The first bit of rank dishonesty lies in the fact that the CBO is calculating the bill's cost in the next decade starting next year. The problem is that the bill wouldn't even take effect fully until 2015!
But the CBO exposed the truth by taking the rare step of calculating what the bill would cost in its second 10 years. In its second decade alone, the CBO projects, the bill's costs would triple -- to $2.8 trillion. The taxes and fines it levies would also triple -- to $1.8 trillion. And its cuts to Medicare and related federal health programs would quadruple -- to $1.9 trillion.
In its first two decades combined, the bill would cost $3.6 trillion and would raise taxes by $2.3 trillion.
We're just getting started folks.
Baucus' most elementary trick was to have the bill's "first 10 years" include several years when it hadn't really kicked in. It was scored for 2010 to 2019, yet it wouldn't be in full swing until 2015 -- when its costs would exceed those of its first five years combined.In fact, the bill wouldn't cost anything in 2010. In its real first decade (2011-20), it would cost more than $1 trillion.
Furthermore, the CBO projects that, by the end of 2030, the Baucus bill would have cut spending on Medicare and other existing health programs by more than $2.6 trillion.
Incredibly, the payments to doctors and hospitals will almost guarantee that no doctor will come within a country mile of a Medicare patient in the future:
Also, Baucus' savings are highly suspect. As the CBO notes, his bill would cut Medicare payments to doctors by 25 percent in 2011, then hold them at that level perpetually. In other words, given inflation, Baucus proposes endless cuts in what the program pays physicians and others.Assuming 3 percent annual inflation, by 2014 doctors' real incomes from Medicare payments would be cut by a third from 2010. By 2025, they'd be cut in half.
If Baucus' cuts actually go through, physicians' willingness to see Medicare patients would dwindle alongside their pay. But if the cuts don't actually get made, Baucus' plan would explode the federal deficit.
Thankfully, this plan is DOA in the House and whatever compromise is reached in conference committee, very few elements of the Baucus bill will pass muster.
But the important thing about this bill is that getting it through committee moves the process along. What we've seen so far in the health care reform drama is simply the prologue.
The final act will play out behind closed doors as Democrats try to forge a consensus on what a majority of them can vote for.
Rick Moran – American Thinker
Grassley: Unconstitutional Health Plan Saps Medicare, Raises Rates
Dr. Blaylock: No Cap on Government Control in Healthcare Bill – Vidio – Dr. Russell Blaylock tells Newsmax.TV some of his objections to the House Healthcare Reform Bill (that will be merged with the two Senate Bills), including arbitrary powers for the HHS Secretary. (The HHS Secy will have virtually unbridled powers over your healthcare, doctors decisions and which doctors salaries are raised and lowered based on performance.) He also talks about doctors being drafted into the public option and much more. (Take a look here)
American League of Voters Video on Baucus HealthCare Bill
Sadly, the entire so-called healthcare reform process is riddled with fraud, deceit, ulterior motives and in the end a major power grab by the progressives and Obama. The end game for Obama, Pelosi, Reid and other Liberals is a single payer system… Beware!! No Trigger, NO government-run Co-op or Consortium and NO Public Option for they will all end up being a single-payer system including govt’ making the decisions about your healthcare, rationing and shortages… which will become death panels of one sort or another! (See Video Below)
DFA “senior adviser” Jacob Hacker (above) is an Obamacare architect who laughed at criticism of the plan being a Trojan Horse for single payer coverage. “It’s not a Trojan Horse, right” he retorted at a far Left Tides Foundation conference on health care. “It’s just right there! I’m telling you. We’re going to get there.”
Video - '>Obama Himself on Wanting a Single-Payer System
Related Resources:
Health Care Solutions: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Health_Care_Solutions_072909.pdf
Five Steps to a Better Health Care System:
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Five_Steps_to_a_Better_Health_Care_System_Web.pdf
Dr. John Goodman's Blog - Current, up-to date information on the debate: www.john-goodman-blog.com
Heartland Institute's Health Care Solutions: http://www.chcchoices.org
Congressman John Campbell Co-Sponsored H.R. 2520 – Patient’s Choice Act
Senate Approves Baucus Bill With One GOP Vote: Snowe
Help Dick Morris – Author of Catastrophe Fight ObamaCare in its present form)
Dick Morris appeared as a guest on the O’Reilly Show and spoke about how his father would be dead to today had he needed his surgery under the ObamaCare System… any of the 5 bills that are being merged into this mega disaster to be forced on the American People. Morris verified much of what Dr. Blaylock talks about as well.
Is Baucus Bill Just a Tax Hike Bill? – WSJ
You Will Get Your HC at the DMV – Literally (Its In the Bill)
Source: True Health Is True Wealth – Cross- Posted: Marion’s Place
Posted: Knowledge Creates Power – Cross-Posted: the Daily Thought Pad
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