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November 2, 2009The Senate Health Bill: Yet Another Budget Gimmick
In the desperate attempt to portray their massive new spending bill as “budget neutral,” Congress and the Obama Administration are relying on more desperate measures to hide the true cost of the legislation. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes Section 1209, aka the “Fail-Safe Mechanism to Prevent Increase in Federal Budget Deficit.” But it is more than just a budget gimmick, it is an unprecedented change in the balance of power from Congress to the President that ought to unite liberals and conservatives in opposition to it. This is either a dangerous or cynical game.
Under Section 1209, if the President certifies that the changes under this legislation cause an increase in the federal deficit, “… the President shall instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Treasury to reduce such credits and subsidies …” that are provided under the legislation.
In other words, the level of federal assistance that is being promised may not actually be delivered. Reducing the subsidies would fall disproportionately on the lowest income levels. Having trapped millions of Americans into buying a product they cannot afford, Congress now gives the President the full unchecked authority to reduce those subsidies (which are worth up to $16,500 a year for a family of four). (more…)
Tags: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicaid, Medicare, Obama Health Care Plan, the Obama Czar State
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October 30, 2009Pelosi Plan Would Give Health Czar Super Powers
Among the fallacies in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill is the pretense that bureaucrats are smarter than the rest of us. An unelected bureaucrat would be given czar-like control over our lives, our health, and our pocketbooks. Even super powers.
This new all-powerful “health choices commissioner” would be entrusted with more power than most superheroes. The laundry list of that special power is proof that it’s a government takeover of health care.
This presidential appointee will both control the new government-run insurance plan AND decide how private insurance companies are to operate, by creating the standards for their coverage and enforcing compliance. Likewise, employer-run health plans would answer to super-czar. (more…)
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