@georgeob1,
georgeob1 wrote:
You consistently distort things apparently to suit your purposes. I have noted the repeated claims of the president to"reap huge savings on Medicare", but without any detail as to how he will do it.
You still refuse to provide a
single link to any actual speech the President has given, or any actual proposal the Dems have put forth. There is no reason to believe that your claim of the 'repeated claims' of the president has any merit; I don't believe that he has made those claims, and you are unwilling to provide evidence that he did, so you don't really have an argument here. You have an assertion. Assertions are weak. You know this.
Quote: I have noted here that the only levers the law provides are for the government to reduce reinbursement rates - something the administration is already investigating, by its own reports - or to exclude certain services. The result of this unknown combination of duplicity and ineptitude has been a signifcant loss of confidence in the Administration in some quarters of the electorate that previously supported it.
Where is your evidence, that the only levers the law provides are reducing rates? You have none, only assertions. Where is your evidence that the WH is considering reducing rates? You have none, only your assertions. Weak sauce and it doesn't add to the discussion. I seriously think that you are making **** up, George. I am accusing you of either fabricating arguments or misunderstanding what has been said.
You can clear this up real quick by, yaknow, linking to something. Anything. That provides corroborating evidence for your positions.
Quote:What the hell does "... the modernization of mecical practices ..." really mean????
It means moving to electronic records collection and data management, an area in which the medical industry is woefully behind and a cause of a huge amount of waste and mismanagement of funds. But, the slightest bit of research on your part would have revealed this; why didn't you bother to do it, before asking?
Quote:The President has assured us that the government will not interfere in doctor-patient relationships; the administration has refused to consider tort limitations to reduce the potential liabilities that motivate "defensive medicine"; you have asserted they will not cut medicare reinmbursement rates. So what is left????
Raising taxes is what is left, George, and consistently what I have said will happen, and what various plans in Congress say will happen.
Quote:There are several versions of proposed legislation under review in the Congress, and the details do keep changing. However, the CBO's verdict on the House bill which completed several Committee reviews was that it will be a huge cause of future deficits - despite the Administation's claims to the contrary.
The CBO didn't score a bill with the Public Option included. As this is a primary driver of cost savings, they didn't really look at the actual plan.
This refusal on your part to link to actual evidence, and to argue from assertion, is childish, George. There's no reason anyone here should take your word as factual on these issues; you are creating Straw man arguments constantly these days, by presenting situations which do not factually match our real world.
Other posters, when asked to provide evidence for their position, happily - or at least reluctantly - do so. You do not. What does that say about you?
Cycloptichorn
There you have it.
