If you’re an old geezer and need your willy pumped they will pay for it!!
Looks like we continue to get the government we elect.
Meanwhile, even as these other programs are already broke and getting even deeper in debt, Congress seems to have no problem taking a proposed $850,000,000,000 health care bill and infglating it to over ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!
Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.
Democrats have touted an unreleased Congressional Budget Office estimate of $871 billion in recent days, a total that numerous officials acknowledge understates the bill’s true cost by $150 billion or more. That figure excludes several items designed to improve benefits for Medicare and Medicaid recipients and providers, as well as public health programs and more, they added.
The officials who disclosed the details did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.
Some moderate Democrats have expressed reluctance to support a bill as high as $1 trillion. Last month, Obama said in a nationally televised address before a joint session of Congress that he preferred a package with a price tag of around $900 billion.
Obama also said he would not sign a bill that raised deficits, and the CBO estimates the emerging House bill meets that objective. Officials said the measure would reduce deficits by at least $50 billion over 10 years and perhaps as much as $120 billion.
Democrats also said the bill would slow the rate of growth of the giant Medicare program from 6.6 percent annually to 5.3 percent.
“The bill will be paid for over 10 years. It will reduce costs but also will not add a dime to the deficit” in future years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a news conference.
Still, Obama’s speech provoked enough concern among House Democrats that senior presidential aides were called to a meeting in the Capitol to explain precisely what the president had in mind when he set the $900 billion target.
The figure of $871 billion “is a coverage number. I think the White House has made that very clear. It is a number about coverage,” Pelosi said recently when asked about the size of the measure.
[...] United Nations’ Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body. MEDICAID AND MEDICAID IN THE RED BY TRILLIONS……SO LET’S ADD ANOTHER TRILLION – antzinpantz.com 10/26/2009 If you’re an old geezer and need your willy pumped they will [...]