{"id":2559,"date":"2011-01-05T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2011-01-05T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:12:14","slug":"is_the_new_republican_house_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"Is The New Republican House Of Representatives Going To Have A Backbone ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from the obvious changing of the guard, there are some interesting things going on in Congress this year.  Yesterday The Hill<\/a>‘s Blog Briefing Room posted an article about John Boehner’s response to Democrat’s requests not to repeal Obamacare.  The Senate’s top five Democrats sent a note to Representative Boehner vowing to block a House bill repealing healthcare reform.<\/p>\n

According to the article, this is Representative Boehner’s reply:<\/p>\n

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“Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow:<\/p>\n

“Thank you for reminding us – and the American people – of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with ‘Big Pharma,’ resulting in bigger profits for the drug companies, and higher prescription drug costs for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, at a cost to the taxpayers of $42.6 billion. <\/p>\n

“The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now.  You’re welcome. <\/p>\n

“- Speaker-Designate John Boehner’s Press Office”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the American Thinker<\/a> reported yesterday that Obamacare has stopped the construction at 45 physician owned hospitals nationwide.  Huh?  The article reports:<\/p>\n

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“<\/em>Kenneth Artz of the Heartland Institute explains<\/em><\/a>, “Section 6001 of the health care law effectively bans new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) from starting up, and it keeps existing ones from expanding.” Politico adds, “Friday [New Year’s Eve] marked the last day physician-owned hospitals could get Medicare certification covering their new or expanded hospitals, one of the latest provisions of the reform law to go into effect.””<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why is a healthcare bill attempting to control the growth of hospitals?  <\/p>\n

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The article further reports:<\/em><\/p>\n

“This little-noticed but particularly eqregious aspect of Obamacare is, by all accounts, a concession to the powerful American Hospital Association (AHA), a supporter of Obamacare, which prefers to have its member hospitals operate without competition from hospitals owned by doctors.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Dr, Michael Russell, president of Physician Hospitals of America, which has filed suit to try to stop this selective building-ban from going into effect, says, “There are so many regulations [in Obamacare] and they are so onerous and intrusive that we believe that the section [Section 6001] was deliberately designed so no physician owned hospital could successfully comply.””<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s another aspect of Obamacare–if it is repealed, thousands of construction workers will be able to go backk to work!  Hopefully, Congress has the backbone to do this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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