It will happen again (under Pres__ent Obama)
Posted on 03/05/2009 5:18:25 AM PST by Libloather
Health summit kicks off overhaul bid
Posted: March 5, 2009 07:02 AM EST
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama launches his bid to overhaul health care Thursday with a White House summit on how to proceed.
The summit of lawmakers, doctors and drug and insurance executives seeks to get the ball rolling.
Obama's budget makes a $634 billion reform down payment. But in a sign of how tough it'll be getting agreement, the upper-income tax hikes and cuts in Medicare and Medicaid he wants to help pay for reform are drawing objections from Republicans and insurers.
The president campaigned on a plan that aims to build on America's existing employer-based system to supply universal coverage. But aides maintain he's also absolutely open to ideas from elsewhere and will not be sending Congress a fully formed bill, just kicking off the process with "principles."
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Michelle Obama's Patient-Dumping Scheme
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It will happen again (under Pres__ent Obama)
More evidence of the cluelessness of this crowd. He may be wowing the masses, but the sense among the others that 0bama is detached from reality is growing, due to untimely stunts like this.
This is proof that ZerO has no ideas of his own. IMO, Normally one would have outlined what one thought would be proper, then present his proposals.
Here’s the bullets:
- $634 billion fund (Lol... like the SSN fund?)
- Income tax hikes on those making +250K (Punish the ‘man’.)
- Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid (Punish the providers.)
FUBO!
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