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Offline Jeffy

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Obamacare to lower costs?
« on: August 22, 2010, 06:26:21 PM »
Oh wait.... the administration isn't even going to spin it this way anymore. 

http://www.theweeklystandard.com/blogs/leaked-white-house-memo-advises-democrats-how-spin-obamacare

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Politico has released a piece  that begins as follows: "Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to 'improve it.'"  This is a truly remarkable sentence. Legislation that the Congressional Budget Office says would cost about $2.5 trillion in its real first decade (2014 to 2023) wouldn't do the one thing that Americans most want out of health-care legislation:  cut health care costs. It wouldn't, despite the administration's repeated claims to the contrary, cut deficits. But, on the bright side, it can (allegedly) be improved. That's an amazingly tepid claim to make on behalf of something with Obamacare's price tag.


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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2010, 09:30:21 AM »
Oh wait.... the administration isn't even going to spin it this way anymore. 

http://www.theweeklystandard.com/blogs/leaked-white-house-memo-advises-democrats-how-spin-obamacare

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Politico has released a piece  that begins as follows: "Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to 'improve it.'"  This is a truly remarkable sentence. Legislation that the Congressional Budget Office says would cost about $2.5 trillion in its real first decade (2014 to 2023) wouldn't do the one thing that Americans most want out of health-care legislation:  cut health care costs. It wouldn't, despite the administration's repeated claims to the contrary, cut deficits. But, on the bright side, it can (allegedly) be improved. That's an amazingly tepid claim to make on behalf of something with Obamacare's price tag.

OMG!!!, I totally didn't see that coming.  Adding a bunch of sick people to the insurance pool and creating a huge bureaucracy around it doesn't save money!?!?  This is astounding!

The guy is in so far over his head he can't tell up from down.

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Re: Obamacare to lower costs?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2010, 05:19:39 PM »
funny how the lib'tards will argue to the death over religion, but facts about economic monstrosities like the healthcare bill.... crickets   :opcat:

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Re: Obamacare to lower costs?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2010, 09:12:03 PM »
Gonna be honest, I feel kinda misled by the Dems on this one.  Wasn't this plan part of the deficit reduction plan they were promoting?

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Re: Obamacare to lower costs?
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2010, 09:12:55 PM »
funny how the lib'tards will argue to the death over religion, but facts about economic monstrosities like the healthcare bill.... crickets   :opcat:

Freedom of religion and speech don't require facts and statistics to argue, which is why those arguments are their bread and butter.