SOTU: Bush Health Care Plan Will Cut Funding For Hospitals
SOTU: Bush Health Care Plan Will Cut Funding For Hospitals
Bush said: “My second proposal is to help the States that are coming up with innovative ways to cover the uninsured. States that make basic private health insurance available to all their citizens should receive Federal funds to help them provide this coverage to the poor and the sick. I have asked the Secretary of Health and Human Services to work with Congress to take existing Federal funds and use them to create ‘Affordable Choices’ grants.”
FACT — BUSH PLAN WILL CUT $30 BILLION FROM PUBLIC HOSPITALS: Bush’s ‘Affordable Choice’ grants will not involve any new federal money. It will instead “redirect some of the $30 billion the government spends annually to care for people without health insurance who show up at hospitals and emergency rooms. There are about 47 million Americans without health insurance.” [USA Today, , 1/23/07; American Progress, 1/23/07]
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January 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 pmsomeone, please arrest this enemy of the people, terrorist.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:27 pmwhat in the hell are people waiting for?
Socio-economic discrimination. Period.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:27 pmHe’s always full of proposals in the SOTU. And other stuff, too.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 pmClass wars, greed.
No breathing space for you.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pmThis is the one thing republicans can never understand – when you have tax cuts, the money has to come from somewhere.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 pmEverything Bush proposes is for the wealthy only and to screw over average Americans!
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:42 pmHe’s always full of proposals in the SOTU. And other stuff, too.
Comment by Zooey —
No his teleprompter was the one full of proposals. Georges lips were just moving in sync. Its a new CIA technique used for absolute dimwits who are Presidents.
Tiny eletrodes are planted into Georges lips and the CIA goons back stage hook his ” lips ” up with the teleprompter and get it in sync right before the SOTU.
One year they had a new crew of goons from the CIA working the SOFU. One of them brought a pocket TV in with him and was watching old saturday morning kiung fu movies. The actors in the low budget flick were of really bad synchronization in the speech lab you know?
That year sometimes Bushs lips were not moving but you could hear his speech. At other times his lips were moving and it was dead silence in the speaker.
Strange times to be alive.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:20 pmkit,
Basically I meant that the Chimp is full of shit.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:41 pmAnd yes, kit, strange times indeed.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:41 pmPres Bush’s plan: Take money out of one pocket, put it in the other, call the press, and announce the “Affordable Choices Grants”.
Pure genius.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:17 amam i wrong? … did anyone else hear “nukular”?
January 24th, 2007 at 12:32 amjust wonderin’
as bad as it sounds, this could turn out to be a step in the right direction for health care for the uninsured. yes, hospitals would get less funding. but the ERs also would not be as crowded. many of those people without insurance who go to the ER for treatment could have been treated more efficiently (i.e. at less cost) at a doctor’s office. but because they had no insurance, they went to the ER at the hospital for care instead. with that 30 billion being applied toward the patients, not the hospitals, would mean more people get medical services.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pmThanks for the good info, used it in a post. This plan sounds horrendous, not only because of the “take money from the poor to give to the poor” quote here, but also because of how it puts so much pressure to convert everyone to a personal insurance plan. Which, if you look around, are rarely as good as a corporate group policy, and if they are, they are much, much more expensive.
Thanks again for the information!
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 am