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WE CAN WIN IN THE SENATE
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on on DickMorris.com on November 9, 2009
As Sean Hannity is fond of saying: "Let not your heart be troubled."
We can still beat the Obama program in the Senate! Obama needed the
momentum of House passage to help him in the Senate where the real
challenge lies.
There, we have several Senators who might well vote no: Lieberman
(CT), Bayh (Ind), Hagan (NC), Landrieu (LA), Pryor and Lincoln (Ark),
Nelson (Neb), Johnson (SD), Dorgan and Conrad (ND), Tester (Montana),
Engler (Col), and Feinstein (Cal). And Reid will need all of these
Senators to back the bill to get the 60 votes to pass it (assuming we
hold Collins and Snowe from Maine).
And, if Reid tries to use reconciliation to pass the bill with just 50
votes, he will not only get negative votes from most of the above but
likely from Byrd (W VA) and a bunch of others. Some will object to the
procedural issue. Others will worry that if they are ever in the
minority, they will need the filibuster to stay relevant and do not
want to set the precedent of taking away the weapon.
The key is to keep fighting. Please give us funds to run ads in these
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And read the column below to understand the full stakes:
JAIL FOR NO INSURANCE UNDER PELOSI BILL
The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation reported that the House
version of the health care bill specifies that those who don't buy
health insurance and do not pay the fine of about 2.5% of their income
for failing to do so can face a penalty of up to five years in prison!
The bill describes the penalties as follows:
* Section 7203 - misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a
fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
* Section 7201 - felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up
to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years." [page 3]
That anyone should face prison for not buying health insurance is
simply incredible.
And how much will the stay-out-of-jail insurance cost? The Joint
Committee noted that "according to a recent analysis by the
Congressional Budget Office, the lowest-cost family non-group plan
under HR 3862 (the Pelosi bill) would cost $15,000 by 2016."
Obama's bill only provides subsidies to help pay this enormous sum
after families making about $45,000 have paid 8% of their income for
insurance and after those earning a household income of about $65,000
have kicked in 12%.
The Joint Committee on Taxation noted that while the Senate Finance
Committee version of the bill did not include criminal penalties, "The
House Democrats' bill, however, contains no similar language protecting
American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could
include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail."
Remember that simply buying catastrophic insurance, which may be all
the young uninsured family needs, does not constitute having adequate
insurance under the Obama bill. It has to be total, all inclusive
insurance for one to avoid the penalties in the legislation. That is
because Obama wants to use these premiums from the currently uninsured
to subsidize his program.
So Ms. Pelosi is requiring Americans to pay these steep premiums, or a
fine of 2.5% of their income for not doing so, or, potentially, go to
prison!
Anyone who is familiar with the U.S. prison system can attest to the
large number of people incarcerated for similar white collar offenses.
That the House bill would treat failure to carry health insurance or
pay the fine as tax evasion or willful nonpayment is amazing!
And where is the constitutional basis for requiring everyone to buy
insurance? It is OK for a state to make drivers pay for automobile
insurance. Driving is not a right, it is a privilege, and the state
may regulate it by demanding insurance. Banks can require homeowners
to buy insurance as a condition of their lending. But how does the
federal government get the right to require a family to buy health
insurance or face a civil penalty and, failing that, to face either a
criminal fine or jail?
The tough penalties in the House bill are designed to keep insurance
companies from opposing the bill. It was the relaxation of these
penalties in the Senate Finance Committee version of the legislation
that led the companies to reverse field and come out in opposition to
the legislation. The insurance companies want to see their coffers
swell when tens of millions of new customers are required to buy
insurance. The more draconian the penalties for failing to pay them
large sums of money to pad their bottom lines, the better.
The more you read this bill, the worse it gets.
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Why are you trying to deny health care to all Americans?
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Stile4aly
wrote:
Using reconciliation on a budgetary matter, such as establishing a
public option which has a direct budgetary impact and reduces the long
term deficit, is neither unprecedented nor controversial. A dual-bill
approach may be the best bet.
Bob
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It's quite a stretch to make healthcare reform a purely
budgetary matter, but it can be done. This socialist
mentality by the Dems may just have enough support
from the leeches, and elites, of society to become a
reality. It appears we may have come to the point of
more Pauls than Peters in our electorate. It's a sad time
for the greatest country on earth.
Morton Davis
"Bob" <n...@email.address> wrote in message
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> Using reconciliation on a budgetary matter, such as establishing a
> public option which has a direct budgetary impact and reduces the long
> term deficit,
It doesn't reduce the deficit. It doesn't reform health care. It doesn't
destroy a non-existent monopoly in health insurance because none exists.
There are hundreds of health insurance companies who compete for less than
45% of the health care coverage market. 55% of employees are covered by
their employers' self insurance, then there's those covered by the VA,
Medicare, Medicaid.
This is a BULLSHIT bill and should be shredded.
JayPee Vee
> "Stile4aly" <stile4...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
"greatest country on earth"... how old are you? 12?
You do realize, of course, that you sound like a brainwashed buffoon
with such childish rhetoric, right, boycott Bob?