Tonight the U.S. Senate squeaked through a vote to move the massive health care bill that will fund abortion, penalize married couples, ration care and cause millions of Americans to lose their health coverage.
"This key vote will come back to haunt many of these senators," stated Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America. "Several have tried to have it both ways. They say they oppose the bill yet at the most crucial time when only one Democrat senator could have changed or killed the bill, they supported it. They are on record as voting for a bill that will fund abortion, penalize married couples, ration health care, tax people for failing to have 'acceptable' health insurance, prompt doctors to leave the profession and cause millions of Americans to lose their health coverage.
"Only last year the Senate ensured that federal funds did not pay for abortions through the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Eight Democrat senators who supported that amendment voted today for a health care take-over that will fund abortion. Those senators are: Evan Bayh (IN), Robert Byrd (WV), Robert Casey (PA), Tim Johnson (SD), Mary Landrieu (LA), Ben Nelson (NE), Mark Pryor (AR) and Harry Reid (NV).
"Harry Reid's bill will impose a new tax penalty on married couples who jointly make $250,000 annually. People who 'shack up' can earn up to $200,000 each before being taxed. People with health insurance that is deemed 'unacceptable' by a government agent could be fined. It will leave 24 million without insurance, cause 5 million to lose their employer coverage and cut Medicare by $464.6 million. This is not compassionate, it's heartlessly dictatorial. People may have insurance, but they won't get the health care they need."
Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.
