February 22, 2010
Obama to Ram Healthcare Bill Through
| Host: | Ingrid Schlueter |
| Guest: | Bob Adams |
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Bob Adams is Executive Director of the League of American Voters, a national organization dedicated to educating voters on their elected leaders' support for the common sense values of free enterprise, family and national security.
Bob is also an advisory board member of of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a board member of the Arizona Latino Commission, and a board member of Birthright of Charlestown, West Virginia.
President Obama has published his own version of the health care plan by taking two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House and combining some of the features.
This move comes in the face of decreasing public support as well as Republican opposition that’s been strengthened by recent victories in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.
Ingrid describes some of the features of the new plan that include increased fees on name-brand pharmaceuticals, a comprehensive database on all health care claims, raising the percent of income assessment that individuals will pay if they choose not to become insured, and more. In other words, choice in health care is basically obliterated.
According to Bob, this new attempt by Obama is not about health care reform, improving our system or about adding more patients. Instead, he believes it’s all about creating a gigantic government infrastructure to take over one-sixth of the economy.
Reconciliation in the Senate appears to be the game-plan for success to get this rammed through by the Obama administration, so Bob concludes that if this plan is going to be defeated, it will have to happen in the House of Representatives.
Bob says that many House and Senate members aren’t answering their phones or looking at e-mails because they’re “determined to ram this down our throats.” In response, the strategy of the League of American Voters is to target 23 House Democrats with television ads because he believes that when such ads run repeatedly in their districts, it gets their attention.
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