Obama Wants To Block All The Exits From ObamaCare

President Obama is fond of saying that ObamaCare is a great insurance product: coverage that can’t be taken away, generous mandated benefits, and subsidized premiums for many. But if ObamaCare insurance is so great, then why is Obama trying to outlaw a private sector alternative that has become hugely popular?
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Obama Wants Conservatives to Self-Cannibalize Over His Executive Action on Immigration

IMPORTANT ARTICLE by Mike Gonzalez
Having received a walloping in the elections, President Obama has promised to double down by tearing the country apart over illegal immigration. “I’ve shown a lot of patience,” he said with characteristic conceit at Wednesday’s contrition-free press conference. ✧ Make no mistake. It will be the opening salvo of a two-year campaign that will decide which course the country takes: one that fundamentally alters our way of life or one that conserves our many blessings.

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History: Why is healthcare tied to the workplace?

(TIMELINE 2005: Gov. Romney is working on a universal health care plan for Massachusetts. Conservative and Liberal reforms are explored.)

Excerpt: While employers first started experimenting with health coverage during the war [WWII/FDR era], the next decade saw a huge expansion of corporate health benefits. Between 1946 and 1957, the number of US workers receiving health coverage through an employer jumped by a factor of 12. By 1957, firms were covering 12 million workers plus 20 million dependents. The employer-based system was well suited to the America of Dwight D. Eisenhower, a time when healthcare was relatively inexpensive-amounting to less than 5 percent of Gross Domestic Product, as opposed to nearly 15 percent today [2005]-and when many Americans spent their entire working lives toiling for one company.

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Dr. Benjamin Carson's Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast

Dr. Benjamin Carson, Pediatric Neurosurgeon and Division Head at John Hopkins Hospital, gave a speech that has received criticism from the Left for 'inappropriateness' and raves from many on the Right at the Fellowship Foundation's National Prayer Breakfast held at the White House last week. With President and Mrs. Obama looking on, Dr. Carson used bible references, American history, personal experiences, de Tocqueville and a parable to say that America is on the wrong course. Dr. Carson warned of the dangers of Political Correctness and how it stifles the exchange of ideas, understanding, and freedom of speech. He talked about 'fairness' in taxation through a biblical proportional system. He spoke of the importance of education and how destructive and costly today's dumbed-down education is while describing the successes of his Carson Scholars Fund. He spoke about Health Savings Accounts and how they can improve health and the health care system. In Carson's soft spoken manner he delivered the antithesis of Obama's vision for America. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the speech under the title, "Ben Carson for President."

YouTube Video: Dr. Benjamin Carson's Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama Present (27:31)
[Added 2/15] Transcript: Dr. Benjamin Carson's Speech

Dr. Ben Carson, with his wife Candy Carson, is the author of "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great" (Jan 24, 2012). In addition, Dr. Carson has co-authored a number of inspiring books including "Take the Risk", "The Big Picture", "Think Big" and "Gifted Hands". Read More......

TA: Why Hasn't Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools?

THE ATLANTIC, 6/2/2011 by Megan McArdle - "I've predicted that lots of parts of Obamacare will not work the way they're expected to. But here's one I wouldn't have predicted: the high-risk pools, which were meant to tide people over until 2013, have signed up just 18,000 people as of March. ∴ There were supposed to be millions of people who were uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions. We heard lengthy testimony about their terrible plight. I don't think it's too strong to say that this fear--that you could get sick and no one would insure you, that's right, you, Mr. & Mrs. Middle-Class Voter--was one of the main reasons offered for the health care overhaul. It was estimated by Medicare's Chief Actuary that around 400,000 would sign up (the CBO estimated 200,000, but only because they assumed that HHS would use its authority to limit enrollment in order to stay within the $5 billion budgeted for the program). So where are all the uninsurable people?" Read more at The Atlantic...

