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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 165

(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 3590 RECORDED VOTE 21-Mar-2010 10:49 PM QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments BILL TITLE: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Ayes Noes PRES NV

Democratic 219 34

Republican 178

Independent

TOTALS 219 212

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AckermanAndrewsBacaBaird

BaldwinBeanBecerraBerkleyBermanBishop (GA)Bishop (NY)BlumenauerBoccieriBoswellBoyd

Brady (PA)Braley (IA)Brown, CorrineButterfieldCappsCapuanoCardozaCarnahanCarneyCarson (IN)Castor (FL)

ChuClarkeClayCleaverClyburnCohenConnolly (VA)ConyersCooperCostaCostello

CourtneyCrowleyCuellarCummingsDahlkemperDavis (CA)Davis (IL)DeFazio

GrijalvaGutierrezHall (NY)Halvorson

HareHarmanHastings (FL)HeinrichHigginsHillHimesHincheyHinojosaHironoHodes

HoltHondaHoyerInsleeIsraelJackson (IL)Jackson Lee (TX)Johnson (GA)Johnson, E. B.KagenKanjorski

KapturKennedyKildeeKilpatrick (MI)KilroyKindKirkpatrick (AZ)Klein (FL)KosmasKucinichLangevin

Larsen (WA)Larson (CT)Lee (CA)LevinLewis (GA)LoebsackLofgren, ZoeLowey

ObeyOlverOrtizOwens

PallonePascrellPastor (AZ)PaynePelosiPerlmutterPerrielloPetersPingree (ME)Polis (CO)Pomeroy

Price (NC)QuigleyRahallRangelReyesRichardsonRodriguezRothman (NJ)Roybal-AllardRuppersbergerRush

Ryan (OH)SalazarSnchez, Linda T.Sanchez, LorettaSarbanesSchakowskySchauerSchiffSchraderSchwartzScott (GA)

Scott (VA)SerranoSestakShea-PorterShermanSiresSlaughterSmith (WA)


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DeGetteDelahuntDeLauroDicksDingell

DoggettDonnelly (IN)DoyleDriehausEdwards (MD)EllisonEllsworthEngelEshooEtheridgeFarr

FattahFilnerFosterFrank (MA)FudgeGaramendiGiffordsGonzalezGordon (TN)GraysonGreen, Al

Green, Gene

LujnMaffeiMaloneyMarkey (CO)Markey (MA)

MatsuiMcCarthy (NY)McCollumMcDermottMcGovernMcNerneyMeek (FL)Meeks (NY)MichaudMiller (NC)Miller, George

MitchellMollohanMoore (KS)Moore (WI)Moran (VA)Murphy (CT)Murphy (NY)Murphy, PatrickNadler (NY)NapolitanoNeal (MA)

Oberstar

SnyderSpeierSprattStarkStupak

SuttonThompson (CA)Thompson (MS)TierneyTitusTonkoTownsTsongasVan HollenVelzquezVisclosky

WalzWasserman SchultzWatersWatsonWattWaxmanWeinerWelchWilson (OH)WoolseyWu

Yarmuth

THROW ALL THESE SCUMBAGS

OUT IN NOVEMBER 2010, AND THE

COMING ELECTIONS !!!!

WE WILL NOT FORGET WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DID

TO AMERICA & THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA !!!

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Aderholt

Adler (NJ)Akin

Alexander

AltmireArcuriAustriaBachmann

Bachus

Barrett (SC)

BarrowBartlett

Barton (TX)

BerryBiggert

BilbrayBilirakisBishop (UT)

Blackburn

BluntBoehner

Bonner

Bono Mack

Boozman

BorenBoucher

BoustanyBrady (TX)

BrightBroun (GA)Brown (SC)

Brown-Waite, Ginny

Buchanan

BurgessBurton (IN)

Buyer

Calvert

CampCampbell

CantorCao

Capito

CarterCassidy

Castle

FoxxFranks (AZ)

Frelinghuysen

Gallegly

Garrett (NJ)Gerlach

Gingrey (GA)Gohmert

Goodlatte

Granger

GravesGriffith

Guthrie

Hall (TX)Harper

Hastings (WA)HellerHensarling

Herger

Herseth SandlinHoekstra

HoldenHunter

InglisIssa

Jenkins

Johnson (IL)Johnson, Sam

Jones

Jordan (OH)King (IA)

King (NY)

Kingston

Kirk

KissellKline (MN)

Kratovil

LambornLance

LathamLaTourette

Latta

Lee (NY)Lewis (CA)

Linder

MinnickMoran (KS)

Murphy, Tim

Myrick

NeugebauerNunes

NyeOlson

Paul

Paulsen

Pence

PetersonPetri

PittsPlatts

Poe (TX)PoseyPrice (GA)

Putnam

RadanovichRehberg

Reichert

Roe (TN)

Rogers (AL)Rogers (KY)

Rogers (MI)

RohrabacherRooney

Ros-Lehtinen

Roskam

RossRoyce

Ryan (WI)

ScaliseSchmidt

Schock

Sensenbrenner

SessionsShadegg

Shimkus

ShulerShuster

Simpson

SkeltonSmith (NE)


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Chaffetz

ChandlerChildersCoble

Coffman (CO)

ColeConaway

CrenshawCulberson

Davis (AL)Davis (KY)

Davis (TN)Deal (GA)

Dent

Diaz-Balart, L.Diaz-Balart, M.

DreierDuncan

Edwards (TX)Ehlers

EmersonFallin

Flake

Fleming

ForbesFortenberry

LipinskiLoBiondoLucas

Luetkemeyer

Lummis

Lungren, Daniel E.LynchMackManzullo

Marchant

MarshallMathesonMcCarthy (CA)

McCaul

McClintockMcCotter

McHenryMcIntyreMcKeon

McMahonMcMorris Rodgers

MelanconMica

Miller (FL)

Miller (MI)Miller, Gary

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)Souder

SpaceStearns

SullivanTannerTaylorTeagueTerry

Thompson (PA)

ThornberryTiahrt

Tiberi

TurnerUpton

WaldenWampWestmoreland

Whitfield

Wilson (SC)Wittman

Wolf

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

REWARD THESE PEOPLE WHO PLACED PEOPLE BUSINESS

FIRST AS THEY REMEMBERED WHO THEY REPRESENT

AND WHY THEY ARE IN DC. THANK YOU FOR DOING

WHATS RIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. American

Citizens.

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BART STUPAK THE TRAITOR AND HIS GANG OF

(WHORES) SELLOUTS THAT DID THE TRICK

FOR THE OPIMP & MADAME PELOSI.and for

sure THEY WILL PAY FOR THEIR BETRAYL TOAMERICA & THE AMERICAN PEOPLE !

Traitor in chief BENEDICT ARNORLD STUPID Stupak

Fellow SCUMBAGS :

Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio), Reps. JimCooper (Tenn.), Paul Kanjorski (Pa.), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio),

Nick Rahall (W.Va.), Alan Mollohan (W.Va.) , Kathy

Dahlkemper (Pa), Rep. Joe Donnelly (Ind), Reps. Bobby Rush

(Ill.) and Loretta Sanchez (Calif.), James Clyburn (D-S.C),

Rep. Jan Schakowsy (D-Ill.), Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif).


