Saturday Morning Bulldog Edition

If you haven't got your own copy of ....

A BILL
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans
and reduce the growth in health care spending, and
for other purposes.

It's only 1990 page of mind boggling bureaucrateze.

(B) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The second sentence of section 1919(h)(2)(A)(ii) of the 19
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 20
1396r(h)(2)(A)(ii)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, and some portion of such funds may be used to support activities that benefit residents, including assistance to support and protect residents of afacility that closes (voluntarily or involuntarily) or is decertified (including offsetting costs of relocating residents to home and community based settings or another facility), projects that support resident and family councils and other consumer involvement in assuring quality care in facilities, and facility improvement initiatives approved by the Secretary (including joint training of facility staff and surveyors, providing technical assistance to facilities under quality assurance programs, the appointment of temporary management, and other activities approved by the Secretary)’’.

What Budget Gimmicks are Liberals Using to Pass Their Agenda?

The “doc fix” bill, was part of a sneaky liberal strategy to pass President Barack Obama’s $1 trillion-plus health care overhaul by transferring a quarter of its cost into a separate, and completely unpaid for, bill. The White House thought that if it bought off all of the business interests involved, opposition to the plan would whither. In one sense, the plan worked—Washington lobbyists for drug companies, insurance giants and hospitals have all spent millions of dollars for lobbying and television ads in support of Obamacare.

Can't Achieve Public Option Without Deception

But regardless of how much lipstick they put on this pig, it still is a government takeover of the health care system that would all but eliminate private insurance and force millions of Americans into a government-run system. Apparently the House leadership has decided that if at first you can't get the votes by being honest about your true intentions, lie, lie, again.

ObamaCare's Scary October Surprise

Stung by a rising tide of resistance and a closing window of opportunity, House Democrats have unleashed a new version of ObamaCare, weighing in at 1,990 pages and with a $1 trillion price tag. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to ram it through quickly, exhibiting a disdain for her countrymen that makes Marie Antoinette look like a populist.

The Democrats are going for broke, which means we'll all be broke if this is not stopped. The "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (HR 3962) is so comprehensive that it even micromanages restaurant menus and vending machines. That's a clear signal that this is not about health care. It's about whether the people of the United States will allow power-mad Washington politicians to plunge us into the kind of top-down socialism that is strangling Western Europe and has devastated economies and destroyed freedom wherever it is imposed.

President Obama promised "transparency" and that any bill would be written in public. That was a lie. This monstrosity was hatched behind closed doors. He promised that it would not "add a dime to the federal deficit," which he has already tripled since taking office. It was another lie. No one can honestly believe that a gargantuan takeover of the nation's $2.5 trillion health care industry will save taxpayers money. No government program results in savings. They grow exponentially, create dependent constituencies that lobby for yet more tax dollars, and empower bureaucrats for whom mission failure ensures more staff, more money and more power. There is simply no governing restraint such as a profit motive or anxious stockholders. The voters? Surely you jest. They are far, far away and kept in check by a compliant leftist media. At least, so far.

Social Engineering in the Guise of Health Care Reform

A few months ago we were surprised to get a number of phone calls from the media asking about the original health care bill, H.R. 3200, containing "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children."