*Sen Chris Dodd: Keeps $100 million included in the Senate bill that is expected to go for a public hospital in Connecticut

*Sen Max Baucus: Preserves language permitting many of the 2,900 residents of Libby, Mont., to qualify for Medicare benefits

*Provides an additional $8.5 billion over the next decade for 11 states and the District of Columbia to help them pay for the more generous Medicaid assistance they have been providing low-income residents. These states are Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.

*Maintains a Senate-approved provision giving extra money for hospitals and doctors in North and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming

Editor's note: I wonder when all of this corruptions is going to catch up with the liberal Democrats.  It would be a wonder if any of them keep their seats in November 2010 elections.

CBO: OBAMACARE WOULD COST OVER $2 TRILLION
*Total costs would be about a third higher...between $2.5 and $3 trillion over the bill’s real first decade.

*Diverts $1.1 trillion away from already barely-solvent Medicare and spending it on Obamacare

*Increases taxes on the American people by over $1 trillion

*Cuts of $25,000 in Medicare Advantage benefits per enrollee

*Over $400 billion (from 2014 to 2023) in phony “savings”, allegedly result from cutting doctor’s payments under Medicare by over 20 percent and never raising them back up (aka Doc fix)

*Congress could either follow through on these severe pay cuts — in which case doctors would view all Medicare patients as if they have the plague

*Or, Congress could eliminate these pay cuts — as everyone in Washington expects to have happen under the so-called “doc fix” — in which case the CBO projects that this bill would raise deficits by over $100 billion from 2017 to 2019 alone.

*President Obama would leave his successor a 12-figure deficit related to Obamacare alone

*Health insurance premiums would rise by 10 to 13 percent in the individual market, in relation to current law.

*Percentage of the gross domestic product spent on health care would also rise in relation to current law, increasing from 17 percent today to 21 percent in 2019

*As of 2019 there would still be 23 million people in America lacking health insurance.
Source: The Weekly Standard

H.R. 4872 - RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010
Text of the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute
Section-by-Section of the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute
Text of the Senate Amendments to H.R. 3590 (Senate health bill)
Text of the bill as reported (reported by the Budget Committee)
H. Rept. 111-443: Budget Committee Report (Volume 1)
H. Rept. 111-443: Budget Committee Report (Volume 2)
Editior's note: notice how the DEMs slipped in the nationalization of the Student Loan Program into this Health Care Reform bill.  It is estimated that the Dept of Education will now have control of over $0.5 Trillion dollars in loan funds, and passage of this bill will cause up to 32,000 loan processors in the private sector to lose their jobs, shifting bigger government and more jobs for unionized federal workers.

FOXNEWS EXCLUSIVE: PRESIDENT OBAMA: PART 1 HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL


MORE BRIBES FOR YES VOTES FOR OBAMACARE?
*California Democrats, Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa, to now be “yes” votes, in exchange for ithe US Department of the Interior's increased water allocations for the Central Valley of California, that was announced yesterday;
*Will Cardoza and Costa come clean about this apparent backroom deal for their votes?
*Call Cardoza's district office at (209) 383-4455 and Costa's district office at (559) 495-1620 and ask.

EXPOSIVE SURVEY: PHYSICIANS IN FULL-BLOWN PANIC OVER OBAMACARE
*46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.
*72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply;
*45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically”
*27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.
*24% of physicians think they will try to retire early if a public option is implemented.
*62.7% of physicians feel that health reform is needed but should be implemented in a more targeted, gradual way, as opposed to the sweeping overhaul that is in legislation.
Source: FoxNation

WHIP COUNT: HOUSE DEMOCRATS' POSITIONS ON THE HEALTHCARE REFORM BILL
Editor's note: This is the latest vote count as of 3/15/10 4:35pm EST with recent updates on Reps. Allen Boyd, Chet Edwards Dennis Kucinich, Marcia Fudge, Chris Carney, Jason Altmire, Brian Baird, Bart Gordon and John Boccieri.  Source: The Hill

THE LATEST BREAKDOWN OF WHERE YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTIVE STANDS ON OBAMA CARE
Source: Hannity.com

CATHOLIC BISHOPS: JUST SAY NO TO OBAMACARE AND TAYPAYER-FUNDING OF ABORTION
Editior's note: Sunday's Mass is going to be very interesting throughout this country.  Hopefully not a minute too late.  Source: The Weekly Standard



OBAMA NOW SELLING JUDGESHIPS FOR HEALTH CARE VOTES?
Editor"s note: Chicago politics at its finest hour.  Cronism and corruption, payoffs and paybacks. Source: The Weekly Standard

OBAMA: TIME TO ACT ON HEALTH CARE
Editor's note: Ultimatium from the Obamanator.  Stay tuned for further developments.  Source: Breitbart

