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All local House members vote against health care bill

All Dayton-area members of Congress voted against the health care bill on Sunday night.

In a statement released late on Sunday, U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, said he “opposed this bill because it will increase budget deficits and decrease the quality of our health care services. Furthermore, it will cut more than $500 billion in Medicare resulting in reduced health care for seniors.”

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, released the following statement:

“As America engaged in a national discussion over health care for the past year, I heard directly from thousands of our constituents. They called, e-mailed. wrote letters and attended town hall meetings. They talked to me at the grocery store and even traveled to Washington. Their message was clear: We don’t want this bill.”

“Unfortunately, instead of listening to the American people, Democrat leaders twisted arms, used taxpayer money to cut deals, and made a mockery of the legislative process in order to get the votes necessary to pass this legislation.”

“Our healthcare system needs reform, not a government takeover. I helped develop an alternative reform measure that was never considered, and I offered an amendment to this bill last week to prevent taxpayer funding of abortion, which was defeated when so-called pro-life Democrats changed their votes to no.”

“Americans want Congress to focus on job creation and getting federal spending under control. Instead, President Obama and Speaker Pelosi continue pressing forward with their big government agenda. Ten years from now, when the government-run health care system has grown beyond expectation and the American people are trying to stop Congress from rationing health care to contain costs; we will look back on this day with great regret.”

U.S. Rep. Steve Austria, R-Beavercreek, and U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Loveland, also voted against the bill.

Check here for how all members voted.

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By moneybags

March 23, 2010 4:01 AM | Link to this

The Republicans are going to have to buy this next election. It is our money that will put them there. Wait.. I didn’t mean our tax money, thats the democrats. It takes money to make money right? I am tired of this, and intend on helping get the republicans in there.. bigtime.

By Paulette Revere

March 22, 2010 6:20 PM | Link to this

A few reasons this Bill is a death blow to America Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally. Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an individual’s bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts. Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized (by the government—- That’s YOU ) for all union members, union retirees and for community organizations (such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ACORN). Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section will not be treated as a tax. Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same regardless of specialty, and the government will set all doctors’ fees. [** Doctors throughout the country will QUIT practicing medicine & will find other occupations in order to make their living— some probably will even run for public offices. BET ON IT ] Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care according to the patient’s age. Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on hospital expansion;however, communities may petition for an exception. Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be required to attend an “end-of-life planning” seminar every five years. Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order. And this bill doesn’t apply to members of Congress. They are already exempt from the Social Security system and have a well-funded private plan that covers their retirement needs. If they were on our Social Security plan, I’m sure they’d find a way to make the plan better for the future. Did everybody GET that? The IRS is going to have CARTE BLANCHE access to EVERYONES’ bank accounts & the ‘authority’ to confiscate funds AT WILL… THEIR WILL. Need more, slaves?

By Paulette Revere

March 22, 2010 5:02 PM | Link to this

Here’s some true education for the plantation slaves: In 1987, my grandmother had to be put into a nursing home. At the time, she owned her own modest home in E. Dayton & was drawing S.S. In order for her to enter the nursing home, the GOVERNMENT made us sell her house, hand the money over to them, EVERY PENNY, & she was then ‘allowed’, by the Gov’t. to keep $30 a month from her S.S. check from then on, for toothpase & such— the GOV’T KEPT the rest. That’s not all… there is an elderly married couple living in N. Dakota— married 55 years. Property owners, they lived ‘the American Dream’. The husband has to DIVORCE the wife so that the GOV’T won’t take EVERYTHING THEY OWN away from them, now that she’s been placed in a nursing home. With the divorce, the man STILL has to hand over the 50% of their holdings that are considered the wife’s half, TO THE GOV’T. He’s got to SELL THEIR HOME & other possessions in order to ‘give’ ( at gunpoint’ what the GOV’T SAYS IS ‘THEIR DUE’. NOTHING in life is free & when you dance with the Devil ( the Gov’t ), you’d better be prepared to have your hide stripped from you in the process. Social Security was another HUGE fraud pulled on the American people— cooked up by FDR & one of his best FRIENDS, Joseph Stalin. If morons would take the time to read & learn TRUE historical FACTS, they’d know more than just how to drink from a beer bong & toke on a joint.

