Healthcare and Printers

"This bill does not control costs or reduce deficits. Instead, it adds a new health care entitlement when we have no idea how to pay for the entitlements we already have."

Rep Paul Ryan.

The current Senate bill has 10 years of tax increases making the true 10-year cost of $2.3 trillion dollars. This is much more that the proposed cap that the President has promised.

Now, What does this have to do with printers? Well, I just purchased a new printer for $40.00 and was happy with my purchase. Until I needed a new ink cartridge….. Come to find out they cost $50.00 to replace. So What is the true cost of my purchase??

The Senate bill takes $52 billion in Social Security tax revenues, $72 billion from the CLASS Act (long-term care insurance) and uses them to offset the cost of the bill.

Are we saying that we are not going to pay out the Social Security benefits? Are we robbing Peter to pay Paul? Or, is the real reason to collapse the Social Security Program in another effort to scrap it -OR- Dare I say, That we can not afford to continue to provide quality of life for Seniors. We will have no money left to provide for them through the Social Security Program, and they will only be a burden to the rest of the country.

Just a thought….(Death Panels)

The chief actuary of Medicare stated that as much as 20% of Medicare providers will possibly go out of business or stop seeing Medicare patients. So where are we going to find more Physicians willing to accept Medicare to provide for the elderly? Are we going to make them wait months for treatment only to find out it is too late to properly treat them? Will the “Medical Board” then find it is too costly to try and provide for them? Will they be given a “Pain Pill” and sent home?

When you strip out the double-counting and gimmicks that are used to offset the cost, you will see the true 10-year cost of the bill has a $460 billion deficit.
The second 10-year cost of this bill has a $1.4 trillion deficit.

So back to my printer…. The true cost of my printer was much more than the $40.00 price tag that lured me in. What I SHOULD have done was look for a printer then priced the printer cartridges to see if I could find some kind of balance.

We need Health Care Reform!!!!!

But can we afford the current Senate Bill that will cost us down the road??????

Nothing to do with health care, but found this amusing…..

Obama extends the Patriot Act, LOL
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100228/D9E4T02G0.html