Harry Reid: Health Care Bill Will Cost $2 Trillion

there is one reason and one reason only why our country faces monster deficits: the Republicans launched a war and cut taxes. has that little piece of magical thinking ever been done in the history of mankind? ever? cut taxes and fight a war?! preposterous.

now, as the business cycle made a secular turn to severe and sustained deflation, it was imperative to lever up the public balance sheet. else, with household and business retrenchment, the economy would have imploded. period. and so we stimulated the economy and it saved the country--basically. you'd be standing in a breadline had the dems not taken that action.

too bad we inherited a fiscal condition that was obviously created by fools. i mean, what kind of...

Nevadans say they're ready to replace longtime Democratic incumbent Sen. Harry Reid with an untested Republican.

Which Republican ?
But of their top two picks -- former GOP party official Sue Lowden and real estate developer Danny Tarkanian -- either one would unseat Reid if the election were held today, according to a poll commissioned by the Review-Journal

In one general election scenario, 49 percent of respondents picked Lowden and 39 percent chose Reid. In another, 48 percent picked Tarkanian to 43 percent for Reid. That poll, which surveyed 500 voters Tuesday through Thursday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

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.... We will suffer the increased agony of the deaths of loved ones who could have been saved; but, golly gee, it wasn't "cost effective!"
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Were you aware that Texas has legislated the right for hospitals to refuse care if it's not cost effective. It was sign into law by --- you got it --- Gov George W. Bush...with a (R) legislature and remains in effect.

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Texas Health and Safety Code essentially allows a medical facility to decide whether it wants to continue giving life-sustaining treatment, even against the wishes of the patient or family.

(Texas Advance Directive Act )
Section 166.046, Subsection E, which allows:

If an attending physician refuses to honor a patient's advance...

He's not talking about the cost of the Health Care Bill .....

He's talking about the annual cost of health care as it stands now...from all sources.

Actually it's a little bit more at ~$2.5 trillion dollars a years and growing.

But I guess why waste an opportunity to further misinform these intellectually lazy folks - when you can throw some more lion meat to the angry elephants ?.

Total health care expenditures will still go up over the years but the whole idea of the HCR is to slow down the pace...

Currently = 7% annually..
Target = 1-2% annually..

Starting @ 2.5 Trillion dollars

Those darn Republicans are running us into the Ground with all this Defecit Spending. Our children and Grandchildren will be paying for this forever.

Wasnt that the Propaganda speech that Dems used in 06 and 08 and they won

obama fairy land

MORE DEFECIT THAN ALL THE POTUS PUT TOGETHER IN OUR ENTIRE COUNTRIES HISTORY
Wheres the outcry from LIBS like HALD,Lilly,Mario,

your POTUS is running us into the ground and you say NOTHING

Wow what a bunch of LIEING TWO FACED LIBERALS you guys have turned out to be

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME YOU WAR MONGEREING LIBERALS
BABY KILLERS, BOMBING INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW MR PRESIDENT BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HMMM HMMM HMMM YOU WAR...

The $800B-$2T number bandied about is always a 10-year projection. Harry said the the CBO reports that Tort Reform will save $54B a year and compared to $2T, it's not alot. Well $54B a yar over 10 years is $540B or 27%!!! I'd call that significant...or is Harry trying to tell us that Obamacare is gonna cost $2T per year!?!?!?!?

It will take this country 3 generations at least to recover from this mockery of a Congress and a President.

The majority of tax paying Americans have overwhelmingly REJECTED the current VERSION of so-called healthcare reform, yet the democrats have rejected this notion and are doing their own political power grab. This is NOT by the people or for the people! This is an example of political power gone crazy and needs to be purged--or a form of TYRANNY! (something crammed down the throats of people who don't want it!) ....I'm having flashbacks to 1994!!

I'm sure he's got a trillion or so of payoff money laying around somewhere.

What he is trying to pull off is unconstitutional ! anti American ! tratorius! and a crime againt America and the American people ! What part of no , did he not understand ? we said no to the healthcare bill , we said no to illegals being counted on the cencus , we said no to any more spending of our money . What part of he works for , the american people , not the illegals did he not understand ? As far as im concerned he is committing crimes against America and the American people , he needs to held accountable for his criminal actions . Fired without pay .The constitution is to be upheld . We the people need to hire lawyers to prosecute these crimes , defend ourselves before we have no rights left .