By Quentin

March 22, 2010 4:58 PM | Link to this

Interesting that the supporters say all opposition against it was lies. So let me ask them a few questions. 1) How is it going to be sustainable if they budget it for ten years but require four of them with taxes paid and no benifits out of those ten? 2) If the democrats were looking out for the poor and going after the insurance + pharmacudical industries, then why did those industries donate heavily to democrats and support the bill? 3) How do you plan to pay for it besides cutting the military? 4) Where do you plan to come up with $500 billion being robbed from the eldery in medicare benifits, or do you plan to leave them in the cold? Finally if the costs show to be unstainable with out a severe burden on our children to pay for all this debt, will you step up to help repeal it and pay off the costs racked up by higher taxes and cuts in your entitlements? I have yet to get even an attempt by supporters to answer these questions beyond insults, claiming I am racist for not supporting the reform or am heartless with no soul and the rest. Maybe someone is willing to give it a real attempt?

By Jeff Gecowets

March 22, 2010 4:40 PM | Link to this

I applaud our local representatives for voting AGAINST the bill. None of the Democrats ever said how much it going to cost and who is going to pay for it. I can tell you it won’t Rep. Pelosi or Rep. Stupak. I think the politicans need to worry about getting Americans back to work so that they can afford this health care. In addition, most people will not get FULL coverage until 2014 (4 years from now). I think the Democrats are in trouble in November. Vote Republician.

By Reality check

March 22, 2010 4:15 PM | Link to this

Paulette, you make me laugh! We should educate ourselves? If your statement is one of education I don’t want to become educated.

By Paulette Revere

March 22, 2010 3:28 PM | Link to this

The DNC calls people who vote for them ‘their useful idiots’—- too ignorant & stupid to know what’s going on & what they’re doing to you (screwing you in the butt). Nobama LIEd.. he did NOTHING to hold unemployment at 8% or less— in fact, it went up & will CONTINUE to go UP. Yet, you still buy into the razzle dazzle COMMUNIST bull feces. Do some reading, educate yourselves while you’re collecting your ‘free’ welfare money while contributing to the SLAVE COUNT on the Demoncrats plantation.When the bread lines start to form & this country BECOMES a clone of the former USSR, just remember that YOU ASKED FOR IT. And, you deserve to starve to death for your ignorance, stupidity, & UN-American Communist beliefs. Just because the politicians say stealing from others is ‘right & legal’ doesn’t make it so.

By Tomas

March 22, 2010 2:51 PM | Link to this

Of course all the local reps voted against it-they are GOP. This was a block and partisan at its ugliest. It angers me that the GOP has no problem with spending over a trillion on a war in Iraq, stated under false pretenses no less, but refuse to go into the hole for health care for our people. It proves that they prefer war over peace.

By mary

March 22, 2010 2:46 PM | Link to this

i am sure the country went thru these same times when social security and medicare were being considered. where would we be today with out both of these programs? in a real rut—most of the senior citizens could not survive with out them. if the health care proposal were initially introduced by the opposite party it would be “wonderful”. our representatives need to start thinking about and acting on what benefits the american people and not just opposing because the other side thought of it first.

By mary

March 22, 2010 2:46 PM | Link to this

i am sure the country went thru these same times when social security and medicare were being considered. where would we be today with out both of these programs? in a real rut—most of the senior citizens could not survive with out them. if the health care proposal were initially introduced by the opposite party it would be “wonderful”. our representatives need to start thinking about and acting on what benefits the american people and not just opposing because the other side thought of it first.

By George C. Flecther III

March 22, 2010 1:30 PM | Link to this

II believe that some individuals may be confused with helping the poor VS. giving another handout to the lazy.

By JT

March 22, 2010 1:25 PM | Link to this

So how many billions were handed out in back room deals to buy the necessary votes? When the music stops on this debacle, the Democrats will be the only ones left without a chair.

By Thank God

March 22, 2010 12:50 PM | Link to this

Thank God finally some help for the poor in this country! I guess the Republicans do not care about the poor

By James

March 22, 2010 11:15 AM | Link to this

I would call the Republican opposition to Obama and to Obama’s health care proposals “The Audacity of Dope.” Republicans have lied their behinds off in order to oppose health care reforms. The lies will be proven to be lies when our new health care system proves them wrong. All the Doomsday scenarios portrayed by Republicans will just fade away, but people will remember the lies. Republicans gave us the Great Republican Recession. And they turn around and attempt to portray Obama as the problem. Republicans gave us the Great Republican Recession, and then turn around and pretend that they have the solutions to our nation’s economic problems. HELLO- If the Bush Era tax cuts worked so well, then technically our economy should be roaring right about now. Republicans championed the laundering of TRILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS through Big Oil and Big Defense and called it “The War in Iraq.” They didn’t seem to care about the costs of anything when the war was proving to be an enormous scam. During the Bush years, Republicans kept telling America “defecits don’t matter!” and now they’re pretending that Obama got us into this financial mess.

