Remember this?
Maneuvering to boost prospects for sweeping health care legislation, Senate Democrats hope first to win quick approval for a bill that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade but raises federal deficits in the process, officials said Wednesday.
By creating a two-bill approach, Democrats intend to claim the more comprehensive health care measure meets President Barack Obama’s conditions — that it will neither add to deficits nor exceed $900 billion in costs over 10 years.
If approved and signed into law, the legislation would avert a 21 percent reduction in Medicare fees paid to doctors that is scheduled to take effect in January as well as additional cuts in future years.
~~~The bill to restore planned Medicare cuts for doctors was introduced without fanfare in the Senate on Tuesday and set aside for swift floor action next week, rather than sent to the Senate Finance Committee for hearings as would normally be the case.
~~~…the decision to move quickly and apart from the health care bill was made in consultation with the White House. House Democratic leaders were also involved in the discussions.
Transparency my ass.
This is a blatant lie to the American citizen about the cost of ObamaCare because once you add this to the costs the pricetag moves up to 1.1 trillion, increasng the deficit.
Interestingly and hardly coincidentally, this only came to light after the Finance Committee asked for CBO scoring on Baucus’ summary.
~~~There simply is no other interpretation possible. Baucus submitted a summary with reimbursement rates he knew would be false to gain favorable CBO scoring, while his colleagues changed the reimbursement rates via legislative sleight-of-hand.
I’ll say it again, transparency my ass. Lying to the American public to get support for a bill is something the left would of went apes&*t over if Bush had done it but with Obama in office Reid and company are helping him commit this lie.
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Insert very big yawn here! I do hope that the majority of the unenlightened who voted for this politician-as-usual-only-worse have waken and now understand that style does NOT equate nor even surpass substance. I’d love to see him impeached but then we are left with Biden and Pelosi… how many impeachments would fit on the head of a pin (pin head???).
Careful when you point out President O’Dumbo, Peeeeloshi, and Reids’s lies. They’ll send the jackboots from SEIU to pound on your head.
Huff & Puff wants Biden to resign. Wonder who she has in mind for his replacement. You can bet it would be a really left wing radical, maybe the brother of Hugo Chavez if he has one, or anyone willing to wear a hood over their head while they have sex with a fugugly left wing democrat, male or female doesn’t matter.
The Jurassic Media will jump right on this blatant violation of Obama’s campaign promise in 3…2…
This bill still hasn’t been written.
It should be clear to anyone with an ounce of understanding of history and how Washington works that the promises made for fiscal responsiblity under Obama Care ARE A JOKE!
And worse still, Obama violates yet another campaign promise by carrying on all these negotiations in secret instead of on C-SPAN as he promised repeatedly during the campaign:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/517/health-care-reform-public-sessions-C-SPAN/
Anyone who believes that ObamaCare will be deficit neutral IS A FOOL!
Mike… right on! NOTHING that our dear leaders ever do is for the good of the people. If they can’t profit from it, then they aren’t interested. I’d love to be able to get rid of Pelosi. Maybe we chould community organize in San Fran… import bench warmers and vote this atrocity out of office!
The, I woke up! Geez, I hate these recurring nightmares…. I mean… Reid… Pelosi… Murtha… Rangle… Dodd… Boxer…Schumer…. who can sleep through that?
“Transparency will be our touchstone.” Translation: we won’t have any of that.
Does anyone on the left have even a nodding acquaintance with the truth?