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medicare, medicaid and the veterans programs are all filled with fraud, waste and abuse. but the govt is going to expand into health care for others- with a price tag in the trillions.
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The health care reforms include strong provisions - changes in law - for decreasing fraud and waste in Medicare, Medicad and the Veterans programs. Isn't that a good thing?
The price tag isn't in the trillions. It is one trillion over 10 years.
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according to fact check, much of what obama said in his last press conference was incorrect, including whether people with current insurance they want to keep will be affected.
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?? The last press conference was some time ago (a month?) what about what is being talked about this week?
There is zero provision in any of the healthcare bills for anybody with current insurance to be forced off it. They may be affected by increased consumer protection, and lower insurance costs.
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i'm concerned about the deficit, the economy, and the fact that the govt who keeps making things worse is somehow believed by some to in fact suddenly have the ability to make it all better.
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Me, too. But I certainly have seen in the past where some administrations do indeed make things "much better", and some do not.
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i'm concerned that increased taxes and inflation is on the horizon.
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Well, you've already received a tax cut from Obama, and there is no talk of increasing taxes on anyone making less than $250K a year.
We'll have to see about the inflation.
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i'm concerned that the president is not in touch with reality-that he is continuing the trend of spend, spend, spend while ignoring the deficit, it's effect for years to come, and our ability as a country to handle our finances.
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I think this President is much more grounded in reality than the last administration. You do realize that Bush did the first big spend last fall, with the first rescue TARP funds?
Seriously - you keep saying stop spending, that no money should have been spent - but what do you think would have happened? I think we'd be in an overt depression right now. You?
Yes, the country is in a deep mess (which didn't start January 20) and this is the man the majority of people chose to get us out of it. We've got 4 years to work with him, until Jeb Bush comes to save us all
