Democrats to Bypass Vote on Senate Bill
It’s another declaration of war against the Constitution, the Democratic Process and the American People!
As if the secret backroom deals weren’t bad enough. As if the near total shutout of Republicans wasn’t bad enough. As if the bribes and special favors for Obama supporters wasn’t bad enough. Now, House Democrats are preparing to put forward a rule which pretends they already voted to approve the Senate version of health care so they can then proceed with another highly partisan vote on reconciling the health bill.
The rule is called the “Slaughter Solution” named after Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and a key ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Readers will recall that Slaughter’s big contribution to the health care summit at Blair House was the story that one of her constituents had to wear her dead sister’s dentures.
Now, with this rule, Slaughter appears ready to chomp down once again on what little common sense and civility remain in the House of Representatives.
Voters who are already fed up to the eyeballs with the shenanigans Democrats undertook to advance a bill that a clear majority of the American people DO NOT WANT must act NOW to let the few wavering House Democrats know that the price for supporting this idiocy will be defeat in November.
Is your Representative on this list? Or this one? If so, CALL THEM NOW. Organize protests outside their offices Write letters to the editor at your local newspaper!
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from an NRO post:
Today’s CBO score should not be very reassuring to the Democrats on a number of fronts:
1. More Costs — CBO states that we should expect as much as $70 billion in additional discretionary costs that they did not score. This includes $5 to $10 billion for the IRS, “at least” an additional $5 to $10 billion for HHS, and “at least $50 billion in specified and estimated authorizations of future discretionary spending for a number of grant programs and other provisions of the legislation.” That $5 to $10 billion to the IRS, in particular, should worry lawmakers and citizens alike.
2. Continued Access Problems — At great cost, the bill will cover 31 million people by 2019, but that will still leave 24 million people uncovered. In addition, over half — 16 million — of the newly covered people will be covered through Medicaid, and not through private coverage. This is both a fiscal challenge, as Medicaid’s long-term finances are extremely shaky, but also a political challenge, as many doctors refuse to take Medicaid patients. Putting more people on Medicaid will not solve the access problem if doctors refuse to see them.
3. Unlikely Cuts — The bill assumes that Congress will cut doctor payments via the sustainable growth rate, and CBO expresses some understandably healthy skepticism that those cuts will actually take place. As CBO put it, “the sustainable growth rate (SGR) mechanism governing Medicare’s payments to physicians has frequently been modified (either through legislation or administrative action) to avoid reductions in those payments, and legislation to do so again is currently under consideration in the Congress.” Basically, Congress calls for but does not let those cuts go through, and it would be foolish to assume that this kabuki dance of fake cuts built into the baseline budget will change in the future.
4. Higher Premiums — Perhaps most importantly, CBO continues to assume that insurance premiums will increase as a result of the bill, noting that “although CBO and JCT have not updated their estimates of the likely impact of the legislation on health-insurance premiums, that impact would probably be quite similar to the one estimated for an earlier version of the legislation.” It’s interesting to note that CBO does not repeat the findings of that earlier estimate, which found a likely pre-subsidy rate increase of 10–13 percent in the non-group market.
And if you believe ‘The Slauter Rule’ is anything BUT a bait and switch to get the Senate version of the bill passed in the House without a straight forward up or down vote, well there is a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell ya cheap…
@BRob:
Pssssstt…. Mr. ParaLegal Man….
Have you read the US Constitution lately?
No?
Here’s what it says about what has to happen in order for a bill to become law in Article I, Section 7:
There’s the problem in black and white, so simple and direct even you can understand it.
The Senate bill has not passed the House and the yeas and nays have NOT been recorded in the second chamber.
You sad, silly little man. What a stupendous disgrace you are to the Ohio state bar.
@BRob: As usual your comment is irrelevant. Don’t bother trying to clarify it as you are overquota for spreading your bile today and I don’t intent to permit you to filibuster on this thread.
Yeah, Mike . . . about the fall of the Empire . . . I tracked way back through the daisy chain of links and you know what I found? Louise Slaughter is gaming the rules so that . . . get this . . .
THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE MAJORITY RULES UP OR DOWN VOTE ON HEALTH CARE, NOT TWO!
The outrage! The horror!
Yeah, that will have ‘em marching with pitchforks and torches.
By the way, how’d you like that CBO scoring?
“Senate-passed health care bill would cut deficit”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102042.html?hpid=topnews
We need Florida’s sunshine law for the federal government. Our house of corruption has gotten way out of hand.
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