President Obama vowed to usher in a new era of transparency in government - in that vein earlier this week he hosted a "closed-door meeting on openness" and then congratulated Senator Reid and his colleagues in the Senate on a "major breakthrough" in the health care reform -- even though no one could be bothered to tell the American people what said "major breakthrough" is... Instead Senator Reid asked for our trust stating that the "broad agreement" Democrats came to on Tuesday evening "moves this bill way down the road."
According to inside sources, the Democrat's agreement includes setting up some kind of non-profit overseen by the Federal Government that would replace the odious "Public Option." While there are few details at the moment I cannot help but wonder if said non-profit overseen by the Federal Government will look more like Fannie May or Freddie Mac, because we all know how well those two panned out.
Additional information indicates that the compromise will also decrease the minimum age for Medicare coverage from 65 to 55. So they are going to open-up a system whose trustees say will be bankrupt by 2017 to an additional +34 million people while at the same time cutting $50 billion in cost from said program AND guaranteeing that there will be no additional rationing or interruption of care AND promising that the entire project will come out budget neutral... If you believe that, I've got some moon rocks I'd like to sell you...
Write your Senators people, this is too important for them to screw up.
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