HERE IS THE PROMISE THE THE 9/12 REBELLION:

IF YOU VOTE FOR THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE, WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT OF OFFICE.

WE PROMISE.

What, me worry? - Dingy Harry Reid.

America is still a representative government, and we should not allow ourselves to be bulldozed by a small group of agenda-driven Washington insiders. The Founding Fathers warned us of this type of "tyranny of the minority" in the Federalist Papers. The public still has a voice and a right to dissent. Urge President Obama to be open and transparent about the provisions of the health reform bill. Tell him to put the full bill online for at least a week for the public to debate like he promised.

Disregarding public sentiment, House Democrats moved America one step closer to Socialized healthcare Thursday when they authorized the Senate to use the "Nuclear Option" when passing the extremely controversial healthcare reform bill. In what can only be described as anti-democratic at best, the archaic procedure allows the Senate to tack on the massive 1000+ page healthcare reform bill to regular budgetary legislation, allowing the bill to pass with a simple 51-50 majority, instead of the normally required 60 votes. This means the bill -- which financially affects every American, gives the government sweeping control over 20% of the economy, may or may not include the incindiary "public option," and could cost up to 2 trillion...

forging the chains that will be used to bind you with, America.

By denying elders the basics by which they may maintain a semblance of support, for which they have already paid in the manner of payroll deductions into social security, into medicare, and continuing payments to medicare is nothing more than cleansing society of them.

Spontaneous writes: Thursday, October, 15, 2009 6:24 PM
Taking a surplus and giving....
tax cuts for the same people who are robbing us blind on WallStreet cost us 1.2 Trillion dollars. A failed and illegal war in Iraq has cost us 3 Trillion dollars. And you want to whine about the cost for healthcare for everyone???

Heartless, STOOPID asshats.

Arch says

Now this post by spontaneous is the epitome of stupid! Spont has voted into office, the very bastage of multi trillion dollar deficit spending. Aka Reid, Pelosi, Obama!
As logic demands, Why would anyone but an idiot complain of deficit spending and then vote and support and defend those who triple down on the evil? Spontaneous just exposed what an...

"Yeah, you should know about a couple trillion here and couple there - your asshat leadership introduced us to trillion dollar deficits."

And what leadership of mine would that be, little $hit-for-brains?

Amen!..."Sponfantazoid" is the right moniker for that cultist pos! LMAO!

It's amazing how the sanctimonious commie bastages think they have the right to tell you how they're going to spend YOUR money!

There is no creature that has ever crawled out of a dark dungeon, slimey black, repressed back waters of republican means, that can ever match this speaker, the nightmare, the Dems have unleashed on the American public. If we survive the horror, we will not be the better for it.

There is nothing more frightening, except dimwits like yourself, that seem to think this is the answer, because you care. You care enough to force me to spend my money on other peoples cares. Your delusional. Keep sending your money to Al gore, green peace, and the rest, and by the way, I am throwing beer cans in the garbage tonight.

is the epitome of incompetence. His gestures are exquisite and perfectly timed to emphasize his complete lack of understanding of what he is talking about.

Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Biden, et al, are just a few of the examples demonstrating the state of our current government: a kakistocracy, government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

to keep Harry home. Wish I still had a home in Clarke Country. I'd have a huge NO to Harry sign on my front lawn.

He is singlehandedly sinking this country.

Harry, Stay Home. You're too old and your politics are crosseyed.

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Reid must be spending too much with Joe Biden. Just as Biden has a way of stepping in it by letting the truth get mixed up with his attempts to wax rhetorically, so too has Reid let the truth trip him up while trying to make a mockery of tort reform. Dems lie so often they no longer have the ability to separate the truth from their rhetorical fiction.

coming out of DC is an idiot! We are witnessing the destruction of our country not by the enemy from without but by the greedy parasites from within! We will suffer the increased agony of the deaths of loved ones who could have been saved; but, golly gee, it wasn't "cost effective!" Oh yes charismatic Harry and Princess Botox along with Captain Obumbles what leadership!!!!