(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Senate Democrats have been assured 60 votes so that debate on the Senate version of the Health Care Reform Bill can begin.
Senator Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat, succumbed to pressure and decided to allow the debate to move forward. Republican opposition will be unsuccessful at using the filibuster to halt the process. Tactics such as printing the entire health care bill, single sided to inflate the overall size of the bill before the cameras, were unsuccessful at convincing the American People that big government was coming to take over their lives.
After the vote scheduled at 8pm eastern time Saturday November 21, all sides will leave for vacation. Once they return, the Republican party will ramp up their propaganda machine to scare Americans, and the Democrats will as always fumble and struggle to defend themselves.
Let's just hope that some good can come from all of this political grandstanding.
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I am apposed to the health care plan that has been proposed, but at least there will be debate about it now. It would have been a shame for all of this nonsense that has been happening to just end with nothing. There will now be discussion. I just hope both sides listen to each other and really think about the people. I disagree with your comment about the propaganda machine as well. There is a lot of stuff in this bill that would do nothing but push the American people closer to poverty, if they are not already there. Also, as the proposed bill stands, it would leave people with a limited number of doctors willing to meet with them and there would be absolutely no way to sustain such a plan as anything that is "free" is met with unlimited demand, which requires rationing. This is a fact that cannot be denined and rationing is something we cannot have here in America in regard to health care!
Cato has real economic liberal reform solutions. I hope this bill does not pass! There is nothing economically liberal about it.
healthcare.cato.org
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