{"id":605876,"date":"2009-11-19T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/?p=19189"},"modified":"2009-11-19T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:00:23","slug":"the-senate-health-care-bill-has-its-eyes-on-your-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605876","title":{"rendered":"The Senate Health Care Bill Has its Eyes on Your Butt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19191\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.indecisionforever.com\/files\/2009\/11\/harry-reid-podium.jpg?resize=175%2C245\" alt=\"harry-reid-podium\" width=\"175\" height=\"245\" align=\"right\" \/>Yesterday Harry Reid emerged from the Senate with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/18\/AR2009111802014.html\" >a 2,074-page health care bill<\/a>, which covers everything from Sarah&#039;s family life in Alaska to her conflicts with the McCain campaign in- oh, sorry, reflex.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Senate has a health care bill, it runs 2,074 pages, and that is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=2,074+pages&amp;scoring=d\" >a source of great consternation<\/a>. Why is this bill so long? <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/68487-read-all-2074-pages-of-the-senate-bill\" >Look at it!<\/a> Why does it have all those words and numbers? Can&#039;t they just overhaul the American health care system with a Facebook note, like normal people? What outrageous things are the Democrats trying to hide with their writing and publishing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2009\/11\/18\/senate-bill-would-tax-cosmetic-surgery\/\" >How about this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To raise money for the health overhaul, Democrats are proposing a new 5% tax on elective cosmetic procedures. The tax was a surprise addition to the sweeping 2,074-page bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled late Wednesday. It generates $5 billion over a decade for the plan, which is expected to cost $849 billion over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The tax would fall on the individuals who undergo the procedures. If they don&#039;t pay it when they\u2019re billed for their surgery, then it falls to the provider who performed the procedure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Outrage-o-meter says&#8230; 3. Maybe 4, max. Fun fact: since 2004, New Jersey has been the only state with its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/treasury\/taxation\/cosmetic.shtml\" >cosmetic surgery tax law on the books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if you&#039;ve ever gone down the shore in July, you&#039;ll notice that it&#039;s had zero impact in terms of putting bureaucracy, or even common sense, between patients and their plastic surgeons.<\/p>\n<p><sup>Aww, NJ, you know I love you. Next time I&#039;m in Belmar, the pork roll-egg-and-cheese is on me.<\/sup><\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=19189&type=feed\" alt=\"\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Harry Reid emerged from the Senate with a 2,074-page health care bill, which covers everything from Sarah&#039;s family life in Alaska to her conflicts with the McCain campaign in- oh, sorry, reflex. Anyway, the Senate has a health care bill, it runs 2,074 pages, and that is a source of great consternation. Why is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xCc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}