Bfgrn
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Of course ist's the tax cuts, and not the over spending, right?
I'm sure if the conservatives have their way, all the 40 hour work week, overtime pay, Occupational Safety and Health laws, Child Labor Laws, and Labor Unions, will be gone. Are you on drugs?
SS, Medicare will not see the sunset. One or two right wing partisan nuts do not make or pass the laws. Obamacare can be changed with serious healthcare reform where the government is part of the solution, and not the entire solution.
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'A government takeover of health care'
"We're going to crush labor as a political entity"
Grover Norquist - Republican economic guru and co-author of the GOP's 'Contract with America'
Love your source, St. Petersberg Times makes the NY Times look conservative. No agenda there, huh?
Obamacare will force out a lot of the health insurers with the mandates it will put on them.
The reason the Pulitzer Prize winning website, which is associated with the St. Petersburg Times, didn't just call it a lie, but the lie of the year is because it IS.
The Affordable Health care Act is NOT a government takeover of health care. Are you waiting for Fox News to tell you that? The 2010 bill is almost a carbon copy of the main Republican proposal in 1993, including the BIG Republican idea...an Individual mandate.
The Democrats' 2010 Health Reform Plan Evokes 1993 Republican Bill
In 1993, at the height of President Bill Clinton's health care reform initiative, Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., along with 19 other Republicans and two Democrats, put forth a bill which was considered the major GOP proposal. One of the co-sponsors was then-Sen. Dave Durenberger, R-Minn. The bill, just like the Democratic version, never passed. But in a sense, it's been revived this year.
In fact, the key provisions in the Chafee bill may seem familiar, as they bear a strong resemblance to those in the current Democratic Senate bill, and now in President Barack Obama's proposal. A mandate that individuals buy insurance, subsidies for the poor to buy insurance and the requirement that insurers offer a standard benefits package and refrain from discriminating based on pre-existing conditions were all in the 1993 GOP bill.
Durenberger says the reason many of these ideas have been shunned by today's Republicans, even called unconstitutional by some, is that political times have changed. The main thing thats changed is the definition of a Republican, he said.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan