Today was the first vote on the more than 500 amendments to the Health Care Reform bill, and it doesn’t look like they are off to a good start! Republicans in the House, joined by one Democrat, Sen. Blanche Lincoln from Arkansas, voted on an amendment to provide transparency in the Health Care Reform bill. At the same time, the Senate Finance Committee said NO to putting the Senate bill on line so that YOU can read it. They do not want to wait for 2 weeks for us to read the bill or to give the Congressional Budget Office the time for an accurate breakdown of the real cost of Health Care Reform.
The Senate has a better idea, they are willing to give us an online “Breakdown for Dummies” to provide us a summary of the bill. That is not at all reassuring, does anybody want a partisan summary? To make life even more exciting, it is being reported by Roll Call, that Nancy Pelosi has some of her own ideas as to what will be added to the final bill. Namely taxing the wealthy to help pay for the bill and the PUBLIC OPTION!
What are the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee trying to hiding from us? It is starting to feel very familiar, as thought they just might push this Health Care Reform bill through, as they did with the stimulus package, before anybody has time to read the contents, including the Senators that will be voting on the bill!
What is it that they don’t get when 67% of Americans don’t even understand what is in the bill to date, and that the majority of Americans are against this Health Care Reform Bill? Have Obama, Pelosi and Reed made the determination that Americans are so stupid, it is necessary for them to make final decisions that will effect our lives, “for our own good” … so, no matter what the majority of Americans want, which include simple things like “information”, they appear to be determined to ram bill through the process!
In the meantime, I wish Obama would take some time for just a little ” ON THE JOB TRAINING”! His lack of experience in just about all areas of administration and foreign policy are certainly lacking. With the amount of time he spends appearing on TV to “sell” Health Care Reform or making a speech when ever possible … it feels more like he is still campaigning for the office. Besides seeing Obama every time I turn on the TV is worse than watching Seinfeld re-runs for the 100th time! No offense to Seinfeld intended.
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Hi Sandy,
Love your site. Wish I had more time to read, but you can be sure I’ll be back.
Thanks again for the friend invite on AARP.
God Bless,
Carl
Obama says he plans to have the Health Care Reform bill passed before Thanksgiving … since they still have 500 amendments to go through, have not started writing the bill, no information for the Congressional Budget Office to project costs, do you really think anybody will have the opportunity to read this bill before they pass it?
This is frustrating and frightening! I hope that the few in congress who have their wits about them can somehow stop all this madness!
Yes, Obama on the tv is worse than re-runs of Seinfeld, it’s worse than re-runs of Beavis and Butthead.
ARGH!!