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crooksandliars.com - 26 days ago
Orrin Hatch Puts Christian Science Treatments Into Health-Care Reform Bill -- With Kerry and Kennedy's Help.
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This is, to say the least, strange. Crazy enough that Hatch inserted it, odder still that Ted Kennedy and John Kerry supported it. But if passed, this will open the floodgates to every fringe group out there: Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, ...
thinkprogress.org - 28 days ago
Why Hatch Is Really Blocking Health Reform: Americans Will Love The New System And Vote Democratic
— thinkprogress.org — In a new interview with CNS News , Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) repeated his concern that requiring... Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional . Hatch offered typical run-of-the-mill conservative arguments about “ socialized medicine ... (more) Why Hatch Is Really Blocking Health Reform: Americans ...

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dailykos.com - 27 days ago
Orrin Hatch Explains the Difference Between the Parties
— dailykos.com — While expounding on the threatened end to the two-party system if healthcare reform passes, Hatch lays bare... the basic difference between Democrats and Republicans. Hatch asserted that the health bills, which he believes represent a "step-by-step ... (more) Orrin Hatch Explains the Difference Between the Parties

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washingtonmonthly.com - 27 days ago
Orrin Hatch slips into conspiratorial mode
— washingtonmonthly.com — ORRIN HATCH SLIPS INTO CONSPIRATORIAL MODE.... The year has not been kind to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R)... of Utah. The 75-year-old conservative has repeatedly been confused and cantankerous in recent months, repeating obvious falsehoods after being confronted ... (more) Orrin Hatch slips into conspiratorial mode
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Open Left - Front Page — ... The plot dissections work both as entertaining literary criticism and illuminating windows into the strains of Christian fundamentalism most likely to lead people to be Glenn Beck fans. - "What if my mother had aborted me?" You wouldn't be around to have an opinion about it, that's what. Same as if your dad had worn a condom that night, or if your folks had decided do crosswords instead of each other, or, or, or, etc. - Abortion is too controversial to cover, but Christian Science prayer treatments will be reimbursable. I hate our politics. - Demonstrations in ...

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Senator Hatch: Healthcare reform bills threaten survival of two-party system
thehill.com 28 days ago — The healthcare reform proposals currently before Congress threaten the existence of the two-party system, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) alleged Monday morning. Hatch asserted that the health bills, which he believes is a "step by step approach to ...
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eschatonblog.com 27 days ago — Orrin Hatch says we can't have health care reform because it will be awesome and everyone will love it and they'll be so grateful that they will vote for Democrats for all eternity.
Hatch: Insurers Should Pay for Spiritual Healing — Utah Policy - Politics, Communication & Government Relations
"Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the health care overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses. The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin Hatch , R-Utah, with the ...
Health care: One side is lying, and the other side is not telling the truth — Corrente
What Avedon said: So Orrin Hatch spilled the beans from the GOP side - that we can't pass health care reform because it would be good for the Democratic Party - as if the recent eight years of Republican rule haven't already had a similar effect. Now, if only the Democratic leadership would ...
Separation of Church and... Health Care — The Political Carnival
By GottaLaff Paddy's earlier Tuesday Linkage post mentioned this briefly, but when I opened my L.A. Times this morning, I opened my eyes, too... wider and wider. Abortion is one of the favorite health care reform sticking points that the punditiots opine about daily, but we haven't heard a ...
The Hatch Truth: GOP Blocking Health Care to Prevent Permanent Democratic Majority — Crooks and Liars
DOWNLOADS: (7) PLAYS: (47) A gaffe, Michael Kinsley famously mused, is what results when a politician inadvertently tells the truth. And so it was Monday when Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch came clean about his party's scorched-earth opposition to health care reform being championed by ...
Secret Democratic ploy to end two-party system -- Hatch says healthcare will make voters trust Dems — Top of the Ticket
Utah Republican Orrin Hatch has a reputation as a classy conservative. A trusted voice for right-wing causes, he is a stalwart foe of abortion who voted against Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor . But Hatch, a Mormon, is also part of what might be called the Civil Caucus in Congress, ...
Craziest Republican of the Day: Orrin Hatch — The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings He took home the award back on October 16 , and he gets the nod again today. What for? Why, for being crazy, of course, in that especially partisan and dishonest way of his. Consider this , from The Hill . In an interview with right-wing CNS News, Hatch actually ...
Sherrod Brown: Biologics Should Not be Subject to an “Endless Monopoly Period” — Firedoglake
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio has been the leading voice in the Senate on the issue of biologics, the expensive drug treatments made from living organisms, and his advocacy for affordable, generic versions of the potentially life-saving drugs will continue once the Senate health care bill hits ...
If Feds Can Force Us to Buy Health Insurance 'Then There's Literally Nothing the Federal Government Can't Force Us to Do' — Rantburg
(CNSNews.com) - Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who has served in the Senate for 33 years and is a longtime member of the Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not believe the Democrats' health-care reform plan is constitutionally justifiable, noting that if the federal ...
VIDEO- Orrin Hatch slips: Americans might like health care reform, vote for (gasp!) Democrats — The Political Carnival
By GottaLaff Oh noes! Americans might like the very health care reforms (public option or not) that could, you know, benefit them and keep them alive! Enough to want to vote for the party that supports it! And we can't have that now, can we? Let that little detail slip out there, didja, Orrin?  ...
Why Hatch Is Really Blocking Health Reform: Americans Will Love The New System And Vote Democratic — Think Progress
In a new interview with CNS News , Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) repeated his concern that requiring Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional . Hatch offered typical run-of-the-mill conservative arguments about “ socialized medicine .” But at one point, he let it slip ...
Sen. Hatch Questions Constitutionality of Obamacare: If Feds Can Force Us to Buy Health Insurance ‘Then There’s Literally Nothing the Federal Government Can’t Force Us to Do’ — CNSNews.com Headlines
Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is the senior member of the Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com he does not believe the Democrats' health-care reform plan is constitutionally justifiable, noting that if the federal government can force Americans to buy health insurance "then there is literally ...