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bpuharic

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:44:09 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:11:09 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

How will that happen? He did absolutely nothing to reduce costs.

sure he did. he reduced medicare costs, brought the uninsured into the
system, reducing their tendency to use emergency rooms as family
physicians, etc

Where do you think they will go now?
There are not enough family physicians to absorb that many new
patients.

sure there are. there are now plans underway to license RNP's, PA's
etc. to work under a doctor's supervision to take much of the burden
off dirs

and here in PA they just started a medical school in scranton...there
are several others underway

your preference seems to be let 'em die. typical right winger

and objective economists have shown that his program reduces the
deficit, or is deficit neutral, over the next decade

That assumes a lot of things that may never happen. If something was
relegated to the out years it may change. This bill changed
significantly within days of it's passage, remember the
"reconciliation"? If you think they will really cut Medicare by $300
billion you are not paying attention. A lot of the cost was simply
shifted to the states who are broke now.

Even if nothing happened, when has CBO actually been right? They said
the Iraq war was only going to cost $50 billion, you have it at a
trillion.

fine. let's wait and see. right now the economy is growing,
unemployment is coming down, wall street is up and there are plans to
regulate the excesses of wall street.

much more than bush ever did.