Posted on 05/28/2010 12:25:58 AM PDT by Innovative
As the secretary of health and human services explains it, the government has an obligation to spread the word about the new health-care law. To that end, the department spent millions of dollars printing a glossy brochure and mailing it this week to 40 million Medicare beneficiaries detailing what Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called "the facts."
Republicans see it differently. In Washington's political hothouse, one person's recitation of the facts is another's "gross misuse of taxpayer funds to provide biased information for political purposes."
That's the way Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and several colleagues put it. On the House side, senior Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee have called for an investigation, saying the brochure violates a legal ban on government propaganda.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Not to mention that they are trying to convince seniors to believe Obama, not their own eyes about the coming Medicare cuts.
"The dreaded 21.3% reduction in Medicare reimbursement for physicians will likely take effect June 1 as scheduled following the failure of House and Senate Democrats tonight to pass the necessary legislation to stop it."
Medicare and Double Standards. An ObamaCare mailer tells some howlers
"This week Medicare sent a flyer to seniors, ostensibly to inform them of what ObamaCare "means for you." Many elderly Americans are worried—and rightly so—about where they'll rank in national health care, given that the new entitlement is funded by nearly a half-trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
The larger issue is the White House's view of political opposition. It seems to think its assertions will be true if they are repeated often enough, as long as no one is allowed to disagree."
With health reform, familiarity is breeding contempt
"In closing the deal on health-care reform, Democratic leaders assured wavering legislators that the plan would grow more popular with time as its benefits became clear.
But after a brief bump, support for Democratic health reform has declined. A Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows erosion in the intensity of support. Last month, 23 percent of Americans held "very favorable" views of the law. This month, that figure is 14 percent, with most of the falloff coming among Democrats (Republicans and independents already being skeptical). Other polling reinforces these views.
They explain gutting the Medicare Advantage Plan as “leveling the playing field”, which sounds a lot like the Libspeak phrase “paying your fair share”.
My Aunt, who is in her Eighties and is Blind, likes the extra perks the Medicare Advantage Plan (SCAN) offers. She is very upset about the Obamacare “Solution”.
In the WSJ article I posted, they mention Medicare Advantage and that the Obama brochure is basically lying, and the truth is:
“But that’s not what Medicare’s own actuary thinks. In an April memo, Richard Foster estimated that the $206 billion hole in Advantage will reduce benefits, cause insurers to withdraw from the program and reduce overall enrollment by half. Doug Elmendorf and his team at the Congressional Budget Office came to the same conclusion, as did every other honest expert.”
The most important fact about Obamacare is that it is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care! The people are not bound to comply with an unconstitutional act! People need to remind their Congress critters of this fact!
The healthcare coup has been under the radar lately. But don’t worry—the fat will hit the fan later. I dream of the day when some—much?—of it can be overturned or rolled back. The government’s total incompetence during this oil disaster is just an hors d’oeuvre.
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