Oct 15 2009
Senate Democrats Using Tricks to Pass ObamaCare
Associated Press reports that Democrats are using tricks to pass ObamaCare.
“Maneuvering to boost prospects for sweeping health care legislation, Senate Democrats hope first to win quick approval for a bill that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade but raises federal deficits in the process, officials said Wednesday.
By creating a two-bill approach, Democrats intend to claim the more comprehensive health care measure meets President Barack Obama’s conditions — that it will neither add to deficits nor exceed $900 billion in costs over 10 years.
If approved and signed into law, the legislation would avert a 21 percent reduction in Medicare fees paid to doctors that is scheduled to take effect in January as well as additional cuts in future years.
Lawmakers frequently draft budgets that assume payment rates for doctors treating Medicare patients will fall rather than rise, part of a sleight of hand set of assumptions to make deficits appear smaller than they actually are. They then convene the following year and restore the money.”
No wonder the Democrats meet with Rahm Emanuel behind closed doors. They want to pass this bill without any outside interference and no public debate. Same tactics from the most corrupt administration in history…and its only been 9 months.
Where is the rest of the drive-by media? Another question should be asked to Obama: Where is the transparency you promised? I though the Bush administration was sneaky. Obama’s is worse.
