Posted on 03/23/2010 7:00:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why does Barack Obama need a White House communications staff, when he such such an obscenely compliant media that will happily carry his water on virtually every policy matter?
Great quote, bttt.
Inadvertantly used one of my favorite puns...
This is written by a snarky liberal. Who does he think doctors are, all 30 years olds? No many are 45+ years, have made money and still can be earn living outside of their practice. Many can and will cut out if they are put in a position where their earnings do not reflect their work.
Brilliant!
The liberal mentality: Fight those damned facts with lies.
“The Congressional Budget Office—which is probably the most reliable, nonpartisan number-crunching outfit in Washington”
LOL.
The fact is that the charade of collecting taxes for four years, before any “benefits” kick in is a massive charade that people still do not understand.
The Congress is not collecting premiums for four years and banking them to pay for future benefits; the money that is collected will be spent, and when it is time to start paying for those benefits in 2914, the cries for a new funding source will be overwhelming.
Charles Krauthammer was talking about this very thing, and in his view this will drive making a National Value Added Tax (VAT) one of the major issues for the 2012 Presidential race...
The U Snews is hardly a reliable source these days. All they do is report the Obama mantra!
2914 s/b 2014...
SURE!! What could POSSIBLY be wrong with an unconstitutional fraud designed to enslave 300 million people, confiscate tax dollars for the treatment of Mexicans, increase the abortion rate and imprison anyone who disagrees??!!!
#2 The CBO can only comment on the scenario presented to them. They were no more told the truth than I can raise and fly on my own.
They're gonna steal from the Medicare fund....after I've put into it for 45 years?? and cut my benefits, too.
AND I'M STILL PAYING!!!!
USA today doing their part.
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Peeing on our leg.
Telling us it it raining.
Yesterday there was an article with a detailed description of the process by which all of these insurance companies are going to collapse. The basis of it was two-fold:
1. The "penalty" that would be assessed by the Federal government for people who fail to buy insurance is far less than the insurance premiums many people now pay.
2. The new mandate for insurance carriers to accept all new clients regardless of pre-existing conditions eliminates almost all of the risk someone faces when they go without insurance. In fact, it turns the whole concept of "medical insurance" into a farce. This bill has created a scenario equivalent to one that allows people to drive their cars without any insurance coverage and then force an insurance company to write a policy for them AFTER they get involved in an accident.
The author of that article was already starting to advise his self-employed clients to drop their medical insurance, pay the "penalty" every year, and simply put aside the difference between the penalty and the insurance premiums in a rainy-day fund of sorts.
wow...the author just gives his predictions of the future based on his liberal bias under the guise of fact
I’m with you. And, when they are proven to be wrong will they write about that?
Insurance companies will be told by the government what products they can sell, where they can sell them, and for how much. AND the Pay Czar will dictate how much every employee of the company can be paid.
Modest involvement?
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