By Stephen

March 22, 2010 11:10 AM | Link to this

We Did IT! COngratulations to America for not letting a very loud, aggressive, and abusive minority from preventing reform! YES WE DID!!!!!!!

By William Ayers

March 22, 2010 11:04 AM | Link to this

Great news. The bill passed. I want free food,energy,housing, transporation. I will pay for my own entertainment. That is only fair.

By FE

March 22, 2010 11:03 AM | Link to this

Get ready for Obama’s brown shirts(IRS)policing your healthcare.The “Blue Dogs” used execitive order as cover for bailing out on Obamacare!

By no thanks

March 22, 2010 11:03 AM | Link to this

The statement for the average person is false. I make just enough to be out of subsides. I already pay a lot for my insurance, which is pretty good. Now due to my income I will have to pay for mine and some lazy butt with their hand out. I dont have a problem helping people who have fell on hard times, but I do have a problem helping baby factories and druggies.

By grumpy

March 22, 2010 10:22 AM | Link to this

This is gonna be really interesting. A normal wait in an emergency room was 3 to 4 hours. You wont be able to even get in one when this kicks in. Doctors will be far and few between. If you have a job and still can’t afford this insurance they will give you a tax credit. If you are one of the millions out of work, what are they gonna do for you. Would be far cheaper if I just quit work and went on welfare and that’s exactly what thousands of people will do. What they have managed to do is vote for a bill that will provide sub-standard health care for everyone. Like it or not, you got it.

By scott

March 22, 2010 10:19 AM | Link to this

To you who “won”, it’s like Let’s Make a Deal and you just “won” the pile of junk behind door number 1 while door number 2 had the real reform. Now the Dems can go back and read the bill to see what they just passed.

By null

March 22, 2010 10:13 AM | Link to this

YES! WE WON! Finally some legislation that helps the average American. The Washington Post web site has an excellent tool that shows you what the effect will be on your family. Let the losers cry and rant and rave and come up with all their inflamatory lies. We still won.

By Keith

March 22, 2010 10:07 AM | Link to this

Obama is a JOKE a LIAR and disgrace to our founding fathers. He could care less what the people think or what America needs. He is more concerned about his legacy and doing something no other president has been able to accomplish. Well HE WILL BE REMEMBERED ALRIGHT, AS THE PRESIDENT THAT DIVIDED OUR COUNTRY AND MADE THIS COUNTRY ONE STEP CLOSER TO SOCIALISM.

By bubbs

March 22, 2010 10:02 AM | Link to this

When we all stop grumbling about being a Dem.and or a Rep.and unite as one,we will move forward,and come out of this depression.Remember the president that asked-Ask not what your country can do for you-but what you can do for you country.Lets work togeather to get this done OK.Hello

By Nancy

March 22, 2010 9:48 AM | Link to this

Thank you Congressman Boehner, Turner, Austria, Jordan, and Congresswoman Schmidt for opposing this hack piece of legislation. It’s good to know you listen to your constituents.

By Buckeye

March 22, 2010 9:41 AM | Link to this

If this is good for the American people then it should be good for Congress. Did they change their cushy insurance plan to this one?

By William

March 22, 2010 9:40 AM | Link to this

Boy, I cant wait to see my taxes double and my insurance premiums triple next month. I can hardly wait to schedule my next doctors appointment after only a 6 month wait for an opening because they have all quit. And oh yeah, you know those “Kroger doctors” you keep bitching about? Better get used to them because thats all your going to have left.

By Jack

March 22, 2010 9:16 AM | Link to this

If you are one of these ignorant people bitching about health ins companies and pharmaceutical companies you are a complete moron and an enemy of free people. It is the dumbest thing you could say! No wonder the country is going to hell with ignorant voters like you!

By Squirrellygirl

March 22, 2010 8:29 AM | Link to this

This HC bill is a job-killing animal. The additional burden doubling premiums will cause employers to drop existing HC coverage. It also will encourage layoffs so employers don’t have to pay $2000 for each uncovered employee. We will remember come election time. We will show up, we will vote the democrats out of office. Increasing taxes in the middle of a recession is economic suicide. The fake numbers submitted to CBO aren’t fooling the American public who have been against this bill from the beginning. Govt will control student loans, too. Elderly people will die because of rationing of HC due to $500B cut in medicare.

