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Senators spar on health bill's effect on seniors
breitbart ^ | 9/23/09 | ap

Posted on 09/23/2009 6:10:52 PM PDT by Nachum

Sweeping health care legislation cleared its first hurdles in the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday as Democrats turned back a series of proposed changes by Republicans who attacked it as a threat to Medicare.

Yet even as they prevailed on politically charged votes, majority Democrats also tacitly conceded one point—that despite a pledge by President Barack Obama, some seniors who receive coverage from private insurers could lose some of the optional benefits they enjoy.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bills; health; senators; spar
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
1 posted on 09/23/2009 6:10:53 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

These fanatics just have to ruin our medical system -— and it is not about health care at all.


2 posted on 09/23/2009 6:15:47 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Nachum

We will have to be very vigilant for the next 14 months. We do have to get out the vote.

Then, let’s get rid of this b*stard!


3 posted on 09/23/2009 6:21:06 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Nachum
... majority Democrats also tacitly conceded one point—that despite a pledge by President Barack Obama, some seniors who receive coverage from private insurers could lose some of the optional benefits they enjoy...

When is someone going to ask Obama to give specifics on what he determines to be "waste and abuse" in Medicare? WHEN???

4 posted on 09/23/2009 6:32:14 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Nachum

If the Dems get a bill passed and signed into law, they’ll have dozens of fuzzy, sloppy new bureaucracies in place by fall, 2010, and I doubt that we’ll ever get all the new lice out of Washington. We need to stop them NOW!

Separately, I’ve not had to use Medicare, but I paid into it for lots of years. The money the Dems want to steal is partly my money, and I’ll want a couple of hundred pelts in exchange for my share. See the tagline.


5 posted on 09/23/2009 6:36:36 PM PDT by JohnQ1 (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Nachum

Treasonous bast*rds! IF I said what I’m really feeling, I’d be banned for life! This is really going to hurt seniors. Why can’t we all have the same insurance that they have? Oh, I forgot. They are better than we are. < / sarcasm >


6 posted on 09/23/2009 6:56:48 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (THE ONLY ASTROTURF IN CONGRESS IS FOUND BETWEEN NANCY PELOSI'S EARS!!)
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To: Nachum
These Senators should be sparring over why the federal government thinks this is any of its business and the press should be hammering them that it is not.

This country is done.

7 posted on 09/23/2009 7:44:21 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: socialismisinsidious


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8 posted on 09/23/2009 8:25:31 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: Nachum
"Nobody is going to mess with your benefits. Nobody. All we do is make it better for people on Medicare," Vice President Joe Biden told about 150 people at the Leisure World retirement community in suburban Maryland.

He Lies!

9 posted on 09/23/2009 9:21:48 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama does lie.)
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