Posts Tagged ‘Baucus’
More incorrect information about the FAA and Republicans UPDATE: Video, Stephen Hayes
If you haven’t already, you will soon hear that the Republicans in the House “shut down” the FAA causing thousands to be furloughed, and hundreds of projects stopped. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Read MoreObamacare: do as I say, not as I do
Remember last September when the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), at the urging of Senator Baucus (D. Mont.), issued “cease and desist” orders against Medicare Advantage insurers from doing the unthinkable…actually communicating with their insureds about the provisions of Obamacare? According to the administration, these communications were “false and misleading”. Why? Because they actually pointed…
Read MoreJoe says “No”, and he’s not the only Democrat – UPDATE: Snowementum
We detailed here how the President called the Baucus Bill bi-partisan. Well if Senator Snowe makes a bad health care bill bi-partisan … then the opposition mounting against this bill is truly bi-partisan. Connecticut’s Junior Senator Joe Lieberman told Don Imus on FBN yesterday that he could not support the Baucus bill primarily because of…
Read MoreThe Baucus bill “pork”
Now that it’s passed out of “Finance” (with the help of Maine’s Olympia Snowe), you will be outraged about what follows, unless, of course, you live in Nevada, New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Several Senators have made sure that the Obamacare rules are different there. The Baucus Unaffordable Health Care Bill proposes to…
Read MoreBaucus Health Bill “Riots in the Streets”
The CBO has scored the Baucus Health Bill and it comes in at a tidy $829 billion dollars … plus reducing the deficit by $81 billion dollars … all over ten years. Setting aside the afront the bill makes to your personal freedom to choose … $81 billion is chump change. But even if that’s…
Read MoreDon’t read the bill, just vote!
When Congress earlier this year passed the Stimulus legislation that, among other things, allowed our tax dollars to be used to pay bonuses for executives of the failed AIG, Americans were outraged. Most in Congress proclaimed surprise at this provision of the bill, explaining that they had absolutely no idea that the legislation included such language. Then, the…
Read MoreThe Baucus gag order:Update below video
Recently Humana, a Kentucky insurance company that offers Medicare Advantage plans, sent a letter to all of the seniors enrolled in its plans. Although some say the form of the letter may have been an issue, it is the substance of the letter that drew outrage from Senator Baucus (D-Mont.), the author of the Baucus Unaffordable Health Care Bill.…
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