Now playing on the floor of the U.S. Senate

Hat tip: Patriot Post US.

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Medicare cuts proposed under Pelosicare will lead to coverage crisis

Why don't they tell us something we didn't already know?

Noteworthy:

"The report offers the clearest and most authoritative assessment to date of the effect that Democratic health reform proposals would have on Medicare and Medicaid, the nation's largest public health programs. It analyzes the House bill, but the Senate is also expected to rely on hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare cuts to finance the package that Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) hopes to take to the floor this week. Like the House, the Senate is expected to propose adding millions of people to Medicaid.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administers the two health-care programs. Foster's office acts as an independent technical adviser, serving both the administration and Congress. In that sense, it is similar to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which also has questioned the sustainability of proposed Medicare cuts.

In its most recent analysis of the House bill, the CBO noted that Medicare spending per beneficiary would have to grow at roughly half the rate it has over the past two decades to meet the measure's savings targets, a dramatic reduction that many budget and health policy experts consider unrealistic."

Of course, this information will fall on the deaf ears of the "Government Health Care Is The Answer" crowd.

They DON'T CARE how bad this thing is or how much it costs. They want it passed because they know that their Universal Health Care cherished Libthink agenda item will be an unstoppable conclusion once this hurdle is cleared.

Health Care "reform" will bring skyrocketing premiums

But we knew that already, didn't we?

Here's more evidence the Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" health care reform jokers cheerleaders don't want you to know:

"Democrats claim that government subsidies would help families adjust to the higher cost of insurance. But those subsidies won't offset many people's hikes. For example, premiums for a two-child family with annual income of $66,150 would still go up 24 percent under the Senate's plan -- after the subsidy is taken into account. That's an extra $80 a month.

It's easy to understand how 'reform' will raise health costs -- by imposing onerous new regulations on insurance. For instance, reforms passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate would mandate that all policies cover such benefits as pediatric dental services and maternity coverage -- even if you don't want such coverage. The reform package's new minimum-benefit requirements alone would add $245 a month to the average New York family's premium.

But somehow,the "Government Healthcare Is The Answer" team never seems to want to discuss things like that, do they?

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The NY-23 election is NOT over

So says the Syracuse News.

Noteworthy:

" 'For Doug to win, we needed a three-way race,' Ryan said, adding that the campaign’s internal polls showed Hoffman would win with all three candidates.

'Given the majority of these ballots are from a three-way race, we think the ballots are going to break Doug’s way,' Ryan said.

Ryan declined to say what percentage of the absentee vote the campaign believes Hoffman would need to win the race. Nevertheless, Hoffman’s campaign is optimistic.

'When people look back at this race, it was a remote possibility that Doug Hoffman would be a contender,' Ryan said. 'But miracles do happen.' "

More:

"As it stands now, Bill Owens may be in Washington and voting the Pelosi Party line but when the vote is certified he may be ousted. The state Board of Elections indicated that '...all ballots will be counted, and if the result changes, Owens will have to be removed.' Concession speech or not, if the voters in the 23rd District elected Doug Hoffman and not Bill Owens, then Hoffman will be the Representative.

There are currently over 10,000 uncounted absentee ballots, many of which were in the military where a strongly conservative bias exists. Given the narrow margin of Owens' lead at this time, it's entirely possible that this race could still swing for Hoffman."

Sources indicate that the Democrats would not have had the votes to pass the Health bill if Owens had not been sworn-in and pledged his support for it. Several other Representatives have indicated that they would not have cast their votes in favor of the bill if they were not certain that it had the votes to win."

My, my, my!

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"Loading More People On To the Titanic"

"...in the hope that it will sink even faster."

Noteworthy:

"The bizarre result is an incentive for families to skip buying coverage, and pay a fine that is only a small percentage of their premium costs. They'll still be able to get insurance on demand from the exchanges should they have a big medical problem. That's like being able to buy insurance on your house after it burns down. This kind of system will not make insurance costs lower.

Some supporters of the House bill say that, while the legislation doesn't tackle health care costs, it's still important to reduce the number of uninsured. Their reasoning goes: The pressure of adding 30 million more people to the system, coupled with the unsustainable cost trends, will eventually force Washington to deal with real health care reform."

"If the IRS and Medicare Had a Baby, It Would Look Like This"

......and that is one UGLY baby, isn't it?

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A heretical but rational liberal look at PelosiObamaCare

An honest examination from the liberal side on this monstrosity reveals exactly how bad this disaster is.

Excerpt:

"So what does it all add up to? The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment to help provide health coverage for the vast majority of its citizens. I support this commitment, and I think the federal government’s spending priorities should be altered to make it happen. But let’s not pretend that it isn’t a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out exactly as planned. It won’t. Many Democratic insiders know all this, or most of it. What is really unfolding, I suspect, is the scenario that many conservatives feared. The Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration before it (and many other Administrations before that) is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind. At some point in the future, the fiscal consequences of the reform will have to be dealt with in a more meaningful way, but by then the principle of (near) universal coverage will be well established."

That sums up the whole Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" attitude on health care "reform": "Get the deal done now. Let someone else deal with the disaster we've created."

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The new political sign of the times

Let's give the sign a little perspective:




Add to that the excuses, rationales, and outright cognitive dissonance among Dems/Lefties/"Progressives over last Tuesday's election events.

Yet these Rocket Scientists expect the public to stand still for the rape and pillage inflicted by their health care "reform", and Cap 'n Trade monstrosities.

Exactly how stupid ARE these people?

Hat tip: PowerLine

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A frightening thought for Halloween

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Michelle Bachmann on ObamaPelosiCare

It's worse than you think.

MUCH worse.

It looks like Seniors weren't the only ones not welcome at today's Pelosipalooza

Add House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia to the list......

Scene from today's Pelosi Public Option pep rally

Upset senior citizens were definitely not welcome.

This is a preview of what's to come in the next days and weeks.

Hat tip: John Goodman.

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