White House Says Kickbacks & Bribes Will Stay in Obamacare Bill
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 14, 2010, 7:46 PM
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Harry Reid spent $1.2 billion of taxpayer money to buy off democrats for their Obamacare vote in December.
The White House announced today that the kickbacks and bribes will stay in the bill.
The AP reported, via FOX Nation:
The White House is backing down from trying to get senators to remove some special deals from the health care bill.
Senior adviser David Axelrod says the White House only objected to deals that affected just one state, such one involving Medicaid and Nebraska that’s being cut from the legislation.
Axelrod says that deals that could apply to more than one state are OK.
That means deals pushed by senators from Montana and Connecticut would be fine because they’re written in such a way that other states could potentially qualify.
It’s a change from a couple days ago when press secretary Robert Gibbs singled out the Montana and Connecticut deals and said President Barack Obama wanted them gone.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 77 Comments
Chisum commented:
Careful, Axelrod’s Lips Are Moving On Health Care Reform
In Massachusetts, Universal Coverage Strains Care
It amounts to much longer waits and physicians rationing time with patients. Sound familiar?
Romney spent a year apologizing for the state of Massachusetts health care thanks to him. It just didn’t work out as planned, he said. Now, Obama and Axelrod would have you believe the Feds will do better? Puhlease. If Mass turned out to be an “embarrassing flop,” the Federal equivalent will be an unmitigated disaster. Mark your calender – March 26th – Kill the Bill.
To much fanfare from both right and left in 2006, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to require all residents to buy health insurance. A new state health insurance clearinghouse was created, with taxpayers subsidizing those who couldn’t afford to buy coverage. Then Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, promised that “every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance .” Yet just two years later, Romney’s much-heralded “solution” — touted by many as the model for a national program — has become an embarrassing flop.
Just a year after the universal coverage law passed, The New York Times reported, state insurers were already jacking up rates to twice the national average. According to Dr. Paul Hsieh, a physician and founding member of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine, 43 mandatory benefits — including those that many people did not want or need, such as invitro fertilization — raised the costs of coverage for Massachusetts residents by as much as 56 percent, depending upon an individual’s income status. So much for “affordable” health care.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/03/careful-axelrods-lips-are-moving-on-health-care-reform.html
sandy commented:
The Dems have lost the last vestige of sanity and are doubling down with a pair of douces. Watching the Democrats commit political suicide with the whole world watching is scant satisfaction. But I know this insane bill will never see the light of day and those who pushed it will be unceremoniously kicked to the curb.
retired military commented:
Sounds like they are having trouble getting votes and need the gimmes to even get close to passing the bill.
Opus #6 commented:
Why are bribes OK with MY Tax Money??? This is shameful. But isn’t it illegal?
aprilnovember811 commented:
Who cares if it’s illegal, since when did they ever obey the law?
bill-tb commented:
The Democrats obviously should have closed the doors so people couldn’t see the un-Constitutional bill naked.
Male Silverback commented:
I believe there is a war being waged in the White House. I think this is really starting to cause some law makers to suffer a type of anxiety. Hell, they may all need counseling after this.
Male Silverback commented:
I just wonder who is really pushing this insanity. Is it Rahm, Axelrod, or Obama? I am certain there will be some firings if this doesn’t go through.
Man they are falling apart right in front of us. Praise God!
Betsy Ross commented:
You know, it was bad enough when bill clinton’s problems were “just about sex” even though it was about lying under oath. This is so much worse and we are still being led to believe that it’s no biggie even though this is blatant bribery right before our very eyes. Don’t these dems understand that every time they are in charge their actions and behaviors become more and more an assualt on this country? Well, maybe they do but just don’t care, never have, never will.
antilibr commented:
if you took all the pork all the pay-offs all the money this adminastration of nut-jobs has given out to buy votes not to mention all the money these corrupt a-holes are stealing from the taxpayers…not to mention all the jet fuel for their jet setting around the world on our dime…..WE COULD HAVE PAYED THE HEALTH CARE FOR THE 30.000.000.000 PEOPLE ALREADY…..YOUR RIGHT RAHM YOU ALL ARE IDIOTS… (actual wording left out did,nt want to offend anyone.)