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The Democratic health care bill will "collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only 6 years."
"Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing."
A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, "almost 40 percent" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because "they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform."
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second ten years."
"The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote, the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse."
"There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist."
"Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."
People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."
"A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases."
"The economy began its nose dive when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007."
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
"House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks."
"Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending."
"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."
"Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!"
In the Senate version of the health reform bill, "Every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management enrolled plan, every enrollee has to pay a minimum of $1 per month towards reproductive rights, which includes abortion."
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."
The Senate version of the health care reform bill "allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill."
George W. Bush was "the least popular president in modern history."
The health care bill will "create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately."
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