Suicidal Democrat congressmen rubber-stamp Obama healthcare
Dionysus
HEAD: Obamacare Endorsements: What the Bribe Was
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama
healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the '09
elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the
AARP to stimulate support. But these � and the other endorsements � his
package has received are all bought and paid for.
Here are the deals:
The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in
physicians' reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the
cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring
annual 5 percent to 6 percent reductions in doctor reimbursements for
treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year Congress has rolled the cuts
over, suspending them but not repealing them. So each year, the accumulated
cuts threaten doctors. By now, they have risen to 21 percent. With this
blackmail leverage, Obama compelled the AMA to support his bill...or else!
The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the
healthcare bill. Over the past decade, the AARP has morphed from an advocacy
group to an insurance company (through its subsidiary company). It is one of
the main suppliers of Medi-gap insurance, a high-cost, privately purchased
coverage that picks up where Medicare leaves off. But President Bush-43
passed the Medicare Advantage program, which offered a subsidized,
lower-cost alternative to Medi-gap. Under Medicare Advantage, the elderly
get all the extra coverage they need plus coordinated, well-managed care,
usually by the same physician. So more than 10 million seniors went with
Medicare Advantage, cutting into AARP Medi-gap revenues.
Presto! Obama solved their problem. He eliminates subsidies for Medicare
Advantage. The elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap, but
the AARP -- which supposedly represents them -- will make more money. (If
this galls you, join the American Seniors Association, the alternative
group; contact sba...@americanseniors.org. This e-mail address is being
protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .)
The drug industry backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of
$80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (A drop in the bucket of
their almost $3 trillion projected cost over the next decade.) They also got
administration assurances that it will continue to bar lower-cost Canadian
drugs from coming into the U.S. All it had to do was put its formidable
advertising budget at the disposal of the administration.
Insurance companies got access to 40 million potential new customers. But
when the Senate Finance Committee lowered the fine that would be imposed on
those who don't buy insurance from $3,500 to $1,500, the insurance companies
jumped ship and now oppose the bill, albeit for the worst of motives.
The only industry that refused to knuckle under was the medical device
makers. They stood for principle and wouldn't go along with Obama's
blackmail. So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on
medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents,
prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary
accoutrements of healthcare.
So these endorsements are not freely given, but bought and paid for by an
administration that is intent on passing its program at any cost.
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Capitalists or co-conspirators?
"... anybody who thinks that the government can do healthcare better than
the private sector just really hasn�t lived in the real world�--Senator
Orrin Hatch
"It's not a Trojan horse, it's just right there! I'm telling you, we're
going to get there." --Jacob Hacker (chief hack-Socialist Doctors For
America) on government takeover of the medical system
"Government is not a fair competitor...it's a predator" --senator Charles
Grassley
No Surrender!
Dionysus
Michael Coburn
> FROM NEWSMAX
>
> HEAD: Obamacare Endorsements: What the Bribe Was By: Dick Morris &
> Eileen McGann
>
>
> As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama
> healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the '09
> elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the
> AARP to stimulate support. But these – and the other endorsements – his
> package has received are all bought and paid for.
>
> Here are the deals:
>
> The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in
> physicians' reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill
> the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law
> requiring annual 5 percent to 6 percent reductions in doctor
> reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year
> Congress has rolled the cuts over, suspending them but not repealing
> them.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The putrid, sick, spineless REPUBLICANS refused to do their jobs in years
one through three thus compounding the problem and dumping it on the
Democrats. The usual borrow and weasel Republican methodology.
> So each year, the accumulated cuts threaten doctors. By now, they
> have risen to 21 percent. With this blackmail leverage, Obama compelled
> the AMA to support his bill...or else!
Yep. The Democrats threatened to actually do what was supposed to have
been done by the slime ball chicken shit Republicans.
The Insurance companies are NOT happy with this legislation at all. It
is unfortunate that the Senate is bought and paid for by the lobby in
this country. The ONLY way to defeat any particular lobby group is to
use the other lobby groups against it. This is called "reality". It is
not something that moonbats or rightards are willing to understand.
The solution to the Senate problem is first to end the cloture rule via
"nuclear option" and then the repeal of the 17th amendment. This will
end the control of the lobby over the Senate.
--
"Those are my opinions and you can't have em" -- Bart Simpson
Lamont Cranston
> FROM NEWSMAX
>
Newsmax? ROTFL!
Straightarrow
wrote:
> Dumbfuck Limpy Denis wrote:
> > FROM NEWSMAX
>
> Newsmax? ROTFL!
Lamont Cranston !!?? ROTGDFLMMFAO !!!!
Dionysus
"Econotron" <nor...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Dionysus" <no.sur...@never.net> wrote in message
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> wavering
> Democrats that there would be no more elections :-)
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Now that's funny; too bad so few here will get the joke. Good on you, e.
No surrender!
Dionysus
> e.
>
>
>
Econotron
>
> "Econotron" <nor...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:oI6Km.18919$X01....@newsfe07.iad...
>> "Dionysus" <no.sur...@never.net> wrote in message
>> news:ZIKdnYboB9g2xmXX...@giganews.com...
>>> FROM NEWSMAX
>>>
>>> HEAD: Obamacare Endorsements: What the Bribe Was
>>> By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
>>>
>>>
>>> As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama
>>> healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the '09
>>> elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the
>>> Orrin Hatch
>>>
>>> "It's not a Trojan horse, it's just right there! I'm telling you, we're
>>> going to get there." --Jacob Hacker (chief hack-Socialist Doctors For
>>> America) on government takeover of the medical system
>>>
>>> "Government is not a fair competitor...it's a predator" --senator
>>> Charles
>>> Grassley
>>>
>>> No Surrender!
>>>
>>>
>> In addition to the above, Obama and Pelosi managed to convince some
>> wavering
>> Democrats that there would be no more elections :-)
> ************
> Now that's funny; too bad so few here will get the joke. Good on you, e.
>
> No surrender!
>
fellow panelists on the looney left, such as Howling Hal and Single-digit
Sid, with their future arguments, by providing them some mental exercise :-)
e.
Tim Crowley
> FROM NEWSMAX
Buahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
thanks for the laugh, traitor.