Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."
The Senate health care bill is longer than Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.'
The Senate health care bill "would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage."
The McCain campaign "did not elaborate" on Obama's ties to ACORN.
A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest "those already struggling to make ends meet."
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."
"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.
Under the House health care bill, the government "will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year."
The health care bills will be "mandated spending. You can't cut it, regardless of the budget circumstances."
Claims that Obama said, "For those who oppose our policies, you should just shut up and go away."
"As a result of the House Republican bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now confirms that families will see their health care premiums reduced by up to 10 percent."
"I didn't endorse" the federal stimulus bill.
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
Health care reform "requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan."
Health care reform "establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the 'Health Benefits Advisory Committee') to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase."
Research shows the employer mandate in the House health reform bill would "place millions 'at substantial risk of unemployment' — with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts."
Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."
"Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do."
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