance"

Jan. 31, 2008. "I think we can anticipate that there would also be people potentially who are not covered and are actually hurt if they have a mandate imposed on them."

In June, obama indicated in a letter to Kennedy & Sen. Max Baucus that he was changing his tune to accommodate Congress' written bills that call for an individual mandates!