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Fri., March 11: Rally & hearings on Oregon single payer health care

Supporters of the Oregon Single Payer Campaign (a single payer health care system) will hold a Legislative Action Day rally on Friday, March 11th at Noon on the Capitol steps (Salem) in support of HB 3510 and SB 888, bills to establish the Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Plan, a single payer plan.

Hearings on HB 3510 start at 3:00 p.m.

Endorsers of HB 3510 – Affordable Health Care for All Oregon

1. AFL-CIO Oregon
   
2. Alliance for Democracy
   
3. Alliance for Retired Americans – Oregon
   
4. American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2157
   
5. American Federation of Musicians (AFM), Local 99
   
6. American Federation of Teachers Oregon
   
7. American Association of University Professors – PSU
   
8. American Medical Student Association – OHSU
   
9. Central Oregon Jobs with Justice
   
10. Community Alliance of Tenants
    
11. CWA 7901 (Communication Workers of America)
    
12. Eastside Democratic Club
    
13. Elders in Action
    
14. Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network/Jobs with Justice
    
15. First Unitarian Church of Portland
    
16. Health Care for All Oregon
    
17. IBEW 48 (Electricians)
    
18. ILWU Local 5
    
19. ILWU 8 (Longshore and Warehouse)
    
20. Interfaith Health Care Network
    
21. IUOE 701 (Operating Engineers)
    
22. Mad as Hell Doctors
    
23. Mid-Willamette Valley Jobs with Justice
    
24. National Association of Social Workers, Oregon Chapter
    
25. Nurses for Single Payer Health Care (Portland)
    
26. Oregon Consumer League
    
27. Oregon Education Association
    
28. Oregon Nurses Association
    
29. Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
    
30. Oregon State Council for Retired Citizens
    
31. Pacific Green Party, Portland Metro Chapter
    
32. Portland Alliance
    
33. Portland Jobs with Justice
    
34. Physicians for a National Health Program - Corvallis
    
35. Physicians for a National Health Program – OHSU
    
36. Physicians for a National Health Program – Portland
    
37. Rural Organizing Project
    
38. Sisters of the Road
    
39. Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
    
40. United Seniors of Oregon
    
41. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care

"The aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level." Read more at the New York Times... Read More......

Obama's private army in health care bill?

Judge Andrew Napolitano discusses a two-page portion of the health care bill dealing with a 6,000 person army of regular and reserve doctors. This part of the bill went without debate before the vote. The judge questions the purpose, the constitutionality of such an army, who wrote the bill and who is responsible for this part of it?

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Morning Bell: Red Tape Rising

HERITAGE FOUNDATION/THE FOUNDRY, 4/5/2010 - Just three days after President Barack Obama's health plan was signed into law, AT&T announced that due to an obscure tax change in the bill, the nation's largest telephone company would take a $1 billion hit to its bottom line this quarter. According to health benefits analysts this tax law modification would shave as much as $14 billion from U.S. corporate profits. While it would have been better had these tax losses been made more public before Congress voted, at least these tax charges are transparent and easily quantifiable enough to get noticed by the American people. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the hundreds of new regulations that the federal government will enforce as it tries to implement Obama's redistributionist health agenda. Read more at The Foundry... Read More......

53% Now Trust Republicans More Than Democrats on Health Care

RASMUSSEN REPORTS, 4/3/2010 - Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on nine out of 10 key issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports, but the gap between the two parties has grown narrower on several of them. ∴ Following the passage of the health care bill, 53% now say they trust Republicans on the issue of health care. Thirty-seven percent (37%) place their trust in Democrats. A month earlier, the two parties were essentially even on the health care issue. Read more at Rasmussen's... Read More......

Tell 'em we need proof before we'll own it

Democrats on Wednesday decried a spike in threats made to lawmakers who voted for the healthcare legislation and accused Republicans of fomenting violent behavior. [...] “This is now the face of the Republican Party; they have not taken responsibility,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the assistant to the Speaker, during an appearance on MSNBC. “They have, in fact, joined in this kind of activity. There is no denying the fact that they are stoking the flames here.” Read more fomenting and stoking at The Hill...

