Buffet to Obama: Start Over on Health Care [instead of "dream[ing] up 2,000 pages of other things."]

National Review ^

[Sub-Driver]

Buffet to Obama: Start Over on Health Care [Daniel Foster]

Billionaire financier Warren Buffet, who is believed to have the president's ear, told CNBC this weekend that if he were President Obama, he would scrap the current health-care bill and zero in on "cost, cost, cost" in a bill that could gain broad bipartisan support, instead of "dream[ing] up 2,000 pages of other things."

Buffet said that expanding coverage should take a back seat to controlling costs. "I believe in insuring more people, but I don't believe in insuring more people until you address. . . the cost aspect of this," he said.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

So now Warren Buffett is a racist and guilty of hate speech?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Who campaigned for Obama????

[reagandemocrat]

The Sage of Omaha....hehe

[bigbob]

Buffett just fell off the White House Christmas card list.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Sounds reasonable to me. For a while there, I was thinking that for all his gazillions, they guy couldn't ward off a stroke (which is what I thought he'd had), or maybe an aneurysm.

[USCG SimTech]

Buffet talks like this health care bill WAS NOT the straw man for socialist power grabbing. Like it was a health care bill that had anything to do with health care or caring about the well being of the people.

Very funny, mis-informed, and must be out of the loop.

[Non-Sequitur]

If by going back to square one Obama and the Democrats are expected to drop everything they’ve been pushing for, then does that mean the Republicans have to drop all that they’ve been advocating as well? And if they do, is there anyone who doesn’t that that at the end of the new process the Democrats won’t wind up with something similar to what they’ve got now, and the Republicans won’t be making the same complaints as they are now?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Buffett is an idiot savant. Look at his personal life....a life long joke.

[doorgunner69]

Makes too much sense for ‘rats to listen to it.

[Frantzie]

Warren Buffett is a LIAR who supported Obama.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Perfect!

[RWGinger]

Warren is either demented stupid or crazy.
IF as Buffett says he wants a bill that addresses costs how can he then say he would vote for the senate bill
You can’t pretend to care for costs and then to say you’d vote for the Senate bill

[DonaldC]

I have wondered that also. I have also wondered why there has been a complete lack of response from the insurance industry.

[RJS1950]

Old Warren has a lot of fingers into the health insurance industry so maybe he’s worried about how his investments will end up. Then again, maybe he’s beginning to feel some pressure from the shareholders of his various and vast enterprises. Some of them are already taking some strain from the obama economy and he knows that blaming Bush will not wash forever.

[RWGinger]

Good question on insurance industry
I can see if the insurance industry leaders thought they were going to cash if IF insurance became mandated.
For sure they were promised something by odumbo.
we just don’t know what.
Honestly I do NOT think it that Calif health insurance company sending out notices of up to 39% increases were accidental. I think it was scripted so Dems could point to it and say See?

[GailA]

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543

Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!

OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461394/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

Snip

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.