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Stupak, Dems reach abortion dealBy Jared Allen and Jeffrey Young - 03/21/10 03:33 PM ET

Democrats have reached a deal on an executive order on

abortion that could hand them a victory on healthcare.

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) announced a deal at a pressconference. He said the deal means Democrats will have the

216 votes they need to win a healthcare reform vote on thefloor.

"We're well past 216," he said at the press conference.

"Eight or nine" Democrats, including Stupak, will support the

healthcare bill because of the deal, according to an anti-

abortion rights Democrat.

"We've changed [our votes]," said Rep. Steve Driehaus(D-Ohio), who appeared at the press conference withStupak.

Driehaus said he's seen the executive order and can now vote

for the healthcare bill. He said Stupak has signed off, as well.

Driehaus spoke minutes before the press conference in the

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Separately, two other undecided Democrats said they would

vote for healthcare reform: Reps. Jim Cooper (Tenn.)

and Paul Kanjorski (Pa.).

Besides Driehaus and Stupak, other Democrats attending the

press conference, who will now support the bill, were Reps.

Marcy Kaptur (Ohio),Nick Rahall (W.Va.),Alan

Mollohan (W.Va.) and Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.). Allsaid they would vote for the healthcare bill.

Stupak said Rep. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), who was unable to

attend the press conference, will also vote yes.

That puts Democrats ever so close to the 216 votes they need to

win a series of floor votes, according to The Hill's whip count.

By The Hill's count, 35 Democrats are no votes or likely no

votes. Democrats can afford to lose 37 members.

Two other Democrats are undecided: Reps. Bobby Rush

(Ill.) and Loretta Sanchez (Calif.).

Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said he expectsRush to vote yes.

Stupak said on Fox News afterward that the executive order

was a "very strong statement" that wouldn't replace statutory

language -- his preference -- but acknowledged that he couldn't

get such language through the Senate.

"All the safeguards we were looking for, the principle we

fought for all these months, will be enforced through this

exeuctive order," Stupak said. "It's a good agreement."


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Stupak also stressed that fixes to the bill could be enacted

between now and 2014.

Pro-abortion-rights Democrats lined up behind the deal,

signaling that healthcare reform's biggest and last hurdle hadbeen overcome.

"It looks like it's a go," Rep. Jan Schakowsy (D-

Ill.) said after exiting Pelosi's office. "Assuming that there'sno final, final, final, final shenanigans that go on with the

Stupak people, I think we're OK."

Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.), the author of the abortionlanguage initially approved in the House Energy and

Commerce Committee that Stupak's November floor

amendment replaced, was also satisfied.

"I'm pleased that we seem to be getting to the end," said

Capps. "I'm thankful that we're to the point where now we can

concentrate on healthcare reform and we're ready to take a

vote."

House Republicans responded, saying the executive order

would not have the authority to implement its own abortion

language.

"The law of the land trumps any Executive Order,which can be reversed or altered at the stroke of a

pen by this or any subsequent President without

any congressional approval or notice," House

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a

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can direct members of the executive branch, it

cannot direct the private sector."

Outside groups on both sides of the abortion divide do not

appear poised to support an agreement between the two

Democratic camps. The National Right to Life Committee and

the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops each issued statements

rejecting the notion of using an executive order as a bulwark

against taxpayer dollars being used to fund abortion services.

Meanwhile, abortion rights advocates like the Planned

Parenthood Federation of America and NARAL already

opposed the Senate language Obama's order would ostensiblyaffirm.

As the Democrats reached their agreement, Republicans enter

House floor in single file, each asking for unanimous consent to

revise and extend their remarks in opposition to "this flawed"

healthcare bill. The Republicans can still throw their biggest

roadblock later tonight with their motion to recommit.

This story was updated at 5:37 p.m.

Molly K. Hooper and Walter Alarkon contributed to this story.

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20 WAYS OBAMACARE WILL TAKE AWAY

OUR FREEDOMS

With House Democrats poised to pass the Senatehealth care bill with some reconciliation changes

later today, it is worthwhile to take a

comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose.

Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us

with security. But it will result in skyrocketing

insurance costs and physicians leaving the field indroves, making it harder to afford and find

medical care. We may be about to live Benjamin

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freedom for temporary security deserve neither

and will lose both.

The sections described below are taken from HR3590 as agreed to by the Senate and from the

reconciliation bill as displayed by the Rules

Committee.

1. You are young and dont want health

insurance? You are starting up a small business

and need to minimize expenses, and one way to dothat is to forego health insurance? Tough. You

have to pay $750 annually for the privilege.

(Section 1501)

2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for

insurance that reflects that status? Tough. Youll

have to pay for premiums that cover not only you,but also the guy who smokes three packs a day,

drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off

the floor. Thats because insurance companies will

no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a

persons health status. (Section 2701).

3. You would like to pay less in premiums by

buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on

coverage? Tough. Health insurers will no longer

be able to offer such policies, even if that is what

customers prefer. (Section 2711).
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4. Think youd like a policy that is cheaper

because it doesnt cover preventive care or

requires cost-sharing for such care? Tough.

Health insurers will no longer be able to offerpolicies that do not cover preventive services or

offer them with cost-sharing, even if thats what

the customer wants. (Section 2712).

5. You are an employer and you would like to

offer coverage that doesnt allow your employers

slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26?Tough. (Section 2714).

6. You must buy a policy that covers ambulatory

patient services, emergency services,

hospitalization, maternity and newborn care,

mental health and substance use disorder services,

including behavioral health treatment;prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative

services and devices; laboratory services;

preventive and wellness services; chronic disease

management; and pediatric services, including

oral and vision care.

Youre a single guy without children? Tough,your policy must cover pediatric services. Youre

a woman who cant have children? Tough, your

policy must cover maternity services. Youre a

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substance abuse treatment. (Add your own

violation of personal freedom here.) (Section

1302).

7. Do you want a plan with lots of cost-sharing and

low premiums? Well, the best you can do is a

Bronze plan, which has benefits that provide

benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60% of

the full actuarial value of the benefits provided

under the plan. Anything lower than that, tough.

(Section 1302 (d) (1) (A))

8. You are an employer in the small-group

insurance market and youd like to offer policies

with deductibles higher than $2,000 for

individuals and $4,000 for families? Tough.

(Section 1302 (c) (2) (A).

9. If you are a large employer (defined as at least

101 employees) and you do not want to provide

health insurance to your employee, then you will

pay a $750 fine per employee (It could be $2,000 to

$3,000 under the reconciliation changes). Think

you know how to better spend that money?

Tough. (Section 1513).

10. You are an employer who offers health flexible

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to deduct more than $2,500 from their salaries for

it? Sorry, cant do that. (Section 9005 (i)).

11. If you are a physician and you dont want thegovernment looking over your shoulder? Tough.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is

authorized to use your claims data to issue you

reports that measure the resources you use,

provide information on the quality of care you

provide, and compare the resources you use to

those used by other physicians. Of course, this willall be just for informational purposes. Its not like

the government will ever use it to intervene in

your practice and patients care. Of course not.

(Section 3003 (i))

12. If you are a physician and you want to own

your own hospital, you must be an owner andhave a Medicare provider agreement by Feb. 1,

2010. (Dec. 31, 2010 in the reconciliation changes.)

