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Originally Posted by bballjunkie
I know there is NOT ONE member of Congress who has read that bill in totality and I bet Hussein and Joe haven't either.
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By his own admission, the occupant of the White House was unfamiliar with a section when recently asked a question about it.
Here's a gem :
As noted in a recent CNSNews.com video report, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, questioned the point of reading a health care bill:
“I love these members of Congress that get up and say, ‘Read the bill.’ What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” – from CNSNews.com, at National Press Club (July 27, 2009)
BTW : this same fellow, is one of the lunatics promoting hate crime and hate speech.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A few links :
H.R.3200
America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)
Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress):
H.R.3200: America's Affordable Health Choices... OpenCongress
Effects on Private Coverage and the Uninsured
• 48 percent of privately insured Americans would transition out of private insurance. Of the estimated
172.5 million people with private health insurance, there would be a decline of
83.4 million people with private coverage.
• 56 percent of Americans with employer-based coverage would lose their current insurance. Of the estimated
158.1 million Americans with employer-based coverage,
88.1 million people would be shifted out of their current employer-based plan.
• 80 percent of Americans in a health insurance exchange would end up in the public plan. Of the estimated
129.6 million people who would obtain coverage through an exchange,
103.4 million people would be covered by the public plan.
• 34 percent of the uninsured in America would still lack coverage. Of the estimated
49.1 million people without health insurance, the legislation would only reduce the uninsured by
32.6 million people, leaving
16.5 million people without coverage.
Effects on Physicians and Hospitals
• Physicians would see their payment levels
decline by $31.7 billion as a consequence of the new public plan. While physician net income may increase under the bill primarily due to other Medicare changes, a public plan with Medicare-based payments would lower reimbursements. Today, Medicare physician payments are, on average, 81 percent of private payments.
• Hospitals could see their net annual income
fall by $61.9 billion, which roughly eliminates hospital total margins. This significant loss in hospital income is also overwhelmingly attributable to the public plan using Medicare-based payments. Today, Medicare hospital payments are, on average, 68 percent of private payments.
Obama Health Care Plan - Rapid Response | The Heritage Foundation
re : illegal aliens
Granted, it's only one issue, but they fully intend to make it so illegal aliens will recieve government subsidized healthcare. That's called aiding and abetting.
Contact :
US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
re :
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
. . Last week, ********* Obama spilled the beans on the Today Show that he had met with CBO director Douglas Elmendorf – just as the number-crunchers were casting ruinous doubt on White House cost-saving claims. Yes, question the timing. The CBO is supposed to be a neutral score-keeper – not a water boy for the White House. But when the meeting failed to stop the CBO from issuing more analysis undercutting the health care savings claims, Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag played the heavy.
Orszag warned the CBO in a public letter that it risked feeding the perception that it was “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/29/bully-boys-a-brief-history-of-white-house-thuggery/
That's quite an accusation by the White House. I'm sure the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) would appreciate any support of it being smeared like this, and being subjected to this awkward breach of ethics.
Contact :
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
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