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    • August 12, 2010 at 10:19 pm
    Kevin from Atlanta
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      Part of Obama's funding for his health care is too cut Medicare and Medicaid by $500 billion.

      Obama has alread started.

      Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — An Obama administration plan to cut Medicare payments to heart and cancer doctors by $1.4 billion next year is generating a backlash that’s undermining the president’s health-care overhaul.

      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=n…

      Payments to Onocologist hit the hardest with a 19% cut in what Medicare and Medicaid will pay.

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        • August 13, 2010 at 2:44 pm
        jag
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          Depressing, I have said it before, and I will say it again, no such thing as a free lunch.  Instead all of the money that could be used for healthcare will be more than likely paying for a junket by a member of the House. 

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