MSNBC (?!?) Calls “Bullpoopie” on Obamacare?
Not a good home page headline from the “thrill up the leg” network, n’est pas?
Health overhaul to take nearly a decade
Uninsured won’t get coverage until 2013. And some of the proposals won’t be up and running until 2018. Full story
In the linked AP story, it gets downright clinical…in a purely mathematical sense.
…First comes the pain. In 2011, the government would start collecting higher taxes on upper-income people to pay for the overhaul. The uninsured would have to wait until 2013 before they started receiving the benefits — after the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Collecting the taxes up front — and paying for the benefits later — would help to keep costs manageable over the 10-year window Congress uses for budget estimates. Still, it’s not yet adding up. The Congressional Budget Office says the plan would increase the government’s deficit by about $240 billion over that period. Long-range forecasts could turn out worse.
Since I’m typing this as Mythbusters debunks lunar landing conspiracy theories, I feel compelled to offer my own version of a Rosie/Whoopie/Ronulan/Troofer conjecture:
Do you think the AP could be laying all this out CLEARLY to warn the White House about the flaws in their arguments or lines of incoming fire…?
Well, do ya…punk?
Nanny State, Politics | tree hugging sister | 
July 20, 2009 10:04 pm
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From the article…
“One thing isn’t in dispute — the role of the federal government would increase each year.”
And there is the fatal flaw of any “reform” plan. The Feddies interference in health care is what started this mess in the first place.
Do you think the AP could be laying all this out CLEARLY to warn the White House about the flaws in their arguments or lines of incoming fire…?
The problem is that there is no photo op for The Won™, so He ain’t listening.