The Associated Press reports that states all across the country are pushing back against healthcare “reform,” specifically in response to the possibility that their residents and businesses could be forced into buying health insurance by the federal government (via MM):
A couple of days ago, in a speech in the battleground state of Ohio, President Obama made a shall we say lofty, ambitious claim about healthcare premiums and how much they supposedly would go down under ObamaCare. Sweetness and Light has the video of his remarks. David Gibberman at The American Thinker breaks the numbers down:
And you’ll never guess which three. Well, maybe you will. Mark Tapscott writes:
If not, you better get your nose checked because, as Doug Ross notes here, the “Slaughter Solution” is in play this week for a Democrat party in Washington, DC that is so hellbent on passing some form of healthcare “reform” by the end of the week that they’re willing to blatantly violate the Constitution in order to do so (much more so than it has already been violated over the past several decades, I should add).
There aren’t many of them left these days, so when one steps up to the plate I think they should be acknowledged and praised. National Review Online’s Robert Costa did a phone interview with Stupak today as the Congressman waited at the airport to return home to Michigan, and he passed along some “inside baseball” info on how negotiations are going in the House between the pro-abortion Democrats and the pro-life Democrats (aka “the Stupak 12”). It’s not pretty:
