Posted on 03/27/2010 2:43:45 PM PDT by tsmith130
We wrote here about the consequences of Obamacare that are beginning to be felt, even before its provisions are implemented: Caterpillar said Obamacare will cost it an additional $100 million in the first year; Medtronic warned that the new tax on its products "could force it to lay off a thousand workers;" Verizon told its employees that it "will likely have to cut healthcare benefits to offset the new costs;" and AT&T announced that it will record a $1 billion non-cash expense in the first quarter and "will be evaluating prospective changes to the active and retiree health care benefits offered by the company."
These announcements are the tip of the iceberg; hundreds like them will follow as Obamacare becomes a reality. Congressional Democrats, evidently stung by the bad publicity, are trying to strike back. A reader writes:
Although the letter “requests” their personal appearance before the committee, it appears to demand all the backup accounting data and analysis. If I were the CEO’s here, I would delay until the last minute and then accept the invitation to appear. I would have the requested documentation delivered the morning of their scheduled testimony. Then show up with a Power Point presentation that catches the Dems totally unprepared.
Some of them appear to be intelligent, but the audacity of their lies is driving everyone to the brink. They expect us to believe that a massive new entitlement program with 30 million newly-insured patients and all chronic pre-existing conditions (aka cancer patients) will save money and lower the deficit while increasing quality of care. I’ll bet most kindergardners can do the math on that one.
AND they expect us to believe that they can do all that magic without raising taxes!
In their party poop floats to the top!
As I keep telling people the only ones that will benefit from Obamacare are the offshore doctors and hospitals that will be providing healthcare. People will not get the true impact of this disaster until they have to stand in line to find out that they will have to wait 6 months before they can actually have their tooth extracted. The only choice they will have is to go to the Caribbean or Mexico. And by then it will be too late.
It would be nice if only those people that voted for Obama would have to stand in line. All those people that did not vote for Obama could continue their insurance coverage as usual. Wouldn’t that be great.
“How do we deny that we are socialist already?”
This lady can tell you how,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwGVDmEsi8A
Both are blood suckers and ugly as well. But I will take the bat over Waxman any day.
Komrade Kommandant
FDR ripping business and capitalists- 1935
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2185147/posts
Facts matter not to the entitlement crowd that neither works nor pays taxes now; they cannot be made to see the truth.
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