In the case of Nebraska, what everyone was outraged about was that it seemed to be a special deal just for one state.
That is not going to be in this bill.”
Under the previously passed Senate bill, one provision would give $100 million to the state of Connecticut to build a hospital.
Victims of asbestos-related illnesses in the home state of Finance Committee Chair Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, Libby, Mont., secured aid.
Massachusetts and Vermont secured extra Medicaid funding.
*** Seniors in Florida and New York would be able to keep Medicare Advantage benefits being cut for seniors everywhere else. ***
Axelrod defended the deal secured for Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., saying
“what has been portrayed as a provision relating to Louisiana says that if a state, if every county in a state is declared a disaster area, they get some extra Medicaid funds.”
(Sounds like Gator-aid deal will NOT be fixed in reconciliation. If that isn’t enough for an undecided House Dem to vote no on the underlying bill, then I don’t know what is.)
I’m thinking it’s all a diversion at this point.
What would most of the country be focused on if not for the threat of socialized medicine? No jobs, no money, no savings, food stamp epidemic, etc.
30 million people are standing in food lines—virtual food lines. We have food stamp “cards” to shop with now.
How convenient for our corrupt “leaders.”
Republicans can easily destroy the “health care reform” bill right now; if they will but repeatedly and emphatically declare:
IT WILL KILL OUR STRUGGLING ECONOMY.
If every prominent Republican who attends a presser or gives an interview emphasizes that one crystallized point; the political pressure and citizenry push-back against wavering Democrats in the House will be enormous and irresistible.
ECONOMY KILLER equals JOBS KILLER. And the case can easily and succinctly be made that this new, massively unfunded entitlement will require massive new taxes while hobbling the medical industry. That’s obviously an economy killer. As unpopular as this piece of crap bill is, it can immediately be made much more so with simple clarion emphasis regarding its destructiveness to the American economy.
The American people already hate what the bill stands for (the substance of the bill) as well as they hate the corrupt process that has produced it. Now it needs to be branded into the national psyche that the bill will obviously cause long-term, personal financial pain for everyone. - If Republicans would simply apply massive pressure to this one point (using the new CBO numbers on the “reconciliation / fix it” bill as a new cause for alarm) that would be the ball game. There is no way Pelosi could secure wavering votes if the Republicans generated the additional media consciousness that this bill is toxic to our ailing economy.
O’Reilly, on his show tonight, mentioned 212 for and 218 against. Missed just where he got his figures.
Knee-capping and brass knuckles coming up!