Posted on 01/17/2007 3:50:29 PM PST by Reagan Man
Let's get on with it...
and what does it matter if we call it Terminator-Care, Hilary-Care, Romney-Care or Castro-Care...the point is it will be free and just as good as Canada-Care or even better, Cuba-Care.
Then people will start dying earlier and bail out Social Security.
I see the logic to this grand plan.
Perfect article to refute Arnold.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769201/posts#comment?q=1
I say we all start using our cars and horns! yeehaw!
Ping (again)!
This article does a pretty good job at dissecting some of the problems with Arnold Care.
(Sorry for the double ping... the other thread was a dupe so I'm pinging this one and had the other deleted. Thanks, ReaganMan)
Then people will start dying earlier and bail out Social Security.
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Of course the Congress will LOVE this factor!!! Having to give you BACK YOUR MONEY is against the law...in Congress.
Schwarzenegger’s ShakedownMuch has been written about TerminatorCare, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) plan to guarantee health coverage to all Californians by employing every lousy idea the Left has ever conjured.
But much of what has been written about TerminatorCare is wrong. Media accounts and even some policy wonks have reported that Schwarzenegger, through the magic of Medicaid, would have taxpayers in other states pay for only half the cost of his plan. Would that that were so [sic].
Instead, Schwarzenegger actually proposes to use an old Medicaid trick that would put non-Californians on the hook for much more than half the cost. First, he would boost state payments to providers, which triggers federal matching funds. But then he would tax the providers so much that he would recover the state’s initial outlay plus most of the federal matching funds, which he would then use to finance the rest of the plan. At the end of the day, California would spend zero extra dollars on provider payments, yet the ruse would net an additional $1.3 billion from taxpayers in other states.
After one cuts through the budget gimmicks, one finds that Californians would contribute only $1.3 billion to the plan, while taxpayers in other states would contribute $4.5 billion — or over three times as much.
Don't be forlorn. This article wasn't posted to this topic until after your dupe.
ping
Thanks, Amerigomag. I rely too much on the CA sidebar and sometimes forget to check before posting.
(I was the one that added the CA topic, after the fact).
If you want a laugh, read the email from Mike Genest trying to justify the new healthcare taxes.
He compares them to business-license "fees."
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/
The only good thing about the Austrian's trainwreck of a healthplan is that it may very well be what does him in.
Lets hope...
"RU Ready 4A Recall"
The Administration put out a press release today about how the big-bang-bond was just a down payment, and now they'll use those billions to leverage the state into attracting private capital for more (fascist) public-private partnerships. We're going to have 4 years of this stuff and if we don't stand strong against the liberals, we can kiss this state goodbye!
Call me a skeptic, but with all the new-found liberal love for the gubbie, I don't think it could succeed. I'd settle for bootin' his butt from the party and stripping the (R) from beside his name.
The only way to put a stop to this is to nail his ass with a recall, something he has been working toward and has now plainly earned.
It's considered a hate crime.
OMG, that would be apropos.
"with all the new-found liberal love for the gubbie I don't think it could succeed?"
we recalled the last clown without the liberals...
Great artickle! Tanks fer da ping!!! (grin)
Glad ya liked it! :-)
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