The House leadership has put forth their massive 2,000 page health care bill, while there may have been minor tweaking; much of the bill remains the same.
“The plan unveiled today by House Democrats represents more of the same,” said Congressman Duncan Hunter-R CA. “Despite the need for responsible health care reform, this proposal once again amounts to nothing more than a massive government takeover of our health care system.”
There is no question that health care reform is needed and most Americans would like to see some changes, but this package is just too large for the taxpayers to understand.
“The status quo is insufficient, but what has been proposed today comprises a partisan overreach that will destroy the basic foundation of our health care system, eliminate jobs and drive up already record debt levels,” Hunter explained.
Hunter also expressed his disappointment that his amendment to protect small businesses, despite being accepted by the House Education and Labor Committee, was substantially weakened by Democratic leadership.
The legislation also may contain the same loopholes in the prior House bill that will allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded benefits.
“When will House Democrats listen to the American people?" says Lamar Smith-R TX.”
The House Democratic leadership doesn't seem to have in included the verification mechanisms in their bill that the Senate Democrats added in order to curb illegal immigrant’s participation in taxpayer-funded health care.
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Just once when someone starts ripping a bill for doing this or not doing that, I would love to see someone point to the page and paragraph where it states what they are saying it says.
Has Ms.Dvorak read the bill or is she just regurgitating the partisan line? I would bet heavy on the latter as she makes vague statements without backing anything up with facts.
"The legislation also may contain the same loopholes..." is akin to saying "some people have said" or "the legislation also may contain a clause giving doctors permission to pee on their patients".
Reporting is not taking a couple of articles you have read and then quoting them. Reporting is fact finding and fact checking two skills I think you are lacking in Ms.Dvorak.
Save your scaremongering for the kids coming to your door later this week.
I agree with Mingus. I think this is a thin vale for giving Ms. Dvorak's opinion instead of actually reporting what's going on. I know, however, that she's under pressure to get articles out. It's difficult to make any money with examiner.com unless you write several articles a week and even then, you need to have another job probably in addition.
I know that it's a wickety stick talking about the health care bill helping undocumented people. I don't know if it does or not, but I hope it does. These people are forced out of their country, in large part because OUR gov't is in cahoots with the Mexican gov't to support American corporations doing business in Mexico and gaining a strong hold on nearly every industry (even corn, a mexican staple!). People are forced out of their livelihood and off their lands and then come here because their is hope for work, but then called 'illegals' and exploited and have to live (or die) in the shadows. I truly hope that these people get health care because they deserve it as much as anyone else, independant of their geographical location. Especially, since they would have stayed where they were if it weren't for the US giving them little other choice but to come here.
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