Nelson taking some heat at home

Brian Bresnahan writing in the York New Times takes Nelson to task.

Neither the lives of the unborn, nor the heart of freedom should ever be for sale. But Ben Nelson has sold out on both. Quisling.

His vote for cloture on this atrocious health care destruction bill means our government is now mandating insurance, which requires abortion coverage while opening the door for a complete government take-over of the health care system. It will drive people to the government for assistance at the expense of their freedom while forcing the insurance industry into near extinction.

In voting as he did, Nelson can no longer claim to stand for all he's previously claimed.

Most obvious is that Nelson can no longer claim to be an advocate for the unborn. This bill, as right to life groups are crying betrayal at Nelson's hands about mandates that tax payer money subsidize health plans which require availability of abortions. No rhetoric or accounting gimmick can hide that truth.

Nelson can no longer champion a concern for jobs. This bill imposes fees and taxes on employers mandating health insurance for their employees. Higher employer costs always results in lower wages and severed jobs as employers scramble to comply with the new regulations.

Because the bill guts Medicare even further, our rural hospitals and the economic base built around them will suffer, costing Nebraska even more jobs. As Dr. Becky Hollibaugh of Friend describes in a letter to Nelson via Michelle Malkin, medicare is already at nearly insufferable levels.

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The bill will be especially hard on rural Medicare patients. It wants doctors in solo practices to band together into larger groups, but in many small towns there is only one doctor.