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By: Dan Smith

Dan Smith — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:45:47 +0000

Nothing new here, I agree. Pretty much reads like it was taken off a Commonwealth Fund white paper. It repeats a lot of the old half truths: the number of un-insured neglects the voluntary uninsured, those who qualify for government plans but don’t apply and illegal immigrants who aren’t eligible. The idea that having people get pep talks about lifestyle changes will make a difference in the incidence of chronic disease is laughable. What does he think the HMOs of the 70s and 8os tried to do? It was all about prevention back then, and didn’t work any better than this plan will. What did Obama say about putting lipstick on a pig?

By: Catron

Catron — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:28:35 +0000

“It´s all an investment.”

What scares me is that many people actually take this kind of BS seriously.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:17:55 +0000

Greg, Baucus is misspelled in your note above. It ends with `us`, not `as` and there is only one `s`. Must have been a Freudian slip.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:37:34 +0000

Catron, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and each time expecting a different result. Off the chart insanity is telling the Congressional Budget Office how to score the proposal.

Baucas says there is no real cost here. It´s all an investment.

By: Catron

Catron — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:42:56 +0000

Baucus and his accomplices are provin once again that they are unable to learn from experience. What’s the definition of insanity?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:22:53 +0000

The Bauucas plan is not that much different from the Obama plan. It has all the same problems and essentially the same cost (between $1 trillion and $6 trillion over ten years) and no revenue source.

This would be added to an unfunded liability in Social Security and Medicare of $100 trillion plus(according to the Trustees) and an untold liability in Medicaid as well.