Bush Calls For $400 Billion In Medicare Spending

Associated Press via ABCNEWS.com ^ | January 29, 2003 | Staff

[exnavy]

How do you suppose we're going to pay for that?

[Uncle Bill]

Washington's $782 Billion Spending Spree

[exnavy]

I should've known!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[ambrose]

'ol W. also wants to throw 15 billion to Africa for AIDS.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Just like the old Japanese samurai warlords used to say, "The people are like sesame seeds: the more you squeeze them the more you can get out of them."

[Ol' Sparky]

The taxpayers, of course...It's sort of the incremental version of Hillary's health care plan.

[Uncle Bill]

Medicare Bilked For Billions In Bogus Claims
"The system of private contractors policing the $250 billion-a-year Medicare program is riddled with conflicts of interest, financial disincentives and regulatory breakdowns so severe that fraud and abuse bleed tens of billions of dollars from the program every year."

Medicare isn't bilked. The TAXPAYERS are bilked.

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This can be fixed with mush magic and compassionate rattlesnake dances

[Uncle Bill]

'ol W. also wants to throw 15 billion to Africa for AIDS.

I know, it's sickening.

[Lizavetta]

What about seniors who need drugs BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR? You know, the obese ones, the alcoholic ones, the smoking ones, and the sedentary ones?

Why should anyone do more for these people than they are willing to do for themselves?

[Mortimer Snavely]

"This can be fixed with mush magic and compassionate rattlesnake dances "

And enthusiasm. Don't forget enthusiasm. It makes you feel better than just plain analysis, and costs less, too!

[FreeReign]

"According to the Congressional Budget Office, seniors this year are expected to spend $87 billion on prescription drugs. But by 2012, the CBO estimates drug costs for seniors will more than triple, rising to $278 billion. So, when Republicans talk of a 10-year plan with $300 billion in drug benefits, current cost estimates for the 10 years from 2002-2012 are more than $1.8 trillion."

You posted the above part of the article, but you neglected to post the following part of the article;

"The president favors a limited Medicare drug bill that emphasizes coverage for the uninsured. Right now, most GOP proposals provide $300 billion in benefits over 10 years. "

[Uncle Bill]

HillaryCare Medical Rules To Become Law

Newsmax.com Magazine
By Wes Vernon
June 15, 2002

HillaryCare is coming through the back door. By the time you know it's there, it will be too late to stop it. Your confidential medical records will be public knowledge. In the next few years, it is going to become increasingly simple to transfer electronic medical records over the Internet.

The back door to this invasion of your privacy is being held wide open in the Bush administration by many of the same bureaucrats who promoted socialized medicine under Bill Clinton. But key Bush administration people are letting it happen.
[End of partial transcript]

Your Confidential Medical Records Are an Open Book

Bush Administration Scraps Written Consent Forms That Would Have Been Required in Patient Privacy

"I believe privacy is a fundamental right, and that every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information."
George W. Bush - Associated Press - Oct 6, 2000.

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Americans love to be used and abused

[MatthewViti]

I guess all the Bush Bots are staying away from this thread.

[TLBSHOW]

So you saw that thread?

If we don't get the GIANT TAX CUTS and GIANT TAX BREAKS its all gonna be hot air!

Tax cuts First before one damn dime is spent on these socialist programs!

Even the left is going to be voting for George W. Bush in 2004!

Oh that must be the plan?
TLBSHOW

Compassionate Conservatism

Some of these policy proposals seem reminiscent of President Clinton in the way they are narrowly tailored and seem aimed at swaying specific groups of potential swing voters. But it’s hard to blame Mr. Bush for learning from Mr. Clinton’s political successes — or, for that matter, from those of Governor Pataki, who won re-election in New York by catering to traditionally Democratic constituencies such as Latinos and labor unions.

THE NEW YORK SUN
Editorial board

http://www.nysun.com/sunarticle.asp?artID=507

[Uncle Bill]

Hello FreeReign. There's no such thing as a limited Medicare drug bill. Democrats are already talking about $750 billion to 1 Trillion in Medicare spending. AARP loves this plan. LoL! The government does such a great job in accounting, we should give them more!

Watch how the magic works. With the pitiful economy and collapsed stock market, Bush wants more money now. Prescription drugs for everybody, socialists of the world unite!

Gov BUSH Proposes $158 Billion to Modernize Medicare

Don't be deceived. Bush is a documented liar.

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For fools, there has been a long history in Washington D.C. that once a sacred pork program is started, spending always goes "down"

[Uncle Bill]

Yes, how true, we must inject enthusiasm. Maybe even a gathering momentum of millions of acts of kindness and compassion.

[ambrose]

If W. is so eager to waste our tax dollars, why doesn't he spend it at home? 15 billion to African AIDS victims? How about 15 billion to American victims of cancer or other non self-inflicted diseases?

[Princeliberty]

Don't buy Bush's "tax cutting" the tax cuts
in realitive terms are small and most of the cuts
are in the future.
His real game I bet is after getting re-elected
will be to raise taxes because "he has too
because the debts are so high."

But I guess all this is ok since its is
Republicans doing it.

If Bill had given the same speech conservatives
would be jumping all over him for expanding goverment
and for crusading not for national interest
but for the NWO.
Bush is being the biggest expander of government
since LBJ.