do I really have to say it???
Posted on 05/14/2009 3:48:41 PM PDT by freespirited
When she wasn't throwing off new waterboarding revelations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made big news on health care reform -- saying that she was open to imposing new taxes to pay for the vast expansion of publicly-financed coverage.
During Pelosi's Thursday presser, an intrepid reporter broke through the waterboarding din to ask if House Democrats had the "political will" to raise taxes to pay for health care.
"We're putting everything on the table," she said. "We -- we believe that the health care reform that the president is advocating for quality, affordable, accessible health care can be achieved with about -- much of the money that is being spent now, but spent more wisely, in terms of prevention, in terms of early intervention, in terms of information technology, to make health care more affordable, fewer errors, better quality... [I]n the interest of listening to everyone put everything on the table and see what its worth is and whether it's necessary.
She added that the funding for the new system should first be financed by "savings within the system."
Later, during a sitdown with CNBC, interviewer John Harwood asked Pelosi if she was interested in a tax on unhealthy soft drinks -- a "soda tax" proposed by some child nutrition advocates.
"A soda tax is actually a possibility?" Harwood asked.
"Everything [is] on the table," Pelosi replied.
How about Congress sends the bill to Soros?
Didn’t the TOTUS-reader make political hay out of dire warnings McCain would do just this?
These idiots need to look at Europe and how socialized medicine is working over there. Instead why don’t we do the right thing and open up competition, lessen restrictions and mandatory coverages and allow the consumer to pick and choose what kind of coverage they’d like. Consumer choice will lessen costs because of no “mandatory” coverage. Use some common sense Congress, the free-market can work if you’ll only let it.
what that means is:
Veterans Administration hospitals
VA outpatient clinics
Retired military primary care
Active military dependent care
Retired military dependent care
Federal government employee health insurance
Retired federal government employee health insurance
SSA for handicapped persons
Grants to public hospitals
Government financed medical research (either grants, or research laboratories)
SCHIP payments
Nancy's next statement is a non-sequitur. The primary care groups for whom those payments are already made do get preventive medicine 'cause that's the only kind of medical insurance they can get, either from VA or insurance programs accepted into the federal system.
There are no savings there!
Had she thought of cutting taxes to improve prosperity and make revenues soar?
How 'bout Kongress gets off its own health plan and on to the ones we have to use? Then you would see some changes I'll betcha! Retirement plan too.
.....ummm.....no.
How about they get a speaker who can talk straight, without licking her chops all the time.
Dang — at least get the woman a toothpick!!
They want to open up their health plan to you.
As long as you can swing the > 12K premium, you’ll be in.
I hope Satan’s warming up the comfy chair for this beehatch.
do I really have to say it???
“How about they get a speaker who can talk straight”
My thought exactly. What a dumb whore.
It saddens me to think I may have driven past her father, Thomas D’Allesandro (sp?), he owned the real estate my local shopping center was built on and collected the rent.
Typical old fart, he drove an aged blue Cadillac and looked like he was freezing. It wasn’t that cold.
He was just scoping out his investment.
He also brought the St Louis Browns to Baltimore, they are now called the Orioles.
Yep, Mo' mo' mo fo' 0-bammy's crack ho'
bttt
Great. Working Americans who can no longer afford health insurance have to pay for the issuance of those who don’t work and on top of that - pay a fine and now higher taxes.
Why don’t we do eveything we can to punish the working American?
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