By LesC

March 22, 2010 8:12 AM | Link to this

Those who obstructed and voted “No” are all public enemies! They too have to answer to their voters. Explain how they voted for the insurance companies and against the middle class working Joe. What a bunch of losers!!!

By America Gone

March 22, 2010 7:33 AM | Link to this

Those supporting Democrats should learn some basic economics. All the governemnt has it takes form the people. What we pay for this won’t be spent on other things. The government beaurocracy to administer it will chew up more money. We get fewer jobs that pay less. Poor ignorant people.

By Retired Sgt

March 22, 2010 6:11 AM | Link to this

ght: Perhaps you should take a look at what Clinton, Gore, Pelosi, Kerry, Kennedy etc all said about Iraq nuclear programs BEFORE GWB was elected, BEFORE he arrived in the White house, and BEFORE going to Iraq. They ALL said Iraq had nuclear weapons programs. Now, if they said it BEFORE GWB arrived, hoiw did BUSH lie? Wouldnt they have lied too? You see, when you present FACTS onstead of blindly parroting talking points without a point of reference, it makes you look foolish. Ahh, logic, it befuddles the DEMS

By ght

March 22, 2010 5:48 AM | Link to this

With all the lies, deceptions and propaganda the gop, fox and the teabaggers put out, I’m glad it still passed. As a moral victory. Most of the individuals listed voted in favor of the lie based war in Iraq; including many dems. And, we the people had very little voice in that decision. Obama is the president as was elected with people knowing their would be reform. The republicans lost; that’s it!

By Philman

March 22, 2010 5:40 AM | Link to this

Just wait till conservitive real reporters get hold of this bill and let America know what is really in it, their will be buyers remorse for sure, and I’m sure it will be out before NOVEMBER,

By Jan

March 22, 2010 5:33 AM | Link to this

What will the dems take over next? They spend money we don’t have, run businesses they don’t understand, and are running our country into the ground. When everyone gets their increased tax bill, maybe they will see the light. Hope and change? I hope those dems see a change in the next election when they are booted out of office. We the People didn’t want this legislation, according to every poll. They are power hungry, corrupt, and deserve to go.

By Julius1944

March 22, 2010 5:29 AM | Link to this

Jim Jordan is such an @ss. Is anyone running against him?

By fe up

March 22, 2010 5:22 AM | Link to this

They voted no on health care reform and soon it will be time for us all to vote no for them.

By i AM JUST SAYING

March 22, 2010 5:04 AM | Link to this

Funny how Dumocrats wince at teh idea of executing convicted killers, but have no problem terminating the life of an unborn child. Yo uwill be judged in the afterlife. Better dress warm…It is hot down there

By Jen

March 22, 2010 4:35 AM | Link to this

To Concerned: Your ID sure doesn’t match any concern of the babies that are already here and are killed and abused everyday. Besides, the abortion argument is nothing but a scare tactic to stop the bill. I hope come election day that many Americans are smart enough to realize that. Abortions were going on before it was a legal, many millions of women and babies died from illegal abortions. Funny how those opposed to this bill don’t seem to mind babies being killed over in Iraq and Afghanistan to a war that went bad from the beginning.

By jimmy joe

March 22, 2010 3:26 AM | Link to this

I have voted for Mike Turner twice. I contacted him and told him I wanted him to vote YES on this bill. He did not listen to me. He obviously cares more about the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies than he does about the people. He will not receive my vote again.

By nored

March 22, 2010 2:05 AM | Link to this

Well at least the Republicians listen to their constituents when they voted. Didn’t expect the Democrats to vote what their constituents wanted, thats ok their days are numbered.

By Concerned

March 22, 2010 2:03 AM | Link to this

Congressman Stupak will be judged by his constituents, his church, and by God for becoming a modern day Benedict Arnold. His vote to pass taxpayer funded abortion along with his democrat co-conspirators will cause the slaughter of millions of unborn children. They have sold their soul to the devil and will spend eternity trying to escape the shackles that bind them.

By Red

March 22, 2010 1:33 AM | Link to this

We didnt expect a republician to vote FOR the bill did we? Thats ok, their days are numbered anyway.

By Johio

March 22, 2010 1:31 AM | Link to this

This headline and article are not accurate. If you’re going to count Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) as a “local House member,” you have to also count Steve Driehaus (D-Cinti). He voted “Yes.” At least we have one local leader who cares more about the interests of his constituents than the interests of the insurance companies.

By al

March 22, 2010 12:08 AM | Link to this

Thank you for voting against the bill. So called pro life democrat Stupak is a bigger joke than the whole democratic party.

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