i'm shocked!!!
Posted on 05/05/2010 12:51:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Legislate in haste, repent at leisure. The ObamaCare bill signed by Barack Obama after getting hastily and repeatedly rewritten in backroom negotiations by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid turns out to cost a lot more than they admitted — and in new areas that keep appearing after its passage. The CBO now estimates the “doctor fix” that Pelosi and Reid promised to the AMA in exchange for their support will cost much more than the Democratic leaders admitted, emphases mine:
The debate over what to do about Medicare payments to doctors continues. Physicans have been lobbying ”to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which triggers automatic Medicare payment cuts if spending rises above a certain level,” CongressDailyreports. Those cuts have been put off for years.
On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office said that just freezing current Medicare payment rates to doctors would likely cost nearly $276 billion through 2020, a 33 percent increase from legislation that would “accomplish that goal introduced late last year by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., estimated to cost $207 billion at the time” according to CongressDaily. ”Aides on both sides of the aisle attributed the cost increase to assumptions of an improved economy, which tends to add more to the cost of health services, as well as demographic changes that foresee increased numbers of retirees in 2020 over the previous year.”
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i'm shocked!!!
Those of us who can do math are not surprised.
We all know they cooked the books (repeatedly)
Anyone who had an ounce of common sense never believed the claim it would decrease the deficit one iota.
Hmmmmmmmm...feather, please...I’m still standing.
This is my surprised face:
{:-O
Criminal.
In short, the politicians are either malignant liars or negligent incompetents. Either way the results are the same, the American taxpayer is screwed, the illegal alien, the bungled, the criminal etc. etc. are enriched.
Barack Obama lied? Nancy Pelosi lied? Harry Reid lied? Next thing you’ll tell me there’s no Santa Claus.
lemmee...guess...how UNEXPECTED!!
There are three types of people in the government. Those who can do math and those who can’t.
I’m shocked, are you telling me that mac daddy lied?
Oh wait, his lips were moving - never mind.
For those who voted for this monster I believe that not only can they NOT do the math but they CANNOT read.
November can not come soon enough.
The list, ping
Shock-a-roo./s
Thank you FRiend. Adding to Obama-nomics research. [Link in profile.]
Who Wooda Thunk It!
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