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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (325817)	9/24/2009 8:08:49 AM
From: Brumar89	11 Recommendations Respond to of 793838

I just sent an email to Baucus's office about this. On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office director told Mr. Baucus's committee that its plan to cut $123 billion from Medicare Advantage—the program that gives almost one-fourth of seniors private health-insurance options—will result in lower benefits and some 2.7 million people losing this coverage. Imagine that. Last week Mr. Baucus ordered Medicare regulators to investigate and likely punish Humana Inc. for trying to educate enrollees in its Advantage plans about precisely this fact. This is AMERICA and we have freedom of speech here. These tinhorm tyrants need to be taught a lesson in 2010.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (325817)	9/29/2009 5:25:02 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 793838

Congress’s Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare by Brian Darling 09/29/2009 President Obama and liberals in Congress seem intent on passing comprehensive health care takeover, even though polls suggest it is unpopular with the American people. And despite the potential political risks to moderate Democrats, the President and left-wing leadership in Congress are determined to pass the measure using a rare parliamentary procedure. The Senate plans to attach Obamacare to a House-passed non-healthcare bill. Ironically, nobody knows what that legislation looks like, because it has not yet been written. Yet many members plan to rubber-stamp Obamacare without reading or understanding the bill. The Senate Finance Committee worked furiously last week to mark up a “conceptual framework” of health care reform. The committee actually rejected an amendment by Sen. Jim Bunning (R.-Ky.) to mandate that the bill text and a final cost analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) be publicly available at least 72 hours before the Finance Committee votes on final passage. The following four-step scenario describes one way liberals plan to work the rules in their favor to get Obamacare through the Senate: ... Message 25980212