Despite the Senate Finance Committee voting twice this week to reject a government-run public health insurance option, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today on a phone call with constituents:
We are going to have a public option before this bill goes to the president’s desk.”
This, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the European Union has been illegally subsidizing Airbus, a foreign competitor to Boeing.
Last year, the Center for Individual Freedom sounded a note of caution over an Air Force decision to award a new $40 billion air refueling tanker contract to Airbus, and not to Boeing. Now, the WTO’s decision adds fodder to the speculation that the European Union’s subsidies illegally undercut Boeing’s bid for the Air Force contract.
In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses the massive tax hike on life-saving medical devices that Senate Democrats wish to pass as part of health care reform legislation.
This is from Senator Jim DeMint’s op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner:
So insatiable is Washington’s appetite to spend that the federal government has not only spent all the money it has, but all the money previous generations were thought to have saved, and now we’re working our way through the money future generations hope to earn. What our government has done is a crime. And yet, almost no one in Washington – in either party – seems interested in the giant iceberg we’re steaming toward… Not when there are deckchairs to rearrange!”
When we posted commentary this morning regarding the imposition of ginormous new Medicaid mandates on the states if “health care reform” passes, we briefly alluded to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in an attempt to ease his dismal re-election chances, getting 100% reimbursement for Nevada, while sticking other states with their share and part of his also.
Our point was to motivate governors (who well understand the problem) to oppose this travesty.
Manu Raju of politico.com wrote on another aspect of Reid’s sweetheart deal – the grumbling of other Senate Democrats – and the piece is priceless.
Note how the other Democrats oh so seriously want their states to be treated “fairly,” not once acknowledging that they are about to screw all of them, in varying degrees.
Note how Reid uses the argument to make his campaign speech to Nevadans, which seems to say, “I’m going to pass this bill that screws you, but less than others. Don’t you want to keep me?”
Note how none of these worthies recognize how ridiculous they sound.
No one knows our health care system better than doctors. Thankfully, there are several in Congress, including Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who understand that a government-run system would lead to rationing and a lower quality of care.
Here is a clip from one of the recent “Senate Doctors Show.”
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Federal Debt: $11.804 trillion
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