After noting that the the current health care bill passed by Pelosi and crew spells out imprisonment for those who don’t join the proper risk pool, Ace gets to the core of the problem:
Economic activity is human activity, after all. Economics is not somehow divorced from humanity. Economic choices [...]
Read what Gov. Mike Rounds-R, SD says the health care bill passed by the house would do to the South Dakota Budget
Gov. says House health bill would bust SD budget
Just think, If South Dakota is having problems, I can’t imagine what it will do to states like California and [...]
I know, I know–we keep talking about health care legislation as though it is really important. It is. Here’s a video from Cato that lays things out plainly and persuasively:
Hmm. I wonder if she is any relation of the good Cardinal? In her own words, Representative Lynn Woolsey:
I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill.
I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Who elected them to [...]
Say it isn’t so! A major new governmental program proposal (this one from the Donkey Party) that will exceed it’s initial estimated cost?
AHHEEEEEEE! What’s the world coming to!
‘Fuzzy math’ could drive health bill cost higher
The official $1.1 trillion price tag for the House Democrats’ health care bill excludes dozens [...]
Now that the House of Representatives has passed the health care bill, we have something concrete with which to agree/disagree. Previously, we had a lot of different things floating around. While I would have been happier had the bill failed–I’m also glad that the target has stopped moving.
This KSFY report shows that the political environment in America toady is about money and power:
Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin was one of 39 Democrats who voted against a Democratic-written health care bill in the House yesterday. It was one of a series of votes that have put her [...]
More cool jobs for South Dakota.
SD salmon looking for home.
Still loving the principle of punitive taxation: Herseth Sandlin on the health care bill.
[...]If you’ve been paying attention, you know that Herseth Sandlin went conservative and stated that she would not be supporting the current health care bill which Pelosi wants to shove through before we all wake up this Sunday morning.
In addition, Frank Kratovil (whom you’ve likely never heard [...]
No surprise, and to tell you the truth, I would probably vote against it to. If you are gonna have a public option it should be available TO EVERYONE in EVERY STATE.
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said she will oppose a historic health care bill now [...]
From: “Hart, Betsy”
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:22:55 -0700
HERSETH SANDLIN STATEMENT ON HOUSE HEALTH CARE BILL
Washington, DC-U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin today announced that while the House health care bill includes a number of good provisions, it is not the right answer for South Dakota because it could unintentionally [...]
Breaking news from the Argus Leader:
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said she can’t support a historic health care bill now before the House, she said moments ago.
“It is not the right answer for South Dakota,” she said.
She WAS reading the tea leaves from the election results as [...]
Herseth Sandlin still doesn’t know her own mind on health care bill.
The first Native American president?
Because lottery tickets do so much to stimulate the economy, let’s put them in vending machines.
Thirteen cases of H1N1 in South Dakota have contributed to the patients’ deaths.
[...]The Blue Dogs, of which Representative Herseth Sandlin is a voting member, would do well to consider their futures. It seems as though our representative is aware of that:
As for Tuesday’s results, “For people who have been undecided it either keeps them undecided or moves them to no,” said [...]
That’s the only explanation I can come up with. Why else would they endorse the House’s health care bill? That’s right. The American Association of Retired Persons is behind the bill put together by noted grandmother killers like Nancy Pelosi.
What is this world coming to? Either seniors won’t [...]
From the Associated Press, 1990 pages, and Government intrusion into end of life decisions.:
It’s alive. The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to “death panels” for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.
The provision allows Medicare [...]
