Stimulus plan takes over health care.

[ImnoMensa]

If you are a senior this could be very important. Pretty soon Obama's government may be deciding if you are worth saving.

Bloomberg.com: Opinion

[kwillia]

Originally Posted by ImnoMensa

If you are a senior this could be very important. Pretty soon Obama's government may be deciding if you are worth saving.

Bloomberg.com: Opinion

If you want a bright side, this should mean we no longer have to fund the geezers use of the Little Blue Pill.

[Sonsie]

The goal is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

Lovely, hope all the lib boomers are ready to suffer!
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"A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy."

[ImnoMensa]

Here is another one on health care and one on ACORN getting 5 billion dollars

There’s Socialized Medicine Burried in Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan » The Foundry

Capital Research Center:

This bill stinks to the high heavens.

[ylexot]

Originally Posted by kwillia

If you want a bright side, this should mean we no longer have to fund the geezers use of the Little Blue Pill.

Doubt it. Congress is full of geezers who need the Little Blue Pill...

[desertrat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by ylexot

Doubt it. Congress is full of geezers who need the Little Blue Pill...

I'd bet they have a different plan than us peons.

[bcp (Premo)]

would be nice if it only affected those that voted for obama

why do the democrats hate the elderly?

how much you want to bet that along with killing them off, somewhere hidden in that bill is a provision to take whatever savings they have left including the value of their home.

[Sonsie]

This rather sticks in my craw too:

Buried deep inside the massive spending orgy that Democrats jammed through the House this week lie five words that could drastically undo two decades of welfare reforms.

The very heart of the widely applauded Welfare Reform Act of 1996 is a cap on the amount of federal cash that can be sent to states each year for welfare payments.

But, thanks to the simple phrase slipped into the legislation, the new "stimulus" bill abolishes the limits on the amount of federal money for the so-called Emergency Fund, which ships welfare cash to states.

"Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated such sums as are necessary for payment to the Emergency Fund," Democrats wrote in Section 2101 on Page 354 of the $819 billion bill. In other words, the only limit on welfare payments would be the Treasury itself. LINK

Undermining welfare reform? “Specifically, it would apparently reward states that expand their welfare caseloads–even if the increase is only the product of loosened work requirements rather than a worsening local economy. . . . If a state somehow succeeds at placing would-be recipients in jobs, it’s out of luck under this provision. To get the extra federal money, it has to get more people on welfare.”

Like the song says, they’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.

[bcp (Premo)]

I think Ill apply for welfare.
that along with my savings, Pan ladies income, and whatever side work I can do under the table, I should be able to buy the 4500 Kodiac, and a new 40ft fifth wheel to tour the country with.

I want to thank all you working people now before I leave on my journey.

so,

thank you working people

[jwwb2000]

Originally Posted by bcp

I think Ill apply for welfare.
that along with my savings, Pan ladies income, and whatever side work I can do under the table, I should be able to buy the 4500 Kodiac, and a new 40ft fifth wheel to tour the country with.

I want to thank all you working people now before I leave on my journey.

so,

thank you working people

It already funds several to have cable w/internet, Gevalia coffee, the best cuts of meat and god only knows whatelse.