Let me put it this way. I’ll pose a couple of hypothetical questions that no Democrat will dare answer.

1. A Mexican worker is here illegally; He works hard all week, then celebrates Friday with the cash he gets paid. After a couple beers he wrecks the car he’s driving with no driver’s license and no insurance. He is badly injured. Which of the following will happen under this bill?
a) He is stabilized and then transported back to Mexico.
b) He receives all the medical care he needs for free for as long as it takes for him to recover.

2. A Mexican woman crosses the bridge from Nuevo Laredo to Laredo in order to go shopping. It just so happens she is nine months pregnant. She goes straight to the hearest hospital ER. Which of the following will happen under this bill?
a) She is transported back to the border so she can receive care at home.
b) She and the soon-to-be American citizen are given all the free care they want.

And just to show it’s not merely a matter of illegal immigrants….

3. We’ve seen stories recently about people who have called 911 for ambulance transport hundreds of times and gotten taken to the nearest ER even though nothing serious was wrong with them. Which of the following will happen under this bill?
a) EMS refuses to show up or refuses to transport and is protected from liability for repeat offenders like these.
b) They continue to get free ambulance rides and free visits to the ER.

4. We’ve been told one of the reasons for health reform is that too many people whether citizens or not use ERs as their only point of contact and they never see regular doctors. Which of the following will happen under this bill?
a) They will be turned away at ERs and given a list of nearby clinics and GPs, with the hospital protected from liability.
b) They will continue to get unlimited free care at the ER just like they did before.

Anyone with half a brain knows damn good and well that the answer to every one of these questions and dozens other we could dream up is b), so this bill won’t even fix any of the things that it is supposed to fix. But it will certainly screw up lots of other things along the way.

That lefty quote, twisted him/herself in in such a pretzel, I wonder if they are going to need back surgery.

I hope they have insurance.

What kind of proof of citizenship? I know of several places where I can get fake drivers licenses, Social Security cards, etc. Illegals get them all the time in California.

that took Obama 47 minutes to teleprompter through. Sure, the Dems will try to create more loopholes, but at least Wilson got the conversation focused on the issue. And he did it with two words.

Obama is losing control.
Palin, with her Facebook postings, continues to out maneuver the Obama administration – keeping them reactive vice proactive.

Now Wilson, with two words, gained control of the President’s speech on health care.

The Dem has raised a million, but Wilson will catch him

work.

The group came to agreement on issues like making the bill deficit neutral

Ladies and gentlemen, there is NO WAY TO MAKE THIS BILL REVENUE NEUTRAL. It has few if any mechanisms for collecting taxes and fees, certainly nothing compared to the gigantic expenses it would incur. Claiming to “use savings” from cleaning waste and fraud out of Medicare, a completely different program, does NOT MAKE IT REVENUE NEUTRAL, in any way that revenue neutrality is generally understood, which is “self-sustaining.” Cleaning waste and fraud from Medicare would make Medicare less expensive, but it no more makes HR 3200 revenue neutral than it makes the National Forest Service more profitable.

And imposing new taxes to pay for it that are unrelated to health care doesn’t count, either. If those taxes are practical and productive, they could be used to pay down the ALREADY OUT OF CONTROL DEFICIT!

Sadly, if new taxes are imposed to pay for HR 3200 or its spawn, the result will be to EXPAND the deficit, not to reduce it. That’s the penalty for forgetting the lessons of the 1980′s. Time might consider at least mentioning those concepts.

Both [Senator George Voinovich and Senator Susan Collins] were put off by the President’s speech, which Collins called “divisive.” “I would’ve hoped the President would’ve done a more conciliatory speech,” she sniffed, emerging from a vote off the Senate floor Thursday afternoon.

Wow. The “divisive” word (probably mentally mispronounced with a short i as he typed) and “sniffing” by a Republican in the same paragraph. Collins sniffed while “Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer ‘challenged….’” Very balanced treatment, I’d say… NOT.

Please come to this site; you’re the kind of Republican we want here!

I will donate to your campaign as soon as you’re website is up and running. I’ve tried several times today and have been unable.

Now, let’s go after the White House with this one. I thought Obama said private insurance wouldn’t be affected. Someone should yell at the President, but even louder this time, and maybe he’ll drop the whole healthcare plan.

From the NYT:
The White House said that illegal immigrants would still be able to purchase health insurance through the private market, as they can now, but acknowledged that the private market was certain to shrink after the creation of the new marketplace.

Great, but I unfortunately do not trust the GOP,,, not all of them anyway.. They will assist in ushering socialized medicine.

shows it in the positive column, seems to me. liberals talk bad about him – so what. It gets the rest of us more fired up and sucks all the oxygen out of the room, leaving the President gasping for air. Also, now has the Dems backtracking on the actual facts.

Today I witnessed my first (and last) full Rachael Maddow broadcast. She was snarking and pronouncing her esteemed opinion on the Conrad/Baucus backtrack. Darn shame so few recognize her legislative credentials. Heh.

Congratulations to Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina. You should apologize for unpleasant conduct on the House floor only if Barry also apologizes for lying to all Americans. That will set the record straight. Only this week ,subcommittees in the house are trying to write language into HR 3400 that prohibit government paid abortions and free coverage for illegal aliens. How many counts of perjury does that make ? Not to mention ALL the rest. Joe, you were a naughty boy, but correct and you said what many people felt. Most of us are very proud of you. Barry is a LIAR. Of course, liar used to describe Barry demeans the word. He is beneath the term and it use actually elevates him. He is more vile, disgusting, obscene and treacherous than humanly possible. New words will have to be created to accurately describe Barry, which will apply only to him. He is far worse than any epitaph in the English or any language.