220-215

By fitsnews • on November 8, 2009

While America watched football or caught up on household chores, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed $1.2 trillion socialized medicine bill that could raise their medical costs by thousands of dollars each year.

In a rare Saturday vote – taken four days after Democrats got their hats handed to them in an off-year election - the majority party in the House passed the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s socialist agenda, a health care “reform” bill that mandates coverage and makes the government a “competitor” in a market it controls.

The controversial bill also requires Americans to carry insurance – with billions in subsidies for those unable to afford coverage. Businesses would also be required to provide coverage, and any citizen or company who refuses would face stiff fines and penalties.

To pay for the proposal, Democrats are raising taxes in individuals who earn $500,000 or more by as much as 5.4%.

With one exception – Louisiana Rep. Joseph Cao – every Republican voted against the measure. They were joined by thirty-nine Democrats.

Meanwhile, 219 Democrats supported the bill, including U.S. Rep. John Spratt (D-South Carolina).

Comments

By Liberty For Me on November 8th, 2009 at 8:49 am

Here we go….when it kicks in if the dollar is not already gone,it will be worthless.Poor will get MUUUch poorer and the middle class will be gone.Good job socialists and those ignorant enough to support empty slogans

By Designated Driver on November 8th, 2009 at 10:15 am

Fuck Spratt

By political hack on November 8th, 2009 at 11:10 am

This is the bureaucratic timebomb they have been licking their chops for. Once this is in place watch the government eat itself and everyone around it. I can’t believe I was recently told I was un American because I am against political correctness killing my soldiers and that I didn’t support our Congress and President in their communist medical care policy. Their theory for that must be that I have to follow or FEEL GOOD about the decisions my government is making for ME, or I am an anti-government anarchist. Here is an interesting definition from Blacks Law Dictionary: public policy. 1. Broadly, principles and standards regarded by the legislature or by the courts as being of fundamental concern to the state and the whole of society. 2. More narrowly, the principle that a person should not be allowed to do anythign that would tend to injure the public at large. I believe more people are concerned about the run away spending all these rich elitist federal lawmakers are continuing to do in order to cover up their failed welfare blunders of the past which put us in this spot in the first place than whether or not we need a complete overhaul of healthcare that will cost us more than bailing out the banks. The narrow interpretation of “public policy” is how it should be looked at by a layman. Congress should not be allowed to do anything that would tend to injure the public at large, ie, kill their currency with inflation and steal their liberties concerning their choice of health care, increased taxes on the rich, systematic destruction of the middle class and the lower poverty level classes who are always the ones curb stomped for being so gullible to lies of demogouges, and all disguising these measures as GOOD ‘public policy,’ because it furthers their socialist welfare racket and SOMEHOW keeps them in office.

By James the Foot Soldier on November 8th, 2009 at 11:14 am

GREAT news for conservatives (and the GOP if they could ever get their heads out of their spincters) nancy leads the charge to waterloo – yippppeeeee!