{"id":18075,"date":"2010-03-19T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18075"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:34:47","slug":"that-budget-busting-healthcare-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18075","title":{"rendered":"That budget busting healthcare bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been avoiding discussing the healthcare bill the last few weeks because you guys come here to discuss stuff you can’t find anywhere else on the internet. But the healthcare debate has sucked the oxygen out of everything else on the internet. Even dicksmith is answering questions no one asked<\/a> on healthcare. Frankly, I’d prefer he give us veterans guarantees that we’re not going to be penalized for having free health care. I never said our health care would change as a result of the health care bill (other than the fact that rolls will increase) – I just don’t want to pay the IRS a penalty for my VA\/Military health care.<\/p>\n

Our hope rests with a small number of Democrats upon whom we’re depending to stick to their principles for a change. Their names are; Bart Stupak, Jason Altmire, Michael Arcuri, John Boccieri, Jim Costa, Brad Ellsworth, Gabby Giffords, Suzanne Kosmas, Betsy Markey, Scott Murphy, and John Tanner. Politico<\/a> profiles the hold-outs. Gabriel Malor posts their contact information at Ace of Spades<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since no one is going to listen to us conservatives, John Hawkins at Right Wing News<\/a> has assembled 32 quotes from Democrats as reasons people should oppose the healthcare bill. You should read them all – even if you already oppose the bill.<\/p>\n

The GOP sent me a comparison of what Obama said last year about the cost of his bill, and what the CBO said yesterday<\/a>. Here’s the CBO score<\/a> (.pdf), if you want to wade through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been avoiding discussing the healthcare bill the last few weeks because you guys come here … That budget busting healthcare bill<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}