Pelosi's 1,990 Page Monstrosity

What do you get from a 1,990 page monstrosity crafted by Speaker Pelosi to nationalize medicine? Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) answers that question on the House floor: premium increases, tax increases, and Medicare cuts to pay for a $1 trillion bill to insert a bureaucrat between you and your doctor. After President Obama and Speaker Pelosi got their $787 billion stimulus, what happened? Unemployment went up. Why follow that model for health care? Republicans have offered a targeted alternative. To learn more visit http://kingston.house.gov/healthcare

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• health care reform
• Speaker Pelosi
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• Medicare

[SAMMYJS991]

this November, this November.

ms. botox will be out.

[Boomer1949]

Thanks for the information but I don't see a major problem once we bring home all the military from all over the world and stop the two wars, clean up the incentives to double up on test and procedures and fraud in the Medicare system. The doc fees are the major reason doc won't take medicate in the first place. I'm a baby boomer and I don't want to have to accept some quack because competent doc don't get paid enough.

[littlemisspissy]

So, how's that "Hope & Change" working out for you?

[bigtex501]

H.R. 3962 & "DOC FIX" Legislation CBO.. NET INCREASE in FED DEFICITS.. $425 BILLION in Medicaid & CHIP $605 BILLION in FED Subsidies SUB TOTAL.. $1,055 billion in subsidies by exchanges & related spending! + $245 BILLION "DOC FIX" = $1.3 TRILLION TOTAL! Offsets - $167 billion in penalties paid by individuals & employers 10 years. NET reduction in fed budget deficits of $104 billion over 2010-2019 period With "DOC FIX" GRAND TOTAL of Health Care Proposal? $ 1,196,000,000,000.00!

[bigtex501]

$245 BILLION "DOC FIX" Legislation

Sen. Stabenow (D-Mich)

"Dem leaders hoped to PASS THE PROPOSAL QUICKLY, so as to DISASSOCIATE it from the larger health reform proposal."

"Were doing the doc fix (formula to pay doctors treating Medicare patients) first so as not to get it confused with health care reform," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said.

"Were going to try to pass it as an emergency-type of spending so that it DOESNT CONNECT to the health care reform bill & FIGURE IN AS A COST OF IT."

[Dax1]

Affirmative! Pelosi is a national embarrassment and DISGRACE!

[MrKenpon]

If folks think MHOs are bad, just wait. If this Pelosi, et al, crap is forced onto America; well, you just ain't seen nothing yet.