If you didnt have those by then, you are out of

luck. (Section 6001 (i) (1) (A))

13. If you are a physician owner and you want to

expand your hospital? Well, you cant (Section6001 (i) (1) (B). Unless, it is located in a country

where, over the last five years, population growth

has been 150% of what it has been in the state

(Section 6601 (i) (3) ( E)). And then you cannot


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increase your capacity by more than 200%

(Section 6001 (i) (3) (C)).

14. You are a health insurer and you want to raisepremiums to meet costs? Well, if that increase is

deemed unreasonable by the Secretary of

Health and Human Services it will be subject to

review and can be denied. (Section 1003)

15. The government will extract a fee of $2.3

billion annually from the pharmaceuticalindustry. If you are a pharmaceutical company

what you will pay depends on the ratio of the

number of brand-name drugs you sell to the total

number of brand-name drugs sold in the U.S. So,

if you sell 10% of the brand-name drugs in the

U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2.3

billion, or $230,000,000. (Under reconciliation, itstarts at $2.55 billion, jumps to $3 billion in 2012,

then to $3.5 billion in 2017 and $4.2 billion in

2018, before settling at $2.8 billion in 2019

(Section 1404)). Think you, as a pharmaceutical

executive, know how to better use that money, say

for research and development? Tough. (Section

9008 (b)).

16. The government will extract a fee of $2 billion

annually from medical device makers. If you are a

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on your share of medical device sales in the U.S.

So, if you sell 10% of the medical devices in the

U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2

billion, or $200,000,000. Think you, as a medicaldevice maker, know how to better use that money,

say for R&D? Tough. (Section 9009 (b)).

The reconciliation package turns that into a 2.9%

excise tax for medical device makers. Think you,

as a medical device maker, know how to better use

that money, say for research and development?Tough. (Section 1405).

17. The government will extract a fee of $6.7

billion annually from insurance companies. If you

are an insurer, what you will pay depends on your

share of net premiums plus 200% of your

administrative costs. So, if your net premiums andadministrative costs are equal to 10% of the total,

you will pay 10% of $6.7 billion, or $670,000,000.

In the reconciliation bill, the fee will start at $8

billion in 2014, $11.3 billion in 2015, $1.9 billion in

2017, and $14.3 billion in 2018 (Section

1406).Think you, as an insurance executive, know

how to better spend that money? Tough.(Section

9010 (b) (1) (A and B).)

18. If an insurance company board or its

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$500,000 in deferred compensation? Tough.

(Section 9014).

19. You will have to pay an additional 0.5%payroll tax on any dollar you make over $250,000

if you file a joint return and $200,000 if you file an

individual return. What? You think you know

how to spend the money you earned better than

the government? Tough. (Section 9015).

That amount will rise to a 3.8% tax ifreconciliation passes. It will also apply to

investment income, estates, and trusts. You think

you know how to spend the money you earned

better than the government? Like you need to ask.

(Section 1402).

20. If you go for cosmetic surgery, you will pay anadditional 5% tax on the cost of the procedure.

Think you know how to spend that money you

earned better than the government? Tough.

(Section 9017).

By David Hogberg, March 22, 2010.

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Just Do the Math and See What You Are on the Hook

for :

The fifth column in power is taking over 1/6th of the economy and

bankrupting the greatest nation in the history of man.

They reamed Bush for money spent going to war to protect this nation

against jihad -- and then these moochers and destroyers rout the nation.

Healthcare by the Numbers

$1.2 trillion: The total cost of the bill between 2010 and2020 (though the real costs do not start until 2014),

including $940 billion in coverage subsidies, $144.2

billion in additional mandatory spending, $70 billion in
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discretionary spending in the Senate bill, and $41.6

billion in unrelated education spending.

$208 billion: The cost of a ten year patch for theSustainable Growth Rate (SGR) to prevent reduction inMedicare physician payments. This cost is hidden

because it was included in the earlier Democrat bill, but

was dropped to provide a better cost estimate. It is

expected to move separately and would bring the true

cost of the takeover to $1.4 trillion.

$569.2 billion: Tax increases in the legislation, including$48.9 billion in new tax increases in the reconciliation

bill alone.

$52 billion: The amount of new taxes on employers whocannot afford to pay their employees health care,

imposed at a time when unemployment is 9.7 percent.

12: The number of new tax increases in the bill thatviolate President Obamas pledge that, Under my plan,

no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any

form of tax increase.

46%: The percentage of families making less than$66,150 who will be forced to pay the individual

mandate tax.

16,500: The estimated number of IRS auditors, agentsand other employees that may be needed to collect the

hundreds of billions in new taxes levied on the


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American people.

$20 billion: The estimated amount of money that the

IRS and HHS will need for the cost of additionalregulations, bureaucracy, and red tape over the next ten

years. This spending is not included in CBOs cost

estimate of H.R. 4872.

$53 billion: The amount of revenue this bill raids fromSocial Security to appear as if it actually reduces the

deficit.

$202.3 billion: The amount of money cut from theMedicare Advantage program for seniors to help offset

the costs of a new entitlement.

$436 billion: The amount of federal subsidies in the billthat will go directly to insurance companies to provide

health care in the exchange.1 out of 22: The number of times the Senate has notsomehow amended a reconciliation bill passed by the

House, and thus required further House action.

63%: The percentage of physicians surveyed who feelthat health reform is needed, but are opposed to this

sweeping overhaul legislation.

$9 billion: The amount that the Ways and MeansCommittee estimated Medicare would spend annually

after 25 years when it was passed in 1965. In reality,


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Medicare spent $67 billion in 1990, or seven times the

initial cost estimate.

$1.55 trillion: The projected FY 2010 deficit11 timesthe ten year savings Democrats claim the bill willproduce by spending more than $1 trillion for this

government takeover of health care.

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Price: Obamacare Means 159 New

Gov't Agencies
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Saturday, 20 Mar 2010 12:06 PM

The new government agencies that will be created as the

result of Obamacare will worsen the quality ofAmerican medical care by restricting physicians andhospitals to use their best judgment, according to Rep.Tom Price, R-Ga., a physician and chairman of theRepublican Study Committee.

In fact, he says, the bill would create 159 newgovernemnt agencies to regulate insurance and

medical care for Americans.

Writing for AOL News, Price says in an op-ed that thehealthcare overhaul being contemplated by HouseDemocrats will sacrifice the quality of health carethat has made this nation's practice of medicine theenvy of the world.

Quality remains one of the six principles of patient-centered health care that Republicans haveadvocated, Price writes. Yet, all Americans find inthe Democrats' government-centered vision arevarious boards of bureaucrats -- not practicingphysicians -- determining what is considered qualitycare.

The plan will take away the right of individuals tomake the best decisions about their healthcare inconsultation with their physician.


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An individual patient is far better served when healthcare decisions are informed by the advice of theirdoctor, not the dictates of Washington, Price writes.

So when one reads the details of the legislationpending before Congress and finds the creation of 159new government offices and programs, there is littleelse to feel but fear and concern for what will happento the level of quality care in this country.

The GOP has pushed a series of common-sensemeasures, Price says, that include tort reform and

efforts to reduce waste and mismanagement ingovernment programs like Medicare.

