Obama's promise of getting rid of special deals via "transparency" to the legislative process never happened. Rather, the Executive Branch and Democrat congressional leadership used backroom deals and other shady tactics to pass the monumentally unpopular health care bill. Consequently, to call attention belatedly to these shenanigans, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) sponsored an amendment that would pull out all the sweetheart deals added to entice the needed votes for the travesty bill. These under-the-table-behind-the-scenes, semi-secret negotiations include, but are not limited to, increases in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments for Tennessee and Hawaii.
When a survey was mailed to all 50 States and the District of Columbia in March of 1998, forty States responded. Eleven states chose to ignore the survey. States accounted for 89 percent of total of both Federal and State national 1997 DSH expenditures. The eleven States which did not respond were: Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia. [6] The “Louisiana Purchase” of $300 million for Senator Mary Landrieu D-Louisianna [2], Medicare coverage for Libby, Montana residents exposed to environmental hazards advocated by Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Max Baucus [3], and $100 million for hospitals in Connecticut per Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd D-CT. Sen. McCain’s amendment was tabled with a vote of 54-43, leaving taxpayers to be saddled with the bill for these special deals used to pass vehemnently hated, unpopular legislation taxpayers didn’t want or like and protested loudly in the first place. Obamacare: Dubbed as “health care for all”, it is the most massive redistribution of wealth in American history. Warning:
16,000 new IRS tax collectors will be collecting for
'Obamacare' with cops costing $1 billion to force new tax compliance
as 16,000 new IRS agents to be required under health-care reform. As many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents and other employees to investigate and collect billions in new taxes imposed on Americans, this according to a House Committee on Ways and Means Committee Republican report prepared March 18 for ranking members Reps. Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Charles Boustany, R-La. As of March 2009, the federal government's average annual yearly salary was $42,035 for tax examiners, $91,507 for internal revenue agents and $63,547 for tax specialists, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics "Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition.
When averaging the three pay grade averages this yields an estimated $65,696 per IRS worker hired, assuming an equal number of tax examiners, internal revenue agents and tax specialists will be hired. Will this group resemble monochromically the Terrorist Security Administration (TSA) group? Where was the "diversity" of the TSA? [7]
Additionally, Obamacare imposes burdensome new requirements of paperwork, cost, and compliance. If 60% of Americans want to repeal Obamacare. [1] Numerous mental patients are among the other 40% who like it or have no opinion.
[1] http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/in-the-news/a-guide-to-the-senate-vote-o-rama-part-one/#more-3295
[2] http://scaredmonkeys.com/2009/11/22/the-new-300-million-louisiana-purchase-on-the-backs-of-tax-payers-how-senator-mary-landrieu-d-la-vote-was-bought-for-obamacare/
[3] http://omnispeak.com/?tag=medicare
[4]http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2009/12/22/dodd-works-in-100-million-in-healthcare-bill-for-uconn-hospital.html
[5] http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/25/a-guide-to-the-senate-vote-o-rama/
[6]http://www.allbusiness.com/personal-finance/health-care/715500-1.html
[7] http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=132629
