Medicare D: When BU$HCO "Broke" Medicare!!

Mr. Shaman

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Ya' can't very-well regain control, over Medicare's costs, without canceling-out The BU$HCO MEGA-HU$TLE!!!!​


August 26, 2016 - "Of roughly $250 million raised for and against 17 ballot measures coming before California voters in November, more than a quarter of that amount — about $70 million — has been contributed by deep-pocketed drug companies to defeat the state’s Drug Price Relief Act.

Contributions aimed at killing the initiative are on track to be the most raised involving a single ballot measure since 2001, the earliest year for which online data are available, according to MapLight, a nonpartisan organization that tracks money in politics.

The Drug Price Relief Act would make prescription drugs more affordable for people in Medi-Cal and other state programs by requiring that California pay no more than what’s paid for the same drugs by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It would, in other words, protect state taxpayers from being ripped-off."

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April 1, 2007 - "If you have ever wondered why the cost of prescription drugs in the United States are the highest in the world or why it's illegal to import cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico, you need look no further than the pharmaceutical lobby and its influence in Washington, D.C.

According to a report by the Center for Public Integrity, congressmen are outnumbered two to one by lobbyists for an industry that spends roughly $100 million a year in campaign contributions and lobbying expenses to protect its profits.

One reason those profits have exceeded Wall Street expectations is the Medicare prescription drug bill. It was passed more than three-and-a-half years ago, but as 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft reports, its effects are still reverberating through the halls of Congress, providing a window into how the lobby works."

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November 18, 2004 - "Faced with the prospect of a government unable to pay its bills, the Senate voted on Wednesday to raise the federal debt limit by $800 billion.

Though an increase in the debt ceiling was never in doubt, Republican leaders in both houses of Congress postponed action on it last month, until after the elections, to deprive Democrats of a chance to accuse them of fiscal irresponsibility.

The bill, if approved by the House in a vote expected on Thursday, would authorize the third big increase in the federal borrowing since President Bush took office in 2001. Federal debt has ballooned by $1.4 trillion over the past four years, to $7.4 trillion, and the new ceiling would allow borrowing to reach $8.2 trillion.

Administration officials contend that the annual deficits are undesirable but necessary to help stimulate an economic recovery and fight a global war on terrorism.

Mr. Bush has promised to reduce the deficit by half over five years, though the administration is fighting to make its tax cuts permanent and may need more than $70 billion in extra money next year to support military operations in Iraq."

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September 11, 2013 - "With the federal government set to hit the limit of its borrowing authority as early as mid-October, Republicans are once again threatening to hold the debt ceiling hostage. As the National Review described the latest ransom demand from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, "To increase the debt ceiling, Cantor said, Republicans will demand a one-year delay to Obamacare."

Sadly for the GOP obstructionists promising to trigger a U.S. default and a global economic catastrophe, the Republicans' debt limit blackmail is more than a little ironic. After all, with $2.5 trillion in reductions already in place for the next decade, the U.S national debt has stabilized, with the CBO lowering its 2013 deficit forecast to half the level Barack Obama faced when he first took the oath of office in 2009. And as the nonpartisan agency has repeatedly concluded, the Affordable Care Act will reduce the U.S. national debt by $24 billion next year and $109 billion over the next decade. More hypocritical still, in the fall of 2004 the current GOP leadership team of Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Eric Cantor all voted to give President Bush a "clean" debt ceiling increase of $800 billion to cover the initial costs of the unfunded Medicare prescription drug program.

As you may recall, Republican Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt during his eight years in office, with George W. Bush nearly doubling it again during his tenure. That hemorrhaging of red ink from the U.S. Treasury was due not just to the costs of the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but to the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 that continue to drain Uncle Sam's coffers. McConnell, Boehner and Cantor voted for all of it. But in December 2003, they added another budget-buster to the ledger, the Medicare prescription drug benefit."

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Or deader.
My Canadian friend died waiting for a cat scan of her brain tumor.
But what does Canada have to do with medicare ?
 
Mr. Shaman said:
Ya' can't very-well regain control, over Medicare's costs, without canceling-out The BU$HCO MEGA-HU$TLE!!!!​
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I'll wait for you to post the constitutional article or amendment that authorizes the feds to operate a Medicare/Medicaid program. Those programs are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
 
Mr. Shaman said:


Get a grip, Goober.....IT'S THE LAW O' THE LAND!!!!! Ya' don't like it.....LEAVE!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)#Program_history​
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Your alleged "Law Of The Land" has no constitutional authority. The Constitution is supposed to be the "Law Of The Land." The class knows you don't give a fuck about constitutionalism because you're a progressive, socialist neo-communist! Your socialist progressive nightmare will eventually eliminate itself. Can you spell Venezuela?
 
Robo said:
Your alleged "Law Of The Land" has no constitutional authority. The Constitution is supposed to be the "Law Of The Land." The class knows you don't give a fuck about constitutionalism because you're a progressive, socialist neo-communist!
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Here, you go.......
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Robo said:
Your socialist progressive nightmare will eventually eliminate itself.
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Actually.....it'll be more of a transition.....



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April 1, 2007 - "If you have ever wondered why the cost of prescription drugs in the United States are the highest in the world or why it's illegal to import cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico, you need look no further than the pharmaceutical lobby and its influence in Washington, D.C.

According to a report by the Center for Public Integrity, congressmen are outnumbered two to one by lobbyists for an industry that spends roughly $100 million a year in campaign contributions and lobbying expenses to protect its profits.

One reason those profits have exceeded Wall Street expectations is the Medicare prescription drug bill. It was passed more than three-and-a-half years ago, but as 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft reports, its effects are still reverberating through the halls of Congress, providing a window into how the lobby works."

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