Republicans are championing reform with no newbureaucratic boards making medical decisions, no$500 billion cuts to Medicare, no new mandates, andno one standing between you and your doctor, Price

writes. We can fix what ails our current systemwithout destroying it if we abide by the principle thatquality in health care must not be sacrificed.

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Medicaid and financing other provisions of his health

agenda.

But, as Heritage analysts Karen Campbell and

Guinevere Nell explain in a recent paper, these new

taxes would have widespread adverse effects for all

Americans, not just the wealthy that they target. This is

partially due to the very nature of a tax:

A well-established economic regularity is that if you

tax something, you get less of it. For example,

policymakers in the Senate recently proposed a tax onCadillac health insurance plans. The justification was

that it would not only generate revenue to help pay for

subsidized insurance but also reduce demand for high-

priced premiums, putting downward pressure on all

health insurance premiums.

The Cadillac health insurance plan tax is intended to

reduce the usage of high-cost insurance plans.Similarly, the Presidents proposals tax on tanning

beds discourages their use; the same is the case with

cigarette taxes. In several instances, taxes are imposed

as punitive measures. So why on earth would the

President impose a tax that would discourage

investment, delaying recovery from the current

economic downturn?

Moreover, Campbell and Nell lay out several ways in

which this tax would hit average American households

hard. First, the tax would reduce overall household

wealth of American families by $274 billion per year.
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The value of the investment portfolios of many

householdsnot just the high-income households that

directly pay the taxare reduced by the tax on

investment income.

Second, reducing investment would decrease capital in

the U.S. economy, which would reduce potential for

economical growth. This affects not only the rate of job

creation and wage increase: it would have a dramatic

effect on the ability of the federal government to borrow

money. According to Campbell and Nell, A lower U.S.

economic potential also harms the ability of thegovernment to borrow, because investors lend to the

U.S. based on the expected potential of the U.S.

economy. Thus a lower potential economy puts upward

pressure on government interest rates in order to

attract financing for the nations deficit. Raising

government interest rates will add further to the

financial burden on taxpayers.Because investment is what drives productivity and

economic growth, less investmenteven if only slightly

lessleads to lower productivity, slower economic

growth, weaker wages and salaries, and lower

household wealth. How much less depends on the

underlying supply and demand for investment.

President Obamas health care proposal would expand

health coveragebut is the detriment to the U.S.

economy and the burden on the taxpayer worth the

cost?
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Obamas Health Plan Has Dangerous New Taxes

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The health care plan President Obama recently released

is mostly a combination of the different plans passed by

the House of Representatives and the Senate. But in onemajor way it breaks with long-standing precedent,

proposing a fundamental wrong-headed change to both

entitlement policy and tax policy. He proposes for the

first time to tax capital income to support entitlement

programs.

Payroll taxes have always applied just to wages and

salaries and the revenue those taxes raise has gonesolely to pay for entitlements like Social Security and

Medicare. The deal has always been that we pay payroll

taxes during our working years and receive the benefits

they fund after we retire. President Obamas health

care plan would shatter this compact forever.

The Hospital Insurance (HI) portion of the payroll taxis 2.9 percent on all wages and salary that is paid half

(1.45 percent) by workers and half (the remaining 1.45

percent) by employers. It is supposed to pay only for the

hospital insurance portion of Medicare benefits that

retirees receive. President Obamas plan adopts this

break with long-held policy and doubles down by

further severing the link between HI and Medicare

benefits. Obamas plan not only increases the HI tax onwages and salaries for high-income earners similar to

the Senate bill, it also applies the HI tax to investment

income for the first time. Obamas unprecedented plan

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administration obnoxiously refers to as unearned

income, which includes capital gains, interest,

dividends, annuities, royalties and rents for families

earning more than $250,000 a year ($200,000 for singlefilers).

Applying the HI tax to investment income would also

continue to transform entitlements and how they are

paid for. Using the revenue raised by levying the HI tax

on investment income would open the floodgates for

future rate increases to pay for other new spending

programs. Adding a new revenue stream for Congressto tap when it needs more money is always dangerous

and should be resisted at all costs, otherwise expanding

government will be too easy for Congress.

Yet this is likely the reason President Obama wants to

levy the HI tax on investment. Applying the HI tax

separately to investment income will forever give

Congress yet another tax to hike whenever it wants tofund a new program. If Congress can raise payroll taxes

easily to pay for any spending it desires, payroll taxes

will no longer be used to pay for entitlements, but as an

ATM for Congress to go back each time it needs more

cash.

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Obamas Health Plan Taxes, Taxes Everywhere

Posted February 24th, 2010 at 12:59pm in Entitlements, Health Care with 3 comments

The White House recently released President Obamas

health care reform proposal. The plan incorporates a

mixture ofthe many tax increases passed by the House

and Senate, hiking taxes by almost $750 billion over ten
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years. This is on top of$1.3 trillion in other tax

increases the President recently proposed in his 2011

budget. Not that there is ever a good time to raise taxes,

but doing so as the economy is still emerging from adeep recession is particularly ill-advised and will likely

prolong full recovery. Moreover, the Presidents

proposal deviates from his stated goal to address the

soaring spending and debt problem the nation faces by

piling on massive new spending and taxes.

Payroll tax hikes: Obama accepted the Senates plan to

break long-held policy by raising the HospitalInsurance (HI) portion of the payroll tax on high-

income earners to pay for a new and unrelated health

care entitlement. He then doubled-down on this

dangerous new precedent by separately applying the HI

tax to investment income for the first time. The tax code

already taxes investment too much. Higher taxes still on

dividends, interest and business income increases thecost of capital which will further depress investment

and thus job creation. Ironic to propose this at the very

time the President wants employers to create jobs.

Medicare payroll tax would hit seniors: His proposed

tax hike on investment will hammer seniors particularly

hard because their investment income is a major

supplement to their pension and Social Security checks.Seniors also sell assets to raise income, so raising the tax

on capital gains further reduces their resources. Lastly,

raising the taxes on capital income and capital gains will

lower asset values. Nearly 30 percent of all stocks are
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held in retirement savings plans. Most of the seniors

that rely on the income from these plans for their

livelihood are not fat cat investors that have been the

target of other populist tax hikes. They are people thatspent their working years saving money for their own

retirement in mutual funds, 401(k)s, IRAs, and other

savings vehicles. This would just punish them for a

lifetime of careful planning and saving.

Cadillac tax: The President also adopted an excise tax

on Cadillac health insurance plans similar to that in

the Senate plan. Obamas proposal would levy a 40%tax on plans that cost over $10,200 a year for

individuals and $27,500 for families, but wouldnt be

effective until 2018. The delay will no doubt give unions

and other favored groups time to negotiate their way

out of the tax through collective bargaining or gain a

complete legislative exemption at some point in the

future before the tax kicks in. It also means delayingpolitical pain. All the same criticisms of the excise tax

apply as before. For example, insurers will embed the

tax in the price of their plans. This will hide its cost

from their customers. The tax will also fall heavily on

middle and low-income workers whose taxes President

Obama pledged not to increase. The President would

have been better off capping the value of health

insurance employers can provide their employees taxfree. This is something that has wide support among

policy experts on the right and the left and would be a

real show towards openness to the bipartisan ideas he is

purporting.
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Still more taxes: Just like the Senate and the House, his

plan incorporates a multitude of other tax hikes and

fees that will go towards paying for the monstrously

expensive bill. Some will raise taxes on people makingless than $250,000 a year, breaking a key campaign

pledge. Prime examples include:

Excise tax on medical device manufacturers;

Fee on brand name pharmaceuticals;

10 percent tax on tanning services;

Reduce the amount families can place in Flexible

Spending Accounts (FSA) and increase the penalties fornon-medical deductions from Health Savings Accounts

(HSA); and

Higher taxes on health insurance companies and

producers of medicine.

