Libertarian Party Opposes Obamacare

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The Libertarian Party issued an official statement of opposition to Obamacare on Friday:

WASHINGTON - The Libertarian Party adamantly opposes the health care bill passed on Christmas Eve by the US Senate that is currently being considered in the US House of Representatives. The Libertarian Party calls on the US House to vote down this disastrous plan, and instead to pass laws reducing federal involvement in health care.

Libertarian Party Chairman William Redpath commented, "We oppose this horrible federal government expansion into health care, just as we have consistently opposed all the increased government intrusion into health care proposed by Republicans and Democrats over the years. For example, we vocally opposed the huge Medicare expansion pushed through Congress by Republicans in 2003."

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IWV poll finds ‘sharp opposition’ in key districts to healthcare takeover

Analysis by Kay B. Day

Despite having absolute control of two branches of the federal government, Democrats have not been able to push the federal healthcare takeover through Congress. That may change this week, depending on threats, promises and cajoling by Dem leaders who want something done at any cost. But a poll released on Monday by Independent Women’s Voice found what the activist organization calls “astonishing intensity and sharp opposition to reform.” The poll was conducted by the Polling Company.

The US Report, in the interest of ethics in reporting, does not refer to Democrat plans for healthcare as ‘reform.’ We prefer the accurate term: government takeover.

In an editorial about healthcare at The Wall Street Journal, IWV CEO Heather Higgins and The Polling Company CEO Kellyanne Conway said the national polls Dem leaders cite as showing support for their plans relate to support for “individual provisions of the bill…”

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Distrust of health plan rooted in lack of trust for Congress and ‘snuck in’ provisions

Commentary by Kay B. Day

President Barack Obama’s plan for expanding health insurance to include all Americans is titled ‘The Obama Plan: Stability and Security for all Americans.’ On Thursday, Republicans will meet with Democrats, purportedly in an effort to salvage one of Obama’s greatest hopes. Or the meeting may just be, as some Republicans have charged, ‘a photo op.’  And only time will tell what we end up with between the House and Senate bills that form the basis for retooling healthcare. Neither the House bill nor the Senate bill was handled with the transparency the president promised when he campaigned. And we must admit to ourselves House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) do not inspire trust. Why do I say that?

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For Democrats, healthcare is really all about the taxes

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Pelosi celebrated Democrat wins in 2006. Ask yourself a question. Do you have it better now than you did 3 years ago?Democrats are salivating over reinventing American healthcare, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) grinning like a Cheshire cat for media, and fellow old timers like Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) claiming that reinventing American healthcare will reduce the deficit, as per the Congressional Budget Office.  Both Pelosi and Dingell are American royalty—part of an elitist political class sustained by the government for more than one generation. Pelosi’s father was a career politician; so was Dingell’s.

Dingell took the low road in avoiding an important statement from the CBO. In a letter director Doug Elmendorf sent House Democrats, he cautioned Congress about his deficit reduction figures.

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