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Post by jeffolie on Jun 12, 2009 16:33:59 GMT -6
$600B in taxes is the trial balloon. Obama and the Democrats control government and could jam this through depending on the public's violent reaction or merely passive reaction. Very little is certain in the political process of making legislation and much haggling will change the proposal; so, I will wait and see. ======================================================================= House Health-Care Proposal Adds $600 Billion in Taxes June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said. Democrats will work on the bill’s details next week as they struggle through “what kind of heartburn” it will cause to agree on how to pay for revamping the health-care system, Rangel, a New York Democrat, said today. The measure’s cost is reaching well beyond the $634 billion President Barack Obama proposed in his budget request to Congress as a 10-year down payment for the policy changes. Asked whether the cost of a health-care overhaul would be more than $1 trillion over a decade, Rangel said, “the answer is yes.” Some Senate Republicans, including Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, say the costs will likely exceed $1.5 trillion. House Democrats plan to release their legislation next week. Obama is working with Congress to get legislation to his desk by October. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqLNecbH0dcg
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jun 12, 2009 16:58:44 GMT -6
And most of that $600 billion is going into the pockets of private health insurers, so they too can profiteer at the taxpayer's expense.
And where do they plan on "cutting" the $400 billion in Medicare & Medicaid spending?
Oh, yeah, that's right. They're going to do "studies" to determine which treatments are most effective. As if the medical profession doesn't already do hundreds to thousands of these studies each year to determine what treatments are most "effective."
But then, of course, the government really does know more about medicine than all of us dumb-ass doctors, who've foolishly spent so much of our lives in vane, unsuccessfully trying to learn what medical treatments are most effective.
I'm so glad Obama has appointed these new "super-doctors," like Peter Orzag, M.D., to help us less-gifted doctors learn how to do our jobs.
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