Each of these taxes will fall explicitly on those making

less than $250,000 or will be passed down to them. And

this is just a sample of the taxes that will hit thosemaking less than $250,000 in the Presidents plan.

There are many more. In fact, the mandate on all

individuals to purchase health insurance could also be

considered another steep tax hike on those making less

than $250,000.

Bottom Line: There is never a good time to raise taxes,

but even the talk of doing so now continues to cause

uncertainty in the economy. Sadly, the Presidents plan

is no better than those of the House or Senate: massive

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Better to drop this plan and start over. Without

crushing new taxes.

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Dems Stiff Soldiers: Health Care Will NOT Protect Military Health Plans

Trillions for his goons, the unions, the ACORNS, the AmericCorps that

suck the lifeblood out of the hard-working American, the soul of

America -- the ones who play by the rules .... and now the military.
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Democrats' Plan Will NOT Protect Military Health Plans

From House Republican Policy:

9.2 million military personnel, families and retirees don't

deserve a back room deal?

"Although the health care legislation passed by the House

explicitly exempted TRICARE from being affected, the Senate bill

did not. Unfortunately, the parliamentary rules of tof the

reconciliation process did not allow for the inclusion of language

that specficially protects these programs."-- Armed ServicesCommittee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO)

Background: On March 18, 2010, just days before the House votes on the Democratsgovernment takeover of health care, House Armed Services Committee Chairman IkeSkelton (D-MO) announced he would introduce legislation to preemptively state thatTRICARE and the Department of Defense non-appropriated fund (NAF) health plansmeet all of the health care requirements currently under consideration by Congress forindividual health insurance. TRICARE and the NAF health plans programs providehealth coverage to members of the military and their families, military retirees and theirfamilies, and employees of U.S. military post/base exchanges. Chairman Skelton evenstated he would also insert this legislative language into the national defenseauthorization bill, reiterating the threat the health care bill currently poses to military

health plans. This is an explicit admission that the final Democrat health care bill doesnot protect these plans.

Military Protections Scrapped: The Senate-passed health care bill, which the House isexpected to deem passed on March 21, 2010, omitted protections for military

health plans that were included in the House bill. Specifically, the Senate language

does not appear to give the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care

system specific protection from interference by other government agencies

administering the various authorities contained in the massive bill, as it pertains to

minimum essential coverage. The minimum essential coverage language in the

Senate bill does cover the veterans health care program under chapter 17 of title

38, United States Code, but it is unclear whether that covers veterans survivors

and dependents.

The final bill would leave it up to a bureaucrat at the Department of the Treasury todetermine whether TRICARE meets the minimum standards under the Democratsindividual health insurance mandate. If that bureaucrat decides against TRICARE,service members and their families would have to buy some other health coverage or paya penalty.
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In an effort to bolster support for the House health care takeover back in August 2009,the White House advertised that bills exemption for 9.2 million military personnel,families, and retirees covered under TRICARE and the military health plan. In August,the White House website stated that:

Health reform legislation that is being considered would enable those who are covered byTRICARE to meet the shared responsibility requirement for individuals to haveinsurance, thereby exempting such members of the uniformed services and dependantsfrom being assessed penalties. If enacted, the President will ensure that this exemption isimplemented aggressively.

Of course, the final health care bill does not include this promised exemption for militaryplans.

According to Armed Services Committee Ranking MemberBuck McKeon (R-CA), Weneed to fix this problem immediatelybefore Congress passes and the President signs

the legislation. By forgoing the traditional legislative process, Democrat leaders inCongressand the President who is pushing for immediate passage of the billhave reneged on assurances that the Senate legislation would be fixed in a

conference committee. Our military personnel deserve to know they will continue toreceive the same level of care they so rightly deserve.

Veterans groups would seem to agree. Thomas Tradewell Sr., the national commander ofthe Veterans of Foreign Wars stated that, I remain worried because a free press and aneven freer Internet continue to fuel speculation that both systems could be lost and/orabsorbed into a larger national healthcare plan.

Perverse Priorities: The Democrats government takeover of health care is chock-full ofbackroom deals for favored constituencies such as Louisiana, Connecticut,Nebraska and insurance companies. In their desperate headlong rush to pass a bill,however, Democrats have neglected to protect the integrity and independence of the DoDand VA health care systems and protect all of their health care beneficiaries. U.S. servicemembers and veterans deserve better.

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Obama's New Health Care Army - The IRS

New tax mandates and penalties included in Obamacare

will cause the greatest expansion of the Internal

Revenue Service since World War II, according to a

release from Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas.

A new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and

the House Ways & Means Committee minority staff

estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will beneeded to collect, examine and audit new tax

information mandated on families and small businesses

in the reconciliation bill being taken up by the U.S.

House of Representatives this weekend. (more)
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The new fascism, same as the old fascism.

Obamacare Grants IRS Perilous Power, GOP Says

The Internal Revenue Service would gain sweeping new

powers under President Obama's healthcare reform

proposals, in what Republicans on the House Ways and

Means Committee are calling a "dangerous expansion"

of IRS powers.

That's according to a nine-page Republican report from

the Committee on Ways and Means on Thursday. It'stitled "The Wrong Prescription" Democrats' Health

Overhaul Dangerously Expands IRS Authority."

Among the new powers the IRS would assume, the

report says: The authority to confiscate tax refunds, to

impose fines of over $2,200 per taxpayer, and to verify

whether taxpayers' health insurance coverage is"acceptable."

One measure of the scope of the IRS' new

responsibilities under the healthcare overhaul: The

agency might have to hire as many as 16,500 additional

auditors, agents, and other employees in order to

administer the program, according to Rep. Dave Camp,

R-Mich., the ranking Republican on the Ways andMeans Committee.

"It is a very dangerous expansion of the IRS' power and

reach into the lives of virtually every American," Camp
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H.R. 4872, THE HEALTH CARE & EDUCATION

AFFORDABILITY RECONCILIATION ACT of 2010SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS

Title I Coverage, Medicare, Medicaid and

Revenues

Subtitle A CoverageSec. 1001. Affordability. Improves the

financing for premiums and cost sharing for

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federal poverty level. Subsection (a)

improves tax credits to make premiums more

affordable as a percent of income; and

subsection (b) improves support for cost

sharing, focusing on those with incomes

below 250% of the federal poverty level.

Starting in 2019, constrains the growth in tax

credits if premiums are growing faster than

the consumer price index, unless spending is

more than 10% below current CBO

projections.

Sec. 1002. Individual responsibility.

Modifies the assessment that individuals who

choose to remain uninsured pay in three

ways: (a) exempts the income below the filingthreshold, (b) lowers the flat payment from

$495 to $325 in 2015 and from $750 to $695 in

2016 and (c) raises the percent of income that

is an alternative payment amount from 0.5 to

1.0% in 2014, 1.0 to 2.0% in 2015, and 2.0 to

2.5% for 2016 and subsequent years to makethe assessment more progressive.

