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Healthcare Radicals Bank on Public Ignorance and Gullibility
Humanevents.com ^ | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | by Jonathan Imbody
Posted on November 21, 2009 2:18:12 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hid a radical health care overhaul bill behind closed doors for weeks, then finally emerged in a news conference on November 18 to proclaim that the bill somehow would cover millions more Americans while simultaneously saving money.
To give you an idea of the kind of math that Reid and his allies employ, they conveniently left out of the projected cost of the bill some $247 billion — the cost of a 10-year freeze on cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. Reid had proposed that expensive “doctor-fix” plan to buy off the American Medical Association, which dutifully endorsed the overall health care bill in response to the cash inducement. That helps explain why the left-leaning AMA, which once represented nearly four of every five physicians, now claims closer to just one in five physicians on its dwindling rolls.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/20/fox-news-poll-upside-health-care-reforms/
Updated November 20, 2009
“Fox News Poll: Most See No Upside to Health Care Reforms”
by FOXNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/21/senate-crucial-vote/
Updated November 21, 2009
“Democrats Gain 60 Votes to Begin Health Care Debate”
by FOXNews.com
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - Democrats on Saturday clinched the votes needed to advance the Senate’s version of President Obama’s health care overhaul to the floor for a historic debate scheduled to begin shortly after 8 p.m..
Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas was the last of three Democratic holdouts to announce her support for the procedural vote. Earlier, Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana said she would support the debate, one day after Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska announced his intent to vote yes.”