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Math On Obama Care: Simply Doesn't Add Up
The Provocateur ^ | 05/10/2009 | Mike Volpe

Posted on 05/10/2009 6:39:02 PM PDT by fiscon1

On Real Clear Politics, a story about Obama's health care proposal is aptly titled, Upfront Costs Complicate Obama's Health Care Plan.

Costs are emerging as the biggest obstacle to President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to provide health insurance for everybody.

The upfront tab could reach $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion over 10 years, while expected savings from wringing waste and inefficiency from the health care system may take longer to show.

Details of the health legislation have not been written, but the broad outlines of the overhaul are known. Economists and other experts say the $634 billion that Obama's budget sets aside for health care will pay perhaps half the cost.

(Excerpt) Read more at theeprovocateur.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhohealthcare; domesticpolicy; economy; healthcare

1 posted on 05/10/2009 6:39:02 PM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

Why would you expect the math to add up?

He’s not trying to fix anything, as he claims.
He’s simply setting the stage to maximize CONTROL!!!!

You might notice that his “energy plan” only makes the problem worse.
His “education plan” reinforces a failed education system and eliminates support for charter schools and other options that have produced better results at half the price.


2 posted on 05/10/2009 6:45:26 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama's plan = "STEALING FROM THOSE WHO CREATE THE JOBS!")
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To: fiscon1

Billy Preston clarifies:

“Nuthin from nuthin leave nuthin”


3 posted on 05/10/2009 6:45:44 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: fiscon1
while expected savings from wringing waste and inefficiency from the health care system may take longer to show.

Longer to show?? Yeah, like in never.

4 posted on 05/10/2009 6:47:14 PM PDT by Edit35 (.)
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To: fiscon1

This is the guy who says that “fiscal responsibility” means increasing spending by $2 trillion, and reducing “waste” by $17 billion. Arithmetic doesn’t mean much to him.


5 posted on 05/10/2009 6:52:25 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: fiscon1

and why would this bother the obamatrons and the rest of the idiots who voted for this loser?


6 posted on 05/10/2009 7:02:29 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama - America's Elegabalus and Commodus combined)
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To: fiscon1

He doesn’t care if it adds up so long as it advances the socialist agenda.


7 posted on 05/10/2009 7:06:42 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: fiscon1
"The upfront tab could reach $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion over 10 years, while expected savings from wringing waste and inefficiency from the health care system may take longer to show."

I defy anyone to show me the data on a single government social program that had declining costs after it once was started.

8 posted on 05/10/2009 7:17:44 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
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To: fiscon1
Of course the math adds up! We become impoverished peasants under a euthanasia program, bureaucrats get more powerful and the medical establishment gets richer than ever.
9 posted on 05/10/2009 7:26:58 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: fiscon1

Everybody includes illegals.


10 posted on 05/10/2009 7:36:54 PM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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To: fiscon1

When exactly has Team Obama’s rainbows and unicorns math ever added up? Anyone can get a group of Obama liberal pushers and so-called economists together and espouse that the math will or does add up. Nothing new here with the math surrounding Obama care.


11 posted on 05/10/2009 8:09:57 PM PDT by cranked
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To: April Lexington

Planned Grandparenthood - a place where you can choose to let your grandma go gently into that good night. Brought to you free by the Democrats.


12 posted on 05/10/2009 9:15:10 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (It is a tale, told by an idiot.....living in DC)
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To: April Lexington

“and the medical establishment gets richer than ever”

On what planet?

Under socialized medicine the only doctors out there are from Asia - ie India and Pakistan. Check the numbers of foreign born doctors in UK and Canada - upwards of 80%. No one else wants to go through the length of training for the meager pay. Second rate doctors are the first casualty of government intervention into medical care.


13 posted on 05/14/2009 4:55:55 AM PDT by dervish (I'm the President see me bow (at 0:50) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60U-hl35Gw)
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