Another grim roadmark on the path to socialist medicine
November 21, 2009
Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas was the last of three Democratic holdouts to announce her support for the procedural vote. She will vote for cloture on the Democrats’ government medicine bill tonight. The Democrats now have 60 votes and will be able to move forward debate of government medicine.
“Move over, Bernie Madoff. Tip your hat to a trillion-dollar scam,” said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., referring to the mastermind of a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
Most everyone would be required to purchase insurance under Reid’s legislation, and billions in new taxes would be levied on insurers and high-income Americans to help extend coverage to 30 million uninsured. Insurance companies would no longer be allowed to deny coverage to people with medical conditions or drop coverage when someone gets sick.
The action in the Senate comes two weeks after the House approved a health overhaul bill of its own on a 220-215 vote. After the vote Saturday night, senators will leave for a Thanksgiving recess. Upon their return, assuming Democrats prevail on the vote, they will launch into weeks or more of unpredictable debate on the health care bill, with numerous amendments expected from both sides of the aisle and more 60-vote hurdles along the way.
Meanwhile, there were new guidelines announced this week for both breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings. In both kinds of cancer, the government is now saying start getting screened much later in life than is currently done, and when you are old and on Medicare, the cancer screenings must stop.
This is the beginning of the death panels, a very cold bloodless death by bureaucracy. Welcome to the Obamanation.
Publicus :
Date: November 21, 2009
The Commies are too scared to even debate this thing. The vote will kill it.
If it doesn’t, so be it. Fuck the drama queen shit. The direction of this country remains at the discretion of its people. I am not afraid.
James :
Date: November 21, 2009
What happened was a $100M bribe from the “stimulus” loot pile to bribe democratic fence sitters.
Does everyone now agree that government is corrupt beyond all proportions?
“A largely overlooked provision in the Senate bill would send $100 million to Louisiana to help it cover costs for Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor. In her speech, Landrieu rejected the notion that she was voting to advance the bill simply because of the money.”