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How About a Good Faith Gesture?

July 25th, 2009 at 10:43 am by Cranky

The Obama Healthcare Road Show is touring this great country of ours selling promises of happy children complete with their tonsils. But an increasing number of Americans are calling BS.

Having already proved that he doesn’t read bills line by line looking for waste and his watchful sidekick Sheriff Joe turned out to have the diligence of a $6/hr rent-a-cop, Obama audaciously tells us that the new heathcare will be revenue neutral.

President Obama premised the need for reform on the claim that medical costs are destroying the economy. True. But now we learn – surprise! – that universal coverage increases costs. The congressional Democrats’ health care plans, says the CBO, increase costs in the range of $1 trillion plus.

In response. the President retreated to a demand that any bill he sign be revenue neutral. But that’s classic misdirection: If the fierce urgency of health care reform is to radically reduce costs that are producing budget-destroying deficits, revenue neutrality (by definition) leaves us on precisely the same path to insolvency that Obama himself declares unsustainable.

One of the supposed areas of savings was to fix inefficiencies in Medicaid and use those saving to fund Obamacare. Here is why that won’t happen. Check out the homunculus from Hollywood (sirloin tip Director Blue):

As Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee Waxman is a key leader in Congress on all matters health. When he led the Committee’s subcommittee on health from 1984-1994, Waxman was responsible for aggressive expansions of Medicaid which are now bankrupting states. Today spending on Medicaid exceeds outlays on K-12 education in most states.

And even as Waxman has championed the massive expansion of government-run health care, he has repeatedly ignored efforts to pursue fraudulent activity in Medicaid – a program over which he has full jurisdiction.

So why do you think that is? Oh yeah, because screw you Middle Class.

In the Democrats’ now-failed $787 billion stimulus bill, Waxman demanded provisions that eliminated citizenship, identity, income, and asset verification requirements for Medicaid enrollees in hopes of ensuring that millions of illegal aliens would receive taxpayer-funded healthcare services. We Americans will post our largest-ever budget deficit this year. And Waxman is determined to spend your money on recipients it was never intended for.

So if Obama really wants to sell the plan, I suggest that he make one, just one, gesture that would appeal to the center. Why not make real cuts to Medicare and Medicaid fraud as part of the proposal rather than a vaporous “yeah, we’ll get to it later” promise like we saw in “comprehensive immigration reform”? Or, I don’t know, how about leaving in provisions that the healthcare we pay for is limited to the people who actually pay for it?

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Snapped Shot Says:
July 25th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Hyping Your Own Report As Authenticity For Your Position…

… and the media dutifully reports it as factual news.

The news shows The One Pres Obamassiah (pbuh) going around trying to build support for his bill that will nationalize the American way of health care. Amazingly enough, he is hyping his own re…

How About a Good Faith Gesture?

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