The Senate health care bill is longer than Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.'
A small business receiving a federal tax credit "to provide health care for its employees ... would be barred under the Stupak Amendment from allowing their employees to use ... the health care that they offer them for abortion."
"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."
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."
Women pay 48 percent more for health insurance.
A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
A new federal program provides subsidized "Obama phones" with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month.
“Here in Florida, I’ve slashed government by 10 percent. That’s $7 billion.”
A "massive" federal computer network will make your medical records available to "millions of people" with a "complete lack of privacy and confidentiality," while doctors and hospitals who don't take part face "stiff penalties."
Health proposal would create a "40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers."
"The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support."
"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."
About 750,000 people die in China each year from auto emissions.
During the Reagan administration, "Millions of people were thrown out of work."
The cap-and-trade bill will mean "2 million jobs lost."
After Fahrenheit 9/11 came out, "Bush's approval rating never was better, it only got worse."
Gas will reach $4 a gallon under a cap-and-trade plan.
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year
The Democratic health care bill in the House would "create 53 new government bureaucracies."
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