Democratic Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson received the backroom deal he wanted and sold his vote down the river. Nelson appears to be the 60th and deciding vote for Senate passage of sweeping health care legislation. That means that President Barack Obama’s Senate allies appear on track to pass the legislation by Christmas. Majority leader Harry Reid exposed another and final series of changes to the measure, including concessions to Nelson on abortion, funding for his state and more. The legislation includes new limits designed to limit insurance company profits and overhead, by requiring them to spend 80 percent of their premium income on medical care for individual insurance policies, and 85 percent for group policies. On abortion, the measure would let states disallow coverage in new insurance exchanges. Republicans are digging in the best they can and delay the inevitable for as long as possible. They objected when Reid sought permission for Nelson to announce his decision in a speech on the Senate floor, then forced Senate clerks to read aloud the text of the 383-page package of changes in the legislation, a process expected to take a few hours. It appears lost and the only hope is there is some democrat that will not vote for this. We think that Reid maybe a lame duck, he may not have a feeling for the American people but we believe he can count to 60 and this is in the bag. This water downed bill has enough to make everyone unhappy conservatives for having to fund healthcare for people who do not want to pay for it and liberals who do not want insurance companies to make a profit. The bottom line is this reform means 30 million maybe people will now have health insurance that our tax dollars will pay for and the insurance companies just gained 30 million or subscriber paid for by the taxpayers looks like a lose lose to us. This will be touted as win and great legislation by the fraud that is sitting the Whitehouse and keeps his win at all cost presidency moving.Christmas 2009 6 days
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