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Tom Brokaw Sniffs: Public is 'Very Confused' About Obamacare
Newsbusters ^ | 3/4/10 | Geoffrey Dickens (

Posted on 03/04/2010 3:42:35 PM PST by Nachum

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To: MrChips

Yeah - but I don’t know how to spell some of those long words - but his personality and delivery remind me of a donkey for some reason.


41 posted on 03/04/2010 4:48:32 PM PST by J Edgar
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To: hinckley buzzard

Well now I’ll prolly listen to him more —haven’t watched lamestream news in...15 years now, and feel much better for it.


42 posted on 03/04/2010 4:49:27 PM PST by TokuMei
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To: J Edgar

Well, the truth is, all extreme Leftists are narcissists, wallowing in solipsism (i.e. in the mirror).


43 posted on 03/04/2010 4:52:00 PM PST by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: Nachum

Hey Tom, you are looking very foolish. The American people think this bill stinks. Our eyes are wide open, shame yours are not.

Geesh, what an idiot he is.


44 posted on 03/04/2010 4:55:08 PM PST by dforest
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To: Nachum

I’m not confused, I READ.

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!

OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security, http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html

Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html

Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors

Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463709/posts

MILITARY & Retired MILITARY

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.

The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.


45 posted on 03/04/2010 4:57:03 PM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: MrChips

I believe you are Correcto Mundo in the extreme!


46 posted on 03/04/2010 5:01:19 PM PST by J Edgar
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To: Nachum

Wasn’t it Tom, during the campaign that said he was a little confused because we “really don’t know much about Obama?”


47 posted on 03/04/2010 5:10:50 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (http://www.thepatriotsflag.com - The Patriot's Flag)
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To: Nachum
FUTB.

Know what Obamacare will mean for me?

I am self-employed and I buy my own insurance (with after-tax dollars, which is a disgrace in itself, but I digress). I pay around $320 a month for a high-deductible policy. I'm (touch wood) in good health, don't smoke/drink/take drugs, and I'm happy enough with it.

Under Obamacare, such high-deductible policies are illegal.

Under Obamacare, my policy would be bumped up to include everything: Doctor visits, prescription drugs, etc., all from the first dollar. Of course, my rate would be much higher. I'd be paying double what I pay now, in the mid-$600s a month.

I cannot afford this.

Obamacare would give me the choice between a) paying $7200 a year for insurance or $1000 a year for no insurance. Or going to jail for paying none of the above.

Let me sum up: I am a currently insured person who will be made uninsured because of Obamacare.

48 posted on 03/04/2010 5:26:31 PM PST by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: Nachum

As if we needed more proof of the liberal bias in broadcast news, Brokaw demonstrates just how socialistic he is. How many years did he mislead the American people? He may write about the greatest generation, but he is certainly not part of it.


49 posted on 03/04/2010 5:37:30 PM PST by Nosterrex
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To: Nachum

I guess Tom has much to teach all of us uneducated, ill-informed dolts. < /sarcasm>


50 posted on 03/04/2010 5:46:48 PM PST by az.b1bbomberfxr
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To: hinckley buzzard
Brokaw is a confused stooge who needs his ass kicked until he isn't confused any more.

Maybe five 5 minute rounds in the octagon with Brock Lesnar would do the trick, huh?
51 posted on 03/04/2010 5:50:22 PM PST by az.b1bbomberfxr
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To: az.b1bbomberfxr

I agree...”ass kicked”. That’s the ticket!


52 posted on 03/04/2010 5:54:50 PM PST by hal ogen
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To: Nachum
a reason as to why ObamaCare faces so much opposition

Buy ObamaCare or go to jail. Want more??

Government out of my uterus!!! Want more??

Forced vaccinations or flu shots. Want more??

Socialized medicine. Want more??

Destruction of the best health care system on earth.

53 posted on 03/04/2010 8:21:30 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Message to the Feds: Get your stinkin' mitts off my vitamins!!!)
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