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Obamacare is to Medicare what ACORN is to Children's Protective Services
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 22, 2009 03:46pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Hugh Hewitt |
| News Date | Monday, September 21, 2009 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "That's the line that was best received by the 600-plus-person audience at a debate on Obamacare I participated in along with University of Colorado Law School professor Paul Campos on Thursday in Denver. Campos, who writes for the Daily Beast and is a reliable lefty, earned enormous points with the mostly hostile-to-Obamacare crowd simply for showing up to defend the general outlines of the various "reform" proposals under consideration by the Congress. That's more than most Democratic members of Congress will do, and with reason. Obamacare can't be defended if the right questions are asked of its proponents - questions almost never posed by the legacy media.
Our debate's moderator was John Andrews, a former state senator in Colorado, founder of the Independence Inst. and now head of Colorado Christian University's Centennial Institute. Andrews structured our exchange so we could ask each other questions. And as would be the case in any setting, Obamacare cannot be defended against very simple, very direct questions.
Here are the handful of questions every sponsor of any version of Obamacare ought to be obliged to answer - in detail:
1. Can you specify, at least to the level of tens of millions, exactly where the $300 billion in cuts to Medicare proposed by president will come from?
2. The president & his allies agree that the cost of Medicare Advantage programs will have to increase for seniors. By how much? Will those increases arrive annually?
3. The president and his allies agree that some Medicare services will have to be cut. Which services?
4. Forty-five percent of doctors responding to a recent Investors Business Daily/TIPP poll responded that if Obamacare passed, they would consider quitting or retiring. Do you believe them? Even if only a significant portion of these disgruntled doctors retired or quit as a result of the passage of Obamacare, wouldn't that make the delivery of health care much more difficult than it already is?" |
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