White House pulls a fast one on Health Care overhauls

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By a vote of 227-196 Democrats moved one step closer Wednesday to using a controversial budget procedure to speed passage of President Obama's health care legislation. This will allow the legistlation to move forward with only limited debate.The process is called "reconciliation". In which they will move health care under the budget instead of being a bill. This will limit input from not only the Republicans but also moderate Democrats. THe white house (and Nancy Pelosi) are basicallly shutting most of them out of the process as much as possible. Even members of their own party. So if they get their way...healthcare will be overhauled by a select few, with little debate, and no real input and done very fast. Which means not even the general public will know much about the new healthcare overhauls until it too late and they have voted on it. Which means WE do not even get a say in it. We the citizens of this country are being shut out of the process. This is really an important issue. And not one to be rushed. We remember what happened when they rushed the bail out bill. Proper safeguards were not put in place. Bonuses were allowed to be paid and in the end most of members of congress voted on a bill they did not even get to completely read. We all have to admit that was a big mess and could have been handled better if they had slowed down by a week or two and allow more time to get it right. For the sake of the American public we should have the right and opporunity to know what the overhauls and changes are BEFORE they vote on it and have time to contact our elected officials to let them know how we feel about it. What do you think? Should they be able to do this? Can we stop them from shutting the american public out of this process?