Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (73942)	9/9/2009 9:23:47 PM
From: mph	3 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

The simple short answer is that if you mandate coverage (like lower stop gaps or no preexisting condition waiting periods, etc.), the costs go up.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (73942)	9/9/2009 10:20:31 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Thanks Oec. That Associated Pravda piece sure was brief. It would be more accurate to say when Obama wasn't lying &/or smearing conservatives, he was making promises he simply cannot keep. And his speech went on way too long. Like 20 minutes too long. And he didn't give anywhere near enough specifics - but that's because if he did, he'd either have to lie a lot more or lose any possibility of getting h/c reform by being truthful. And don't forget this was unprecedented doing all that crap in front of a joint session of Congress.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (73942)	9/24/2009 12:21:37 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 90947

From that article - "House Democrats offered a bill that the Congressional Budget Office said would add $220 billion to the deficit over 10 years. But Democrats and Obama administration officials claimed the bill actually was deficit-neutral. They said they simply didn't have to count $245 billion of it — the cost of adjusting Medicare reimbursement rates so physicians don't face big annual pay cuts. Their reasoning was that they already had decided to exempt this "doc fix" from congressional rules that require new programs to be paid for. In other words, it doesn't have to be paid for because they decided it doesn't have to be paid for." -------- Notice how the Democrats tend to decide that new spending doesn't count, but tax cuts have to be "paid for"...