My Domestic Church Daily Clips 03/21/2010

• Not enough to analyze the bill!tags: healthcare, areyousorryyet?
  • House Republican Leader John Boehner said: “The House of Representatives should not vote blindly on an issue that is so important to every American.  We deserve to have all the facts about how much this bill raise health care costs before we vote.  The decision to press ahead and jam this bill down the throats of the American people is just one more example of arrogance and irresponsibility from Washington Democrats.”
    Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said: “Americans deserve to have a full analysis of this bill, but won’t because of the mad dash forced by the Democrat leaders in the House. We now know that even the Obama administration’s chief actuary predicts more government spending, more price increases for consumers and less care for low-income patients. This debate was supposed about lowering costs for Americans not making things worse.”
• Newsmax – Pelosi Refuses to Negotiate with Pro-Life Lawmakers for More Votestags: abortion, healthcare, areyousorryyet?
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday may have finally reached the magic number of 216 to pass Obamacare, but she faced a potential setback as pro-life lawmakers led by Bart Stupak, D-Mich, remained opposed to abortion language in the House bill.

    Pelosi told Fox News on Saturday that she will not cut a deal with a group of anti-abortion Democrats to include tighter restrictions on abortion funding in the final health care bill, suggesting that she believes she has enough votes to pass the legislation without them.

• Medicare fix would push health care into the red – Yahoo! Financetags: finance, healthcare, areyousorryyet
  • WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red.
    The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would cost $208 billion over 10 years. If added back to the health care overhaul bill, it would wipe out all the deficit reduction, leaving the legislation $59 billion in the red.The so-called doc fix was part of the original House bill. Because of its high cost, Democrats decided to pursue it separately. Republicans say the cost should not be ignored. Congress has usually waived the cuts to doctors year by year.

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