105 Billion Slush fund...you gotta read the bill

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

If you're talking about me, you got virtually all of that wrong. But hey, I know you love to cling to your uninformed little prejudices and assumptions

Two words sum you up best.

JIMMY CARTER

[Danzig]

http://factcheck.org/2011/03/no-secr...gets-it-wrong/

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No Secret: Bachmann Gets It Wrong
March 8, 2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s claim that Democrats "secretly" hid $105 billion in health care spending is way off base. It’s true that the new health care law contains many billions in future spending, but there was no secret about that.

The Minnesota Republican told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory that "secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation to fund the implementation of Obamacare." But the truth is that much, if not all, of that money was well known before Congress voted on the bill — a fact that drew the wrath of Bachmann’s colleagues, including Sen. Thad Cochran, the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The health care law, for example, mandates funding for these big-ticket items that were much debated and discussed prior to the final vote:

■$40 billion to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in fiscal years 2014 and 2015. Congressional authorization of CHIP was due to expire at the end of fiscal year 2013, but the health care law extended it for two years.

■$11 billion over five years for community health care centers, a figure that was arrived at when President Barack Obama publicly proposed a compromise between the $7 billion in the Senate bill and the $12 billion in the House version.

■$5 billion in one-time funding to create a temporary high-risk pool for people with preexisting conditions until a law can take effect banning insurance companies from refusing to cover such individuals.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Two words sum you up best.

JIMMY CARTER

Yeah, that makes alot of sense ... drinking again, Dell?