Today's American Spectator just posted a story saying that the House of Representative has passed to rules for repealing Obamacare.
The article reports:
"Roll call is here. The four Democrats voting for it were: Larry Kissell, Dan Boren, Mike McIntyre and Mike Ross. The two Republicans whose vote was recorded as "present" were Mike Fitzpatrick and Pete Sessions, which was the result of their bungled swearing in."
The thing to remember as this process moves forward is that Obamacare is the signature legislative 'success' of the 111th Congress. There are going to be powerful forces working against the repeal of Obamacare. The first thing to avoid in watching this process is believing what you hear from the mainstream media. Karl Rove posted an article at the Wall Street Journal yesterday describing the corruption written into Obamacare. Under Obamacare, health insurance can be used as a weapon to punish enemies and reward friends. Sound extreme? Let's look at a few examples given in the article:
"In September, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius began granting waivers to companies that provided workers "mini-med" coverage--low-cost plans with low annual limits on what the insurance will pay out."
"According to the department's website, the waivers cover 1,507,418 employees, of which more than a third (525,898) are union members. Yet unionized workers make up only 7% of the private work force. Whatever is going on here, a disproportionately high number of waivers are being granted to administration allies."
"The AARP is also exempt from the new law's $500,000 cap on executive compensation for insurance executives."
"Nor will it (AARP) have to spend at least 85% of its Medigap premium dollars on medical claims, as Medicare Advantage plans must do; the AARP will be held to a far less restrictive 65%."
At the end of the Wall Street Journal article, Mr. Rove wisely concludes:
"In a speech at the University of Iowa last March, the president heralded health-care reform as "a new set of rules that treats everybody honestly and treats everybody fairly." Determining whether that is true will be another task for House Republicans. They have an obligation to look into this matter, and Mr. Obama can hardly object. It was former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, whom the president frequently quotes, who wrote in 1913 that sunlight "is the best of disinfectants.""
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