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The Spectacle Blog
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who voted against the House health care bill in November and has repeatedly attacked the Senate bill as a “giveaway to the insurance industry,” just held a press conference to announce he would support the final bill.
On Monday, Kucinich flew with President Obama on Air Force One when Obama made a speech in his district. The media will make a lot of noise about this because Kucinich is the first “no” vote to publicly switch to “yes,” but we shouldn’t be surprised that a single-payer advocate would support a bill that’s such a major step toward government-run health care.
As I’ve said all along, the question is not whether, with this one piece of legislation, liberals achieve their dream of a government-run health care system. The important point is that it moves the United States in that direction. The bill puts the infrastructure in place by providing government subsidies to individuals to purchase government-designed health insurance on government-run exchanges. It imposes a raft of new taxes and regulations, and mandates that individuals purchase government-approved insurance policies. Over time, the government can shift more people to the exchanges, tighten its control over insurance policies, impose more cost controls (i.e. rationing), and add a public option – all of which will keep moving us toward a system of total government control.
According to a report by Talking Points Memo, President Obama met with House liberals and “pledged to revisit the public option in the future.” Meanwhile, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said, “once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow."
So, there’s no shock that every single-payer advocate in Congress who talked tough for over a year will ultimately support the final bill. They can’t resist.
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Pingback| 3.17.10 @ 10:39AM
You don’t say: Kucinich to vote “Yes” | Bad Newz links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.17.10 @ 10:39AM
They can pass it.
We won't obey it.
They will have torn up our contract with our government.
(The Declaration, and the constitution.)
Screw 'em.
Bill from WV| 3.17.10 @ 10:53AM
Makes you wonder what he "rolled over" for?
Probably an ambassadorship somewhere, for when he is removed from office.
I have never seen such blatant,coersion and misrepresentation of the American people!
Bill
John3| 3.17.10 @ 11:10AM
Let us storm (nonviolently) the phone and offices of our elected congressmen and women to vote NO to this atrocious health care bill which will inflict tyranny to ALL Americans and become a flashpoint for more government control of OUR lives.
We need to expose this administration for what they really are--tyrants.
COnservative Bob| 3.17.10 @ 12:37PM
Starve the Beast!
If laws and the constitution mean nothing to the political class why should they have any meaning to the population at large? Business owners have some control on when they actually render their tribute (taxes) to the Leviathan.
If the Dems cram this unconstitutional legislation through with outright bribes and in violation of the established rules and constitutional principles, consider the possible response of an outraged nation.
Imagine the message that a significant slowing of the flow of tribute (revenue) would send to the political class.
Small business owners could decide to express their discontent by slowing or completely suspending their payments.
Those who do not own their own business could increase the number of dependants on a W-4 form to reduce the amount of tax withheld all the way to zero if they chose.
Imagine the impact if millions of individuals adjusted their dependant at the same time, receipts to the government would drop precipitously. At the end of the tax year the individual may face a small penalty for underpayment however that would be long after the message was received by the ruling class.
Consider the additional possible benefit of people who now have their taxes withheld without seeing how much is taken from them actually writing checks, which undoubtedly would elevate their consciousness of their tax burden.
In the short term the leviathan would probably just borrow or print more to offset the reduction, a drop of 40-70% in daily tax receipts at every level of government would get their attention.
The mother’s milk of the burgeoning government is the fruits of our hard labor, an interruption in the flow of that milk would get their attention.
Just imagine the possibilities, if average citizens begin to honor and obey the laws and the constitution as selectively as our ruling elites.
Imagine starving the beast!
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norris hall| 3.28.10 @ 12:11PM
I am curious.
If government run health care is so bad, why do all the Republicans congressmen use it?
As federal workers they get 75% of their premiums paid for by the taxpayers.
If they really dislike taxpayer funded health insurance, why don't they just drop their government plan and sign up for a private plan like many of us self employed sole proprietors.
Sounds like a double standard.. Not good for you, but good for me. And I don't want you to have what I have.
At least Democrats legislators support government run health care and think we should all have the same type of plan.
But Republican congressmen denounce it in public and then....sign up for it !
Sounds like hypocrisy.. wouldn't you agree.
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Mark| 4.2.10 @ 8:45PM
Now that everything is water under the bridge, then maybe everyone should star t cooperating with what transpired over the days...even if there are still many people who is not really convinced about it really.
Mark| 4.2.10 @ 8:46PM
Now that everything is water under the bridge, then maybe everyone should star t cooperating with what transpired over the days...even if there are still many people who is not really convinced about it really.
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Marin| 6.12.10 @ 9:17AM
At last, the failure of Congress to integrate their “doctor fix” into ObamaCare has created enough political pressure to get Barack Obama involved in another health-care fight — this one entirely predictable and avoidable.
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marry| 7.15.10 @ 8:30PM
Let us storm (nonviolently) the phone and offices of our elected congressmen and women to vote NO to this atrocious health care bill which will inflict tyranny to ALL Americans and become a flashpoint for more government control of OUR lives.
Henrik| 5.5.11 @ 9:38AM
Its kind og strange that its not possible to give some sort of health care to the general public. Hope that Obama will have succes in giving especially the poor people some basic healthcare that isnt to low quality.
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