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Tea Party activists are reporting that Jason Altmire (D-Pa4) has switched to a yes vote on the plan to socialize our health care system.
Altmire has close ties to the health care industry and voted no on the bill last November.
Yesterday, he harshly criticized the process his fellow Democrats (or is that Deemocrats?) were using to advance the legislation.
Congressman Jason Altmire (D-Pa4) criticized the Democrats “deem and pass” strategy regarding the attempt to socialize America’s health care system. Speaking on Fox Business Network, today, he called the attempt “wrong.”
Altmire represents a fairly conservative district, has close ties to the health industry and voted against the House version of the plan last November. He has, however, said he was considering voting yes this time around.
TheHill.com, as of 12:41 p.m., lists him as undecided.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, yesterday, “whoever sits here this time next week, you all will be talking about health care reform not as a presidential proposal but as something that will soon be the law of the land.”
Gibbs expressed confidence that the government take over of health care would be popular with the American people.
“. . .once it passes, we’re happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of health care reform. That’s a debate I think we’re obviously comfortable having,” he said.
Regarding opponents of the bill, he said “They do not even have control over themselves! Do not believe them! . . .We’re giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn’t accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. . . These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying . . .God will roast their stomachs in hell”
Residents of Pennsylvania’s 7th District are reportedly getting emails (aka spam) from President Obama asking them to call Congressman Joe Sestak to say thank you for his vote last fall to socialize our health care system and “to report that OFA supporters in Pennsylvania have pledged 332,199 volunteer hours to back up member of Congress like yours who stand up for health reform”
Sestak wavering on socializing our health care system would be like Ed Rendell joining the Republican Party.
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) reported, yesterday, March 9, that about 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 have genital herpes which is incurable.
The CDC said about 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes or herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) compared to about 11.5 percent of men.
It said about 39 percent of blacks were infected — including 48 percent of black women — and about 12 percent of whites.
Genital herpes can cause recurrent and painful
genital sores and greatly increases the likelihood of acquiring
and transmitting the AIDS virus.
Congressman Jason Altmire (D-Pa4) said in an interview on Fox News Sunday that he may vote in favor of the Obama Health-Care socialization bill.
Altmire was one of 39 Democrats to vote against the House version of the bill in November.
Sen John Cornyn (R-Texas) notes that once the House Dems vote for the Senate bill there is neither a guarantee nor a need for the reconciliation process should the President sign it into law.
Sen. Arlen Specter (S as in Specterite-Pa.) has changed his mind. At first blush that’s not news with regard to the longtime Republican who switched to the Dems when it looked like he’d lose the GOP primary, but when you realized Specter is not blushing when he says it regarding this particular matter, it becomes rather remarkable.
Specter was one of 20 senators who signed a letter presented to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Feb. 19, supporting the use of reconciliation, a process to avoid a Senate filibuster regarding budgetary matters, to pass ObamaCare.
Specter says he changed his mind to support of this dubious action — the people of America are making it clearer by the day they don’t want socialized medicine — because he has learned it has been used many times in the past according to PoliticsPa.Com.
So, Specter — who has been a senator since 1981 — has just come to realized this?
“I have (supported reconciliation) after taking a look at theprecedents and seeing that it has been used very, very broadly,”Specter said.
At least he didn’t cite Scottish law.
The sooner he goes the better off this country will be.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, this morning, got around to reporting about the health care crisis facing expectant mothers and their babies.
“Fifteen hospitals in the eight-county Philadelphia region have closed their labor and delivery units since 1999, including two last year,” the Inky noted.
In the last paragraph, the Inquirer finally gets around to explaining the cause via Ken Braithwaite, regional executive of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council of the Hospital and Healthsystem
Association of Pennsylvania, which represents area hospitals.
“Hospitals are being squeezed by low insurance payments, especially from Medicaid; the high cost of medical liability insurance; and a shortage of obstetricians,” said Braithwaite.
Ten years ago the doctors were screaming about these issues especially regarding the need for tort reform regarding medical liability.
The Inquirer dismissed these concerns with stories that could have been written by the trial lawyers.
If they did a proper job of journalism the problems would be much less today.
Inky Finally Reports On The Crisis In Obstetrics
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said, yesterday, that his office is conducting a legal analysis of theconstitutionality of the provision granting Nebraska a permanent exemption from paying Medicaid expenses that all other states, including Pennsylvania, are required to pay.
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson secured this special provision for Nebraska
in exchange for his support of the Patient Protection Affordable Care
Act.
Corbett notes that Medicaid expenses for Pennsylvania are about $15 billion per year
The latest Rasmussen poll of Democratic primary voters show that 29 percent of them oppose President Obama’s healt care plan with 16 percent of them strongly opposed to it.
Rasmussen also has Sen. Arlen Specter leading Congressman Joe Sestak 48 percent to 35 percent.