Sec. 1003. Employer responsibility.

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responsibility policy for employers with 50 or

more full-time equivalent workers (FTE) by

subtracting the first 30 full time employees

from the payment calculation (e.g., a firm

with 51 workers that does not offer coverage

will pay an amount equal to 51 minus 30, or

21 times the applicable per employee

payment amount). The provision also changes

the applicable payment amount for firms

with more than 50 FTEs that do not offer

coverage to $2,000 per full-time employee. It

also eliminates the assessment for workers in

a waiting period, while maintaining the 90-

day limit on the length of any waiting period

beginning in 2014.

Sec. 1004. Income definitions. Modifies the

definition of income that is used for purposes

of subsidy eligibility and the individual

responsibility requirement. The

modifications conform the income definition

to information that is currently reported onthe Form 1040 and to the present law income

tax return filing thresholds. The provision

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for employer provided health coverage for

adult children up to age 26.

Sec. 1005. Implementation funding. Provides$1 billion to the Secretary of Health and

Human Services to finance the administrative

costs of implementing health insurance

reform.

Subtitle B Medicare

Sec. 1101. Closing the Medicare prescription

drug donut hole. Provides a $250 rebate

for all Medicare Part D enrollees who enter

the donut hole in 2010. Builds on

pharmaceutical manufacturers' 50%

discount on brand-name drugs beginning in

2011 to completely close the donut hole with

75% discounts on brand-name and generic

drugs by 2020.

Sec. 1102. Medicare Advantage payments.Freezes Medicare Advantage payments in

2011. Beginning in 2012, the provision

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relative to current levels. Benchmarks will

vary from 95% of Medicare spending in high-

cost areas to 115% of Medicare spending in

low-cost areas. The changes will be phased-in

over 3, 5 or 7 years, depending on the level of

payment reductions. The provision

creates an incentive system to

increase payments to highquality plans by at

least 5%. It also extends CMS authority

to adjust risk scores in Medicare Advantage

for observed differences in coding patterns

relative to fee-forservice.

Sec. 1103. Savings from limits on MA plan

administrative costs. Ensures Medicare

Advantage plans spend at least 85% ofrevenue on medical costs or activities that

improve quality of care, rather than profit

and overhead.

Sec. 1104. Disproportionate share hospital

(DSH) payments. Advances Medicare

disproportionate share hospital cuts to begin

in fiscal year 2014 but lowers the ten-year

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Sec. 1105. Market basket updates. Revises

the hospital market basket reduction that is

in addition to the productivity adjustment as

follows: -0.3 in FY14 and -0.75 in FY17, FY18

and FY19. Removes Senate provision that

eliminates the additional market basket for

hospitals based on coverage levels. Providers

affected are inpatient hospitals, long-term

care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation

facilities, psychiatric hospitals and outpatient

hospitals.

Sec. 1106. Physician ownership-referral.

Changes to December 31, 2010 the date after

which physician ownership of hospitals to

which they self refer is prohibited andprovides a limited exception to the growth

restrictions for grandfathered physician

owned hospitals that treat the highest

percentage of Medicaid patients in their

county (and are not the sole hospital in a

county).

Sec. 1107. Payment for Imaging Services.

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for the practice expense portion of advanced

diagnostic imaging services.

Subtitle C Medicaid

Sec. 1201. Federal funding for States. Strikes

the provision for a permanent 100% federal

matching rate for Nebraska for the Medicaid

costs of expansion populations. Provides

federal Medicaid matching payments for the

costs of services to expansion populations at

the following rates in all states: 100% in 2014,

2015, and 2016; 95% in 2017; 94% in 2018;

93% in 2019; and 90% thereafter. In the case

of expansion states, reduces the state share of

the costs of covering nonpregnant childless

adults by 50% in 2014, 60% in 2015, 70% in

2016, 80% in 2017, 90% in 2018. In 2019 and

thereafter, expansion states would bear the

same state share of the costs of covering

nonpregnant childless adults as non-

expansion states (e.g., 7% in 2019, 10%

thereafter).

Sec. 1202. Payments to primary care

physicians. Requires that Medicaid payment


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rates to primary care physicians for

furnishing primary care services be no less

than 100% of Medicare payment rates in

2013 and 2014 (the first year of the Senate

bills Medicaid coverage expansion to all

individuals with incomes under 133% of

poverty). Provides 100% federal funding for

the incremental costs to States of meeting this

requirement.

Sec. 1203. Disproportionate share hospital

payments. Lowers the reduction in federal

Medicaid DSH payments from $18.1 billion to

$14.1 billion and advances the reductions to

begin in fiscal year 2014. Directs the

Secretary to develop a methodology forreducing federal DSH allotments to all states

in order to achieve the mandated reductions.

Extends through FY 2013 the federal DSH

allotment for a state that has a $0 allotment

after FY 2011.

Sec. 1204. Funding for the territories.

Increases federal funding in the Senate bill

for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam,

American Samoa, and the Northern


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Marianas Islands by $2 billion. Raises the

caps on federal Medicaid funding for each of

the territories. Allows each territory to elect

to operate a Health Benefits Exchange.

Sec. 1205. Delay in Community First Choice

Option. Postpones from October 1, 2010 until

October 1, 2011 the effective date of the

option established for State Medicaid

programs to cover attendant care servicesand supports for individuals who require an

institutional level of care

Sec. 1206. Drug rebates for new formulations

of existing drugs. For purposes of applying

the additional rebate, narrows the definition

of a new formulation of a drug to a line

extension of a single source or innovator

multiple source drug that is an oral solid

dosage form of the drug.

Subtitle D Reducing Fraud, Waste, and

Abuse

Sec. 1301. Community Mental Health

Centers. Establishes new requirements for

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provide Medicare partial hospitalization

services in order to prevent fraud and abuse.

Sec. 1302. Medicare prepayment medicalreview limitations. Streamlines procedures to

conduct Medicare prepayment reviews to

facilitate additional reviews designed to

reduce fraud and abuse.

Sec. 1303. CMS-IRS data match to identify

fraudulent providers. Allows the Secretary of

Treasury to share IRS data with HHS

employees to help screen and identify

fraudulent providers or providers with tax

debts, and to help recover such debts.

Provides strict controls on the use of such

information to protect taxpayer privacy.

Sec. 1304. Funding to fight fraud, waste and

abuse. Increases funding for the Health Care

Fraud and Abuse Control Fund by $250

million over the next decade. Indexes funds

to fight Medicaid fraud based on the increasein the Consumer Price Index.

Sec. 1305. 90-day period of enhanced

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Requires a 90-day period to withhold

payment and conduct enhanced oversight in

cases where the HHS Secretary identifies a

significant risk of fraud among DME

suppliers.

