HCR 28 Gets it Right
Mar 19th, 2010 by Timothy Pancoast
On Wednesday Delaware Patriots from around the state descended on Legislative Hall in Dover. We went there, in part, because of HCR 2, A resolution that would give President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid the state of Delaware as a rubber stamp for whatever the health care takeover bill ends up being. This was unsatisfactory to us as we know much of the state is not in agreement with the current bill, and many of us find the tricks and methods used to push it distasteful, unethical, and in some cases even unConstitutional. We want a fresh start and real reform that won’t kill whole swaths of our economy in the process.
Well just in case anyone wonders whether the time the sacrificed on Wednesday accomplished anything, here it is just a couple of days later and a new resolution has been unveiled. HCR 28. This time the sponsors ask the General Assembly to urge our Congressional delegation to stand up against this fiscally unsound takeover of the health care system. I think they hit most of the essentials. The resolution pushes for several things including:
1. Abandonment of the current disaster of a bill.
2. Recognition that the majority of Americans don’t approve of the bill.
3. Recognition of the fiscal irresponsibility of the bill.
4. States rights
5. Seeking better, fiscally sound strategies for improving health care and reducing its cost.
6. Including an opt-in procedure to enable states to choose to participate or not if such a bill is passed.
Thank you to all of the Senators and Representative that listened to the people of their state. I am pleased to see how many have sponsored resolution 28 compared with resolution 2. I urge the remainder of the General Assembly to vote for this resolution and even join in as sponsors. I addition I urge our state Legislature to seek out and implement ways to reduce the cost of health care in our state. Many people need only be made aware of the assistance and programs that are already available.
If we solve the problem for ourselves than we will have no need or desire for additional federal entitlements and regulations concerning the matter.
Update:
I find this report disturbing. I am highly disappointed with the Delaware House Majority Leader’s response to the resolution and the voices of the citizens of Delaware.
From: “Briggsking Ruth (LegHall)” <Ruth.BriggsKing@state.de.us>
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:46:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Health Care UpdateGentlemen,
Today during session we introduced a resolution regarding Health Care. Upon distribution, the majority leader was joking as if to put it in the trash can. It was immediately assigned to committee so it probably will not see the light on the house floor. We need our citizens to see and understand the battles we face in the house.
Thanks
Ruth Briggs King
Representative
37th District
Currently HRC 2 has made it to the Ready List and may be on the floor for debate and a vote soon. HRC 28 has been moved to the House Administration Committee. They don’t have to keep it there very long before the resolution no longer matters. Delaware’s House is gone for the weekend and won’t be back in session till Tuesday. Go ahead and give your Representative a call , especially if they are on the House Administration Committee, to let them know you want HRC 28 brought to the floor and passed.
Tim –
Correction, it’s not HR28, but HCR28 and here is the correct link:
HCR 28.
Now back to my self-imposed exile.
Correction noted, and adjustments made.
Good call, I don’t know why Delaware Dems want to step in the health care brier patch when they have their own problems. I dare them to pass HCR 2.
Thanks to McDonnell defeating the pathetic, leftist Deeds in Virginia, the Virginia Attorney General plans to sue the feds re; the unconstitutionality of ‘deem and pass.’ Other states will surely follow suit.
Socialist-Democrat = Thief
It is downright embarrassing to be a Delawarean and watch as other states stand up for the Constitution, passing legislation, and threatening lawsuits and civil disobedience, in opposition to the health-care takeover; meanwhile our elected officials in Dover look for ways to suck up to the Obama administration. It is one thing to accept federal legislation after it has been passed (which would still be inexcusable), but it is quite another to invite, to beg for, that legislation.
Down with helping poor people afford health care! Yeah, this is what we conservatives live for. Stick it to the man…. the poor man that is. We have plans to solve this health care problem. I’ll list them.
1. We’re going to make sure that the Diabetic 65 year old who just had the wrong foot sawed off can’t sue her Doctor!
2. We’re gonna make give you the freedom to buy crappy health care plans across State lines.
Thats all we have right now. But we promise to come up with more plans in the future. However, these steps are ten times better than the SOCIALISTS!!!! All they want to do is take freedom away patriotic Health Care Companies. Obama (A Kenyan) wants to tell Red, White and Blue Cross Blue Shield that they don’t have the FREEDOM to drop sick people from their health care plans. Just the same type of irresponsibility and evil that we’ve seen from the likes of Mao, Hitler and Stalin. Delaware Dems should be ashamed to present a resolution that promises to care for the poor and downtrodden. Our resolution is so better. While it has no significant changes. It does promise to…
*Think of better ideas.
*Agree that nobody like the Presidents bill.
*Agree that States Rights are mentioned in the constitution.
This so much better.
It is a lot better than taxing insurance benefits, taxing medical devices so that diabetic pays more for help and that person in that “Cadillac” wheel chair coughs up more money , cutting reimbursement rates for medicare and medicaid so that the elderly and poor get less care and the doctors and hospitals who give it to them anyway lose money doing it while big pharma and big insurers make out. It is not the little guy that benefits, but the guy with the lobbyists.
If I heard it correctly Mike Castle (though he voted no on heath care) stated that he thought it was to much to fast and would have preferred for it to have been incremental. Another words he would have supported the health care bill if it had been dribbled out a little at a time. In typical Republican Party style he wanted to play the same old game they have been playing. He, and the party, are not conservative. They are not constitutionalists. They just want to appear more conservative than the Democrats. And that ain’t hard to do now-a-days!