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Poll: Obama Health Care Marks Hit New Low

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

by Stephanie Condon – CBSNEWS.com

President Obama’s approval rating on handling health care is at an all-time low, according to a new CBS News poll, something that is helping to drag down his overall approval rating.

Just 36 percent of Americans approve of Mr. Obama’s handling of health care, according to the poll, conducted from Jan. 6 – 10. Fifty-four percent disapprove. In December of last year, 42 percent of Americans approved of the president’s handling of health care, and 47 percent approved in October.

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Abortion Remains A Key Obstacle to Final Passage of Health Care Bill

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, AP

Washington (AP) – Twice now, abortion was almost a deal-breaker. This time, it was a deal-maker. But of the hundreds of deals cut to keep health care legislation alive, the hardest to retain may be the Senate’s abortion compromise — achieved after 13 hours of negotiation.
 
The volatile issue remains the biggest threat to getting a history-making bill to President Barack Obama.
 
Deals are the lifeblood of legislation. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana got $100 million more for her state, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman stripped the bill of a government insurance plan and Ben Nelson won a slew of favors for Nebraska — all in exchange for their votes.
 
Nelson was also pivotal in the abortion compromise. The abortion-rights foe cast the 60th vote Monday to prevent Republicans from burying the bill.

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Obama faces healthcare insurrection from left flank

Friday, December 18th, 2009

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House worked on Thursday to tamp down an insurrection from some of President Barack Obama’s liberal backers who feel he has been too willing to compromise away their priorities on a healthcare overhaul.

The frictions reflect the tortured state of negotiations over Obama’s top domestic legislative priority as the White House and Democratic leadership in the U.S. Congress seek to piece together enough supporters to approve a healthcare plan that Republicans oppose.

Leading the grousing from the left has been Howard Dean, a former Democratic National Committee chairman who ran unsuccessfully for his party’s presidential nomination in 2004.

Dean, a medical doctor and former governor of Vermont, in recent days has said a Senate healthcare bill that Obama supports and which is lurching toward a possible vote in coming days should be killed.

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Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

By Stephen Dinan

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama’s explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit.

The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.

A rough estimate by the Center for Immigration Studies suggests that the practical effect of the mandates would be that about 1 million illegal immigrants could obtain health insurance coverage through their employers.

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Halt Obama Newsletter 11/24/09

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

AMERICA TAKES ONE MORE STEP TOWARD SOCIALISM – SENATE VOTES TO BRING HEALTHCARE BILL UP FOR DEBATE
By Dr. Rick Scarborough November 24, 2009

Obama-Care passed another perilous milestone Saturday evening when — on a strictly partisan vote (without one Republican supporting the measure) — the Senate voted to bring H.R. 3590, the federal takeover of U.S. health care, to the floor for amendment and debate.
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The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

Friday, November 20th, 2009

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports:

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, (more…)

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Speaker Pelosi’s Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life – not end it.

Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that.  On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions for which Public Funding is Allowed” the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run plan.  The Speaker’s plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions.

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