Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Last November, Suzanne Kosmas voted against the health care reform bill because she believed that the bill before the House was fiscally irresponsible. Here is the explanation in her own words: Health care reform is, at its core, an economic issue, and addressing rising costs was always one of my highest priorities. Last year’s bill [...]

Last Tuesday morning, President Obama signed into law the largest unfunded mandate and entitlement program in our nation’s history. By Tuesday afternoon, our Attorney General joined with thirteen other states in filling a lawsuit contesting the constitutionality of the Obama health care bill. Attorney General McCollum has rightfully revealed an even more egregious aspect of [...]

Bill Nelson sent out in his newsletter this week with an explanation of why he voted for the healthcare bill. Here is the explanation in his own words: Floor remarks of Sen. Bill Nelson March 24, 2010 Mr. President, for the first time, we as a nation are recognizing that people have a right to [...]

You are compelled to buy insurance if you want it or not.- (Section 1501) You won’t be able to get insurance based on your health status. Bad for healthy people. – (Section 2701) No more low premium insurance with high deductibles or annual limits. (Section 2711) Your insurance must cover preventive care or require a [...]

I have spent some time this week going over the facts of the debate on health care, from both sides mind you.   I think we all can agree that there needs to be health care in this country available to everyone, it’s who is going to pay for it.  I have seen too much of [...]

We are hosting a town hall on the upcoming health care legislation on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at Eastmonte Civic Center, 830 Magnolia Dr, Altamonte Springs, FL. The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30pm. Panelists include: Rick Scott, Founder and Chairman of Conservative for Patients’ Rights (CPR); State Representative D. Alan Hays, District 25; Kenneth [...]

CBS News reports that if you choose Obama’s government-run health plan, you may be able to keep your doctor, but your doctor might not want to keep you. CBS sat down with Cato health care expert Michael C. Cannon to discuss why doctors might be reluctant to accept patients who are insured under the government [...]

Lincoln, our first Republican President freed the slaves from the oppression of the south. Obama, our first Black President, in the course of a few months has made us all slaves to the government. It started with the bailouts, then grew to a hostile takeover of the banking system and the auto industry. And the [...]

Not long after Obama was elected, he introduced a new website called whitehouse2.org where you can set the nation’s priorities. Whitehouse 2 describes the purpose of their website as: “We’re imagining how the White House might work if it was run completely democratically by thousands of people on the internet. Get started by setting your [...]

So, where do we go from here? I know that it would be easy to be depressed and to reflect on the elections Tuesday as a loss for the Republican Party, but I look at it as an opportunity. This is an opportunity to debate and discuss the future of our party and our nation. [...]