W.TImes: Money slated for health law gets detoured

[Thiebear]

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/24/money-slated-for-health-law-gets-detoured/

Lawmakers tap fund three times within a year

In cash-strapped Washington, President Obama’s $1 trillion health care law is presenting a tempting target for lawmakers seeking funds for other projects, as Congress last week raided the health care piggy bank for the third time in less than a year.

Congress last week axed a part of Democrats’ signature domestic achievement to find $11 billion to cover the cost of repealing a withholding tax that otherwise would have hit government contractors in 2013. Mr. Obama signed that bill into law on Monday.

The withholding bill follows two other efforts — one in December and another in April — that reworked the health care law to squeeze savings for other priorities. The December bill funded higher payments for doctors who treat Medicare patients, and the April legislation repealed a paperwork provision in the original health care law that businesses said would be onerous.

How can you even try and defend this is the Third time the fund has been raided before it has even gone into effect?

Congress kept the DoctorFix bill out of the original bill to keep the savings down and then take money from this bill. Thats the ultimate in deception when they stated it was seperate to the people.

And its funding a witholding tax on government contractors? "At least the doctorfix has some medicine in it".

In 10 years when it costs 4 trillion due to none of the original mandates making it through, none of the cuts being cut and then 2trillion being stolen to hide other budgets.

with everyone to blame and nobody to blame, just like always.

---------- Post added November-26th-2011 at 12:06 PM ----------

To cap that off: How are they going to repay the Universal Healthcare fund: They are going to make you pay for it:

In December and April, lawmakers adjusted the formula that calculated how much of a subsidy would be given initially to buy health insurance through the new exchanges.

Under the original law, many Americans would receive a subsidy larger than their income reflected, but Congress capped the amount that they would have to repay.

They've done this twice now.. inching it up so you can pay for it again and again while getting it for 'free'

[LadySkinsFan]

Can all see now why a viable, non-profit public option is the only way to stop this madness? Now even seniors have to have health "insurance" to cover the gaps in care.

We need to take the profit out of the healthcare industry. That doesn't mean that costs aren't covered, just the profit is taken out.

[daveakl]

Can all see now why a viable, non-profit public option is the only way to stop this madness? Now even seniors have to have health "insurance" to cover the gaps in care.

We need to take the profit out of the healthcare industry. That doesn't mean that costs aren't covered, just the profit is taken out.

If you take out profit, what is the reason that the brightest and best will go into that field instead of something more lucrative.

[Thiebear]

So Congress is stealing from this and the response is, we need more to make it better?

The #1 ranked France is close enough to the American model that we could tweak it. Do like Microsoft and take the #1 and copy it as your own.