Obamacare – The Greatest Con Job EVER
Do we really have over 216 spineless suckers in Congress that are going to fold like a cheap camera and vote for Obamacare? This is for them:
ALERT: The YES vote for Government Health Care is a “self-executing Vote” come November.
We thought Bernie Madoff was convicted over a large amount of cash. He is a piker.
Remember this? (first posted 8-13-09)
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
Oh, didn’t the White House say that was not true?
PhRMA plans $6 million pro-reform ad buy in 38 House districts
It’s for the Drug companies, not the uninsured or some lady wearing her dead sister’s teeth. CON JOB! Meanwhile, demonize the insurance companies because you want to nationalize all healthcare. When there’s single payer, there are no insurance companies. CON JOB!
Do these congressmen really think working taxpayers are calling them and asking them to vote FOR Obamacare? The pro-obamacare callers get their talking points HERE at ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA. I can’t imagine any doctor, nurse or taxpayer supporting it. Astroturf. One con BIG job.
CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
GIGO (Garbage in = Garbage Out)
Rule = What the rules are when it comes to debating and voting a bill.
Hello… $500 billion of new taxes in this economy? Look over there, nothing to see here! Deficit neutral? Another con job.
Well, they aren’t going to vote for it, they are voting for a rule and are planning on “deeming” the bill passed. That’s one hellava con job.
They don’t have the votes in the house to pass the Senate bill. So they are using a con job called “reconciliation” where they pass the Senate bill and reconcile (fix) it later.
That’s one con job.
They don’t have enough votes in the house to pass the Senate bill. The Congressmen don’t trust the leadership to fix the bill as promised (what’s that tell you?).
SO they aren’t voting on the Senate bill. They are voting on a rule that (this is a twisted. contorted process) contains “fixes” to the Senate bill, and “deeming” that Senate bill passed. They are not voting in the Senate bill, but are planning on pretending that it passed.
And now, on to the CBO score used to sell this snake-oil:
The CBO is supposed to “score” the bill to predict how much a piece of legislation will cost. Well, it all depends on what they are given for facts. President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and the rest of the confidence artists are claiming that Obamacare will be financially sound. It makes no sense.
Insure 30 million people, subsidize insurance for many more, shovel money into the education industrial complex and it’s going to be deficit neutral?
Oh, yes, they are nationalizing student loan banking at the same time.
CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion
The CBO’s most recent analysis is out, and it’s not likely to convince wavering House Democrats to jump to the Obamacare side of the fence. Even the Democrats are granting that the latest version of their proposed health care overhaul would cost $69 billion more than the previous version. According to the CBO, this version would siphon even more money out of Medicare, make even further cuts to Medicare Advantage, and levy even higher taxes and fines on the American people.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and their allies, are cheerfully citing “ten year” costs of $940,000,000,000.00 — apparently believing this to be a far more palatable figure than $1 trillion. But even this colossal tally is like the introductory price quoted by a cell phone provider. It’s the price before you pay for minutes, fees, and overcharges — and before the price balloons after the introductory offer expires.
For a variety of reasons, this tally doesn’t remotely reflect the bill’s real ten-year costs.
Huh. They are deceiving people. Do we really have 218 suckers in Congress?
President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress touted the latest cost projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as evidence that the bill they are attempting to ram through Congress this weekend is fiscally responsible. Some Blue Dog Democrats may try to use the latest projections as an excuse to switch their votes from opposition to support of Obamacare.
But if they do so, the only people they will be fooling are themselves — the public long ago saw through the gimmicks and sleight-of-hand behind the Democratic deficit-cutting claims. Voters know a runaway entitlement program when they see one, and in this case they got some crucial help from Rep. Paul Ryan and others. The bill the Democrats want to pass is a massive federal spending spree, and the claims that it will reduce the deficit do not stand up to scrutiny.
Five Reasons The CBO Figures Are Phony
as the Economist put it, “The CBO is required to pretend to believe many impossible things before breakfast.”
1. Medicare cuts
The Senate health care bill relied heavily on unprecedented cuts in Medicare spending increases. If implemented, this would have a huge impact on seniors’ care. But Congress has always balked at Medicare cuts. (See No. 3).
2. Delayed start
To make the budget math work, Democrats plan on delaying the start of subsidies and other costly provisions for several years. (The bill spends just $17 billion through 2013). The true 10-year cost is far higher.
3. The “doc fix” is excluded
The Sustainable Growth Rate imposes automatic cuts in Medicare payment rates to doctors.
For several years, fearing a revolt by doctors — and seniors — Congress has suspended those cuts. The original draft of the House health care bill included a permanent “doc fix.” But that ballooned deficits, so Democrats dropped it, even though everyone knows Congress isn’t going to slash doctors’ rates. The CBO has estimated a “doc fix” would cost $247 billion over 10 years.
4. Student loans are included
Doctors’ payments are excluded from the health bill, but major student loan program changes are included? Yep. The reconciliation bill will end student loan subsidies to lenders. The CBO says this will save $19.4 billion over the first decade, accounting for virtually all of the $19.8 billion in deficit reduction from the health care reconciliation bill. Reconciliation bills must cut the deficit by at least $1 billion. So, without the non-health care items, the health care reconciliation bill would not pass muster.
5. It’s a CLASS act
In the Senate health bill, a new, voluntary long-term care insurance program called CLASS accounted for some $72 billion of the deficit reduction. The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program is supposed to be deficit-neutral long-term. But Democrats are counting the upfront premium surplus in the short term and ignoring the significant operating deficits after 2029. Update: Democrats also are counting on projected additional Social Security revenues from payroll taxes on higher wages in lieu of lower health benefits. Again, those benefits have to be paid out.
But wait, there’s more! Let’s assume that the cost savings materialize as planned. It still makes the long-term fiscal outlook worse. Why? Democrats are using up a lot of tax hikes, spending cuts and upfront payment just to get barely better than deficit-neutral. That leaves future lawmakers less scope to bring the nation’s finances into order.
It goes on and on. They claim it doesn’t cover abortions. Wrong. They claim it doesn’t cover illegal aliens. They claim you can keep your doctor and insurance…
Oh, and all negotiations were going to be broadcast on CSPAN!HAHAHAHAhahaha!!!
It appears that the ends justify the means, the truth doesn’t matter. All they care about is a path to single-payer.
Gotta laugh:
Seriously. “Death panels” is a cute name for government employed decision makers.
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