Time for veto number 2?
WASHINGTON - — President Bush promised on Thursday to veto Democratic-drafted legislation requiring the government to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices under Medicare.
“Government interference impedes competition, limits access to lifesaving drugs, reduces convenience for beneficiaries and ultimately increases costs to taxpayers, beneficiaries and all American citizens alike,” the administration said in a written statement.
Which means that under no circumstances will the Bush administration ever be on record as favoring anything that will benefit the poor or middle class.
Having the ability to negotiate prices is something that is for Socialist commie fags. The free market means that the seller can set the price and since it is a government program there needs to be no accountability. Just like the no-bid contracts to Halliburton, KBR etc. Just like the closed door meetings with the oil company executives to set energy policy.
He needs to go to federal (pound-me-in-the-ass) prison.
How is it that having the ability to negotiate prices "reduces access" to drugs? It just means that a price is not arbitrary. It is negotiated.
When you have a roof replaced and you call a roofer you get an estimate or a bid. You can take that to another roofer and see if they can beat the price. If you find a roofer you really like you can negotiate with them and try to get a lower price. They have the right to say " no it costs me X dollars and I need a profit of Y percent so the price is Z dollars" Then you can decide to either pay the price or keep trying to find a contractor to do it for what you think is fair. Eventually you will either have a leaky roof or pay the going market rate for the work.
Negotiating doesn't reduce the access to anything. That is crap!
These folks are really counting on Americans being lazy, stupid and disconnected.
Hopefully there are enough people paying attention that we can override his fascist ass.
posted by Mistake Master @ 4:34 PM
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And yet the facts are on his side.
Any WHY do you call W a fascist?
Do I need to define fascist for you again bro?
what facts? I call W a fascist because he displays:
nationalism, authoritarianism, militarism, corporatism, anti-liberalism, and anti-communism.
How is he not a fascist? Please spell it out for me.
You are again diverging from your own point. You state in your post that the President is vetoing a "Democratic drafted legislation REQUIRING the government to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices under Medicare". Sounds great, except that the demorats call spending "investing", retreat "phased withdrawal", not increasing spending "spending cuts". The list goes on. Are you so narrowminded that you actually BELIEVE the legislation as described in that one sentence? Because if so I think I'm done talking to you.
And as to the Bush Fascism argument, letting the free market decide the price is about as anti-fascist as you can get.
ummm...no-bid contracts? which would those be? there was only one---the RIO contract.
The largest oil infrastructure company in the world, that also has the most advanced petrochemical research campus, noe one even close to them---got a no-bid contract to restore the oil. The irony is that after they lost that contract...the new recipients had to hire KBR people because no-one else can do it.
As fat as the billions poured into KBR and LOGCAP---that most certainly was NOT no-bid. LOGCAP was put up for bid well before the invasion of Iraq and KBR won it from DynCorp.
Time for another post you lazy slacker?
Speaking of the same old...
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