Posted on 08/30/2009 11:30:08 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
President Obama did not always agree with allowing the government to get involved with running healthcare. For example he hated it when George W. Bush was president.
On December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into law H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173).
H.R. 1 creates a voluntary prescription drug benefit program (Part D) for all individuals eligible for Medicare under which they will pay a monthly premium for coverage in helping them purchase prescription drugs. Part D is effective January 1, 2006. The bill establishes a transitional drug discount card, includes provisions for combating fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare program, and makes revisions in existing Parts A and B of Medicare including provisions relating to rural health care, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facility services and home health care. The bill also reduces the Medicare Part B premium subsidies for certain individuals and establishes tax-free Medical Savings Accounts. Source
The future president, Senator Barack Obama, opposed the Bush Plan he felt that Healthcare combining Private and Public sector is the worst of both worlds:
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“Accuse others of what you do.”
- Vladimir Lenin
I still laugh at the lefty college kids who thought Obama was going to do things any different. “He’s gonna get us outta Iraq, he’s gonna stop spying on people, the World’s gonna love us again....” The worst part is, they’ll probably vote for Fauxbama again in 2012.
Obama does this all the time. He accuse others of lying by lying about what others said
Makes an art form out of the description of the word 'hypocrite'.
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