Posted on 01/02/2009 9:06:58 PM PST by GATOR NAVY
And cut the exorbitant retirement they get.
They have the best percs of anyone in the land. Certainly not “representative’ of us Plebeians out here.
If they were only illegals....
What kind of deduction and co pay does congress pay?
BUMP!
I am really trying not to type a stream of expletives, but I am muttering them.
We need to get a campaign going on this. What about it.
Ok notaliberal, emailed:
Sean
Rush
Mike G
Mark L
Thanks notaliberal
Crooks in Washington next
While the Federal Medical Prison Rochester Mn, takes criminals and terrorist(think 9-11 blind cleric) to the Mayo Clinic
They need to fight back and demand the same level of treatment/care as the pols receive that Bama promised!
BOHICA
Bend Over.. Here it comes again
... other options are new and, if enacted into law, would raise health costs for Medicare-eligible military retirees and for active duty families. One option suggests having the VA health system disenroll millions of current users who have no service-related injuries or ailments.
Tighten VA Enrollment – The VA healthcare system would be directed to disenroll 2.3 million Priority Groups 7 and 8 -- individuals who are not poor and have no service-related medical needs. Estimated savings would be $53 billion over 10 years but Medicare spending would rise by $26 billion in the same period as elderly among these vets shifted to Medicare.
CBO said 90 percent of these vets have other health care coverage. But this change could leave up to 10 percent unable to find affordable care.
It's also significant that the CBO director who led this work was Peter R. Orszag, President-elect Obama's nominee to be his director of the Office of Management and Budget. OMB is responsible for assembling the president's annual budget request to Congress. How bold will his economic team be?
"We are going to go through our federal budget, as I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line, eliminating those programs we don't need and insisting that those that we do need operate in a sensible, cost-effective way," Obama said in November as he announced Orszag's nomination to join his cabinet .
"We're also going to focus on one of the biggest, long-run challenges that our budget faces, namely the rising cost of health care in both the public and private sectors," Obama continued. "This is not just a challenge but also an opportunity to improve the health care that Americans rely on, and to bring down the costs that taxpayers, businesses and families have to pay. That is what [OMB] will do in my administration."
Obama added, "Peter doesn't need a map to tell him where the bodies are buried in the federal budget. He knows what works and what doesn't, what's worth our precious tax dollars and what is not."
Indeed, in the CBO report's preface, Orszag gets "special thanks" for having "conceived" the report and being "instrumental in its development."
We Are So Screwed!
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Elections have consequences, as we kept saying all last year.
Next, they’ll probably try to go after military retirement pay
Why did #16 end up on this thread? Search me!
LOL.
~LOL~ had me scratching my head.
One way or another Obama will screw us all.
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