FINAL PUSH FOR OBAMACARE IS COMING...
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
DickMorris.com
As the story below indicates, our prediction of a month ago is, unfortunately,
coming true: Obama is planning one final push to pass healthcare with no
Republican support. Disguising his true intentions behind a health care summit
which is designed to fail, he will try to pass the Senate bill in the House and
send it to the White House to become law. Then, he will use the reconciliation
procedure (which lets him pass budget related bills in the Senate with only 51
votes) to push through additional legislation which modifies the bill to suit
House and Senate liberals (probably including a public option).
We need to rally one last time to STOP him!
Obama will probably get the House liberals to go along with passing the Senate
bill as long as reconcilation looms in the future. He will also have no trouble
getting the 51 votes to pass reconciliation in the Senate.
The only way to stop him is to deny Pelosi the support of conservative Democrats
in the House who are scared to death following the Scott Brown victory in
Massachusetts. When we first figured out what the White House was up to, we
prepared ads to run in each of the districts of the swing conservative Democrats
who voted for the original health care bill.
As you may remember, health care passed in the House by only 220-115.
Thirty-eight Democrats voted no. But about twenty-three conservative Democrats
voted in favor of Obamacare. They are all vulnerable to defeat this year. We
need to advertise in their districts to persuade them that voting for Obamacare
would mean likely political defeat. We need your funds to make these ads
possible. We need $1 million for this final push.
Click here to see the ad we propose to run in one such typical district. We have
eleven others which we have already produced and are in the can, waiting to go.
We will produce and run in more districts as our funding level increases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23-Ub4NZlvw
PLEASE HELP US WIN THIS FIGHT! Even if you have given before -- even if you have
given several times before -- please give again. This is the final round.
Remember what Obama says: "we are on the five yard line with health care
reform." He is indeed in our red zone with the bill having passed both Houses in
different forms already. We need a tough, strong goal line stand to block this
disastrous piece of legislation from passing.
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Check out the story below about the Dems plan to pass the health care bill or go
here now to read it.
http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsPolitics/~3/ZUUjZHUXYbI/main6220436.shtml
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Dems Near Plan To Pass Health Care Bill
White House, Congressional Democrats Are Preparing Proposal Which Could Pass Via
Reconciliation in the Senate.
(AP) The White House and congressional leaders are preparing a detailed health
care proposal designed to win passage without Republican support if GOP
lawmakers fail to embrace bipartisan compromises at President Barack Obama's
summit next week.
A senior White House official said Thursday that Democratic negotiators are
resolving final differences in House and Senate health bills that passed last
year with virtually no Republican help. The White House plans to post the
proposals online by Monday morning, three days ahead of the Feb. 25 summit,
which GOP leaders are approaching warily.
The comments signal that Obama and Congress' Democratic leaders still plan to
use assertive and sometimes controversial parliamentary powers to enact a
far-reaching health care bill if no GOP lawmakers get on board. Republicans and
conservative activists have denounced such a strategy, and it's unclear whether
enough House and Senate Democrats would back it. Both parties have used the
strategy, known as reconciliation, in the past.
Obama says he is open to Republican ideas for changing the health care
legislation. But many Democrats seriously doubt GOP leaders will support
compromises that could draw enough lawmakers from both parties to create a
bipartisan majority.
The negotiations, led by Democratic leaders with White House input, are meant to
determine what changes must be made to the Senate-passed bill for House
Democrats to accept it, the administration official said. The goal is to craft a
reconciled measure that Senate Democrats can pass, under rules barring GOP
filibusters, unless Republicans offer acceptable changes at next week's summit.
Democrats lost their ability to block filibusters when Massachusetts Republican
Scott Brown won a Senate seat last month.
The White House official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private
negotiations.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday that Obama
plans to have a health care proposal that "will take some of the best ideas and
put them into a framework" ahead of the Feb. 25 summit.
House Democrats insist on several changes to the bill the Senate passed on
Christmas Eve. They include reducing or eliminating a proposed tax on generous
employer-provider health plans, and eliminating a Medicaid subsidy aimed only at
Nebraska.
Overall, the Democratic plans would provide health insurance to more than 30
million people now uninsured and end the industry practice of denying coverage
to those with medical problems. Most Americans would be required to carry health
coverage, with new government subsidies available to reduce the cost for many.
The main beneficiaries would be small businesses and people who now buy their
own insurance. They now have few choices, and premium prices can spike
unpredictably from year to year.
Under the Democrats' legislation, they would be able to pick a plan in a new
insurance marketplace offering a range of choices similar to those available to
federal employees.
The cost of the legislation - about $1 trillion over 10 years - would be paid
for through Medicare cuts and a series of tax increases. In the short run, the
nation would spend more on health care under the Democratic plans, since newly
covered people would be able to get care they had previously put off. Over time,
however, the rate of increase in medical costs would begin to slow.
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