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A healthcare roundup
There’s a bunch of news with the U.S. House of Representative’s vote to repeal the national healthcare law enacted last year. They did so Thursday, Jan. 19 by a 245 to 189 vote.
Now the odds are it won’t pass the Senate, and I’m sure if it does President Obama will veto it. And with that said, here are some bits and pieces of the continuing and ongoing healthcare debate:
Ohio Officially Part of Healthcare Lawsuit
COLUMBUS — Senior United States District Judge Roger Vinson today granted the motion adding Ohio and five more additional states as party plaintiffs in the lawsuit pending in the federal court for the Northern District of Florida challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted healthcare law. The judge’s ruling states that he will not require the federal defendants to file new answers to the complaint, so the addition of the new parties will not delay the case in any way.
More than half of the states plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
To view the judge’s ruling, visit www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov/HealthCareOrder.
Democrats questions Chabot’s votes
Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Cincinnati, voted Wednesday, Jan. 19 to repeal the healthcare bill but the Democrats are crying foul because he apparently voted to keep the government-subsidized healthcare plan.
According to the Dem’s press release: “In a stunning show of hypocrisy, Representative Steve Chabot voted to protect government-subsidized health care for his family but not for the families of his constituents,” said Jesse Ferguson of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
He continued: “On the same day he voted to repeal health insurance reform and put private insurance companies back in charge of our health care, Representative Steve Chabot’s vote makes clear that he is the worst kind of hypocrite - one who looks out for themselves instead of their constituents.”
Chabot, though, sees it as “saving jobs and keeping health decisions in the hands of American people and their doctors,” he said in a statement on his congressional website.
“The negative economic impact this legislation, and its accompanying regulations, will have on small businesses should be at the forefront of our debate on this law. While we must work to expand access to quality, affordable health care, we must not cripple job-creation in the pursuit of expanded coverage,” he said in the release.
From the Speaker of the House
Here’s what Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., had to say: “Over the last two years the American people have been discussing the issue of health care. And the number one concern for the American people is the cost of health care — and yet what we see with ObamaCare is an increase in costs to the American people. We’ve listened to the American people through our America Speaking Out project.”
He continued to say: “Yesterday (Jan. 18), 200 economists came out with a report outlining how this will destroy jobs and increase costs. I just think it’s time to listen to the American people and to do this the right way.”
Though the economists’ report wasn’t made available via Mr. Boehner’s office, this Jan. 6 story states a repeal will “unravel the deficit-reduction benefits of the bill.”
To see the approved healthcare bill, here’s the House’s version — all 1,990 pages (happy reading).
Now that you’ve digested all this — and I’m sure you have — what are your thoughts?
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By Angry American
January 20, 2011 9:09 AM | Link to this
The Democats are FULL OF CRAP. There wasn’t a vote yesterday to suspend Insurance for the members of Congress. This is misdirection and Liberal lies at its finest. No matter what these Liberal loons try to tell us Americans, there is no way in he11 that you can insure 30 million previously uninsured people AND SAVE MONEY. Who would believe that crap? If you could insure them all for 5000 bucks a year, that would add 150 BILLION to the annual deficit. How do the Liberal loons intend to account for that? They have already decided not to cut Medicare. (A good choice) They want you to believe that thousands of uninsureed people will magically die if we take their health care away? News Flash Liberals; those people could NOT be denied care before, and they will not be denied care after this abomination has gone away.
By Thelma Slade
January 21, 2011 6:54 AM | Link to this
This healthcare bill will do America as much good as an Islamic Law. The Islamic law has no place in America since we have our constitution. We are not a predominately Islamic nation and we started as Christian. So I would tell these Muslims to sit on it, regarding their law. The healthcare bill, regardless of the garbage the Dems are telling on the House floor, should be ripped to pieces. It is nothing but taxes and govt. interference in private business and the personal care we receive. I would, point my finger at the insurance companies and tell them their greed is just as bad as that nasty healthcare bill.
By oxford resident
January 21, 2011 5:48 PM | Link to this
Here are the words of a wise GOP leader, Bill Frist on Obama’s health care reform legislation, “The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act”): “It is not the bill that I would have drafted…but it is the law of the land…the platform upon which all future efforts to make [our] system better will be based” (More in today’s LA Times). Instead of wasting time (and money) on a futile vote to repeal the law, our elected representatives should stop the theatrics and get to work making the health care law better. It has within it many provisions most Americans want. The GOP should admit that and show they are capable of a mature, honest, bipartisan effort.