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By: Attractive Nuisance » Blog Archive » I Am The Mob

Attractive Nuisance » Blog Archive » I Am The Mob — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:43:23 +0000

[...] branch, has projected that the ObamaCare proposals current under consideration in Congress will cost hundreds of billions of dollars just in the first decade (to say nothing of the long term), which Congress proposes to partially offset with unrelated tax [...]

By: CBO Gives New House ObamaCare Analysis « The IUSB Vision Weblog

CBO Gives New House ObamaCare Analysis « The IUSB Vision Weblog — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:26:00 +0000

[...] (Hat Tip Hotair.com) [...]

By: CBO pans health care reform, yet again « Internet Scofflaw

CBO pans health care reform, yet again « Internet Scofflaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:25:53 +0000

[...] The blows keep coming. The bill’s $239 billion cost over 10 years is the good news. The bad news is what comes after the first ten [...]

By: Another Free-Market Approach to Health Care Reform | The Patriot's Mind

Another Free-Market Approach to Health Care Reform | The Patriot's Mind — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:55:44 +0000

[...] better health care, our health care in the US is the best in the world. The problem is that it is too expensive and that there are about 15 million who can’t get insurance because of pre-existing [...]

By: taznar

taznar — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:13:58 +0000

I keep telling people its either going to come out of the line on your paycheck labeled “Federal Income Tax Withheld” or “Health Insurance Premium”. Obama can try to hide it any way he wants, but either way you’re going to be paying more and getting less if Obama has his way.

By: holygoat

holygoat — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:13:10 +0000

I want people wealthier than me to pay for my health care. So far, I’m not impressed with the house version.

However, I do want people wealthier than me to pay for my health care.

WashJeff on July 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM

Awesome. The best translation of AnninCA yet.

By: shuzilla

shuzilla — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:43:43 +0000

“Combining those provisions, increases in health care spending in excess of the rate of growth in income would be borne entirely by the federal government in the form of higher subsidy payments—because those payments would have to cover the entire difference between the total premium for insurance coverage and the capped amount that enrollees would pay.”

Yep. We’re seeing the crumbling of an epic housing bubble fuled by the simultaneous increases in demand through expanding ownership opportunity and expanded access to credit. we can clearly see how inflationary those two factors became.

Now that many millions are losing jobs, and tens of millions more are losing credit lines and reducing debt, and the home equity ATM is shut down, there is an air of deflation. If the general population paid for their healthcare out of pocket, then health care costs would have to deflate proportionately. That means medical personnel, lab technicians and insurance staff taking it in the chin with the rest of us.

Instead, this plan just repeats the housing bubble mistakes but with health care. We begin with medical costs that have already outpaced income and then add expanded access and Uncle Sam’s charge card. So inflation in the health sector is guaranteed even as most other sectors experience deflation.

By: geckomon

geckomon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:33:49 +0000

ObamaCare thugs, meet Elliot Ness.

By: FireBlogger

FireBlogger — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:32:36 +0000

I am close to seeing a lifetime dream here. It may be imperfect, for sure, but I do want to see this.
AnninCA on July 27, 2009 at 1:09 PM

I’m sorry, I usually don’t respond to trollish drama queens but I have to this time.

Your ridiculous posts today remind me of a line in Shawshank Redemption when inmate Andy Dufresne, baffled by the actions of Warden Norton says to him, “Don’t be so obtuse”.
Anna, stop with the Warden Norton impressions here.

By: burt

burt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:48:10 +0000

I wonder when those public servants who actually serve the public will start getting concrete boots, an old Chicago pastime, instead of merely getting fired?

By: There Are Only So Many Funny Titles One Can Come Up With For Posts About Health Care. This Isn’t One Of Them. « Around The Sphere

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:32:42 +0000

[...] must be getting very tired of the Congressional Budget Office. Rich links to a good Ed Morrissey post on the CBO’s latest blow for truth in the health care debate. It’s worth emphasizing how [...]