Subtitle E Revenues

Sec. 1401. High-cost plan excise tax. Reduces

the revenue collected by the tax by 80

percent. This is achieved by: delaying the

application of the tax until 2018, which gives

the plans time to implement and realize the

cost savings of reform; increasing the dollar

thresholds to $10,200 for single coverage and

$27,500 for family coverage ($11,850 and

$30,950 for retirees and employees in high

risk professions); excluding stand-alone

dental and vision plans from the tax; and

permitting an employer to reduce the cost of

the coverage when applying the tax if the

employers age and gender demographics are

not representative of the age and gender

demographics of a national risk pool. Under

the modified provision, the dollar thresholds

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thresholds are automatically increased in

2018 if CBO is wrong in its forecast of the

premium inflation rate between now and

2018.

Sec. 1402. Medicare tax. Modifies the tax to

include net investment income in the taxable

base. Currently, the Medicare tax does not

apply to net investment income. The

Medicare tax on net investment income doesnot apply if modified adjusted gross income is

less than $250,000 in the case of a joint

return, or $200,000 in the case of a single

return. Net investment income is interest,

dividends, royalties, rents, gross income from

a trade or business involving passiveactivities, and net gain from disposition of

property (other than property held in a trade

or business). Net investment income is

reduced by properly allocable deductions to

such income.

Sec. 1403. Delay of the annual limitation on

contributions to a health FSA. Delays the

provision by two years until 2013.


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Sec. 1404. Brand name pharmaceuticals.

Delays the industry fee on sales of brand

name pharmaceuticals for use in government

health programs by one year to 2011, and

increases revenue raised by the fee by $4.8

billion.

Sec. 1405. Excise tax on medical device

manufacturers. Delays the tax by two years

to 2013 and converts the industry fee to anexcise tax on the first sale for use of medical

devices at a rate of 2.9 percent. Exempts

from the tax Class I medical devices,

eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, and

any device of a type that is generally

purchased by the public at retail forindividual use.

Sec. 1406. Health insurance providers.

Delays the industry fee by 3 years to 2014

and modifies the annual industry fee for

revenue neutrality. In the case of tax-exempt

insurance providers, provides that only 50

percent of their net premiums that relate to

their tax-exempt status are taken into account

in calculating the fee. Provides exemptions


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for voluntary employee benefit associations

(VEBAs) and nonprofit providers more than

80 percent of whose revenues is received from

Social Security Act programs that target low

income, elderly, or disabled populations.

Sec. 1407. Delay of elimination of deduction

for expenses allocable to Medicare part D

subsidy. Delays the provision by two years to

2013.

Sec. 1408. Elimination of unintended

application of cellulosic biofuel producer

credit. Adds an additional revenue provision.

In 2008, Congress enacted a $1.01 per gallon

tax credit for the production of biofuel from

cellulosic feedstocks in order to encourage the

development of new production capacity for

biofuels that are not derived from food source

materials. Congress is aware that some

taxpayers are seeking to claim the cellulosic

biofuel tax credit for unprocessed fuels, such

as black liquor. The provision would limit

eligibility for the tax credit to processed fuels

(i.e., fuels that could be used in a car engine

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Sec. 1409. Codification of economic

substance doctrine and penalties. Adds an

additional revenue provision. The economic

substance doctrine is a judicial doctrine that

has been used by the courts to deny tax

benefits when the transaction generating

these tax benefits lacks economic substance.

The courts have not applied the economic

substance doctrine uniformly. The provision

would clarify the manner in which the

economic substance doctrine should be

applied by the courts and would impose a

penalty on understatements attributable to a

transaction lacking economic substance.

Sec. 1410. Time for payment of corporateestimated taxes. Provides for a one-time

adjustment to corporate estimated taxes for

payments made during calendar year 2014.

Sec. 1411. No impact on Social Security trust

funds. Provides that Title II of the Social

Security Act (the old age, survivor, and

disability benefits program (OASDI)) is not

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Subtitle F Other Provisions

Sec. 1501. TAA for communities.

Appropriates $500 Million a year for fiscalyears 2010 through 2014 in the Community

College and Career Training Grant program

for community colleges to develop and

improve educational or career training

programs. Ensures that each state receives at

least 0.5 percent of the total fundsappropriated.

Title II Health, Education, Labor, and

Pensions

Subtitle A Education

Section 2001. Short Title; References.

Provides that this subtitle may be cited as the

SAFRA Act, and that, except as otherwise

provided, whenever an amendment to, or

repeal of, a section or other provision, thereference shall be considered to be made to a

section or other provision of the Higher

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Part IInvesting in Students and Families

Section 2101. Federal Pell Grants. Amends

the Higher Education Act to includemandatory funding for the Pell Grant. This

provides additional mandatory funding to

augment funds appropriated to increase the

federal maximum Pell Grant award by the

change in the Consumer Price Index. The

mandatory component of the funding isdetermined by inflating the previous years

total and subtracting the maximum award

provided for in the appropriations act for the

previous year or $4860, whichever is greater.

Beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year,

the maximum Pell award will be at the 2017-2018 level.

Section 2102. Student Financial Assistance.

This section provides $13.5 billion in

mandatory appropriations to the Federal Pell

Grant program.

Section 2103. College Access Challenge Grant

Program. This section amends section 786 of

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appropriating $150 million for fiscal years

2010 through 2014 for the College Access

Challenge Grant program created under the

College Cost Reduction and Access Act of

2007. Provides that the allotment for each

State under this section for a fiscal year shall

not be an amount that is less than 1.0 percent

of the total amount appropriated for a fiscal

year.

Section 2104. Investment in Historically

Black Colleges and Universities and Minority

Serving Institutions. This section amends

section 371(b) of the Higher Education Act by

extending funding for programs under this

section created under the College CostReduction and Access Act of 2007 for

programs at Historically Black Colleges and

Universities and minority-serving institutions

through 2019, including programs that help

low-income students attain degrees in the

fields of science, technology, engineering ormathematics by the following annual

amounts: $100 million to Hispanic Serving

Institutions, $85 million to Historically Black

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Predominantly Black Institutions, $30 million

to Tribal Colleges and Universities, $15

million to Alaska, Hawaiian Native

Institutions, $5 million to Asian American

and Pacific Islander Institutions, and $5

million to Native American non-tribal serving

institutions.

Part IIStudent Loan Reform

Section 2201. Termination of Federal Family

Education Loan Appropriations. This section

terminates the authority to make or insure

any additional loans in the Federal Family

Education Loan program after June 30, 2010.

Section 2202. Termination of Federal loanInsurance Program. This section is a

conforming amendment with regard to the

termination of the FFEL program, limiting

Federal insurance to those loans in the

Federal Family Education Loan program for

loans first disbursed prior to July 1, 2010.

Section 2203. Termination of Applicable

Interest Rates. This section makes a

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termination of the FFEL program limiting

interest rate applicability to Stafford,

Consolidation, and PLUS loans to those loans

made before July 1, 2010.

Section 2204. Termination of Federal

payments to Reduce Student Interest Costs.

This section makes a conforming amendment

with regard to the termination of the FFEL

program by limiting subsidy payments tolenders for those loans for which the first

disbursement is made before July 1, 2010.

Section 2205. Termination of FFEL PLUS

Loans. This section makes a conforming

change with regard to the termination of the

FFEL program for federal PLUS loans by

prohibiting further FFEL origination of loans

after July 1, 2010.

Section 2206. Federal Consolidation Loans.

