What could go wrong?

[Cebby]

Let me get this straight:

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it...

Passed by a Congress that hasn't read it and whose members will be exempt from it...

Signed by a president who smokes...

Funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes...

Overseen by a surgeon general who is obese...

Financed by a country that is broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

(wish I could take credit for that post, but I swiped it from our local board...)

[Seanz0rz]

so very very true!

yes, we need health care! and soon! just not this health care bill! now how about giving us one that DOESN'T suck?!

[RunnerUp]

according to the obama we need 4 billion a year to cover everyone "efficiently" in this country, and right now, with our "ineffiecient" methods, we spend 2.5 billion... wheres that extra 1.5 billion going? red tape, thats where!

[DHC6twinotter]

We are spending over 1 billion a month just on debt interest alone. That's more than our defense budget.

We do need changes to our current system, but government run health care is not the answer.

[Tankota]

We are spending over 1 billion a month just on debt interest alone. That's more than our defense budget.

We do need changes to our current system, but government run health care is not the answer.

I would imagine that our defense budget is greater than 1 billion. That's chump change for today politics.

Well since "hope" won the election, why don't all those people just "hope" that they wont need medical coverage. Or "hope" that another couple trillion dollars just falls out of the sky to pay for it!

Obama's health care plan...? "NOPE"

[DHC6twinotter]

I would imagine that our defense budget is greater than 1 billion. That's chump change for today politics.

Yeah, that's what I thought when I heard that too. I don't remember where I got that info from, but it's off. I checked the numbers (which I should have done earlier), and it turns out we spend on average about $34 billion/month on interest, and we spend on average 39.5 billion/month on defense (preliminary '09 estimates). There is still time left in the year too, and it would not surprise me to see the interest surpass the defense budget sometime in the next few months or year.

http://treasurydirect.gov/govt/repor...ir_expense.htm
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc...7-2009-MBR.pdf

[Bob98SR5]

this one is the best: i have heard a number of democrats in town hall meetings answer the very simple question "how will you all pay for this when we are running the biggest deficit since the great depression"?

the #1 reason i have heard repeated 4-5 times now is "...savings gained through efficiency"

HAHAHAHAHA

anyone here work in software? and worse yet, anyone here work in GOVERNMENT and in software? the fallacy that systems create efficiencies and save money is just a bunch of bullc##t. new systems require more people. systems designed to consolidate decades of legacy data into a single database is a pipe dream. software people: you know what I'm talking about here. Not to mention in this case, we are talking about disparate data sources that are NOT owned by the govt.

i dont trust the govt to run ANYTHING efficiently. govt is the antithesis of efficiency. we experience it everyday. what makes you think a charming president with the gift of gab will make this all magically happen?

[04 Rocko Taco]

well said bob!!

[RunnerUp]

what makes you think a charming president with the gift of gab will make this all magically happen?

a democrat controlled congress...

[Small_words]

a democrat controlled congress...
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For now. We'll see at the end of this year how the '10 election is shaping up. I can't believe the Democrats are going after their own moderates b/c of their reluctance to pass this bill. Talk about a house divided.