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reports. Hopefully, more states will
follow Louisiana and Governor Bobby Jindal’s lead.
Michael
Barone explains how Obamacare is unpopular because the American people still
feel more loyalty to the Founders than the progressives.
Adam
Freedman shows the liberal contradiction in supporting a radical
interpretation of “privacy rights” and the intrusiveness of Obamacare.
Reuters reports
that Canada’s government run health care system is having serious problems. Keep this in mind when someone tries to tell
you that Obamacare will be like the “wonderful” Canadian system.
Canadian
health care seems to be okay when you don’t have a serious or life-threatening problem. If you do, you have to go to America. Where will Canadians go when American health
care is like Canada’s system?
Economist
Thomas Sowell explains how Obamacare could affect end-of-life decisions for
the elderly. Excerpt:
Make no mistake about it, letting old
people die is a lot cheaper than spending the kind of money required to keep
them alive and well. If a government-run medical system is going to save any
serious amount of money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the
elderly.
On
Sunday evening the House of Representatives passed the much-discussed health
care bill that will require your tax dollars to fund abortions. See how your representative
voted here. Hold your elected
officials accountable for how they voted on this radical legislation.
Mona
Charen explains how the House health care bill “mandates racial and gender
quotas — in perpetuity.”
Charmaine
Yoest explains in the Wall Street Journal.
Excerpt:
It's now becoming clear that Barack Obama
is willing to put everything on the table in order to be the president who
passes health-care reform. Everything, that is, except a ban on federal funding
for abortion.
Daniel
Foster explains the irony of a high-ranking Canadian official fleeing to
America for medical treatment. If government-run
health care is so great, how come you don’t read about Americans going to
Canada for medical procedures? Jeffrey
H. Anderson also comments on this news.
Scott
Brown pulled off an amazing
upset victory last night becoming Massachusetts’ first Republican Senator
in decades. His victory is widely seen
as an insurmountable hurdle to the current health care bill that will force
Congress to “return to the drawing board.”
The
editors at NRO weigh in on the significance of this race. As does the
New York Times.
Our
sources in Congress have assured us that the health care ‘reform’ battle is far
from over. Members of both houses will
meet together to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the health care
bill. The House of Representatives will
come back from the holiday recess on January 12 and the Senate will reconvene sometime
in late January.
NOW
IS THE TIME to contact your representative
and both
your senators to voice your opposition to this bill. Tell them that you don’t want your tax dollars
to support abortion, that you won’t accept a phony pro-life compromise, and
that you don’t want the federal government to micromanage the huge segment of
our economy that is the health care system.
The AP reports
the Senate passed the massive and controversial health care bill this morning. Meanwhile, the AP also reports
that abortion funding could still pose a problem for final passage by both
houses of Congress. Bloomberg
reports that the Congressional Budget Office is contradicting
Democrat claims that the health bill would save the Medicare system.
The
final vote is unavailable but will eventually be posted
here. The bill passed on a straight
party-line vote (60-39).
NRO’s
Ramesh
Ponnuru and Jeffrey
Anderson explain that there still is hope that the abortion-funding health
care ‘reform’ bandwagon can be stopped.
Sen.
Brownback (R-KS) explains
in Politico what is at stake for the pro-life movement in the health care
bill. Excerpt:
For over 30 years, the Hyde amendment has
prevented the expenditure of federal funds on abortion, which so many regard as
the taking of an innocent human life. Named after the late Henry Hyde, longtime
member of Congress from Illinois and pro-life hero, the Hyde amendment
established the principle that taxpayers should not be required to pay for
abortions, even if the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade had effectively
overturned 50 state laws to legalize the procedure across the nation.
Today, with the health care reform bill
emerging from the U.S. Senate, that principle is being thrown to the winds and,
with it, the hard-fought efforts of Henry Hyde and the pro-life movement to
maintain this basic protection for the unborn.
At
1:00am Monday morning the Senate voted to proceed with consideration of the
health care ‘reform’ bill that busts budgets, micromanages the private health
care system, and requires taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. LifeNews
explained why the bill still funds abortions, while FRC
and National
Right to Life spoke out against the bill.
The Minority Leader’s office released a statement alleging that the bill
requires a “monthly
abortion fee.”
If
the Senate is able to pass the bill before Christmas, the House will
next consider the topic. The bill
will either be reconciled with the House-passed version and then reconsidered
by both houses or sent straight to the House to consider without
amendment. Pro-Life Democrat Part Stupak
(D-MI) said the Senate-passed
bill is unacceptable, but it has yet to be seen if Pro-Life Democrats in
the House will stay true to their principles.
Senator
Nelson (D-NE) was responsible for the compromise that allowed the bill to pass
its first hurdle in the wee hours of this morning, and has been receiving vocal
criticism from pro-lifers and other conservatives in his home state of
Nebraska.
See
how BOTH
YOUR SENATORS VOTED on the health care bill.
USA
Today and the
AP report that Sen. Nelson (D-NE) has rejected a supposed pro-life
compromise amendment authored by
Sen. Casey (D-PA). Meanwhile, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed
relief that the Senate health care bill still requires the taxpayer funding
of abortion.
