COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Stabenow the Democrat is repealing part of ObamaCare




APRIL 18, 2013 11:35AM
Stabenow, Too, Admits ObamaCare Won’t Work


The president’s budget proposes to rescind ObamaCare’s cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments in 2014. As I explain in a National Review Online op-ed, this proposal demonstrates that:
  1. ObamaCare is not likely to reduce uncompensated care in 2014.
  2. ObamaCare won’t reduce the deficit.
  3. Hospitals can stop crying poverty.
  4. States don’t need to expand Medicaid to protect hospitals.
Related to that, Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) have now introduced legislation (technically, an amendment) that would rescind those cuts, thereby increasing Medicaid spending. This reinforces the four points above, especially the part about states not needing to expand Medicaid.
Interestingly, both Stabenow and Blunt are flip-flopping and/or betraying their principles. Stabenow the Democrat is repealing part of ObamaCare, while Blunt the Republican is increasing government spending.

12 comments:

  1. An amendment to a budget that has no chance of passing is kind of a non-story, isn't it?

    Obamacare is the law. There's virtually no chance that it's going to change.

    For better, or worse.

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  2. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former military dictator, beat a hasty retreat from an Islamabad courtroom on Thursday after a judge ruled he should be arrested.

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    Hannity about the Saudi youth being deported on national security grounds.

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    ObamaCare to cause Democratic 'train wreck' next year.

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    She fled North Korea late last summer, pushing her way at night through the chest-deep waters of the Amnok River, following a guide into China and, eventually, to South Korea. The journey cost her $5,000, a fortune back home.

    ...

    Now, amid international fears that North Korea may be preparing for another missile test, and relentless over-the-top rhetoric from Pyongyang that it will destroy its enemies, she simply scoffs. The exiles have seen life in both Koreas, and are unimpressed with what they left behind.

    “It’s not even possible for North Korea to have a war,”

    said the woman, who spent years arranging black market deals for bronze smuggled to China. She asked that her name and other identifying details not be used, to protect relatives still living in the North.

    “They don’t have fuel. They don’t have electricity,” she said. “Even if they yell to the world that they’ll go to war, it’s all just talk.”

    Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/04/16/nkorea-lashes-out-anew-over-protest-in-seoul/#ixzz2QrL37cDv

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    See them here

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