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Bushes plan to pay for the Medicare Drug plan.

It's very simple.

1. Borrow excessively from the next generation (ensuring their continued servitude)
2. Pocket the excess, and ensure a collossal fortune for your clan.
3. Die and not have to face what happens next.
 
Originally posted by: techs
I am sure it is very interesting.
Could someone tell me where the money is coming from?
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That's easy:

Borrow from China and anyone else dumb enough to loan us money.
 
E.J. Dionnes OP-ED piece makes reference to it

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The most striking default was on health care, an issue that the president's team has signaled will be a big deal
for the administration this year. Bush delivered not a lion but a mouse. He endorsed "wider use of electronic records
and other health information technology," promised to "strengthen health savings accounts,"
pledged to make insurance more portable and issued yet another of his standard attacks on medical malpractice lawsuits.

Hurray for electronic records and portability. But this list does little to help either the uninsured or those who fear
losing their coverage. And health savings accounts aren't really health plans. They are tax-avoidance investment vehicles -
Wall Street can't wait - that will mostly help the healthy and the wealthy while raising costs for the sick.
That's not wise.

 
Bush talked about electronic records and other health information technology. I'm sure it helps that his first cousin, Jonathan S. Bush. runs athenahealth Inc., a technology outsourcing outfit that will be a huge winner if efforts to improve health-care record keeping through technology take off.

Hmmm....


http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2006/tc20060131_011101.htm

But one electronic-health entrepreneur will watch the speech with special interest: the President's 36-year-old first cousin, Jonathan S. Bush. That's because he runs athenahealth Inc., a technology outsourcing outfit that will be a huge winner if efforts to improve health-care record keeping through technology take off.

GROWTH SPURT. Watertown (Mass.)-based athenahealth handles billing for small medical practices. It's among the pioneers and chief proponents of technology designed to make sure doctors use the right codes for thousands of different medical procedures and tests, and that they comply with the different methods each insurance company has for making sure doctors get paid. Athenahealth backs up the software with staffers who help doctors find and fix mistakes before they turn into costly delays in payment.

And it helps patients by cutting down on the confusion in bills that most consumers don't understand. "You'll be less likely to be in the middle of a food fight between your doctor and your insurance company," Forrester Research analyst Eric Brown says.

Added reason to pay heed to athenahealth, besides a bloodline to the Oval Office: It's the biggest in its peer group and one of the most swiftly expanding private companies in the country, ranking No. 77 on Inc.'s list of the 500 fastest growing last year. There are rumblings that an initial share sale may be in the offing. The company doesn't disclose profits and losses, but Bush says sales rose to $55 million in 2005, from $39 million in 2004.

His company's bailiwick includes the small medical practices that account for the vast majority of U.S. physicians. It has about 6,000 doctors signed up, a little less than 1% of the U.S. total. Brown says athenahealth takes most of its clients away from local, less-automated small companies that handle outsourced billing for small practices. "I think we'll probably grow another 40% this year, because most of that business is already sold," Jonathan Bush says.

MAKING CONNECTIONS. This Bush is from a younger branch of the family tree than his cousin, and he's not afraid to make critical comments about the President's e-health plans. Last March, Jonathan told BusinessWeek Online that the $125 million the Administration wanted to spend promoting health information technology in 2005 was "a drop in the bottom of the bucket." (See BW, 3/28/05, "Crusader for Clearer E-Info.") The two Bushes' fathers are brothers, and Jonathan is the older brother of TV entertainment reporter and anchorman Billy Bush.

Jonathan Bush says the e-health push the President will talk up in the State of the Union would have happened sooner if not for Sept. 11. He tells of going to the White House in the summer of 2001 for a lunch with a couple of friends on the staff, and being brought to the Oval Office for a drop-by. The President, to Jonathan's surprise, had a spreadsheet in his drawer about the possible benefits of health IT, and told his cousin he thought technology could shave 25% off future health care bills.
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Hmm, maybe someone can find a Bush without HealthCare coverage. Then maybe something will be done for those not having any? 😉
 
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: techs
I am sure it is very interesting.
Could someone tell me where the money is coming from?
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That's easy:

Borrow from China and anyone else dumb enough to loan us money.
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Why would it be dumb to loan us money? Have we ever not paid loans back?
 
Do you think this will include any moves to correct whatever it is that is causing hospitals to overcharge patients without insurance?
 
Originally posted by: ntdz
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: techs
I am sure it is very interesting.
Could someone tell me where the money is coming from?
Click to expand...

That's easy:

Borrow from China and anyone else dumb enough to loan us money.
Click to expand...

Why would it be dumb to loan us money? Have we ever not paid loans back?
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With the way things are going, I fully expect the United States to default on a loan within the next 10 or 20 years.
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
Hmm, maybe someone can find a Bush without HealthCare coverage. Then maybe something will be done for those not having any? 😉
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Or an Oil Executive... No Oil Executive Left Behind...
 
Originally posted by: astrosfan90
Do you think this will include any moves to correct whatever it is that is causing hospitals to overcharge patients without insurance?
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Sure will--they'll be told "Pay up or drop dead"
 
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: ntdz
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: techs
I am sure it is very interesting.
Could someone tell me where the money is coming from?
Click to expand...

That's easy:

Borrow from China and anyone else dumb enough to loan us money.
Click to expand...

Why would it be dumb to loan us money? Have we ever not paid loans back?
Click to expand...

With the way things are going, I fully expect the United States to default on a loan within the next 10 or 20 years.
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Do you have anything to back this up or are you just sprewing more unfounded, stupid ideas?
 
Originally posted by: ntdz
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: ntdz
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: techs
I am sure it is very interesting.
Could someone tell me where the money is coming from?
Click to expand...

That's easy:

Borrow from China and anyone else dumb enough to loan us money.
Click to expand...

Why would it be dumb to loan us money? Have we ever not paid loans back?
Click to expand...

With the way things are going, I fully expect the United States to default on a loan within the next 10 or 20 years.
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Do you have anything to back this up or are you just sprewing more unfounded, stupid ideas?
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Your faith in our idiotic government is amazing. Are you sure you aren't religious?

Consider... we're spending gobs of money in Iraq. Medicare and SS, thanks to bipartisan incompetence, will consume an ever larger part of our budget. The Medicare drug plan funnels a tremendous amount of tax money into Big Pharma. Bush and his crew would like an ever lowered tax rate, expecially on the wealthy. Bush and his neocon crew would like nothing better than to come to Israel's aid and invade Iran. Where's the money going to come from to pay our debts?
 
Technically the US governement never has to default on any debt ever. It can just print as much money as it wants. Now what you actually have to worry about is runaway inflation.
 
Originally posted by: ntdz
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: techs
I am sure it is very interesting.
Could someone tell me where the money is coming from?
Click to expand...
That's easy:

Borrow from China and anyone else dumb enough to loan us money.
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Why would it be dumb to loan us money? Have we ever not paid loans back?
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How many loans did Enron default on ... before they collapsed? Past performance does not necessarily predict future returns.
 
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