House Dems Pass Generational Theft Bill

In a 220-215 vote House Democrats passed the most sweeping social overhaul since 1965 when the government created Medicare for the elderly.

Rep. Joseph Cao, a first-term Republican also voted for the bill. He holds an overwhelmingly Democratic Congressional seat in New Orleans and obviously cares more about his next election than the monstrous debt he just foisted upon future generations.

A Republican health care reform bill that focused on lower health care premiums and affordable access to high quality health care was defeated on a party line vote. Instead the Democrats passed a massive government take-over of health care which will add a crushing debt on the backs of our children and grandchildren.

"Does this bill mean the government will take over running health care? Yes," said Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.). "But what's worse, this bill replaces the American idea with a European-style social welfare state."

In order to gain YES votes from blue-dog Democrats, Pelosi finally agreed to allow a vote on an amendment that excludes abortion coverage in government health care coverage. Once the amendment passed it paved the way for the blue-dogs to vote YES on the final bill. In the end however, it will be a small consolation prize for them because the exemption will not likely survive a brokered bill that could become the final compromise between the House and Senate bills.

All of Washington State's Democratic delegation voted FOR the massive government take-over of health care, with the exception of Brian Baird from the 3rd congressional district. Voting YES on Pelosi-care was Reps. Rick Larsen, Dicks, Inslee, McDermott and Smith. House Republicans Hastings, McMorris-Rodgers and Reichert voted against the bill.

"We are going to have a complete government takeover of our health care system faster than you can say, 'this is making me sick,'" said Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., and added that Democrats were intent on passing "a jobs-killing, tax-hiking, deficit-exploding" bill.

The bill requires most Americans to carry health insurance and slaps consumers and companies with fines and penalties if they defy government mandates. Federal subsidies will be provided for those who cannot afford health insurance.

Health insurance companies will be banned from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions or a history of medical conditions. These mandates alone will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket. It won't be long before most Americans need a federal subsidy to comply with mandatory health insurance coverage.

Currently 83% of legal residents are covered by health insurance and this bill will attempt to expand coverage to 96% by 2019. To pay for the expanded coverage, government will cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare. All previous attempts to eliminate fraud and waste from Medicare have been unsuccessful but now Obama and Pelosi claim they can somehow find the stash of cash to pay for expanded coverage. Uh huh, right.

The elderly are not the only ones to be thrown under the bus. Wealthy Americans will be levied a 5.4% tax and all but the smallest employers will be required to provide health insurance and pay for most of the premium or face a fine of up to 8% of their payroll.

Now all eyes are on the Senate as majority leader Reid manuevers government health care legislation through the high chamber. Passage of this bill foreshadows a dark era for America.