Quoted from Shadow

The Dems refused to let the Reps have any say in how the law was written
so what do you expect them to do, help the Dems straighten out the mess that they
created?

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1. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – DEFICIT NEUTRAL BILL: “Do the American people believe
that this almost 2,000 page bill won’t add to the deficit?” [Rep. Eric Cantor, 10/29/2009]
HOUSE BILL – DEFICIT NEUTRAL BILL: According to the Congressional Budget Office, the
House bill costs $894 billion over 10 years and actually reduces the deficit by $30 billion
and continues to reduce the deficit over the second 10 years.
2. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – REDUCE COSTS OVER LONG TERM: “Nevertheless, House
Republicans recognize the need to lower health care costs.” [Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN),
9/9/09]
HOUSE BILL – REDUCES COSTS OVER LONG TERM: Encourages payment reforms that can
help lower costs. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish specific
benchmarks for expansion of the Accountable Care Organization, Payment Bundling, and Medical
Home pilot programs. The bill will also slow the rate of growth of the Medicare program from
6.6% annually to 5.3%.
3. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – POLICIES ACROSS STATE LINES: “Interstate competition allowing
people to buy insurance across state lines.” [Sen. John Thune (R-SD), 9/8/2009]
HOUSE BILL – POLICIES ACROSS STATE LINES: Allows for the creation of State Health Insurance
Compacts – permits states to enter into agreements to allow for the sale of insurance across
state lines.
4. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM: “Why not bring about reasonabl
e restrictions and limits on medical malpractice claims to end the era of defensive medicine?”
[Rep. Mike Pence (R-IA), 9/9/2009]
HOUSE BILL – ENCOURAGES MALPRACTICE REFORM: The bill establishes a voluntary state
incentives grant program to encourage states to implement “certificate of merit” and “early
offer” alternatives to traditional medical malpractice litigation.
5. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – HIGH RISK POOLS: “Senator McCain has a proposal sometimes
called high-risk pools at the state level…These are efforts I think we can have bipartisan
agreement on and deal with the question of pre-existing conditions.” [Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA),
9/10/2009]
HOUSE BILL – HIGH RISK POOLS: To fill the gap before the Exchange becomes available in 2013,
the bill creates an insurance program with financial assistance for those uninsured for several
months or denied policy due to preexisting conditions.
6. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – ALLOW YOUNG PEOPLE TO STAY ON PARENTS’ POLICIES:
“Recognizes that not all high school and college graduates are able to find a job that offers
health care coverage after graduation. By allowing dependents to remain on their parents’
health policies up to the age of 25, the number of uninsured Americans could be reduced by
up to 7 million.” [Republican Health Solutions Group]
HOUSE BILL – ALLOW YOUNG PEOPLE TO STAY ON PARENTS’ POLICIES: The bill requires health
plans to allow young people to remain on their parents’ insurance policy until they turn 27.
7. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – NO PUBLIC MONEY FOR ABORTION: “The American people will
not stand for government-run insurance that uses taxpayer money to fund abortions in this
country.” [Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), 10/16/2009]
HOUSE BILL – NO PUBLIC MONEY FOR ABORTION: The bill prohibits abortion services from being
made part of essential benefits package and prohibits federal funds from being used to pay
for abortion (except in cases of rape, incest, and to save life of the woman).
8. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – PROTECT SMALL BUSINESSES: “Helps employers offer health
care coverage to their workers by reducing their administrative costs through a new small
business tax credit.” [Republican Health Solutions Group]
HOUSE BILL – PROTECTS SMALL BUSINESSES: The bill exempts 86% of businesses from the
requirement to provide coverage. Businesses with payrolls below $500,000 are exempt while
firms with payrolls between $500,000 and $750,000 would pay a graduated penalty. Small
businesses would also receive a tax credit that helps cover 50% of their health care expenses.
9. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – PROMOTE JOB WELLNESS PROGRAMS: “Promotes prevention
and wellness by giving employers and insurers greater flexibility to financially reward employees
who seek to achieve or maintain a healthy weight, quit smoking, and manage chronic illnesses
like diabetes.” [Republican Health Solutions Group]
HOUSE BILL – PROMOTE JOB WELLNESS PROGRAMS: The bill establishes a grant program to
help small employers create or strengthen workplace wellness programs.
10. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM: “Uses new and innovative treatment
programs to better coordinate care between health
care providers, ensuring that those with chronic disease receive the care they need and do not
continue to fall through the cracks.” [Republican Health Solutions Group]
HOUSE BILL – DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM: The bill requires the Department of Health and
Human Services to establish specific benchmarks for the expansion of the Accountable Care
Organization, Payment Bundling, and Medical Home pilot programs.

11. REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – HELP AMERICANS 55-64: “To help those
aged 55 to 64, the plan increases support for pre- and early-retirees with low- and
modest-incomes.” [Republican Health Solutions Group]
HOUSE BILL – HELPS AMERICANS 55-64:: Creates a reinsurance program to help cover expensive
health claims for employers that provide coverage to Americans 55-64.

Quoted from Shadow

Where are the big ones tort reform and shop across state lines? Where's the
deficit NEUTRAL bill? Where's the cost reduction long term? Where are the rest of the
good things that were asked for, taken out in the Senate or removed by regulation.

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REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – DEFICIT NEUTRAL BILL:

HOUSE BILL – DEFICIT NEUTRAL BILL:
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the House bill costs $894 billion over 10
years and actually reduces the deficit by $30 billion and continues to reduce the deficit
over the second 10 years.

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REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – POLICIES ACROSS STATE LINES:
HOUSE BILL – POLICIES ACROSS STATE LINES:
Allows for the creation of State Health Insurance Compacts – permits states
to enter into agreements to allow for the sale of insurance across state lines.

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REPUBLICANS ASKED FOR – MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM: (Tort Reform)
HOUSE BILL – ENCOURAGES MALPRACTICE REFORM: The bill establishes a voluntary state
incentives grant program to encourage states to implement “certificate of merit” and “early
offer” alternatives to traditional medical malpractice litigation.

Quoted from Shadow

What a crock of crap Box. The states can shop across state lines, it's a federal law. Encourages tort reform, that's BS for it aint going to happen. The CBO has already said that it's going to cost more than the Dems said it would along with the fact that there are all kinds of hidden taxes in the law that were put in after passage. Why didn't the Dems make the health-care mandate optional like tort reform and shopping across state lines. It should have been mandated in the law.

Quoted from CICERO

WOW!… NY Senator Admits “We All Knew” Prez Was Misleading About ObamaCare (Video)


http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....-about-o-care-video/

Raddatz: Do you feel misled by Obama?

Gillibrand: He should have been more specific…

Raddatz: So were you misled?

Gillibrand: No, we all knew. The whole point of the plan is to cover things people need.

Quoted from Box A Rox

YES, and their sub standard plans didn't COVER THINGS THAT PEOPLE NEED!

Quoted from Libertarian4life

* the government acting on your behalf will decide what you need and when you need it.

Quoted from CICERO

....and knowingly lying to Americans to sell them something they supposedly want and need.  That's democracy in action.  

Box and his fellow authoritarians know EXACTLY what everybody needs.  That's why they had to lie about it.  

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Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report

By John Crudele

November 18, 2013 | 8:06pm


In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.

The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.

And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.