Democrats Played Fast And Loose With Cost Estimates
Dec 26, 2009 Political
The Democrats used DC math to get estimates from the CBO to meet the requirements set forth by Obama in reference to health care costs. Democrats claim that the health care overhaul will save money but they apply so called savings to two different items. It is physically impossible to use “saved” money, in its entirety, for two different things.
The Congressional Budget Office challenged claims by health-care overhaul proponents that Medicare savings in Senate legislation would help finance expanded coverage and postpone the bankruptcy of the medical program for the elderly.
The nonpartisan agency said the $246 billion it projected the legislation would save Medicare can’t both finance new programs and help pay future expenses for elderly covered under the federal program.
Nor could those savings be used to extend the solvency of Medicare, set to run out of money in 2017, the budget office said in a letter to Senate Republicans. Bloomberg
The Democrats could have done this on purpose or it could be a mistake because no one has any idea what this bill contains. They just wanted to get something passed so they could claim a victory and go home. I am betting it was done on purpose with the hope that no one would notice because they like to use funny math in DC. The way they manage a budget would bankrupt any private business and land CEOs in jail.
Senator Sessions said it best:
“What we’ve seen is a colossal manipulation” by Democrats “of the accounting scores of CBO” and the independent actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, said Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, the Republican who requested the analysis from CBO. He called the letter “a potential game-changer.”
This would be a game changer if Democrats cared about costs. They have manipulated this entire process to give the impression that their overhaul saves money when it will, in fact, cost trillions of dollars, money we do not have.
The only thing I can see facing Democrats during their time off is a lot of grief from constituents who are fed up with the games being played.
We can’t really blame them too much though. They spent so much of our money buying votes (something that would land us in jail) that they needed to show savings someplace.
They just got caught this time…
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Tags: cbo, cost lies, fuzzy math, health care bill
The Mother Of All Health Care Bills
Oct 20, 2009 Political
The Senate Finance Committee filed its health care bill today and it is designated as S. 1796. The monstrosity of a bill contains 1,502 pages meaning it has about 500 more than any previous version that has been debated.
The members of Congress have shown they are unable to read bills that are this big. They admitted that they did not read the stimulus bill that weighed in around 1,200 pages and they did not read the thousand plus page cap and trade bill. Given their admission that they cannot read large bills one would think that they would make smaller bills.
But if they did that the smoke and mirrors would be gone. They would have something to read and the public would be able to digest the information more easily. However, the public’s interests are not an issue as the health care bill is a dream of Democrats intent on taking control of every aspect of our lives.
The bill has not yet been added to the web and it is unlikely that it will be posted with enough time for people to read it and express their opinions to their elected officials.
This is all by design. They are making these things more and more difficult so they can blow smoke up the collective rear ends of all Americans. These criminals are bound and determined to push this on us regardless of what we think. Fortunately, some Democrats are expressing concern over some of the contents of this thing.
The people in Congress have a very short time left. The next election is just about a year away and I see a bloodbath taking place. People are fed up with the careless manner with which this bunch is operating and have had quite enough. Even Nancy Pelosi is polling very low in her home state.
Hold their feet to the fire on this. We can win if we keep up the pressure but they must understand the consequences of their actions.
Vote them out. That is the only way short of an armed revolution to get anything accomplished.
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Politico
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Tags: deception, health care bill, lies, monstrosity, smoke and mirrors