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Democrats discuss taxing high-cost insurance plans

By The Associated Press    Comments Comment on this article11
Published: September 26, 2009

WASHINGTON — House Democrats are considering a tax on high-cost insurance plans to help pay for the health care overhaul that tops President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday the tax is "under consideration” as Democrats search for consensus before taking a bill to the House floor later this fall.

The House Democratic plan calls for raising income taxes on upper-income people to pay for covering the uninsured. Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has instead proposed a tax on high-cost insurance plans worth more than $8,000 for an individual policy and $21,000 for family coverage.

Proponents of the insurance tax, which Obama has endorsed, say it would help to lower health care costs by encouraging people to become more cost-conscious health care consumers.

House Democrats are struggling with getting their 10-year, $1 trillion-plus bill down to the $900 billion price tag Obama prefers. Major cuts could be required, but Democrats want to protect the subsidies their plan offers to low-income Americans to help them buy coverage.

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for you spell checkers that love to use a typo for thier basis for a response...you are just above a zygote
eric, OKLAHOMA ,city - Sep 28, 2009 at 5:47 pm
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i use RL as an example to my son to show him that not all white like you and that we still have a long way to go with some people in race relations,,,,,,what happened RL your daughter like a black man,,,,it would serve you right having you kids love the very thing you detest//////////////great post Johnny
eric, OKLAHOMA ,city - Sep 28, 2009 at 5:45 pm
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RL i bet your golden years was reagan /bush ////bush quayle bush / cheney haliburton years,,,,,oh to be a conservative reDUMBLICAN.......trust me youll survive,,,,except now you have to hide behind a computer and have to take your hood off.....tell you what,,,,why dont you come down to ne 23 street about 2am sat morning. and see how long you keep your teeth talking like that.....i bet your the same OU fan that cheers Adrian peterson on but wouldnt stop after the game to help him fix a flat,,,,,UNLESS HE HAD HIS JERSEY ON HUH? but youre not a closet racist,,,youre out in the open
eric, OKLAHOMA ,city - Sep 28, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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Based on past voting records, Boren will vote yes for anything that raises taxes and spends taxpayer money. Fallin and Sullivan not much better. Lucas and Inhofe voting against spending most of the time. Don't look at it as Republican/Democrat or Right/Left, but Right/Wrong...


Bailout Fannie/Freddie (Bush Admin)
July 23, 2008

Yes = Boren, No = All other OK Reps
No = Coburn, Not Voting = Inhofe

http://www.mixpoint.com/Thomas/RollCall2004.asp?type=TVotesh2008&issue=10&state=OK&paper=
http://www.mixpoint.com/Thomas/RollCall2004.asp?type=TVotess2008&issue=11&state=OK&paper=




Bailout Vote ($700 Billion TARP)
October 1, 2008 (Bush Admin)

Yes = Coburn
No = Inhofe

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00213

October 3, 2008

Yes = Boren, Cole, Fallin, Sullivan
No = Lucas

http://www.mixpoint.com/Thomas/RollCall2004.asp?type=TVotesh2008&issue=12&state=OK&paper=
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml




"Economic Stimulus" (Obama Admin - $700 Billion)
February 7, 2008

No = Coburn, Inhofe

Yes = Hutchison (TX will run for governor), Grassley (Iowa - AIG execs should commit suicide),
McCain (Liberal #2 that ran for president)

Yes = Boren

No = Cole, Fallin, Lucas, Sullivan

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00010
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll046.xml
Weldon, Edmond - Sep 28, 2009 at 10:21 am
Mmm Mmm Mmm Barrack hussien Obama
He promised there would be no tax
Pelosi killed that with her ax
Mmm Mmm Mmm Barrack hussien Obama
willis, oklahoma city - Sep 28, 2009 at 12:22 am
Johnny is clearly a product of the watered-down public education system and state-ran media. This clown is what the commies referred to as "useful idiots" back in Stalin's days. It's no shock to me that people are parroting this kind of B.S. in support of Obama and socialism in record numbers, especially since the Left has invested MILLIONS in social "conditioning" tactics (see: brainwashing mechanisms) within public academia. The revisionism and slanted propaganda runs deep, but luckily we are starting to witness a shift among many Americans since the election of Obama.
RL - Sep 27, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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Gary, Mr. I Love Regan, even if they were to raise taxes on the richies, it would still be far less than they were under Regan. Don't forget, President Obama has already cut taxes for the middle class.

I'm sick of you righties believing every piece of garbage lies people tell you. You should maybe cross reference all those BS conservative emails you receive or the filth Fux News, Crybaby Beck and pill-head Rush spew on Factcheck.org. Name ONE THING President Obama has done that is Communist!

Do you honestly think the President is trying to destroy America?!?!? Do you think this is all an evil plot? I suppose then too you believe the OKC bombing was a government plot, and Bush let 9-11 happen and that we faked the moon landing.
Johnny - Sep 26, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Get Pelosi and Baucaus out of office they can't run Mediacre or Social Security we already have a crap load of mandates that don't mean crap becuase even lawmakers do not abide by them Heck you got Geitner and others who don't even pay their taxes until they are caught
Phyllis, Stigler - Sep 26, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Krushchev said communism would bury the US & he may have been correct. Is the goal of the obama administration for everyone to be equal? If so, what we have been trying to do all these years is about to go away. I saw a bumper stick yesterday & just want to know where to get it. It said: Obama Sucks
Southern Rebel, Oklahoma City - Sep 26, 2009 at 1:28 pm
pretty soon there will not be any rich people left to tax if things keep up like this. every tax i hear about will only affect the rich. guess it isnt so good to be rich anymore. remember when we told the poor countries if they would be like us, they would be rich? guess we decided to follow their example and tax the rich out of everything and then take their businesses for ourselves and run them into the ground. now in the really poor countries, there are no big businesses to tax, so no money in these countries. and every body is happy.
Gary, Oklahoma City - Sep 26, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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Lets hope they can roll back the Bush handouts to the wealthy. Did anybody see a trickle down effect from the cuts? Anybody? The only thing I saw was richies using their government handouts to by and sell mortgage backed securities that were the downfall of our economy. The rich got richer and the tax payers had to bail them out. Time to pay your fair share richies!
Johnny - Sep 26, 2009 at 1:06 pm

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