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More Patients? ObamaCare Will Make It Up On Volume
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 4/5/2010 | David Hogberg

Posted on 04/06/2010 7:47:24 AM PDT by Slyscribe

Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., explained why people were upset over ObamaCare this way, “They just didn’t understand how we could save money on this by adding more people to the system.”

Sounds like Walz is making a withdrawal from SNL's Change Bank, somehow producing profits from "volume."

But Walz, who hails from Minnesota’s First District, isn’t the most vulnerable of incumbents, so he may not have to improve his explanation of why he voted for ObamaCare to survive.

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., on the other hand, is a prime GOP target. By the looks of her recent town hall meeting, a lot of her constituents aren’t buying her explanations at all.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: healthcare; obamacare; sheaporter; walz
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1 posted on 04/06/2010 7:47:25 AM PDT by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe

Let’s see.

SUPPLY

DEMAND

Lower supply = higher demand = higher costs.

Or did I miss something in Econ 101?


2 posted on 04/06/2010 7:52:42 AM PDT by TigerBait
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To: TigerBait

Our local Ford dealer claims he loses money on every sale but makes up for it with volume.


3 posted on 04/06/2010 7:53:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Slyscribe

Sounds like Walz is making a withdrawal from SNL’s Change Bank, somehow producing profits from “volume.”

Reminds one of the old joke about buying watermelons for a buck in North Dakota, and selling them for a buck in Florida. The answer to the thriving enterprise and the fantastic sales, was to get a bigger truck.


4 posted on 04/06/2010 7:53:27 AM PDT by wita
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To: Slyscribe

Making the money is easy for the government. Just charge everyone for health insurance, bring 30 million people on board, paying in and not have any doctors to service the people. Now figure out what the government is going to do with all the money they collect from us.


5 posted on 04/06/2010 7:54:46 AM PDT by RC2 (Keep ACORN investigations going.)
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To: TigerBait

Worse quality,

ie

MORE PEOPLE WILL SUFFER AND DIE BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE

Evil to the core.


6 posted on 04/06/2010 7:55:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

.......but Ford is a quality product. ObamaCare is not.


7 posted on 04/06/2010 7:56:04 AM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: Slyscribe

Let’s go ahead and insure the citizens of China and India too! So much money will be saved we’ll all be millionaires!!


8 posted on 04/06/2010 7:57:57 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Slyscribe

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.” - Harlan Ellison


9 posted on 04/06/2010 8:04:44 AM PDT by mort56
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To: MrB

We should call it Zrr0Care because that is what it will actually be.


10 posted on 04/06/2010 8:14:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both hate freedom and have friends that bombed the Pentagon)
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To: Slyscribe

Spoken by royal d-bags who EXEMPTED THEMSELVES FROM THEIR OWN LAWS.


11 posted on 04/06/2010 8:18:24 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: Slyscribe
You ain't seen "volume" until you start giving it away free...

obamatown


12 posted on 04/06/2010 8:26:48 AM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: subterfuge

“Let’s go ahead and insure the citizens of China and India too! So much money will be saved we’ll all be millionaires!!”

So true: if covering 32 million reduces the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years, then covering 2 billion should save 60 times as much. Why, we could pay off the entire national debt and eradicate that pesky $107T in unfunded SS and Medicare liabilities in just a little more than one century!


13 posted on 04/06/2010 8:28:57 AM PDT by DrC
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"Our local Ford dealer claims he loses money on every sale but makes up for it with volume."

From what I understand some volume dealership make a large part of their profit from manufacturer bonuses.

Democrats think the public is too stupid to know the difference.

Obama's pep rallies sound like a pedantic parent telling little children, essentially:

"The things I'm doing are way to complicated for you kids to understand, but that's OK because you don't need to understand, since you're fortunate enough to have me to take care of you."

He could stand up there in front of the union-mentality zombies and say "Everything I'm telling you is a lie. I have no respect for your intelligence or personal freedom whatsoever."

And they'd enthusiastically applaud and chant.

14 posted on 04/06/2010 8:29:31 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: Slyscribe; wita
Another version of wita's story which I had already entered before going back and reading it is:

Sounds like the story of the NC guy who hauled watermelons from SC to sell by the roadside.

A neighbor observed that folks were not buying and melons were going to waste and quizzed him about how he was going to make any money that way.

The fellow drawled: "Guess I'm just gonna' to hafta' buy me a bigger truck."

Sounds like he's gone to Washington and set up shop in the Democrat Party.

15 posted on 04/06/2010 8:30:26 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: FrankR
Wow.

Cool pic.

16 posted on 04/06/2010 8:30:45 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: Slyscribe

IOW, the docs have less time to spend with each patients, reducing the quality of healthcare, people will die sooner, the government saves on paying out benefits such as Social Security, Medicare, and the such.


17 posted on 04/06/2010 8:38:13 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Slyscribe

Tim Walz doesn’t answer anything. I’ve been waiting 4 weeks for a reply from him on some specific questions I had about obamacare (not even a form letter reply).

Instead, I received an email to join him and learn how to qualify for federal grants. I asked his office to remove me from their “spam” email list immediately.


18 posted on 04/06/2010 8:44:05 AM PDT by mnsmalltown
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To: Slyscribe

Hey Dems,

What happened to “Keep your laws off my BODY!”


19 posted on 04/06/2010 9:08:26 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: subterfuge

Healthcare reform creating jobs for India:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2487587/posts?page=1


20 posted on 04/06/2010 10:45:40 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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