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[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

It sure doesn't seem to me they are just doing something or the sake of it. They have come up with a decent plan. Three of them, in fact, which vary. A decent plans with many components. They've been "looking at it" for the past 20 years.

The details are out there, especially this week when the President held three live Town Halls and went over all the details of the various plans, repeatedly.

I just hope, when it comes out of the final compromise committee, the Senate doesn't screw it up so badly it's useless. They will compromise, and it will be in effect in 2013.

it's not a decent plan. it's an extravagant, expensive plan that will run us further in the wrong direction than we already are. a country teetering on bankruptcy can't afford to add more programs without cutting something, or several somethings.
i've read the details, why do you think i'm so concerned? social security expenditures are about to go thru the roof. we're not out of either war that we were assured we'd be out of-that drain on the treasury continues.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

it's not a decent plan. it's an extravagant, expensive plan that will run us further in the wrong direction than we already are. a country teetering on bankruptcy can't afford to add more programs without cutting something, or several somethings.
i've read the details, why do you think i'm so concerned? social security expenditures are about to go thru the roof. we're not out of either war that we were assured we'd be out of-that drain on the treasury continues.

There is not currently "one plan", 'Zig, there are three (or four, can't remember if two or three in the House) What details are you so concerned about?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

There is not currently "one plan", 'Zig, there are three (or four, can't remember if two or three in the House) What details are you so concerned about?

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. 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.

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. i'm concerned that increased taxes and inflation is on the horizon. 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.

in essence, everything i posted, and linked that you evidently ignored.

[Riot]

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.

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.

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.

?? 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.

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.

Me, too. But I certainly have seen in the past where some administrations do indeed make things "much better", and some do not.

i'm concerned that increased taxes and inflation is on the horizon.

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.

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.

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

[Danzig]

■Obama promised once again that a health care overhaul “will be paid for.” But congressional budget experts say the bills they’ve seen so far would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit over the next decade


what else is there to talk about?



Obama claimed his budget "reduced federal spending over the next 10 years by $2.2 trillion" compared with where it was headed before. Not true. Even figures from his own budget experts don’t support that. The Congressional Budget Office projects a $2.7 trillion increase, not a $2.2 trillion cut.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

■Obama promised once again that a health care overhaul “will be paid for.” But congressional budget experts say the bills they’ve seen so far would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit over the next decade


what else is there to talk about?
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That the above is talking about the current, fat, in-progress House bills and the Senate bill, which are still filled with every extra each Committee wants.

There has to be something for them to throw out when they come together to hammer out the final reforms bill together.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

That the above is talking about the current, fat, in-progress House bills and the Senate bill, which are still filled with every extra each Committee wants.

There has to be something for them to throw out when they come together to hammer out the final reforms bill together.

lol

yeah, ok-cause we know just how good congress is at saving the taxpayers money, and never, EVER keeping something in a bill that we really don't need.

i don't know what else to say except that we've seen how congress behaves-one need only look at our current spending practices, and the current deficit. that didn't just happen overnight, but is the result of years and years of congress spending more than they have. and it will continue if any version of the current bills pass. it's yet another costly program-with social security and medicare costs getting ready to balloon dramatically because the baby boomers are set to retire, and there are less workers to pay for their retirement.

keep those rose-colored glasses handy, you're going to need them.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

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.

this is so ludicrious....

[SOREHOOF]

HUGE shortfalls in Federal tax revenue so far this year.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

HUGE shortfalls in Federal tax revenue so far this year.

lowest in decades from what i saw the other day. but, it'll all be ok.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

There is not currently "one plan", 'Zig, there are three (or four, can't remember if two or three in the House) What details are you so concerned about?

So we are going to enact 4 plans?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

So we are going to enact 4 plans?

You are so unfamiliar with the subject at hand, that you do not know there are 2 (or three?) plans being developed within House Committees, there is one being developed in Senate Committee, and after recess they will all come together and hammer out a final health reform bill, which they will then vote upon?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

You are so unfamiliar with the subject at hand, that you do not know there are 2 (or three?) plans being developed within House Committees, there is one being developed in Senate Committee, and after recess they will all come together and hammer out a final health reform bill, which they will then vote upon?

And you have the scoop on all these plans? Have you read them? While I do vaguely understand how Congress works, it seems to me that every day these vaunted plans change based upon which way the wind blows. Did you see your people backtracking today on the news shows?