Please don't read the details. Stay on track.
We are so close, people.
Posted on 10/14/2009 7:09:27 AM PDT by Joiseydude
You really have to read this entire piece by Jeffrey Anderson in the New York Post to get a sense of how frighteningly dishonest the gimmicks used by Senator Baucus to get the CBO to sign off on his health care bill.
The first bit of rank dishonesty lies in the fact that the CBO is calculating the bill's cost in the next decade starting next year. The problem is that the bill wouldn't even take effect fully until 2015!
But the CBO exposed the truth by taking the rare step of calculating what the bill would cost in its second 10 years. In its second decade alone, the CBO projects, the bill's costs would triple -- to $2.8 trillion. The taxes and fines it levies would also triple -- to $1.8 trillion. And its cuts to Medicare and related federal health programs would quadruple -- to $1.9 trillion.
In its first two decades combined, the bill would cost $3.6 trillion and would raise taxes by $2.3 trillion.
We're just getting started folks
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Listen to Reich as the tells you he will let your parents die
Very interesting article with some information that I had not thought of or even known. My husband is a physician seeing almost exclusively elderly Medicare patients. He is over 60 years old now and expecting to practice for another 10 years.
If this proposal on the cuts and then freeze of Medicare payments actually goes through, there will be between 700 and 800 patient visits that will not be made in nursing homes in Alabama per month because he will retire and then will be receiving his share of Social Security payments which will cost the government (aka taxpayers) even more money. Way to go, Bobby Bright, Obama, Max Baucus and the rest of you RATS.
Please don't read the details. Stay on track.
We are so close, people.
The Baucus legislation is not the only piece of legislation that has fraud and dishinesty...try the other 4 ObamaCare legislations, the Stimulus, TARP, etc.
bttt
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