Congress' Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare Leaders in the House and Senate have a plan to pass President Barack Obama's sweeping health care plan by Thanksgiving without any significant participation by the American public. The Heritage Foundation last month exposed Congress' four-step plan to pass Obamacare. Now it has been publicly confirmed and is ready to be implemented. A new report from CNSNews.com quoting a senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) confirms "it is 'likely' that Reid will use H.R. 1586 -- a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions -- as a 'shell' for enacting the final version of the Senate's health care bill." This story confirms the four-part scenario that would railroad the bill through the Senate using a very unusual closed-door procedure to craft the bill with no input from the American people. Step One: Progress on the Senate Finance Committee's conceptual framework for legislation has stalled and the bill was not passed by the end of last week as planned. FoxNews.com is reporting that the Congressional Budget Office score of the bill will be released later today and a high score may further stall progress on the committee's Vapor Bill. The Senate Finance Committee's progress on passing something out of committee -- INCOMPLETE. Step Two: Next, Reid will take the final product of the Senate Finance Committee and merge it with the product of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee. CNSNews.com confirmed that "the actual final text of the legislation will be determined by Reid himself, who will consolidate the legislation approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the still-unapproved legislation from the Senate Finance Committee. Reid will be able to draft and insert textual language that was not expressly approved by either committee." Reid will write the final version of Obamacare to be considered in the Senate with no input from the American people. This is an extremely complex procedure that will not be done in public, or in the form of a hearing, or a public conference committee, and only Reid, other senators chosen by him, and Obama Administration officials will be allowed to read the bill before the Senate debate starts. Merger of the bills -- IN PROGRESS. Step Three: Reid will then move to proceed to H.R. 1586, a bill to impose a tax on bonuses received by certain TARP recipients. A senior aid to Reid confirmed that he will move to proceed to Senate Calendar No. 36, H.R. 1586, or another House-passed tax measure, so the Senate can avoid the constitutional mandate that tax bills originate in the House. Proceed to tax shell of a bill -- CONFIRMED. Step Four: As we previously reported, this scenario would most likely be implemented after the Massachusetts state legislature gave Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint a new senator. New Massachusetts Sen. Paul Kirk was sworn in on Sept. 25. Change law of Massachusetts to allow for interim senator -- COMPLETE. The final step in this plan is for the House to take up Obamacare, without amending the legislation, and then sending that bill directly to President Obama for his signature. CNSNews.com previously reported that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer could avoid a House-Senate conference committee and another round of votes in the House and Senate by refusing to amend the legislation. That would also avoid a new round of public scrutiny over the final text of the bill. This scenario is in the process of being implemented and, if successful, it will result in Obamacare being on the President's desk in time for Thanksgiving with minimal participation of the American public. The San Francisco Examiner published an editorial today that exposed the fact that the American people can't see the bill. "When then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised not to sign major legislation until it had been posted on the Internet for public reading at least five days, trusting voters took him at his word. Now they know better. Not only is the actual language of what is likely to become the main legislative vehicle for Obama's signature health care reform not available on the Internet, it hasn't been given to members of the key Senate committees or the Congressional Budget Office." The procedure being used, in addition to the exclusion of the American people from the process, should be of grave concern to all who want to participate in democracy and have a say in Congress' health care debate that will touch one-sixth of the U.S. economy. The Heritage Foundation - 214 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, DC Call us at 202 546 4400
A letter I recieved from The Heritage Foundation
Posted on October 7, 2009 by admin .
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Now what they should do is not only listen to their constituents, but also create tort reform, health savings plans, limit and reform Medicare and Medicaid, and a health care pool that uninsured Americans can pay into that can not buy regular insurance. Now let me explain how a health care pool means state and federal employees have health insurance, and just like any other business money gets taken out of their checks to pay for it. So why not create a pool where non-government employees can pay “x” amount of money into this pool and once they did that then on paper that would show that person being a government employee, to which now they would be eligible to have health insurance just like any other government employee. This idea makes the private sector work and drives costs down.