Time for Target Dems to Make it Official: Pelosi Unveils Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Bill
FYI, a version of the release below went out to the following districts: John Adler (NJ-03); Jason Altmire (PA-04); Michael Arcuri (NY-24); John Barrow (GA-12); Melissa Bean (IL-08); John Boccieri (OH-16); Rick Boucher (VA-09); Allen Boyd (FL-02); Bobby Bright (AL-02); Dennis Cardoza (CA-18); Travis Childers (MS-01); Jim Costa (CA-20); Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03); Joe Donnelly (IN-02); Steve Driehaus (OH-01); Chet Edwards (TX-17); Brad Ellsworth (IN-08); Bill Foster (IL-14); Bart Gordon (TN-06); Debbie Halvorson (IL-11); Martin Heinrich (NM-01); Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD-AL); Baron Hill (IN-09); Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01); Larry Kissell (NC-08); Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24); Frank Kratovil (MD-01); Betsy Markey (CO-04); Jerry McNerney (CA-11); Walt Minnick (ID-01); Harry Mitchell (AZ-05); Glenn Nye (VA-02); Ed Perlmutter (CO-07); Tom Perriello (VA-05); Earl Pomeroy (ND-AL); Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23); Kurt Schrader (OR-05); Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01); Heath Shuler (NC-11); Vic Snyder (AR-02); John Tanner (TN-08); Harry Teague (NM-02); and Dina Titus (NV-03).
Time for Hill to Make it Official: Pelosi Unveils Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Bill
Where Does Baron Hill Stand on Healthcare Takeover’s Higher Costs, Increased Taxes, and Cuts to Medicare?
Washington- After months of horse trading and party infighting, Democrats have finally introduced their government healthcare takeover bill. Now that they’ve gotten around to putting something on the table, it’s time for Baron Hill to make his position on this final product known: Will he stand up against higher taxes, fewer jobs and sweeping cuts to Medicare? Or will Hill cave to Nancy Pelosi in order to rubberstamp his party’s reckless march toward government-run healthcare?
Contrary to Democrat leaders’ claims that their bill for government-run healthcare is more palatable to the ‘moderate’ wing of the Democrat party, one senior liberal stated otherwise:
“But there were signs Tuesday that at least some prominent advocates of a left-leaning reform package were ready to deal in the interest of moving a bill. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), who has introduced a measure to create a single-payer universal health care system every Congress since he was elected, pressed a closed-door huddle of House Democrats on the urgency of swift action…‘I want single payer, but I’m smart enough to know what we have here is progress.’” (Tory Newmyer, “House Leaders Ready to Unveil Moderate-Favored Plan,” Roll Call, 10/28/09)
Without question, the Democrats’ bill reeks of government-run healthcare. Priced at a whopping $1 trillion, it forces companies to comply with stringent regulations and imposes drastic fines for noncompliance.
“The final product in the House, reflecting many of President Barack Obama’s priorities, includes new requirements for employers to offer insurance to their workers or face penalties, fines on Americans who don’t purchase coverage and subsidies to help lower-income people do so. Insurance companies would face new prohibitions against charging much more to older people or denying coverage to people with health conditions…The price tag, topping $1 trillion over 10 years…” (Erica Werner, “House Democrats to unveil health bill with government-run insurance, hefty sign-up requirement,” Associated Press, 10/27/2009)
“Now that the Democrats’ takeover of healthcare has been revealed, Baron Hill will be forced to choose between his party bosses or Indiana families,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Baron Hill’s support for a massive healthcare takeover would be nothing more than a spineless attempt to appease his party bosses – a shameful tactic that will lead to higher costs for a struggling middle-class, force Medicare cuts for seniors and mandate that Indiana taxpayers comply with a partisan ploy for more government control. Baron Hill has already repeatedly walked the plank for Nancy Pelosi’s reckless policies, but is it really fair for him to ask Hoosier families to do the same?”
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