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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (61714)	1/28/2006 9:23:57 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 173976

Republican Corruption - Closed door meetings for Republicans only costs taxpayers $22 Billion. "Last month, in a closed-door, Republican-only "conference committee" meeting, a $22 billion change was inserted at the last minute. The taxpayers were supposed to get $26 billion in relief over 10 years by altering a formula for Medicare reimbursement. But lo, many insurance lobbyists for the HMOs knew about the committee meeting attended only by Republicans, who helpfully lowered the savings estimate of the formula to $4 billion and handed the other $22 billion back to the insurance industry." cnn.com