GOP House Passes ObamaCare Repeal: Anti-Repeal Rhetoric Crosses Reality Barrier

The GOP controlled House fulfilled one of their campaign promises yesterday, when they voted to repeal ObamaCare.  Of course, the GOP will face a major challenge in the Senate, and it is doomed to President Obama’s veto pen, but they are getting people to go on record with their votes, setting the stage for 2012.

I had anticipated that the  rhetoric of the left would be more filled with lies, and they certainly didn’t disappoint.

New report: 129 million Americans with a pre-existing condition could be denied coverage without new health reform law

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new analysis showing that, without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis or cancer, would be at risk of losing health insurance when they need it most, or be denied coverage altogether.  Under the full range of policies in the Affordable Care Act to be enacted by 2014, Americans living with pre-existing conditions are free from discrimination and can get the health coverage they need, and families are free from the worry of having their insurance cancelled or capped when a family member gets sick, or going broke because of the medical costs of an accident or disease.  Repealing the law would once again leave millions of Americans worrying about whether coverage will be there when they need it.

WHOAH THERE!!! Let’s take a step back and take a look at this, shall we? First off, one of the rationales for ObamaCare was that people were being denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, and approximately 47,000,000 people did not have coverage. Here is what I had to say about that last year…

At this time, they are using the artificial “crisis” of there being 47,000,000 uninsured Americans to justify this action.  However, the “crisis” really isn’t a crisis.  Here are some quotes regarding the “crisis.

However, the Census Bureau report “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005,” puts the initial number of uninsured people living in the country at 46.577 million.A closer look at that report reveals the Census data include 9.487 million people who are “not a citizen.” Subtracting the 10 million non-Americans, the number of uninsured Americans falls to roughly 37 million.

It is speculated that there are approximately 20,000,000 illegals in the US.  So they mean to say that 10,000,000 of them HAVE insurance?  If so, how many are receiving Medicaid?

But according to the same Census report, there are 8.3 million uninsured people who make between $50,000 and $74,999 per year and 8.74 million who make more than $75,000 a year. That’s roughly 17 million people who ought to be able to “afford” health insurance because they make substantially more than the median household income of $46,326.

Hmmm, perhaps people that do not CHOOSE to have health insurance.  BTW, that is to be illegal under the single payer plan, punishable by a $1000 fine, in fact!

The Census “underreported” the number of people covered by health insurance – meaning that more people have insurance than the report suggests. The Census also underreported the number of people covered by Medicare and Medicaid.Subtracting non-citizens and those who can afford their own insurance but choose not to purchase it, about 20 million people are left – less than 7 percent of the population.Dr. Grace-Marie Turner, a BMI adviser and president of the Galen Institute, agreed that “the number [on uninsured] is inflated and affects the debate.”Turner also pointed out that “45 percent of the uninsured are going to have insurance within four months [according to the Congressional Budget Office],” because many are transitioning between jobs and most people get health insurance through their employers.

So, there were uninsured people, but a really tiny amount of population. Then, how is it that these 129,000,000 million people HAD insurance WITH a pre-existing conditions? How was it that these people weren’t dying prior to ObamaCare?
Conclusion: They were lying then, or they are lying now? Actually, they were lying both times. But, that shouldn’t surprise us.

Sheila Jackson-Lee Jumps the Shark

Not a surprise…

Here is Rep Lee’s comments on the House floor today.

Her comments come at 1:34:35, per Hot Air.

I would advise Rep. Lee that by citing the Constitution, she is having a fetish, or is worshiping that document. After all, the “progressives” that helped pass ObamaCare didn’t care about the Constitution then, but now, they suddenly find that the founding documents have relevance? Funny how that works, isn’t it?

I’m thinking that if the left keeps this up, we’re going to have to make shark jumping an Olympic event.

Rep. Cohen Accuses GOP of “big lie.”

So much for civil discourse.

Heh, We spent so much time exposing the government takeover of Health Care, that this man is making a fool of himself in denying it.

As for the lovely Nazi references…

• The Nazis expanded the pre-existing government controlled health care system in Germany.
• The Nazis controlled all media.
• The Nazis had gun control.

So Rep. Cohen, you agree with Hitler on the first. Where do you stand on net neutrality, the fairness doctrine, and gun control?

That’s what I thought Sparky.  Keep it up though.  You’re discrediting yourself, and we’ll be here to point that out.

The “progressive” propaganda and intimidation machine is just getting warmed up folks.  Rest assured that we’ll be here to chronicle it all.  Just remember that they are going to accuse the right of what they do themselves.  Their own accusations are an important key to understand what they are doing and planning,