The Big Con Game

How can the establishment media and the Democrats say the Baucus Bill scored well and is cost positive health care legislation? By running a con game, of course

Yesterday, the CBO scored the Senate’s version of Health Care, the Baucus bill. The verdict: the bill will cost $829 billion yet knock $81 billion off the federal deficit. How does an $800 billion plus program save $81 billion dollars?

Does that make sense to you?

CBO also 'concluded' the bill would eventually insure an additional 29 million people. Putting aside the millions that would be left without coverage (wasn't that we were told was the point to all this pain?), napkin math suggests that our government is proposing covering them at the bargin rate of $27,586, a year, each.

And that's assuming that they're somehow going to magically decrease Medicare 'waste and fraud' by 400 billion.

Does anyone actually believe that?

Democrats plan on paying for this socialistic monstrosity through massive ($506 billion as listed in the fine print) and massive tax increasescuts to Medicare (more than $400 billion) at the same time they massively expand enrollment into Medicaid (the health care program for the "poor", causing an even more costly unfunded mandate on fiscally strapped states).

I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you that the Baucus Bill is only a draft outline and is not written with detailed legislative language. Yet, the supposedly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored it. Why? Did it have something to do with the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, being called into the White House in July for a closed door meeting with Obama?

Don't forget folks, the CBO historically underestimates the cost of legislation. Their cost projections should really be starting points. Remember, the CBO years ago said Medicare would cost $12 billion by 1990. It ended up being $107 billion – nine times the government estimate.

So, that $829 BILLION cost projection for the Baucus bill will realistically end up a whole lot more... [snip]

Welcome to Communism -- spreading the wealth, confiscation of income through massive taxation, mandated participation, and government control over your very life...all under the watchful eye of Big Brother...

[Most insulting is the 400 billion in Medicare fraud & waste 'savings' factored into that number. If it were possible why haven't they done it already? Do it now a.s.a.p. independent of an 'overhaul' bill?

It should be tacked on to 800B cost to bring us to >1.2Trillion - now multiply that by nine...

It's all a pipe dream: its never had anything to do with health 'care' - it's a ploy to force the populace into government dependency, period.]

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