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Senate Democrats Urge Undoing of ObamaCare
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Dr. Susan Berry
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 12/12/2012 11:16:45 PM
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| Many powerful Democrats, even some of the most liberal among them, are supporting what amounts to a dismantling of President Obama’s signature health care law. Using “Republican” language to make their case, these Democrats are attempting to repeal some of the funding mechanisms as well as the cost-containment measures that were purportedly inherent in the law. With some of their most influential constituent groups facing onerous tax increases that are slated to help fund the law’s mandates and regulations, Senators like Al Franken (D-MN), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Charles Schumer
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 12/12/2012 11:26:53 PM (No. 9062649)
Take really bad law and apply some bandaids, duct tape, bailing wire, spit, glue and, no doubt, a zillion more bureaucrats to square things up. Buckle up, it´s gonna be a bumpy future.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Shimp, 12/12/2012 11:27:10 PM (No. 9062650)
Haha! A very cold day in **ll when dims vote against obamster care......not gonna happen.
I luv Breitbarts website, but someone is getting way overly optimistic here...
This is too funny! HAHAHA!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross, 12/12/2012 11:34:15 PM (No. 9062658)
If these geniuses are involved in effecting any changes, the worst legislation in history will get even more complex, more intractable, less efficient, less fair, less effective, and more costly than it is today.
Where were these idiots when the law was passed if it is so bad? Following orders and that´s all.
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KimoSaavy, 12/12/2012 11:40:38 PM (No. 9062663)
I guess the people responsible for passing this bill (all democrats in the Senate) finally read what´s in it. Hopefully this will catch on and the other dims will recognize the err of their way. Or are they already thinking 2014.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jacooley, 12/12/2012 11:55:19 PM (No. 9062670)
You passed it. You own it. Deal with it.
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MDConservative, 12/12/2012 11:57:49 PM (No. 9062672)
Each party has the other by the short ones...the GOP is losing the "fiscal cliff" issue no matter what...and the Dems hammer the other 98% with taxes and cost hikes to cover Obama´s "Affordable Care Act." Frankly, both going over the cliff works for me.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
janylou, 12/13/2012 12:03:28 AM (No. 9062679)
How about repealing the bill and starting over?!
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veritas, 12/13/2012 12:05:00 AM (No. 9062681)
S-o-o-o, how about any senator who voted for this [pre-deleted] dog´s breakfast of a "law" and is already pushing to hack chunks off it and make major changes like these gets assessed for costs and sent to jail for malfeasance?
Oh, and how did Breitbart manage to skip over the critical tort-reform the bill provides? Oh, that´s right! There are none!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
terror118, 12/13/2012 12:06:09 AM (No. 9062683)
Let the law go on, just as "written" by the pizza- and beer-swilling gaggles of 19-year-old pages that were really responsible for it. No one, not even Pelosi, knew what was in it when it was passed. Now we do, and we know that elderly people with chronic, life-threatening conditions are going to die. Well, I´m one of them; I´ve set my affairs in order and I want to go. I know where I´m going, and I´m looking forward to it.
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JHSMom02, 12/13/2012 12:07:07 AM (No. 9062685)
Well, folks, let´s not be tooooo hard on the Dems. Remember, they had to pass it to know what was in it. Idiots.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
steveW, 12/13/2012 12:51:16 AM (No. 9062712)
Sham senators who knowingly voted for a sham law endorsed by a sham president, justifying their sham vote with a sham "concern" for a sham "fairness".
Their party affiliation is enough evidence to judge them incapable of thinking one single clear thought. That they would consider undoing Obamacare is a sham.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 12/13/2012 1:24:48 AM (No. 9062727)
To assure the repeal of Obamacare simply require that all those Congressmen who voted for it must use it as their sole health care coverage.
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Twiggy, 12/13/2012 1:43:47 AM (No. 9062733)
I just read about this on another news site and it sounded like the dems were concerned about the tax on medical devices. It didn´t mention undoing the whole Obamacare. I certainly wish they would throw the whole thing in the garbage. No one mentioned the 3.5% tax on the sale of your home after January 1 or other goodies they threw in. What a nightmare.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Cleanhousein2012, 12/13/2012 2:02:35 AM (No. 9062740)
Zippycare will be in full force in the next Senatorial election in 2014. The chit will hit the fan when everyone feels what it means.
Too many will wake up one day, finding that they are working 2 jobs part time, and have to report there health insurance status to the IRS, and will start to realize the pain of ObamaCare taxes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 12/13/2012 2:22:18 AM (No. 9062745)
Just like everything else, Obozo will pick & choose who he wants to exempt. It´s just God Obama´s way! Oh... BTW, AARP´s UHC, who was a strong supporter of ObieCare, has now reduced reimbursement rates to docs & hospitals so much, they´ve been dropped by several Tampa hospitals & affiliated docs.
Again, I expect to see retired gov´t workers HC bills. as well as MediCaid, to be paid at a higher rate than regular folks like me. It´s just Obozo´s way!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/13/2012 3:10:22 AM (No. 9062767)
Maybe if those dumb arse demonrats had read the bill before they passed it, they would have known horrors were in it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/13/2012 3:57:20 AM (No. 9062784)
There has to be a catch to this. Maybe some liberals are figuring out Obamacare will cost THEM money.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
altoona, 12/13/2012 5:35:12 AM (No. 9062814)
#12, you´ve got it. The GOP should have made the most of that issue. Take about "fairness" when the people who voted to impose the law on us have exempted themselves from it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
HicksvilleKid59, 12/13/2012 6:29:24 AM (No. 9062866)
The dims are indeed dim. I´ve got plants in my yard smarter than them. The rocks are smarter than Franken.
Nothing in this article wasn´t known YEARS ago. Smart people pointed out all these points and their consequences well before this bill was law.
But, no, nothing will change this. Our health system and our economy will crater and unemployment will be greater than 50% before any single dim will admit that this was, indeed, the mistake the GOP and every person with a brain said it was.
This will make the depression look like a vacation at Club Med.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 12/13/2012 6:44:00 AM (No. 9062883)
17 Democrat Senators are asking for a waiver or exemption for certain of their constitutants. All others can bear the burden. Is this the "fairness" the Democrats are always talking about?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ocjim, 12/13/2012 7:57:11 AM (No. 9062993)
But the insurance companies and the AARP liked ObamaCare... Actually, they´re all insurance companies. He needed there help to bring this all off so deals were cut. Another fine hour for Obama style crony capitalism. We really do need to get a handle on the behind closed door wheeling and dealing Obama and the Donks had with the various special interests. Deals were cut, arms were twisted... What were they?
And I still will never understand the quiet, even the complacency of the doctors on this monstrous coup of our medical care. Imagine the outcry from lawyers if Obama tried to make huge changes to the legal biz and the lawyer-client relationship.
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Is going gluten-free healthier for everybody?
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The Week, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM
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Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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