Senators For Sale
| December 21st, 2009It looks like the only way for the Democrats to pass this monstrosity that they call health care reform is to buy votes. Many Senators are receiving payoffs for voting in line with Senator Harry Reid. The Following is the payoffs that some Senators will receive if they pass health care reform with the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act.
- Chris Dodd (D)Connecticut – $100 Million for construction of a university hospital
- Mary Landrieu (D) Louisiana – $300 Million for Increased federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster’
- Ben Nelson (D) Nebraska – Permanent exemption from the state share of Medicaid expansion for Nebraska
- Bernie Sanders (I) Vermont – $10 Billion in new funding for community health centers
- Carl Levin (D) Michigan – Exemption for non-profit insurers in his state and Nebraska. All other non-profit insurers in the other 48 states must pay an excise tax.
There are most likely more of these incentives for Senators to vote for the health care bill. I thought that this bill was suppose to help all Americans but it seems like some Americans are getting more “help” than others. This is why the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act should not pass. There are to many pet projects written into the bill. One of President Obama’s campaign promises was to cut all of these pet projects out of new bills. I guess he is not worried about it.
Contact your Senators and especially Senator Ben Nelson and tell them not to vote for this bill. America deserves real health care reform not this garbage that congress is trying to pass right now.
