Health Care Bill Today?

Health care bill has a provision that means you could face jail time for not purchasing government mandated health insurance.

When a bill comes up for a vote, our representatives are SUPPOSED to read the bill. Outloud. But if there is a unanimous vote to dispense with this, then they don't. OF course, the vote to dispense with this is ALWAYS unanimous. Except this time- Tom Coburn says he is considering not joining in on that politics as usual ploy, and that means congress would HAVE to read the health care bill. Democrats think this is absolutely outrageous. I don't. I think they should always have to read the bill aloud, NO exceptions. Of course, given the length of this bill, that means it may be months before it can be passed, and all the little hidden nasty surprises will see the light of day. Which ought to be something EVERYBODY realizes is a good thing.
Nevertheless, the Democrats are trying to cram this bill, longer than War and Peace, down our throats this evening. Pelosi promised that before this bill came for a vote, it would be posted online for 72 hours so the public could look at it. She lied. You didn't really expect anything like honesty from her, did you?

By the way, the CBO put the cost most recently at about 3 Trillion dollars.

Abortion in the health care bill- pro-life Democrats do not want federal funding for abortions, which is currently what we have with the Health Care Bill (yes, indeedy, Obama did indeed LIE about this). And... Pelosi wasn't going to allow an up or down vote on the amended portion of the bill that ensure federal funds are used for abortions (because she knew that's exactly what they did). But the pro-life dems may get their way, which infuriates Alcee Hastings (Democrat of Florida) because she says if we dn't have federal funding for abortion we'll have a return to coat-hanger abortions in back alleys.
Except... we don't have federally funded abortion now, and we don't have coat-hanger abortions in back alleys (actually, we never did in anything like the numbers the proabortionists claimed. They made their figures up, and the same doctors performing the back-alley illegal abortions just started performing them legally once the law changed).