Charles
Krauthammer reflects on the health care overhaul legislation. Excerpts:
The United States has the best health care
in the world — but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The
fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its
2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by
adding hundreds of new provisions, regulations, mandates, committees, and other
arbitrary bureaucratic inventions.
Worse, they are packed into a monstrous
package without any regard to each other. The only thing linking these changes
— such as the 118 new boards, commissions, and programs — is political
expediency. Each must be able to garner just enough votes to pass. There is not
even a pretense of a unifying vision or conceptual harmony.
. . .
The bill is irredeemable. It should not
only be defeated. It should be immolated, its ashes scattered over the Senate
swimming pool.
Then do health care the right way — one
reform at a time, each simple and simplifying, aimed at reducing complexity,
arbitrariness, and inefficiency.
John
Stossel shares his perspective on the House health care vote. Excerpt:
As an American, I am embarrassed that the
U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the
government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance
industries.
I'm embarrassed that my representatives
think that government can subsidize the consumption of medical care without
increasing the budget deficit or interfering with free choice.
It's a triumph of mindless wishful thinking
over logic and experience.
See
how your representative voted here.
LifeNews reports.
Word
had leaked that high level Congressional Democrats are predicting that the
health care bill will not pass this year.
While this sounds like encouraging
news, concerned citizens still need to maintain pressure on their elected
officials to make sure that the health care industry is not socialized, that
health care is not rationed, and that tax dollars aren’t spent on abortion.
The
AP reports. Excerpt:
After months of struggle, House Democrats
rolled out sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to
millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A
vote is likely next week on the plan largely tailored to President Barack
Obama's liking.
House
Minority Leader Boehner called
the bill “1,990 Pages Of Bureaucracy.”
Read the entire text of this massive
bill here.
This
bill would allow your tax dollars to be spent on abortions.
The
Politico reports on the Senate Majority Leader’s renewed push for the “public
option” while the
AP reports that the Speaker of the House just wants to rename the public
option something more palatable.
Charmaine
Yoest explains. Excerpt:
A Rasmussen poll released last month showed
that only 13% of Americans want the health-care reform bill to use tax dollars
to fund abortions. A Pew Research Center poll two weeks ago showed that support
for legalized abortion has dropped to its lowest level in years to 47%, down
from 54% last year.
If Democrats really want to maintain the
abortion status quo, they would drop the Capps Amendment and add a Hyde
Amendment to explicitly exclude funding abortion. The Capps Amendment takes us
toward a new era of unprecedented federal abortion funding.
Her
subtitle reads “Every Democratic health bill so far on offer would change 30
years of federal practice.”
The
AP reports that the fears of pro-lifers that the proposed health care “reform”
would permit taxpayer support of abortion are well founded. Excerpt:
…taxpayer funds [would] mingle with some
insurance plans that, one way or another, pay for abortions.
Robert
Knight explains. Excerpt:
The Senate Finance Committee is poised to
vote on a massive health care reform bill on Tuesday allegedly authored by Sen.
Max Baucus (D-Mont.). A glaring, outrageous, unreported fact is that the bill’s
actual text has been kept secret. No one actually knows what’s in it – not even
the senators who will be told to vote for it.
LifeNews reports.
It also reports on recent
comments by the President’s press secretary that highlight how the proposed health
care “reform” would allow taxpayer funding of abortion.
Reuters
reports that the Senate could wait a week before a vote on the
abortion-funding, socialized medicine bill while the Congressional Budget
Office frantically tries to estimate the costs of the bill.
LifeNews reports. As does the
AP and the Wall
Street Journal.
National
Right to Life also
weighed in:
Events this week in Congress provide fresh
proof that top Democratic leaders in Congress are pushing forward with plans to
establish massive new programs that would pay for elective abortions and
subsidize insurance coverage of abortions -- which, if achieved, would break
from decades of federal policy.
LifeNews reports. Excerpt:
In an effort to gain more support from
members of the Senate Finance Committee who do not support his bill, Sen. Max
Baucus unveiled a modification of the legislation on Tuesday. The modified bill
reduces -- but doesn't come anywhere close to eliminating -- the abortion
concerns pro-life groups have.
LifeNews also reports on
concerns that pro-lifers in the House will not be allowed to offer amendments
on mandated taxpayer funding of abortion.
The
Weekly Standard reports. It is
becoming increasingly clear that someone is lying about abortion funding in the
health care overhaul plan, and it doesn’t appear to be pro-lifers.
The
Hill reports how President Obama and his accomplices in the Senate could
use underhanded tactics to force socialized medicine and taxpayer funded abortion
on the American people.
Aryeh
Spero explains. Excerpt:
Aside from the blatant entanglement of
religion and politics, the President is wrong in asserting that national and
collective health control is a moral and ethical prescription. Everyone agrees
that the President's plan will cause a new rationing of health care. There’s
also the danger that the President’s “comparative effectiveness research” will
set cost-effectiveness standards to be used against Medicare enrollees to deny
them life-extending new drugs or operations because it’s not “worth it.”
