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HR3962 "According to the 31-page report, the House-passed bill would increase costs, cut Medicare and expand Medicaid.
“In aggregate, we estimate that for calendar years 2010 through 2019 [national health expenditures] would increase by $289 billion," the report notes.
"About three-fifths" or more than 60 percent of the uninsured would gain coverage by an expansion in Medicaid eligibility.
Medicare would be cut by "more than one-half trillion dollars ($571 billion), … possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries," according to the report, and smaller companies would be "inclined to terminate their existing coverage." ; which is what I was writing the other day on a thread about Medicare for All, that the ObamaRahma Admin is intent on addressing the HI portion of Medicare(the only part of Medicare that has a Problem(the Part ‘A’ part of Medicare) and are doing such via the ‘healthcare reform’ effort.
World leaders back delay to final climate deal ; yeah, just what is needed is more delay.
For the FDIC and taxpayers, United Commercial’s collapse and absorption by East West wasn’t so seamless. The FDIC’s own insurance fund will take a $1.4 billion hit.
United Commercial Bank’s $298.7 million debt to the U.S. Treasury under the Troubled Asset Relief Program was wiped out and the taxpayers’ money was lost, Tolda said.
Obama helping lobbyists weaken offshore tax crackdown Dems passed in 2002 over GOP opposition
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Damn the torpedo’s full speed ahead. Medicare for all.
Hey! If Your Bud G W Bush had privatized Medicare, we all would have been in the markets and lost it all.
Oh, boy. Take money from Medicare and give it to insurance companies. A “W” for Obama.
i was just looking at the new cms report, and it looks like a 10% cut in medicare healthcare costs. haven’t tracked down the changes yet, but that seems like an awful lot.
http://thehill.com/images/stories/whitepapers/pdf/actuary.pdf
I think cuts to Medicare are the big stealth issue in the healthcare debate.
I saw too the article that world leaders would not make any binding commitments at the December Copenhagen conference. This was completely predictable. They seemly don’t care that global climate change is not going to wait while they dither. The current House and Senate bills are pointless for the same reason. They don’t mandate any substantial changes until years, even decades down the road. Meanwhile we have 3 to 5 years in which to act decisively to avoid significant to severe climate effects. Put simply politicians will not act to address climate change either effectively or in a timely manner. We need to start thinking not about preventing climate change (politicians refuse to act) but what its consequences are going to be.
I had not heard about the tax story and will go look at it, thanks.
a bit about the medicare trust fund[s]…
and yeah, i think it’s all about cutting medicare too.