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1 posted on 07/15/2008 3:20:06 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

The Senate just voted to override the veto.


2 posted on 07/15/2008 3:31:07 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: SmithL
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5 posted on 07/15/2008 4:20:08 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Wanted: Designated Driver for November 5th voting party)
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To: SmithL

Medicare is going broke and we can’t even cut doctor’s pay.
I am afraid the whole sysem will collapse. Maybe that is what the Democrats want. But it seems like taking care of the poor would have included cutting payments and keeping the system solvent


6 posted on 07/15/2008 4:23:36 PM PDT by BeckB
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To: SmithL

I just want the names of the 22 Republican senators


7 posted on 07/15/2008 4:24:03 PM PDT by plain talk
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Stupid democrats hate greedy corporations but support giving more of our tax dollars to members of one of the wealthiest occupations in our country. Then they whine about medical care being too expensive.

On the other hand, paying them more from medicare makes socializing medicine for the working class and just-plain-lazy even more impossible. That’s a definite plus for America.


9 posted on 07/15/2008 4:48:59 PM PDT by Liberty 275
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Now wait a second, guys. If these doctors are taking care of patients in Medicare, then they deserve to get paid.

Either abolish the program or show them the money. Can't have it both ways.

11 posted on 07/15/2008 4:56:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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“Under the bill, the costs to the government of canceling the doctor pay cut would be offset with about $13 billion in reimbursement reductions to insurers such as UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Aetna Inc., which contract with the Medicare program.”

So it is not the doctors who will make out but the insurance companies. doctors will make less than they were under the dem plan but the insurance companies will get a huge chunk of money instead.

Read the story folks! Congress wants the insurance companies to make out in this deal. After all, they will be the ones who administer the governments universal health care plan! Better to have the insurance companies on their side then try to get a bunch of independent contractors to agree to the scheme.

After all, companies are easier to control than individual contractors.

13 posted on 07/15/2008 7:45:56 PM PDT by JSteff (This election is about the 3 to 5 supreme's who will retire in the next 8 years, vote accordingly.)
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15 posted on 07/16/2008 7:04:44 AM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: SmithL

Good.


20 posted on 07/16/2008 7:21:01 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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