{"id":1833,"date":"2010-04-28T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2010-04-28T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:34:12","slug":"hiding_information_to_gain_a_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Hiding Information To Gain A Particular Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=531580\">Investors.com<\/a> posted an article about the timing of the release of the report by the Medicare&#8217;s Office of the Actuary which showed that the healthcare reform act would significantly increase the cost of healthcare.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>&#8220;Chief Actuary Richard Foster estimated that the program would add<br \/>\n$311 billion over 10 years in costs beyond what would have been the<br \/>\ncase if the legislation hadn&#8217;t become law.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>&#8220;The Health and Human Services Department reportedly had the report<br \/>\nmore than a week before the vote but refused to review it until after<br \/>\nthe Senate bill passed the House on March 21.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Senate leadership needed to have healthcare reform passed to provide a victory for President Obama; they chose not be bothered by the facts in studying the bill (that&#8217;s assuming they studied the bill).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article further states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>&#8220;&#8221;The reason we were given was that they did not want to influence the<br \/>\nvote,&#8221; said an unidentified HHS source in a Monday report in the<br \/>\nWashington Prowler blog of the American Spectator. Pardon us, but<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t it have been better if this information had been made public<br \/>\nor given to lawmakers before the House voted?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the loose translation of this is, &#8220;Don&#8217;t confuse me with facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unfortunate that our &#8220;representatives&#8221; in Washington are more interested in gaining political victories than they are in representing the American people.&nbsp; We need to vote all of them out in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Investors.com posted an article about the timing of the release of the report by the Medicare&#8217;s Office of the Actuary which showed that the healthcare reform act would significantly increase the cost of healthcare.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;Chief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1833\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}