Democrats: Nationalized Health Care Bullies

The drunk with power Democrats are acting like bullies and Obama is the Thug-in-Chief.

Rahm Emanuel is the enforcer. Screw bipartisanship.

Why compromise? Why care about half the country not eager to jump on board Obama's Crazy Train?

The Dems can do anything they want.

Never fear! Franken is here!

Although they're claiming that the "rich" will foot the bill for, basically, everything, that's not true.

From the Wall Street Journal:

House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled sweeping health-care legislation that would hit all but the smallest businesses with a penalty equal to 8% of payroll if they fail to provide health insurance to workers.

The House bill, which also would impose new taxes on the wealthy estimated to bring in more than $544 billion over a decade, came as lawmakers in the Senate raced against a self-imposed deadline of this week to introduce a bill in time for action this summer.

Senators face a tougher battle because they are striving for a bipartisan bill. Key senators are weighing a combination of several more-modest fund-raising provisions, including some new fees on health-care industries.

Under the House measure, employers with payrolls exceeding $400,000 a year would have to provide health insurance or pay the 8% penalty. Employers with payrolls between $250,000 and $400,000 a year would pay a smaller penalty, and those less than $250,000 would be exempt. Certain small firms would get tax credits to help buy coverage.

The relatively low thresholds for penalties triggered the sharpest criticism yet from employer groups, who said the burden on small business is too high and doesn't do enough to help them expand insurance coverage.

"This bill costs too much, it covers too few and it has way too much government involvement," said Michelle Dimarob, a lobbyist with the National Federation of Independent Business, the main trade group for small firms. "Small business doesn't want any of those things."

It doesn't matter that small businesses don't want any of those things.

This is Obama's America.

With ObamaCare, you can't always get what you want and you won't get what you need.
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