FactCheck.org
reports. Excerpt:
Despite what Obama said, the House bill
would allow abortions to be covered by a federal plan and by federally
subsidized private plans.
HT:
National Right to Life
“What's
Scary About Health Care Reform?” by Steve Chapman. Excerpt:
A hammer is a marvelous tool, but only for
the right job. If you took an expensive watch to a repairman and he pulled out
a hammer, you would be extremely nervous, if not aghast. Maybe he could find a
way to do some good with that implement, but you would be more focused on the
damage he could cause.
A similar scenario is playing out in the
public anxiety over health care reform. Plenty of people think the existing
system is in need of repair. But when they hear about expensive plans that
require a more powerful and intrusive federal government, they fear that what
is best in our approach to medicine may get smashed in the process.
“Dirty
Secret No. 2 in Obamacare” by Chuck Noris.
“NHS vs.
USA” by Cal Thomas.
“About
Canada - Health Care and More” by Mona Charen.
“Obama’s
Option Play” by Rich Lowry.
FRC
provides helpful information about health care town halls being held across the
country. Click here to find a town hall
near you. Click here to read FRC’s
document “20 Questions to Ask Your Legislator About Health Care Overhaul.”
Chuck
Norris explains why parental rights could be threatened by the
Congressional health care “reform” bill.
Excerpt:
…I decided to research the reasons so many
are opposed to Obamacare to separate the facts from the fantasy. What I
discovered is that there are indeed dirty little secrets buried deep within the
1,000-plus page health care bill.
Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about
the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care
and development.
It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of
the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for
families with young children and families expecting children." The
programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child
behavior and parenting skills.
Fox
News reports. Excerpt:
News outlets that are focusing on the
incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama's town hall
meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric -- and even violence -- of
liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. Bush in 2002.
To
see the famous diagram of the proposed health care “reform” in detail click
here.
In
the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday, an amendment mandating
abortion funding in the health care overhaul was passed and an amendment prohibiting
taxpayer funding of abortion was defeated.
LifeNews and RedState
report. Also, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) decried
the votes in a press release.
Excerpt:
Last night's vote demonstrates just how far
Democrats are willing to go to force taxpayers to fund abortion. A week ago, the Democrat-controlled Congress
voted down my proposal to block federal funding for the nation's largest
abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
Now Chairman Waxman has employed a procedural gimmick to defeat an
amendment that would have prevented federal funding of abortion under the
Democrats' health care plan. This same
amendment had been approved earlier in the evening by the Chairman's very own
committee.
An overwhelming majority of Americans,
including advocates of abortion, oppose using taxpayer dollars to fund
abortion. Across the country American
families are rejecting the Democrats' plan for a government takeover of health care. The recent action taken by Democrats on the
Energy and Commerce Committee will give Americans no comfort as this debate
moves forward.
Watch
the Family Research Council’s hard-hitting
ad on the dangers of socialized medicine and the abortion funding contained
the proposed health care ‘reform’ bill.
The
AP reports. Excerpt:
. . . lawmakers opposed to federal funding
for abortions said Tuesday the House leadership's health care bill contains a
"hidden mandate" that would allow taxpayer dollars to be used to end
pregnancies.
Call
your representative and both your senators today and urge them to oppose the
massive health care “reform” bill! Tell
them you don’t want your tax dollars supporting abortion!
Also,
on Thursday night (July 23) at 9:00pm Eastern Time a coalition of pro-life
groups will host an urgent
nationwide webcast. Find out more
about the pro-abortion funding provisions in the health care bill and find out what you can do.
Fox
News reports. Excerpt:
A government-funded, public health
insurance plan may allow taxpayer money to go to pay for abortions, the White
House budget chief said Sunday.
Office of Budget and Management Chief Peter
Orszag told "FOX News Sunday" he is not ready to say whether abortion
services would be part of a final package Congress is considering to provide
taxpayer-funded health care to about a third of the nation's 50 million
uninsured. Lawmakers are considering a package that could cost as much as $1.5
trillion over 10 years for health care.
"I think that that will wind up being
part of the debate. I am not prepared to say explicitly that right now. It's
obviously a controversial issue, and it's one of the questions that is playing
out in this debate," Orszag told "FOX News Sunday." "I'm
not prepared to rule it out."
Already, the Obama administration has
demonstrated its support for federal funding of abortion. The president
rescinded the Mexico City Policy on Jan. 23, the day after the 36th anniversary
of the Roe v. Wade decision. The policy had been in place to prevent U.S.
funding being used for abortion services in clinics abroad.
The
New York Times and LifeNews
also report. National Right to Life
also examines this
problem.
Pro-life
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) wrote a letter to his colleagues
warning them of the abortion funding provisions in this bill.
National
Right to Life explains. Excerpt:
Congressional Democratic leaders are aiming
to bring massive "health care reform" bills to the floor of the U.S.
Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives during the last week in July --
bills that National Right to Life says "would result in the greatest
expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade."
LifeNews also reports.
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