Coalition Blog:
05/20/10Dr. Gary Puckrein: 2% of prescriptions written in United States for unapproved drugs
A surprising Op-Ed by Dr. Gary Puckrein, President of the National Minority Quality Forum, appeared recently on the front page of AOL News. 05/13/10
CBO predicts health care reform legislation bill will cost 110 billion more than expected
Douglas Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, recently sent a letter to representative Jerry Lewis (R-CA) predicting that the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would cost $110 billion more than was originally projected. This would put the total cost of the bill over $1 trillion. 03/11/10
Congress looking toward flagrant misuse of budget reconciliation to pass unwanted health care legislation
Just a few weeks after President Obama’s health care summit, it has become clear that partisan lawmakers plan to attempt to force their unpopular health care legislation on the American people by exploiting the budget reconciliation process. 03/04/10
What the bills mean to Main Street
Top lawmakers in support of the unwanted health care reform bills in Congress have made a concerted effort to prove to Americans that their legislation will benefit both the common man and the Main Street businesses they run.
03/03/10
WSJ: Reconciliation’s use as “jerry-rigged amendment process” unprecedented
It looks like the health care reform bill’s desperate proponents in Congress still plan to attempt passing their unwanted legislation by blatantly misusing the budget reconciliation process.
