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leggo-your-eggo-theres-a-waffle-shortage: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108191/leggo-your-eggo-theres-a-waffle-shortage - broken link)
OMG OMG!
First bowing, and now this. Obama's dream for a socialist America now has the all American breakfast food under attack. Beck warned about rationing folks! The day is finally here, and it's only going to get worse. I hope this is the change you wanted!
So now Obama is responsible for a bakery getting damaged by flooding so that a production line had do be shut down? Is there no end to the pettiness Beck and his followers will try to blame on the man? Get a grip on reality!
I was supposed to have 3 sausages in my Denny's breakfast this morning! There were only 2! I didn't make the link (pun not intended, sorry!) this morning. Thanks, SLCPunk! Now I know it's all over! Next thing you know, we'll all be eating Euro-commie Musli for breakfast!
So now Obama is responsible for a bakery getting damaged by flooding so that a production line had do be shut down? Is there no end to the pettiness Beck and his followers will try to blame on the man? Get a grip on reality!
You've fallen victim to Poe's Law, Ms Wayland. SLCPunk's one of the good ones. It's dangerous territory to try mocking the wingnuts, since it's so hard to tell.
You've fallen victim to Poe's Law, Ms Wayland. SLCPunk's one of the good ones. It's dangerous territory to try mocking the wingnuts, since it's so hard to tell.
personaly i prefer pacakes but if the mrs and kids want waffles i just stomp on em with my lug sole huntin boots. not the kids the pancakes and the mrs
leggo-your-eggo-theres-a-waffle-shortage: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108191/leggo-your-eggo-theres-a-waffle-shortage - broken link)
OMG OMG!
First bowing, and now this. Obama's dream for a socialist America now has the all American breakfast food under attack. Beck warned about rationing folks! The day is finally here, and it's only going to get worse. I hope this is the change you wanted!
CBO and JCT estimate that provisions affecting health insurance coverage would result in a net increase in federal deficits of $599 billion over fiscal years 2010 through 2019 (see Table 3). That estimate primarily reflects $374 billion in additional net federal outlays for Medicaid and CHIP and $447 billion in federal subsidies that would be provided to purchase coverage through the new insurance exchanges and related spending.2 The other main element of the coverage provisions that would increase federal deficits is the tax credit for small employers who offer health insurance, which is estimated to reduce revenues by $27 billion over 10 years. Those costs would be partly offset by receipts or savings, totaling $249 billion over the 10-year budget window, from four sources: net revenues from the excise tax on high-premium insurance plans, totaling $149 billion; penalty payments by uninsured individuals, which would amount to $8 billion; penalty payments by employers whose workers received subsidies via the exchanges, which would total $28 billion; and other budgetary effects, mostly on tax revenues, associated with the expansion of federally subsidized insurance, which would reduce deficits by $64 billion.3
In total, CBO estimates that enacting those provisions
would reduce direct spending by $491 billion over the 2010–2019 period.4 The provisions that would result in the largest budget savings include these:
Permanent reductions in the annual updates to Medicare’s payment rates for most services in the fee-for-service sector (other than physicians’ services), yielding budgetary savings of $192 billion over 10 years. (That calculation excludes interactions between those provisions and others—namely, the effects of those changes on payments to Medicare Advantage plans and collections of Part B premiums.)
Setting payment rates in the Medicare Advantage program on the basis of the average of the bids submitted by Medicare Advantage plans in each market, yielding savings of an estimated $118 billion (before interactions) over the 2010– 2019 period.
Reducing Medicaid and Medicare payments to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients, known as disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals, by about $43 billion—composed of roughly $22 billion from Medicaid and $21 billion from Medicare DSH payments.
The legislation also would establish an Independent Medicare Advisory Board, which would be required, under certain circumstances, to recommend changes to the Medicare program to limit the rate of growth in that program’s spending.
That, right there, is what we call rationing. Even worse is that's what we call rationing after massive tax increases or in their terms "fines".
Reducing Medicaid and Medicare payments to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients, known as disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals, by about $43 billion—composed of roughly $22 billion from Medicaid and $21 billion from Medicare DSH payments.
That, right there, is what we call rationing. Even worse is that's what we call rationing after massive tax increases or in their terms "fines".
"In either case, DSH payments are paid to qualifying hospitals by their respective states as an add-on to their normal Medicaid grants. In 2006, the states made more than $17 billion in DSH payments to individual hospitals.
"In recent years, Republicans in Congress have been consistent in their efforts to find cost savings by containing the growth of or making cuts to the DSH program. These efforts have succeeded in establishing caps on the amount of DSH funds an individual hospital can receive as well as on the total amount of DSH payments that can be made within a state. On the other side of the aisle, Democrats have been persistent in their support of the DSH program and have been successful in thwarting attempts to effect significant reductions in the funding of the program."
Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Payments - 2009 Outlook - Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis (http://www.wallerlaw.com/articles/2008/12/09/disproportionate-share-hospital-dsh-payments-2009-outlook.6691 - broken link)
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Pretty soon he's gonna ration McDonalds and force everyone to get the socialized commie organic water 