By: DaMav

DaMav — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:02:24 +0000

Cue up the Al Gore puppet for a big fat unnuanced, “He LIED to us! Obama LIED to us about his healthcare plan saving money!”

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:49:59 +0000

Get the government the f**k out of healthcare.

By: Jed_Eckert

Jed_Eckert — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:46:31 +0000

So you also imagined a health care system that denies care to special needs, and handicapped people? I think the nazi’s did the same thing in Germany at one time. capejasmine on July 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM They also voted for hope and change to get rid of the Weimar Republic. From Wikipedia:The Nazi party owed its huge increase to an influx of workers, unemployed, despairing peasants, and middle-class people. The millions of radical adherents at first forced the Party towards the Left. They wanted a renewed Germany and a new organisation of German society.

By: drjohn

drjohn — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:36:51 +0000

They’re going to find that the current system is by far the most efficient.

Without killing Grandma.

Just watch.

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:31:22 +0000

PLEASE AnninCA!

Put down the Hopium pipe.

The future of HA depends on it.

ARRRRGGGHHHHH!

By: leftnomore

leftnomore — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:28:48 +0000

Look at the bright side. If this passes and the services worsen, the Democratic party will be obliterated for a generation. Think of all the great legislation we can get through! PASS IT! PASS IT!
:’/

By: bloviator

bloviator — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:28:02 +0000

I am close to seeing a lifetime dream here. It may be imperfect, for sure, but I do want to see this.

AnninCA on July 27, 2009 at 1:09 PM

free gubmint cheese…. we wants it, my precious.

By: leftnomore

leftnomore — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:24:37 +0000

I completely disagree with the GOP on this issue. No if’s and’s or but’s.

AnninCA on July 27, 2009 at 1:10 PM

Ann, I want the attention you get. Except for being rational.

By: The Anchoress — A First Things Blog

The Anchoress — A First Things Blog — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:22:55 +0000

[...] Be troubled by this sort of thuggery. And by this astonishing number the press ignores. It, and the firing of Inspectors General who dare to look too closely at things, and of course ACORN’s shady way should concern us a lot. Thank God a few people in government are still doing their jobs. [...]

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:20:25 +0000

I think Obama has blown this big-time. He basically let the idiots in Congress turn this into some kind of odd circus.

I never thought he was the one to push this through. I always thought Hillary was the one.

This public option is a passion of mine. I totally support it.

It makes me ill to see what’s happening.

AnninCA on July 27, 2009 at 12:39 PM

Ann,

Why are you so sadistic?

Why do you want to euthanize older people?

You are a pain/pleasure lib who wants to make themselves FEEL good by simply passing a bill to force happiness on everybody.

It doens’t work that way.

Why don’t you admit it that you are against humnanity?

You are so messed up in the head.

We already have two incredibly wastful government healthcare programs.

Why would you want to have the government get between doctors and their patients and tell them what they can and can’t do?

Could you just once on this site use your head and THINK this through?

By: Fighton03

Fighton03 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:19:53 +0000

1. Move the insurance deduction from business to individuals.
2. Prohibit any federal funding of health care beyond X date. Vetrans Admin excepted

Problem solved.

I’d rather the government pay old folks diretly and let 1/2 of it get stolen than feed a bureaucracy.

Partisan on July 27, 2009 at 1:55 PM

we have a winner! get rid of third party pay and you’ll she healthcare charges REALLY change.

By: Fighton03

Fighton03 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:16:05 +0000

It makes me ill to see what’s happening.

AnninCA on July 27, 2009 at 12:39 PM

get used to it if the gov’t gets further into healthcare.

By: Fighton03

Fighton03 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:14:43 +0000

How much do you want us to give?

DFCtomm on July 27, 2009 at 1:30 PM

They only answer ‘more’….

By: capejasmine

capejasmine — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:14:07 +0000

Oh, and Ann? I don’t think Obamacare covers breast augmentations, liposuction, or face lifts. We reserve those tax dollars for Biden, and Pelosi, and Hillary! Waddle tucks are getting so expensive.