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  • Pain before gain in health care overhaul | The Associated Press | December 23, 2009

    The Associated Press reports, "Americans will feel the pain before the gain from the health care overhaul Democrats are close to pushing through Congress. Proposed taxes and fees on upper-income earners, insurers, even tanning parlors, take effect quickly. So would Medicare cuts. Benefits, such as subsidies for lower middle-income households, consumer protections for all, eliminating the prescription coverage gap for seniors, come gradually."

  • Businesses brace for health bill's costs | The Wall Street Journal | December 23, 2009

    The Wall Street Journal reports, "Groups representing smaller businesses say the threat of increased taxes and premiums could outweigh provisions intended to limit the impact on small employers. The Senate bill 'will not only fail to reduce and control the constantly climbing health-care costs small-business owners face, but it will result in new and greater costs on their business,' said Dan Danner, head of the National Federation of Independent Business."

  • Health-care vote means Senators will spend Christmas Eve at the Capitol | The Washington Post | December 23, 2009

    The Washington Post reports, "It's the bill that stole Christmas. Behind each cranky senator dealing his or her way toward a historic Christmas Eve vote on health-care reform is a cadre of staff members laboring day and night to make sense of the ever-changing 2,457-page bill, tutor their bosses, spin the press and break down what it means for constituents back home."

  • Passing health reform could be a nightmare for Obama | The Washington Post | December 21, 2009

    Columnist Robert Samuelson deems the current health care reform bills to be "atrocious legislation." Even if President Obama passes his health care reform bill, it will impose significant costs, add $1 trillion in spending over the next decade, and still leave many people to remain uninsured. Samuelson observes, “As the real-life (as opposed to rhetorical) consequences unfold, they will rebut Obama's claim that he has 'solved' the health-care problem."

  • Health care reform: health care legislation advancing in Senate, stalled in public opinion | Rasmussen Poll | December 21, 2009

    The more people learn about health care reform, the more they turn against the idea. In fact a recent Rasmussen poll notes that 55 percent of voters are opposed to the health care reform bill. Also 57 percent of voters would prefer to pass nothing than this current health care reform bill.

  • Change nobody believes in | The Wall Street Journal | December 21, 2009

    After the recent Senate health care reform bill vote, many people are speaking out on the country's destructive changes to the health care system that virtually no one believes in. The Wall Street Journal writes, "Never in our memory has so unpopular a bill been on the verge of passing Congress, never has social and economic legislation of this magnitude been forced through on a purely partisan vote, and never has a party exhibited more sheer political willfulness that is reckless even for Washington or had more warning about the consequences of its actions."

  • Heineman to Nelson: Vote no | The Omaha World-Herald | December 18, 2009

    According to the Omaha World Herald, Governor Heineman encourages Senator Nelson to vote no on the health care bill. Like most other states, Nebraska’s state spending on Medicaid would decrease in the first three years after the bill took effect but after six years, the state would have $45 million in added costs.

  • Just 34% say passing health care bill is better than passing nothing | Rasmussen Poll | December 18, 2009

    A recent Rasmussen poll find that 57 percent of voters nationwide believe would be better not to pass a health care reform bill this year instead of passing what is currently being considered by Congress. In fact, most Americans now believe they will be worse off if reform passes.

  • Health care reform | Rasmussen Reports | December 16, 2009
  • CEOs: Health reform won't buy relief | BusinessWeek | December 16, 2009

    BusinessWeek reports that private corporations that employ at least 132 million Americans will notice minimal savings in health care costs with the health care bills currently being debated in Congress. "They're disasters," said John Riccitiello, CEO of video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. in California, a company with 8,000 employees. "What part of either the House or Senate bill is going to do anything with cost? I don't see anything."