What's happening with health care reform?

America is going down the path to socialism, and fast. The far left, led by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and of course, Barack Obama, are continuing to advance their liberal, dangerous agenda through Congress.

As you probably know, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed their version of the bill, "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (H.R. 3962), but, they can't stop there. From there, the United States Senate is working to pass their version of health care reform as soon as possible. The dems hoped to have a health bill on Obama's desk by August, here it is November, and they still don't have it. The good news for conservatives is simply that it will not pass this year. I'll say it again... It will NOT be on the President's desk before 2010.

When the Senate finally finishes debate on the bill, and the bill is amended on the Senate floor, voted on, and likely passed, there still is work to be done. The Senate version, "America's Healthy Future Act of 2009" (S. 1796) is quite a bit different from the House's H.R. 3962. As you may know, both the House and the Senate must pass identical bills without amendment before ever being sent to the Oval Office for Obama's signature. Because S. 1796 and H.R. 3962 are so different, when the Senate version eventually passes, there still needs to be what is called a Conference Committee.

The Conference Committee will be a group of Representatives (probably chosen by Pelosi) and Senators (probably chosen by Reid) who will get together and try to mesh the two bills into one. As of now, there's NO TELLING what will come from the Conference Committee. There are so many differences between the two bills, there's no way to know what will be left alone, changed, removed, etc.

After a successful Conference Committee, the bill must come before the whole Senate and whole House, and both chambers must pass it on majority vote. If either of the two chambers fail to pass (or if both fail), the process eventually starts over. That's why we can say with confidence that there's no way a final bill, approved by both chambers, will find Obama's desk by the end of 2009.

But, the real question is... why does this need to be forced through Congress so quickly?? After all, nothing in the result will take effect until at least 2011. So why now? Because Congress is running scared. We, the conservative people of this great nation, are not intimidated by this BS, and we are not afraid to speak out against such drastic changes to our current health care system. Nobody... NOBODY wants to pay more taxes. Not the rich, not the middle class.

Who is in favor of the proposed legislation? Three types of people...

1) Representatives and Senators of the far left (Reid, Pelosi)

2) Members of Congress who are so damn concerned with party loyalty that they won't vote against anything that the Democratic Party stands for, regardless of their own views, or the "valued views of their constituents."

3) The sheepish public who hear "lower costs AND higher quality" (that's not possible, by the way) and get orgasmic over the concept. Never do they consider reading the bill, or looking into things themselves... Just listen to the idiots you elected, hear them talk about things that don't exist (lower costs = higher quality), and avoid using your own intellect at all costs.

Do not fall into any of the three categories above.