I don't have time to read 2000 + pages of federal mumbo-jumbo but this is an interesting video. Comments? <object><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HcBaSP31Be8?version=3&feature=player_popout"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HcBaSP31Be8?version=3&feature=player_popout" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>
Obama Asks For An Extra $111 Billion To Implement Part Of Obamacare… Just $111 billion, no big deal. Via The Hill: A powerful House Republican wants the Obama administration to explain why it’s asking for an extra $111 billion to implement part of the healthcare reform law. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) is asking about a spike in the estimated costs of subsidies to help people buy private insurance — a central, and expensive, component of the new healthcare law. The administration’s budget request this year included $111 billion more for subsidies than its request last year. The difference falls across the same seven-year window. “This staggering increase in health insurance exchange subsidy spending cannot be explained by legislative changes or new economic assumptions, and therefore must reflect substantial changes in underlying assumptions regarding the program’s utilization and cost,” Camp wrote Friday in a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Not to change the subject but....I must comment on the panhandling Georgetown Law student and the doting US Congress... I have not listened to Limbaugh for years because he is often over the top with his attacks and he waters down his perfectly valid arguments with extreme theatrics. I don’t think the GOP should have anything to do with personal social issues….. it costs them dearly in every election and may this time too. The Dems know this and that is why they are making mandated access to birth control options an issue, even with groups who do not espouse them for religious purposes. This is nothing more than an elaborate trap. I don’t know what this girl got for her “troubles” but humiliation is certainly part of the deal. Tuition at Georgetown Law id $41,000 per year. She argued in effect that she pays a lot for tuition, is busy and like to have an active “social” life which requires her to use a lot of birth control and that is expensive for her. She wants Obamacare because she thinks her birth control should be covered by her insurance. She knew Georgetown was a Catholic school when she enrolled. What enraged me is that this isn’t some third generation welfare crack ho on Springer demanding free everything. This is an upper middle class yuppie to be law student sitting in front of the Congress of the United States begging for pills, foam and condoms. And our tax paid lawmakers are hanging on her every word as if she is breaking the Da Vinci code. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius then joins the fray in a press conference making the Obama argument that the kids who are not born due to birth control will offset the expense of the Obamacare “birth control for all” plan. Then Obama himself make a phone call to this girl just before she is about to go on air live with an interview on NBC. The President of the US? Are you kidding me? It’s all very good theater. Limbaugh was right to expose it… he just was too crass. O’Reilly exposed it himself last evening in a more direct, classy way.
Turns out that Sandra was a "fluke" after all. Not a 23 year old Georgetown Law student at all but a 30 year old student who was and is President of a Women's Reproductive Rights group who apparently enrolled at good old GU with the express purpose of using it as her forum. Obama is such a stooge. He can't even stage a hoax with any skill.