Bob Von Scio: After reading your comments I have to say you are an unmitigated Idiot as well as an embarrassment!
You prefer to support a party that has clearly put transparancy and accountability to death when they refuse make public the Baucus bill full to text to the public, the sentate, and even the CBO so that it can be scored to determine the true cost NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE PUT A GAG ORDER ON INS. CO THAT ARE ATTEMPTING TO NOTIFY THEIR SUBSCRIBERS ABOUT THE CUTS TO MEDICARE AND MEDICARE ADVANTAGE THAT OBAMACARE WILL BRING AND DEFEND THAT ORDER BY SAYING THEY ARE SPREADING MISINFORMATON WHEN IN FACT THE CBO HAS CONFIRMED WHAT THEY WERE SAYS IS IN FACT TRUE? AND YET THEY ALLOW THE LIES AND MISINFORMATION OF SUPPORTING INS. CO. LIKE AARP TO CONTINUE! WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH?
Boy I am sure you are really proud your great deomcratic party over this on. Yeas this is something you can be proud of!
You prefer to support a Party that refuses to make the full text of the Baucus Bill public and even try to force Senators to vote for this bill without having seen a copy of the full text of the bill. To ensure that the Senate would actually know what they were voting on, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) offered an amendment that would have required that actual legislative text, as well as a final Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate of the cost of the bill, be posted for 72 hours on the Senate Finance Committee website for public review before the Senate Finance Committee could vote on its final passage. The Bunning amendment was defeated on a largely party-line vote, with all Senate Democrats – with the exception of Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AK)- voting against it. And you would switch to this? Since proponents of Obamacare ( the democrates you hold so highly) have shown themselves to be completely indifferent to what their legislation will actually do to the American people, conservatives have offered other amendments that would hold President Obama accountable for his promise that Obamacare would not cause Americans to lose their current doctor or health care coverage:
•Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) offered an amendment that would have required the Secretary of HHS to certify that at least 75 percent of the physicians in the United States would accept Medicaid patients before the proposed mandatory Medicaid expansions are implemented. That amendment was defeated.
•Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) offered an amendment that would have required the Secretary of HHS to certify Obamacare would not cause more than 1,000,000 Americans to lose the current coverage of their choice. That amendment failed on a party line vote.
•Another Hatch amendment provided that if the Medicare funding reductions in the Medicare Advantage program were to result in a loss of benefits for seniors using Medicare Advantage, those provisions would be nullified. That amendment was also rejected.
The majority in the Senate has completely gutted any semblance of transparency or accountability in the health care debate. They refuse to provide the legislative language and time necessary for the CBO to analyze their legislation and they have rejected all measures that would protect the Americans people from Obama’s broken health care promises. Common sense dictates that Congress needs to step back and start over instead of passing a plan that would reorganize one-sixth of our entire economy without even understanding what the consequences to average Americans would be.