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Posted on 07/19/2009 3:56:45 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Despite President Obama's lofty and appeasing rhetoric, his health-care plan is crashing against the rocks of reality, with support collapsing among an increasingly wary public and even among Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Yet the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress appear undaunted in their efforts to ram through sweeping reform legislation in record time, even as the head of the Congressional Budget Office told Congress that the bills would worsen the federal government's already bleak budget outlook.
Worse still, the CBO said the bills won't meet the president's promise of reducing health costs over the long term, saying instead the legislation would "significantly increase" costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Considering Chicago, hard ball politic’s, I can’t figure out how O doesn’t control the CBO. They keep calling it like it is. Got to frustrate him.
Isn’t that the truth? He must be biting the bullet to screw the people at the CBO out of a job.
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That is a damn lie!
They aren't even figuring in Medicare & Medicaid in the cost! That is set aside as a seperate cost entirely. That's why the AMA (American Medical Association) supported Obamacare. The doctors/hospitals would STILL get the same payment rates as they get now for Medicare & Medicaid or else the AMA would not have signed off on it!
What a bunch of LIARS!
You got that right. I don’t believe anyone is dumb enough to fall for that propaganda from Pelosi’s office. Obviously, they think they are pulling a fast one on the uninformed public.
Since April, approval of Obama’s handling of health care has dropped from 57 percent to 49 percent, with disapproval rising from 29 percent to 44 percent …
… (t)he erosion in Obama’s overall rating on health care is particularly notable among political independents: While positive in their assessments of his handling of health-care reform at the 100-day mark of his presidency (53 percent approved and 30 percent disapproved), independents now are divided at 44 percent positive and 49 percent negative.
http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/07/20/obamacare-is-in-trouble/
No Citizenship? No Problema! It’s Obama-Care!
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/282191-dr-o/14569-no-citizenship-no-problema-it-s-obama-care
The Democratic plan will embrace Obama’s vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America – a significant portion of whom are illegal aliens.
Dont get too excited, he still may get this health care plan passed. He will pay off anyone he has to and as we all know most in congress are self serving scumbags. Keep up the pressure. Tomorrow is Monday , everyone on FR should make at least a few calls to their officials and bitch like crazy about the national health plan.
the White House and the Democratic leadership in Congress will take whatever they can get as long as it happens fast. It took the legislative titans who cut their teeth on the New Deal six years to make Medicare. The president wants the colossal lightweights of the current Congress to deliver Obamacare in 12 weeks.
Conscientious folks on Capitol Hill are very worried as the train keeps picking up speed and no one will touch the brake. But the president knows that the current health care legislation, like cap and trade and his stimulus, will never pass if anyone stops to read it.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamacare-The-fast-and-the-furious_07_20-51144472.html
In the Obama version of the future, Congress will pick a commission that will then propose draconian cuts to the programs that provide health care for senior citizens. Congress will then vote to enact those cuts even as its most politically active constituents rise up in outrage. That’s not naïve. That’s just a cover story.
Orszag, who once sent thrills up the legs of the think tank crowd, is now tasked with recycling talking points about long-term savings that will somehow occur without rationing care. In Massachusetts, the laboratory for American universal health insurance, the state health plan is an economic basket case. So lawmakers are getting ready to pay doctors for patient care by the year, instead of the treatment.
Good luck getting that second, “just-to-make-sure” test if your doctor is getting a flat rate and has been shielded from medical malpractice suits.
If he were being honest, Orszag would agree with Elmendorf that the only way to remake the system is to quit exempting employee health benefits from taxes. If Americans had catastrophic insurance and paid for regular treatments out of their own pockets, people would ration their own care instead of having commissioners do it for them.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamacare-The-fast-and-the-furious_07_20-51144472.html
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