Posted by
davecatbone on Friday, June 12, 2009 5:44:09 AM
Aside from the distraction of raging Liberal Sexism and the obvious failure of the Women's Movement sideshow as evidenced in the Letterman Perversion Fiasco, a real story is brewing on the Hill. The drive for Natiionalized Healthcare, set to destroy the finest Healthcare system in the world, faces a formidable roadblock Liberals know well. Facts.
The Hill.com reports:
The soon-to-be-delivered estimate on Democratic healthcare reform
proposals is expected to be so expensive that lawmakers are talking
about changing the chamber’s normal accounting procedures. Some Democrats are arguing behind the scenes that they should not use
the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) cost estimate, as
is custom. Instead, they would use cost estimates from the White House
Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The issue is of paramount importance in the debate over healthcare
reform because Democratic leaders have pledged to pay for its entire
cost.
Here we go with the rhetorical gymnastics to rationalize Socialist America:
“CBO doesn’t like to calculate prevention, and that’s outrageous and
ridiculous,” said Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), who saw the financial
benefit of preventive healthcare when he served as mayor of Anchorage.
So the Won weighs in:
President Obama said Thursday that healthcare reform “will obviously
cost a good deal of money at a time where we don’t have extra to spend.
That’s why I have already promised that reform will not add to our
deficit over the next 10 years.”
Democrats on Capitol Hill do not want to raise personal income taxes to
pay for healthcare reform. They have instead floated the idea of
changing the healthcare employer tax exclusion. Yet this idea is also
controversial because it would be a significant tax increase to
businesses and employees.
Hold on to your wallets! The Democrats won't let something like truth or integrity get in the way....