Did we kill Bin Laden yet?

After all we know Bin Laden planned Sept. 11Th. Did we find in Iraq WMDs? Did we install democracy in Iraq yet?
These Republican goals have not been attained. These were goals Bush and Cheney both supported. War dead in Iraq since invasion March 19, 2003. = 4389 brave Americans.
Tax payer dollars spent on Republican goals all went into tax payer debt.
2003- $53 billion
2004- $75.9 billion
2005- $85.5 billion
2006- $101,7 billion
2007- $130.8 billion
2008- $141.1 billion
2009- $94.8 billion
2010- $64.5 billion

All went into Debt.

Repubs block jobless benifits again.

WASHINGTON – As Congress raced to leave Washington for its Easter recess, a Republican senator blocked a stopgap bill to extend jobless benefits, saying its $9 billion cost should not be added to the national debt.

As a result, some people who have been out of work for more than six months will at least temporarily lose benefits. Newly jobless people won't be eligible to sign up for generous health insurance subsidies.

At the center of the battle is Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who's insisting that the measure be "paid for" so as not to add to the nation's $12.7 trillion debt.

"What we are doing is stealing future opportunity from our children," Coburn said Thursday.

Where was this "conservative" when Bush passed tax cuts for the wealthy and the money to invade and occupy Iraq? All of this spending went into debt.

More Facts on Health Care reform law.

If you have Health Insurance you keep what you have. If you are on Medicare you stay on Medicare. Medicare benefits will not have a new lifetime capped and there are no death boards. Doctors will not all leave the country. Your wait time will not be increased by this law. If your on Medicare you will not be turned down for any needed in Hospital Service. As it is now and as it always has been Medicare will not pay for some Hospital services and you will be told in advance that Medicare will not pay.
If you have a Medicare gap policy and you like it you can keep it as is. Your premiums on your Medicare gap policy will not increase.

Health Care facts

In 2010 …
For people with health insurance coverage, your insurer will no longer be able to:
* Rescind your policy after you get sick (huh, who allowed them to do that before?)
* Limit your lifetime benefits
* Make you pay co-pays or deductibles for preventive services
* Exclude pre-existing conditions for your children (what about for you? wait 'til 2014)
* Spend less than 85 cents of every premium dollar on health services in the large group market or less than 80 cents in the small group and individual market.
For people without insurance, the bill
* Sets up a new federal, "high-risk" insurance pool that those with uninsurable medical problems can enroll in, funded with $5 billion. (Many states have such pools, but very few are able to afford the premiums, and it's unclear whether this new federal plan will be any more affordable.)
* For those 26 years old or younger, allows them to remain on their parents' insurance policies.
For older adults who hit the "donut" hole of Medicare drug coverage, the program will provide a $250 rebate (the first step in the legislation's plan to eliminate this nasty policy by 2020).
For small businesses (fewer than 25 workers) with average wages of less than $50,000, the feds will provide tax credits of up to 35% of their premiums. Considerable research shows that such tax incentives (a form of subsidy) result in very few newly insured workers; subsidies have to reduce the effective price of insurance a lot more, say 60-80%, to get much benefit.
For communities, the bill:
* Increases funding by $11 billion over 5 years for community health centers and for placement of doctors and nurses in areas with too few of them.
* Provides new funding for a "Prevention and Public Health Fund" to expand public health programs and a new grant program to support community-level efforts to reduce chronic diseases and other health disparities, especially in rural areas.
* Requires not-for-profit hospitals to better account for the benefit they provide their communities (in return for not paying taxes like other businesses) and how they meet community needs.
Don't see your favorite (or most hated) provision … health insurance exchanges, Medicaid expansion, individual mandate, Maserati health plan tax?