To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government’s fiscal position.
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I know every administration cooks the books and plays with numbers but dude, the 0 administration has taken it to unseen heights. Ken Lay would have been embarrassed to try to pull something like this.
It's probably a done deal but there's always hope that the morons in the majority will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
This healthcare nightmare has me all fired up. I don't understand how any honest minded person could support this monstrosity. I have posted frequently on the subject on my blog, epplereffect, and recenlty engaged in some discussion here: http://hooahwife.com/?p=3800
ReplyDeleteThere is one individual in particular (goes by Reasic) that is hopelessly lost in the euphoria of Obamamania and I do not understand how they could possibly be so misguided. I am beginning to fear that there will be no way to repair the damage being done.