Look, as any regular ‘Grok reader knows, we are not enamored with Scott Brown but as you just saw with my bumping of our Walt Havenstein posts on Expanded Medicaid, we don’t care WHO you are and WHICH Party you are in – lie to us (the electorate) and we (the ‘Grok) will call you on it. Make like something is nothing when it is a big deal , yes, our Flashlights will be trained on you. Violate our standards and you catch our attention? We’ll talk about it. And Jeanne Shaheen did in claiming that Obamacare didn’t take $750 Billion from Medicare. It did. Avik Roy at The Corner brings up the Feds own numbers (emphasis mine):
…Actually, no. Some partisan self-styled “fact-checkers” have claimed that the cuts won’t harm seniors’ health care — an opinion, not a fact, by the way — but nobody denies that the cuts are actually baked into Obamacare. In 2012, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that Obamacare would reduce Medicare spending by $716 billion, in the period from 2013 to 2022, relative to prior law. From 2014 to 2023, the total reduction in Medicare spending is more like $853 billion, because the cuts didn’t really go into effect until 2014.
…During the 2012 campaign, Team Obama first trotted out the trope that Obamacare’s Medicare cuts aren’t really cuts. I debunked those claims at the time,here and here. I have more details on Shaheen’s comments here, including her wild assertion that Obamacare is actually slowing the growth of health-care spending.
And again, Jeanne, your vote cost me LOTS of money when YOUR OBAMACARE LAW cost me my policy simply because you believe I should pay for stuff that I don’t need. That’s not “Live Free or Die” – it is the Shaheen “Bow Down and DO AS I COMMAND”.
