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If taz' source is respectable then there's certainly nothing wrong with a little Rush Limbaugh:
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RUSH: One of the things Democrats are mad at President Obama about is he is urging an excise tax on high cost insurance. Even Pelosi is upset about this. She doesn't want there to be any tax increase on the middle class, like Obama promised, but there are tax increases on everybody, including the middle class, throughout the Senate health care bill. "The White House has long expressed a preference for the excise tax on high-cost plans." What the House Democrats want is an increase in the income tax. Obama and the Senate want an excise tax to the Cadillac plans. "The Senate proposal would impose a 40 percent excise tax on the cost of individual insurance policies above $8,500 and on family policies above $23,000, with higher thresholds for retirees and employees in high-risk fields like police officers." Forty percent excise tax.
And the Washington Post says: "Health-Care Reform Bill's Proposed Tax on High-Cost Plans Raises Questions." The plans being taxed are not all Cadillacs in terms of lavish benefits. Some are going to be taxed because of the state they're in, the type of business that they're in, and the age of their workers, all that drives up cost. So another campaign promise being broken, and it's no big deal when a politician breaks a campaign promise, but with Obama the rumblings are small but they're starting to happen on the left now, on the Democrat side of things. Gitmo, for example, has not been closed. And this mess with counterterrorism, the counterterrorism chief, he was on the ski slope somewhere when he was told about the Christmas Day bomber. He stayed on the ski slopes. He did not come back to town to the Counterterrorism Center. You can have the greatest system, quote, unquote, in the world, if you don't have good people running it, the great system is worthless, and we do not have great people running any of these systems.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_010710/content/01125108.guest.html
Or Ann Coulter...
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LESS HEALTH CARE FOR MORE MONEY: WHAT'S THE CATCH?
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof recently wrote a column about John Brodniak of Oregon, who developed a cavernous hemangioma, causing him great pain as blood leaks into his brain.
According to Kristof, Brodniak can't get medical help because we don't have universal health care. Senators who vote against ObamaCare, Kristof said, are morally equivalent to someone who would walk past a man "writhing in pain on the sidewalk."
In another article in the Times, William Yardley wrote about Melvin Tsosies -- also of Oregon -- who ended up with $200,000 in medical bills after having a heart attack.
As of March 2008, Yardley reported, Tsosies was waiting to find out if he would win the Oregon lottery for health insurance. But with 600,000 uninsured state residents and a "universal" health care program with only enough money to pay for about 24,000 of them, Tsosies is more likely to win a Powerball lottery.
How can this be happening? Oregon already has "universal health care"! (Probably just a coincidence, but isn't Oregon also the only state with physician-assisted suicide?)
Once again forgetting about the existence of the Internet, the Times neglects to mention its own erstwhile enthusiasm for Oregon's universal health care plan, introduced back in 1990.
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=346
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Breitbart is not an acceptable source.
Only full un edited vid clips are reliable from Breitbart, clips are BS
editedfor typo
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