Also:

This chart, which appeared on the SarahPAC website and was linked to in a Facebook op-ed by Sarah Palin, 'targets' twenty House Democrats from districts that voted for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. These Democrats ran as moderates, yet they voted for Obamacare. Of course, the point of the targeting is to vote them out in 2010 but the Left intimates that the points on the map are a call to violence in that the points look like the cross-hairs of a gun. Therefore, progressives tie Sarah Palin, a Republican, to advocating violence. This extends to conservatives and the Tea Party movement as well, since Palin has become a popular figure withing the ranks of tea partiers, who are primarily fiscal conservatives.

Moreover, the mainstream media has consistently linked Tea Party participants to right-wing radicalism, racism and a form of vigilantism. This is laughable, especially if the demeanor of the tea party attendees is held up to the radicals of the left and their real penchant for violence in their displays of civil disobedience, including threatening behavior and destruction of property. Remember President Obama's angry rhetoric regarding the Wall Street 'fat cats' and those who received multi-million dollar bonuses? His vitriol incited his followers to surround the homes of CEO's and bonus recipients, thus terrorizing them and their families.

Again, conservatives won't own the influx of violent 'threats' and actions, until the lefties can deliver proof. They can't. --bc Read More......

NRO: The Battle Is Lost, and the War Has Begun

NRO/CRITICAL CONDITION, 3/22/2010 by Jeffrey H. Anderson - [Excerpt] James Madison’s words cannot be repeated often enough: “The cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers.” The American people don’t want Obamacare, and the will of the American people will ultimately prevail over the will of their rulers — starting in November. ∴ Repeal will be achieved through a three-step process: First, the vast majority of Americans who oppose Obamacare will elect members to Congress who will actually reflect their views. Second, they will elect a president who will actually reflect their views. Third, this new Congress and new president will repeal the overhaul. (Remember, only 1 percent of Obamacare — based on its projected costs over the next ten years — will have kicked in by then.) Read full post at National Review Online... Read More......

Health Care Vote Today

Historic vote on health care today, Sunday, March 21, 2010. For the record:
- Final vote: 219-212 "Passed"
- See Republican Leader Boehner's impassioned "Hell No" statements on the House floor at Breitbart TV.
- FOX:House Votes to Pass Health Care Bill , Send 'Fixes' Back to Senate.
- Live Blogging at Real Clear Politics
- Pending - Executive Order on Health Care Bill
- NYT prescriptions/Live Blogging the House Vote.

Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, holding a huge gavel and, surrounded by Democrats supporting the health care bill, walked past Tea Party protesters to intimate they had the votes to pass the bill. This act was tantamount to saying, "Up yours!" She appears to have enjoyed the moment. There were other routes she could have taken.

This was a horrible day for America!

Looking back to the 2008 primary race, Obama promised not to force people to buy health insurance (Hat tip: The Greyfalcon's Blog). See video...

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Tea Party protesters refused entry into congressional buildings

WASHINGTON EXAMINER, 3/20/2010 by Mark Hemingway - Capitol Police stopped letting peaceful protesters into the capitol to air their concerns with their representatives. Read more and see photos of the protest over the Democrats health care plan...

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Keep Medicare in Congress's hands (Bipartisan Op-Ed)

POLITICO, 3/19/2010 by Bill Frist and John Breaux - [Excerpt] While the new entity, an “Independent Payment Advisory Board,” addresses a growing problem, its structure in the current legislation raises serious constitutional and process questions that Congress must confront. ∴ The board, intended to help control Medicare costs — which, all agree, are rising at a concerning rate — would possess nearly total power over the federal health care program for the elderly and disabled.

[...] Ultimately, however, we would be better off looking to established congressional oversight rather than implementing heavy-handed regulation to make significant — and potentially unconstitutional — changes to a program essential to the successful delivery of health care to America’s seniors.

Bill Frist is a former Republican senator from Tennessee who served as majority leader. John Breaux is a former Democratic senator from Louisiana and served as co-chairman of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Read more at Politico... Read More......

DeFazio Switches 'Yes' Vote to 'No' on Health Care Bill (unless...)

UPDATE: DeFazio voted "Yes."

FOXNews.com, 3/19/2010 - The vote tally on health care reform is starting to look like the Dow. ∴ Just when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to be one vote shy of the 216 she needs for health care reform to pass, a Democrat [DeFazio] who voted for the bill last year says he's switching his vote to no. ∴ [...] But he indicated he could still change his mind again.

"I'm a no unless they fix this," he said, referring to what he sees as insufficient Medicare spending in rural areas."

Read more at FOX...

Note: Rep. Boccieri (D-OH) switched his vote from no to yes. Try to keep up with the health care vote switching at National Journal's Hotline On Call. Read More......

WSJ: ObamaCare's Worst Tax Hike

WALL STREET JOURNAL/Opinion, 3/17/2010 - The forced march to pass ObamaCare continues, and all that matters now is raw politics. But opponents should go down swinging, and that means exposing such policy debacles as President Obama's 11th-hour decision to apply the 2.9% Medicare payroll tax to "unearned income." ∴ That's what savings and investment income are called in Washington [Emphasis added], and this destructive tax wasn't in either the House or Senate bills, though it may now become law with almost no scrutiny. Read more at WSJ...

Imagine! You save and invest... and the government calls the earned interest "unearned income!" Didn't you earn it by the act of saving and investing? Keep making calls to stop this health care train wreck! --bc Read More......

Don't Let Freedom Slip Away

(Hat tip: Stella Guenther) - The Testimony of Kitty Werthman: "[I] saw Hitler’s rise to power in pre-war Austria. He did not conquer by force. He was eagerly welcomed by the people who voted him into office because the Nazis promised free health care, retirement income, unemployment benefits, guaranteed wages, free nursery care, equal rights for women, gun control, and other enticements that now are part of the political landscape in all industrialized countries."

America is Truly the Greatest Country in the World
Don't Let Freedom Slip Away
By Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education – Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:

Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home:

In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:

When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.
We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“Mercy Killing” Redefined:

In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws:

Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn’t, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

It’s true….those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away.
After America, There is No Place to Run.

Kitty Werthmann, 77, of Pierre, is president of the South Dakota Eagle Forum. She lobbies the state Legislature on family issues. She has lived in the United States since 1950 and has been a U.S. citizen since 1962. Mrs. Werthmann's full 63-minute story is available on CD for $15 (or $12 with purchase of another item) at Realityzone.com Read More......

Va. passes 1st bill banning health care mandate

MSNBC, 3/10/2010 - (AP) RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks federal health care reforms by banning mandatory health insurance coverage. ∴ Without debate, the House of Delegates voted 80-17 Wednesday to accept Senate amendments to a bill that supporters say preserves Virginia's prerogatives as a state. ∴ Thirty-four other legislatures have filed or proposed similar measures rejecting health insurance mandates. Read More......

Boehner: Dems prepare to pass health care takeover without a vote

REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN BOEHNER'S BLOG, 3/10/2010 - "The twisted scheme by which Democratic leaders plan to bend the rules to ram President Obama’s massive health care legislation through Congress now has a name: the Slaughter Solution. ∴ The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and a key ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to get the health care legislation through the House without an actual vote on the Senate-passed health care bill. You see, Democratic leaders currently lack the votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill through the House. Under Slaughter’s scheme, Democratic leaders will overcome this problem by simply “deeming” the Senate bill passed in the House - without an actual vote by members of the House." [Emphasis added] Read more at Rep. Boehner's blog...

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