I signed up to get Harry's newsletter some time ago, so I could share some of his gems, like this.
Dear Fellow Nevadan:
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the landmark health insurance reform legislation known as the Affordable Care Act. This important legislation is already helping Nevadans to obtain the quality, effective, and affordable health insurance that they deserve. Health insurance reform is not only lowering costs, but is improving choices, competition, and offering more assistance to ensure that all Americans can afford health insurance. It's not helping my sister in Montana, however.
Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to address the skyrocketing insurance costs and lack of choices that were suffocating Nevada's families, seniors, and small businesses. As each new provision of the law is implemented, Nevadans have one more protection against abusive insurance company practices such as arbitrarily raising rates or unfairly denying treatments that doctors recommend. Health insurance reform is lowering costs for Nevada's small businesses, providing competitive choices in insurance plans for families, eliminating the Medicare 'Donut Hole' for seniors, and stopping insurance companies from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions like leukemia. It's not help my mother in Illinois, since her children want a better level of care than Medicare offers. So she gets zip from Medicare.
Yesterday, I visited Pioneer Overhead Door, owned by Ron Nelsen, to talk about how the Affordable Care Act is lowering costs for his business and small businesses across Nevada. Before health insurance reform, Ron struggled to pay for health insurance for his five full-time employees. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Ron is now able to provide insurance for himself and his employees. How'd you do that, Ron? Why'd you do it? To avoid the fine?
I understand that Nevadans, like Ron Nelsen, cannot afford to go back to the days when insurance costs threatened to stall growth and kill jobs. This is why I will continue fighting to make improvements to the law and protect it as it begins to take effect. Make no mistake, when opponents of health insurance reform advocate repeal, they are really calling for hiking taxes on Nevada's small businesses, raising the cost of prescription drugs for seniors, and exploding the deficit by more than $1 trillion. Not me, Harry, I'm calling for fiscal responsiblity.
I encourage you to learn more about the benefits Nevada will receive as a result of this historic legislation by clicking here. For more information on my work in the Senate or to contact me, please visit my website at reid.senate.gov.
Sincerely,
HARRY REID
U.S. Senator for Nevada
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03/26/2011 13:47 ||
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If it's so great, Harry, you sign up and let us know how it's going for you - 10 years after it's repealed.
The rest of us are sane.
Lying POS.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
03/26/2011 14:27 Comments ||
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Con artist. Here is your payoff, Harry, when you turn Ameroca's health care over to your union bosses. NDOC
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Wow, I bet all those who applied for (and received)a waiver from this "landmark health insurance reform legislation" must be feeling rather ashamed right now.
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The investigation missed the most important part. Why does an 85 year old still have the job? Look through the public records and see who he dontaes money to in the local Democratic Party. Then see the periodicy of his larger cash withdrawls and cross reference them against his normal lifestyle spending. Poof, brown bag donations and political donations = lifetime job.
We had a guy who had a similar work pattern in a certain state agency in CA. Did "public relations" work for an agency.
Every year the Governor's political office called our leadership and asked about using him for several "special events", and mentioned how important he was to them and how special they knew he must be to the agency. Never any direct instructions, but you'd have to be a dope not to get it.
Word was he was doing $10,000 a year to contributions. Quid pro quo.
"What needs to be done at this point is a call by the president or the vice president for a special session of Congress to inform us and to ask our position on this matter," said Rangel during a press briefing Monday afternoon at the State Office Building.
"Obama is going along with past presidents and the United Nations, which is 90 percent [influenced by] the U.S. At the end of the day we pay the price physically and financially."
"When they say we should get rid of Gaddafi, who is the 'we'"? Rangel went on. "Yes, we should have compassion for the rebels, but should we have a number of sleepless nights worrying about getting rid of Gaddafi? I don't like the idea of his being taken out."
The corrupt congressman wouldn't support Kucinich's call for impeachment. "I'll leave that alone," Rangel responded. And he used a story from his past to avoid Louis Farrakhan's idea of sending a diplomatic team of prominent black Americans to meet with Gaddafi.
"I was in Tanzania at the time of its independence, and I was asked by some of the leaders, 'What brings you to our country? Are you also made in America like so many of the bombs falling on our people?' It dawned on me, from their perspective, that color had nothing at all to do with the situation."
Rangel has again introduced, for the fifth time he said, a Universal National Service Act. It calls for a universal requirement for national service. "If you enjoy the benefits of our democracy, then you should be willing and required to contribute to its defense," Rangel said. "We make decisions about war without worry over who fights them. Those who do the fighting have no choice."
Imagine, Rangel and Biden sitting down to jaw about war. Those voluntarily enlisted in the armed forces and are able to vote have no choice in the fight but by forcing people into the military soldier will have a say in the fight or something. Throw some Biden in that brainstorming and watch it go.
But it's not like he went to the Soviets and tried to get them to influence US policy, or sandwiched a waitress, or dodged the draft, or committed rape, or fudged his military service...
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"But it's not like he went to the Soviets and tried to get them to influence US policy, or sandwiched a waitress, or dodged the draft, or committed rape, or fudged his military service..."
That we know of, Pappy. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
03/26/2011 22:54 Comments ||
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the landmark health insurance reform legislation known as the Affordable Care Act. This important legislation is already helping Nevadans to obtain the quality, effective, and affordable health insurance that they deserve. Health insurance reform is not only lowering costs, but is improving choices, competition, and offering more assistance to ensure that all Americans can afford health insurance.
"What needs to be done at this point is a call by the president or the vice president for a special session of Congress to inform us and to ask our position on this matter," said Rangel during a press briefing Monday afternoon at the State Office Building.
