1. Yet another central PROMISE of Obamacare plays out false.
2. Just like the representation that it would reduce COSTS.
3. Just like the mantra-like claim that AMERICANS WHO LIKE THEIR CURRENT COVERAGE COULD KEEP IT.
4. Why has Secretary Sebelius EXEMPTED eight hundred Too Bigs from the yearly cap requirement?
5. Could it be because HHS recognizes that if it holds the SEIU's and McDonalds, et al, to the limits written in the law they will respond by simply DROPPING their employees?
6. The politics AGAINST Obamacare are piling up prodigiously.
7. It cuts Medicare's already overstrained and direly depended upon funding by a full HALF TRILLION dollars while simultaneously expanding its enrollment by millions.
8. It imposes hundreds of billions of dollars of obligation on our already broken backed STATES in the from of expanded Medicaid.
9. It cynically cuts another quarter tril out of its accounting by reckoning the DOC FIX off budget.
10. It DOUBLE COUNTS another quarter tril, says CBO.
11. It raises THREE QUARTERS OF A TRIL in new revenues---fines, fees, taxes, mandates---also according to CBO.
12. It relies on TEN years of taxes vs only SIX of benefits to reach its bogus bottom line.
13. Something like HALF of United States doctors are already refusing to treat new Medicare patients, who's gonna care for millions more?
14. ER costs, which were supposed to decrease under Obamacare, prime PAYFOR for all this expansion, turn out actually to go up.
15. And then there's THE MANDATE, ruled unconstitutional on behalf of 26 state AG's and opposed in the Senate by the likes of Claire McCaskill, Jon Tester, Ben and Bill Nelson, Joe Manchin, Jim Webb, Joe Lieberman...
16. Never has America experienced major social reform CRAMMED down its gagging gullet without broad bipartisan backing, let alone via Senate RECONCILIATION.
17. FDR enjoyed wide GOP support for Social Security, LBJ was backed broadly by Dirkson's delegation on Civil Rights and Medicare.
18. Chickens come home to roost, someone once said.
19. Republicans were sent to Washington and the state capitols in record numbers last November on the promise to REPEAL the poison.
20. Try to foresee what's coming next, it should be somewhat obvious.
Capitol Briefing - Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts
Director's Blog » Blog Archive » Additional Information on CBO’s Preliminary Analysis of H.R. 2
Helping Americans Keep the Coverage They Have and Promoting Transparency | HHS.gov
ER visits, costs in Mass. climb - The Boston Globe
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/retirementspecial/02health.html
Senate passes 1-year doc fix - The Hill's Healthwatch
Budget Office Rebuts Democratic Claims on Medicare (Update1) - Bloomberg
Governors balk over what healthcare bill will cost states - The Boston Globe[/QUOTE]