This section makes conforming changes with

regard to the termination of the FFELprogram for federal consolidation loans. This

section also provides that, for a 1 year period,

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Direct Lending program and the FFEL

program, or who have loans under either

program as well as loans that have been sold

to the Secretary, may consolidate such loans

under the Direct Lending program regardless

of whether such borrowers have entered

repayment on such loans.

Section 2207. Termination of Unsubsidized

Stafford loans for Middle-IncomeBorrowers. This section makes conforming

changes with regard to the termination of the

FFEL program for Unsubsidized Stafford

loans by prohibiting further FFEL

origination of loans after July 1, 2010.

Section 2208. Termination of Special

Allowances. This section makes conforming


FFEL program by limiting special allowance

payments to lenders under the FFEL

program to loans first disbursed before July

1, 2010.

Section 2209. Origination of Direct Loans at

Institutions Outside the United States. This


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section provides for the origination of federal

Direct Loans at institutions located outside of

the United States, through a financial

institution designated by the Secretary.

Section 2210. Conforming amendments.

This section makes conforming technical


FFEL program for Department of Education

agreements with Direct Lending institutions.

Section 2211. Terms and Conditions of

Loans. This section makes conforming

technical changes with regard to the

termination of the FFEL program to clarify

the terms and conditions of Direct Loans.

Section 2212. Contracts. This section directs

the Secretary to award contracts for servicing

federal Direct Loans to eligible non-profit

servicers. In addition, this section provides

that for the first 100,000 borrower loan

accounts, the Secretary shall establish aseparate pricing tier. Specifies that the

Secretary is to allocate the loan accounts of

100,000 borrowers to each eligible non-profit


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servicer. The section also permits the

Secretary to reallocate, increase, reduce or

terminate an eligible non-profit servicers

allocation based on the performance of such

servicer. In addition, this section

appropriates mandatory funds to the

Secretary to be obligated for administrative

costs of servicing contracts with eligible non-

profit servicers. This section also requires the

Secretary to provide technical assistance to

institutions of higher education participating

or seeking to participate in the Direct

Lending program. This section appropriates

$50 million for fiscal year 2010 to pay for this

technical assistance. Additionally, this section

authorizes the Secretary to provide paymentsto loan servicers for retaining jobs at location

in the United States where such servicers

were operating on January 1, 2010. This

section appropriates $25,000,000 for each of

fiscal years 2010 and 2011 for such purpose.

Section 2213. Agreements with State-Owned

Banks. This section amends Part D of Title

IV to direct the Secretary to enter into an

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purpose of providing Federal loan insurance

on student loans made by state-owned banks.

Section 2214. Income-Based Repayment.The section amends the Income-Based

Repayment program to cap student loan

payments for new borrowers after July 1,

2014 to 10% of adjusted income, from 15%

percent, and to forgive remaining balances

after 20 years of repayment, from 25 years.

Subtitle B Health

Sec. 2301. Insurance Reforms. Extends the

prohibition of lifetime limits, prohibition on

rescissions, and a requirement to provide

coverage for non-dependent children up toage 26 to all existing health insurance plans

starting six months after enactment. Starting

in 2014, extends the prohibition on excessive

waiting periods to existing health plans. For

group health plans, prohibits pre-existing

condition exclusions in 2014 (for children,they are prohibited starting six months after

enactment), restricts annual limits beginning

six months after enactment, and prohibits


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them starting in 2014. For coverage of non-

dependent children prior to 2014, the

requirement on group health plans is limited

to those adult children without an employer

offer of coverage.

Sec. 2302. Drugs Purchased by Covered

Entities. Repeals the underlying 340B

expansion to inpatient drugs and exemptions

to GPO exclusion. Exempts orphan drugsfrom required discounts for new 340B

entities.

Sec. 2303. Community Health Centers.

Increases mandatory funding for community

health centers to $11 billion over five years

(FY 2011 FY 2015).

Prepared by Committees on Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce, and Education &

Labor, March 18, 2010

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Its time for the Speaker of the House to resign, as

she neither speaks for nor represents the Peoples

House.

After months of calling Americans racists, Nazis,

astroturfers, and radical right wing extremists,

and accusing Tea Party patriots of inciting

violence, how can Nancy Pelosi even dare to call

herself the Speaker of the House? Of whose

house? This must be TheAudacity of Botox,

puffed up beyond all belief.

Her promises, like her inflated self, are empty, full

of hot, stale, airlook at what she promised in

2006. the most open and most ethical Congress

in history. Heh.

This woman from the smallest district in thenation, representing a tiny slice of America, is as

far away from America as she can be. In fact, she

is another one of the stealth democratic

socialists in the Congress, with known ties to and

reverence of communist organizers in the United

States.

This post is intended to lend weight to the effort to

first, remove Nancy Pelosi as the speaker of the

house, and second, to ensure her election defeat in

2010. Thankfully, the Patriotic Resistance has
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developed a resource page for politicians to watch

in 2010 and one of them delves into Nancy Pelosi.

In my view, the work on Pelosi relates entirely tothe Constitution and the protection of our

Republic: we now have avowed communists in the

White House, the Senate and House, and in the

shadow czar government that Obama has

assembled and that Congress is enabling.

Spotlight on the Speaker(a) Extraordinary & Unnecessary Bias and

Partisanship

One of the key architects of Obamas victory in

2008 was Nancy Pelosi. She, like many other so-

called democrats as super delegates, chastised

people to vote for the peoples choice and thenchanged her mind and chastised people the other

way when Clinton won the popular vote.

As Chair of the Democratic National Convention,

she manipulated the vote on the convention floor

in favor of Obama. Most crucially, Nancy Pelosi

signed the documents allowing Obama to be onthe state ballots as the Democratic Presidential

nominee, the subject of the must read post by jbjd,

The End Game. On January 8th, 2009, she

presided over the joint session of Congress to
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certify the electoral vote despite the petitions of

hundreds, if not thousands, of citizens to certify

Obamas eligibility before concluding the vote.

Nancy Pelosi has exercised no leadership during

tenure. She has misrepresented legislation,

imposed silly partisan rules that allow her to

prevent legislation from even being presented on

the floor or in committee by any opponent, and

openly calls her constituents racists, bigots, and

frauds.

This is conduct unbecoming of a Speaker of the

House acting like a Chicago thug transplanted

to San Francisco.

(b) You Lie!

When Joe Wilson rightly called out you lie! toObama, Nancy Pelosi looked in disbelief, and of

course, made himapologizefor telling the truth

of course. She is a petty tyrant as a Speaker, for

sure. But when a fellow democrat Alan Grayson

accused the republican health care plan of

wanting seniors to die quicklyprecisely the

democrats planshe refusedto have him apologize.

She refused to have him apologize for telling a lie,

but demanded that Wilson apologize for telling

the truth. Hmmm.
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And I dont believe for a minute it had anything to

do with a Presidential address (Wilson) vs. a

statement on the House floor (Grayson). No

Protocol Pelosi has not a leg to stand on.

(c) The Speaker of the House is Calling us Idiots,

and Worse

So Pelosi represents a tiny district in California,

composed of a small, tiny, segment of the

population, and she calls the rest of Americathugs?

(As of march 23, 2010, Pelosi approval rating is 11%.)

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political nightmare. She may not have the 216 votes necessary

to pass the Senate's health care bill in the House.

Hence, Mrs. Pelosi and her congressional Democratic allies are

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