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Gregg: Health Care Reform Is A 'Scam On The American People' (VIDEO)
Jillian Rayfield | December 23, 2009, 12:51PM
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Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) took to the Senate floor today and railed against the health care bill, calling it a "scam on the American people."
Gregg said: "The simple fact is, that what's happening here is a scam, pure and simple scam on the American people, and especially on the seniors, on the seniors in this country."
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agio
December 23, 2009 1:36 PM
This is the guy Obama wanted in his cabinet. /headdesk
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charleshugh
December 23, 2009 1:46 PM
Am I missing something. I am just now reading reports that the CBO says that the Senate health bill "double counts" savings.
Is this true?
According to the head of the CBO "To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government's ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government's fiscal position."
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mattomega
December 23, 2009 1:57 PM
When people say things like "pure and simple," it typically means that they're lying and/or FOS.
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Why oh why
December 23, 2009 2:44 PM
So those government death panels won't really kill people?
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jsdc007
December 23, 2009 5:18 PM
They were going to put this guy as Head of Commerce? He's a dunce. Gregg is quoting Jeff Sessions, one of the biggest crooks, liars and bigots in the Senate. And that's saying something.
The CBO letter said that counting the $245 billion in Medicare spending cuts AND the $113 billion in increased Medicare revenues, suggesting a $368 billion net improvement in Medicare's financial situation, would involve double-counting because any extra Medicare money is lent to the Treasury where it is presumably spent.
However, CBO's letter also said that the effect on the "unified" budget deficit (which includes all Federal government spending and revenues) would be an improvement of $132 billion. That means that the bill doesn't reduce the deficit by $368 billion; rather it only reduces it by $132 billion. That $132 billion figure doesn't have the double-counting problem.
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