The proposed charade is not the “up-or-down vote” the president says he wants. Of course, he is demanding an “up” vote, not a “down” one. This is how the Slaughter/reconciliation procedure would work to deliver it.

We have a Senate bill that is a concoction of arsenic, mercury, botulinum toxin, snake venom, lead, and 2000 other things that nobody knows much about. It got 60 votes before the Massachusetts election, and now can only get 59. The reason it can only get 59 is because the whole country helped to unelect the person who would have been #60.

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By:  Dr. George Watson, President, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)

All Americans should be familiar with the KISS principle—Keep It Simple, Stupid!  But it is past time for Congress and the President to employ this principle.  So I will present a few simple steps.

Keep a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, Congress, and Mr. President.  it is the law of the land that you swore to uphold.  It is short and it is simple, so all citizens can understand it, including you.  The first question to ask about any proposed legislation is this:  “Is it Constitutional?” 

If there is any question about Constitutionality, then it isn’t.

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Late Sunday evening House Democrats posted the shell bill for the Health Care reconciliation package.  This is just a shell bill that will be gutted and replaced later in the week.  An explanation of this process can be read at: http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/15/the-health-care-shell-game-beg .

The key to enforcing healthcare reform was already passed in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the Stimulus Bill. This contains $17 billion to encourage physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records.

Doctors might not take the bribe. An informal online survey by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) so far shows that 90 percent of more than 1,100 respondents answer “No” to the question “Should doctors take the ‘Stimulus’ money to computerize their offices?”

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By Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D.
 
If you like the health insurance coverage you have now, and if you believe patients should be allowed to make their own decisions about their medical care and insurance coverage, ObamaCare is not for you.  

In addition to the fact that the supreme law of the land, our U.S. Constitution, does not authorize the government takeover of medicine, or government intrusion and meddling in the practice of medicine, ObamaCare will make medical care:

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