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Old 02-09-2009, 07:19 PM
Honus Honus is offline
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
Here is one.
http://www.melissaclouthier.com/2009/01/28/stimulus-package-the-deceitful-way-to-nationalize-healthcare/

Wouldn't you expect our unbiased media to investigate and tell you about this before it becomes law? Ha ha.


IIRC from what I heard, its somewhere around pages 500- 555- of the .pdf version of the Senate Bill.

Do you really expect anyone to read it before they vote?
Your source does not support your contention. For one thing, it appears to me that your source overstates the amount to be spent by a factor of 1,000.

The author of your link uses as her source the website townhall.com which makes the following claim:
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Daschle would receive another $1.5 billion to give a final report to President Obama “containing information describing Federal activities on comparative effectiveness research and recommendations for additional investments in such research.”
The correct figure is $1.5 million, not $1.5 billion. You can read it on page 136 of this website: http://readthestimulus.org/hr1_text.pdf

Even if the source was accurate, there is nothing in that bill that implements any sort of national health care, not even the parts cited by your source or her source.

EDIT: I haven't read the entire bill, so I should have limited my comments to the parts cited in your source and her source.

Last edited by Honus; 02-10-2009 at 05:14 PM.
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