Politico: Under Fire, Obama Shifts Strategy Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO. Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess...more http://politico.com/
SENIOR HEALTH CARE BILL OF RIGHTS For nearly 2 months Americans have been on the march against ObamaCare in town halls and on street corners protesting against federal interference into our health care. RNC Chairman Michael Steele has released this very important message. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbjq6OfkMlg
ILLEGALS GETTING HEALTH INSURANCE AT TAXPAYERS EXPENSE !
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THE ROAD TO GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE MORNING BELL: Posted By Conn Carroll On September 1, 2009 @ 9:29 am In Health Care http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/31/morning-bell-politics-before-justice-at-obamas-doj/
RSC INFO ALERT: DETAILED SECTION – BY – SECTION SUMMARY OF THE EMPOWERING PATIENTS FIRST ACT Go to RSC website. To see a detailed outline of a fully paid-for solution from the RSC for access to affordable, quality healthcare for all Americans—the Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 3400). The bill currently has 30 co-sponsors and is getting nationwide media as one way to enact healthcare reform without government mandates or control....more www.maricopagop.org
Thomas Frank: Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care What's dragging the Democrats down in the health-care debate isn't confusion about details. On this the president and his supporters have proven themselves the ablest of technocrats, easily identifying each plan's particulars and its shortcomings, laying everything out on nice flow charts. It is the big questions that are tripping them up. Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings.
USA Today: AARP Raises Its Voices in Health Care Debate AARP, which has lost tens of thousands of members over its support for efforts to revamp the health care system, is preparing a post-Labor Day blitz to try to cast itself as a politically impartial advocate on health care issues. The effort gears up next week, when members of Congress return to the nation's capital to resume the debate over how to lower health care costs and provide insurance coverage for the millions who go without.
Obama Officials Laud Health Care Fraud Settlement for Probe Launched During the Bush Administration -The Obama administration on Wednesday announced the conclusion of an investigation started after whistleblowers claimed in 2003 that the pharmaceutical company Pfizer was marketing some of its products for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability concerning "fraudulent marketing" of certain pharmaceutical products. Sebelius said the settlement will shore up failing government-run health care programs...more http://cnsnews.com/
Hoyer on Health Bill: No Tax Hike, No Deficit Spending, Fully Paid For Or 'I'm Not Going to Vote For It' Waldorf, Md., - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told a town hall meeting on Tuesday night that the health care reform legislation under consideration in Congress will not increase taxes or deficit spending, and must be paid for or he won't vote for it....more http://cnsnews.com/
White House Claims $622 Billion in Health Care Savings... President Barack Obama's mid-year budget update includes $622 billion in purported health care "savings" but doesn't count the costs of the proposed health care reforms...more http://cnsnews.com/
Obama Belatedly Aims to Take Control of Health Care Debate
By Charles Babington, Associated Press
Washington (AP) - Aside from State of the Union speeches, presidents rarely use joint sessions of Congress as backdrops for their remarks to the nation. source.. http://CNSNews.com
COMMENTARY
Washington's Lies
By Walter E. Williams
President Obama and congressional supporters estimate that his health care plan will cost between $50 and $65 billion a year. Such cost estimates are lies, whether they come from a Democratic president and Congress, or a Republican president and Congress. You say, "Williams, you don't show much trust in the White House and Congress." Let's check out their past dishonesty....http://CNSNews.com
