“As I keep saying to my colleagues, you're packing my parachute, I'm packing yours,” Becerra, vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus, explained at the time. “We had all of August to tell people how we're going to try to pack the parachute. Now it's time to start to get ready and take the jump.”
Pelosi has stated she is prepared to take losses in the 2010 elections to get her bill passed.
Wall Street Journal, who calls this the worst bill ever, describes some of the legislature inside of the bill.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.
In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
Yet at this point, Democrats have dumped any pretense of genuine bipartisan "reform" and moved into the realm of pure power politics as they race against the unpopularity of their own agenda. The goal is to ram through whatever income-redistribution scheme they can claim to be "universal coverage." The result will be destructive on every level—for the health-care system, for the country's fiscal condition, and ultimately for American freedom and prosperity.
The describe the "spending surge", how it expands medicaid and guts medicare, and how it brings us to "European levels of taxation."
Read the whole thing for explanations of what is in Pelosi's Obamacare bill.
In the meantime, the GOP is set to unveil their own healthcare bill, which is said to "make the current system work better," according to House Republican Leader John Boehner.
"What we do is we try to make the current system work better," Mr. Boehner, of Ohio, said on CNN's "State of the Nation." The GOP plan would likely be less costly to taxpayers and involve less government intrusion into the private sector. Mr. Boehner said the bill would take "a step-by-step approach" to expanding coverage.
It would, among other things, propose new limits on medical malpractice lawsuits and make it easier for individuals and small businesses to pool resources to purchase insurance.
Mr. Boehner said the Republican bill would also propose grants for states that use "innovative" solutions to expand coverage. He pointed to states that have created special "high-risk pools" to provide insurance to individuals with pre-existing conditions.
He said the bill wouldn't raise taxes, nor mandate that individuals and businesses purchase insurance, as the Democratic legislation does.
If Pelosi forces a vote on her plan and it fails, that would be the perfect time for the GOP to produce theirs and get it seen by everyone as quickly as possible.
The unveiling will have to be huge, so stay tuned...
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