 | Democrats Now Trying to Add a "Public Option" to ObamaCare LawScotty Starnes | July 23, 2010 at 6:20 AM | Tags: Barack Obama, CBO, Congressional Budget Office< House Democrats, Democrats, Dr. Donald Berwick, fraud, health care, health care rationing, health care reform, Lynn Woolsey, Medicare, Obamacare, private insurance, public option, Public Option Act | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-1W6 |
Those sneaky, lying, manipulative bastards are at it again...
The Seattle Times reports:
Four months after President Obama signed the historic health-reform bill into law, House Democrats are officially plotting to bring back the government-run health plan that was stripped out under political pressure.
House members introduced the Public Option Act Wednesday evening to create a Medicare-like public plan that would compete with private insurance plans. Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) is the bill's main sponsor. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Seattle) is among the 128 co-sponsors.
The public option under this legislation is more "robust" than even what the House itself passed last November. Instead of the government negotiating reimbursement rates with doctors and hospitals, the proposal this time calls for paying providers a flat Medicare rate plus 5 percent. Democrats in the Senate couldn't muster the votes for a public option last year, and it was left out of the final reform bill.
On Thursday afternoon, Woolsey released an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the new public option would reduce the federal budget deficit by $53 billion between 2014 and 2019.
The CBO also estimates that a government-run health plan would attract a third, or 13 million, of the 38 million Americans who are expected to buy coverage through the insurance exchanges established under the new law. Premiums would be about 5 percent to 7 percent lower on average than for comparable policies sold by commercial insurers.
Is this the same Congressional Budget Office that scored ObamaCare lower so it would pass and then came out after the bill was signed into law to say they were off by $115 billion? This is the same CBO that said ObamaCare would lower premiums but that is defeated by The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services claims that it increases medical costs by $311 billion per year and increases premiums.
The number scams continue. Now the Democrats want you to believe that adding 13 million into the Medicare system, via a "Public Option," is not only free, it reduces the deficit. How do they get these numbers?
Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., a longtime leader in efforts to include a public option in healthcare reform, said her bill currently has 125 co-sponsors and is similar to legislation that was passed by the House Education and Labor Committee during the healthcare debate.
"We've tweaked it so [the public option] fits in the exchanges," said Woolsey.
Here we go again. The Democrats "tweaked" a lot passing ObamaCare. Tweaked is codeword for lied. Like how Democrats "tweaked" the '$210 Billion Doc Fix" right out of ObamaCare to keep it under the $900 billion threshold set by President Obama.
The side effects of ObamaCare continue. The good new is Obama's recess appointed Healthcare Rationing Czar, Dr. Donald Berwick, will save the taxpayers a lot of dough when he starts rationing your health care. He will be overseeing rationing these services over at The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.
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