REPUBLICANS PLAN ANTI-HEALTH CARE REFORM "BLITZ" AS DEMOCRATS REGAIN FOOTING
Editor's note: Tea Party activitist, time to mobilize your troops again.  Source: FoxNews

PRES. OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE SUMMIT: C-SPAN NETWORKS
Pres. Obama is hosting members of Congress at Blair House in an effort to reach a compromise on health care legislation. Source: C-SPAN
Health Care Summit Morning Session
Health Care Summit Afternoon Session
Dem Leaders Press Briefing
GOP Leaders Press Briefing
WH health care proposal
White House Health Care Webpage
WH Invitation to Congressional Leaders
C-SPAN's Letter & Reaction
H.R. 3590 (Senate)
H.R. 3926 (House)
Kaiser Family Foundation: Bills Side-by-Side

WHITE HOUSE: IF GOP FILIBUSTERS, WE'LL PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM VIA RECONCILIATION
Source: WhoRunGov.com



PELOSI SAYS SHE'LL "POLL VAULT" OBAMACARE THROUGH CONGRESS
Editors' note: She is a a suicide mission to put all of the Democrats, including herself out of office on Judgement Day, November 2, 2010.  Source: FoxNation



DEMS' BACKROOM DEAL GIVES UNIONS 'CADILLAC TAX' BREAK
Editor's note: Folks, this should not be a shocker, as you know Obama and the DEM's political campaigns are heaily funded with donations from the Labor Unions.  Basically what has happened is that this tax will be passed along to you and your employeer and the Unions (and their members) get a free ride until 2018.  And here are the results: Medical Insurance Companies are taxed at 40% on those plans meeting the definition of "CADILLAC PLAN" then these Insurance companies pass along the tax in higher premiums to your employer.  Your employer then passes these higher costs on to you in either 1) Medical Plans with higher deductibles that you pay, or 2) Medical Plans with reduced benefits and/or 3) higher employee contributions to the cost of medical insurance; some employeers will simply just opt out and pay the IRS penalty,  and leave you without insurance, period; thereby forcing you on the Federally funded insurance program or the Federal Co-op medical insurance plans.  Wake up folks and read the writing on the wall.  Contact your US Congressman and US Senator to let them know how you feel about all of the "Hope & Change"

ACORN Qualifies for Fundng in US Senate Health Care Bill
Editors Comment:  This just makes me sick.  Senator Roland Burris is claiming credit for a provision in Harry Reid’s “manager’s amendment,” unveiled Saturday morning, that could funnel money to ACORN through the health care bill.  See pages 240 - 248.

$100 Million Pork Earkmark for Senator Dodd, CT - UCONN Health Center 
Editors Comment: Buried deep in the US Senator Health Care Reform bill is a payoff to Senator Dodd to fund the UCONN Health Center, yes with your tax dollars.

CORNHUSKER KICKBACK: SENATOR BEN NELSON SELLS HIS SOUL TO LUCIFER FOR $45-$100 MILLION
Editors Comment: Senator Bill Nelson has no principals.  He is not the defender of Right to Life but defender of Right to Pork, and his political career.  Folks, send him a message here and in Election Year 2010.  Vote him out!

MORE BRIBES FOR YES VOTES, AND HIDDEN PORK IN THE US SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL
Editors notes:  A brief synopsis from the Foxnews tells all:
-- Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., won between $100 million and $300 million in additional federal aid for her state's Medicaid population. 
-- Vermont and Massachusetts got $1.2 billion in Medicaid money. Bernie Sanders also boasted Saturday that he requested and won an investment worth between $10 and $14 billion for community health centers. 
-- Western states secured higher federal reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals that serve Medicare patients. The provision covers the low-population "frontier" states and applies to Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming
-- Florida, New York and Pennsylvania -- where five of six senators are Democrats -- will have their seniors' Medicare Advantage benefits protected, even as the program sees massive cuts elsewhere. 
-- Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., reportedly secured expanded Medicare coverage for victims of asbestos exposure in a mine in Libby, Mont. 
-- Sen. Dodd, D-CT is receiving $100 million for a "health care facility" affiliated with the University of CT, an academic health center at a university that contains the state's only "public academic medical and dental school."
-- Nebraska's Nelson won permanent federal aid for his state's expanded Medicaid population, a benefit worth up to $100 million over 10 years...Nebraska's benefit is indefinite.  Source: Foxnews

DEMs offer Senator Nelson $300 - $500 million in earmarks for this vote, when Rahm Emanuel's Blackmail Scheme does work
Editors Comment:  To the drunken sailors in the White House, this is just chump change.  The DEMs are about to piss away more of your tax dollars to buy votes for their liberal agenda.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPTS TO BLACKMAIL SENATOR NELSON WITH US MILITARY BASE CLOSURES IN NEBRASKA
Editor's Note: This is down right unthical and criminal.  Countdown to Judgement Day Elections 2010.