Progressive Democrat Gets Vulgar When Asked About Non-Existent Obamacare Savings

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by Jim Hoft
February 11, 2013


Conservative author and activist Jason Mattera confronted Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) over the rising cost of healthcare in America this week. McDermott couldn’t explain why health-care premiums were going up, so he stoops to vulgarities.
McDermott is a typical progressive.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5waMNlqD9Q]Rep. Jim McDermott, the "Cock Brothers," and rising health-care premiums - YouTube[/ame]​

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[francoHFW]

Maybe because Obamacare hasn't STARTED yet, and the bought off a-hole is just lying about it.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Shocker. Another Jim Hoft Op-Ed.

And to add some "content":

Accosting people on the street with rude questions is usually a way to get rude answers in return. IF the reporter actually wanted to ask him the question, he could have through regular channels.

 

[Greenbeard]

Reality check:

Health care price growth plummets – 2012 lowest year since 1998

Health care price growth in December, at 1.7% year-over-year, was three-tenths below November’s reading, and the lowest rate since February 1998. The 12-month moving average at 2.0% is the lowest since a fractionally lower 2.0% figure was recorded in December 1998. [...]

December was the 43rd month of economic expansion but price pressures are nowhere to be found. Indeed, lower PPI and CPI readings are likely exerting downward pressure on the health price index rather than the expected opposite whereby health care prices would be stimulating general inflation. This scenario, in conjunction with aggressive measures that providers are taking to become more efficient, argue for continued price stability (or even another leg down!).

Health insurance premiums see smallest increase in 15 years

The cost of providing health care benefits to employees rose by just 4.1% this year, the smallest increase in 15 years, according to a survey by human resources consultant Mercer.

And employers are expecting to see another modest increase of 5% next year, the survey of 2,800 companies found. That's a far cry from the beginning of the decade, when employers reported increases of 10% to nearly 15% a year. Last year, benefit costs rose by 6.1%.

Growth In Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary Continues To Hit Historic Lows

The slow growth in spending per beneficiary from 2010 to 2012 combined with the projections of spending growth at GDP+0 for 2012-2022 is unprecedented in the history of the Medicare program.

The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023

Medicaid and Medicare. In recent years, health care spending has grown much more slowly both nationally and for federal programs than historical rates would have indicated. (For example, in 2012, federal spending for Medicare and Medicaid was about 5 percent below the amount that CBO had projected in March 2010.) In response to that slowdown, over the past several years, CBO has made a series of downward technical adjustments to its projections of spending for Medicaid and Medicare. From the March 2010 baseline to the current baseline, such technical revisions have lowered estimates of federal spending for the two programs in 2020 by about $200 billion—by $126 billion for Medicare and by $78 billion for Medicaid, or by roughly 15 percent for each program.

Growth of Health Spending Stays Low

January 7, 2013
WASHINGTON — National health spending climbed to $2.7 trillion in 2011, or an average of $8,700 for every person in the country, but as a share of the economy, it remained stable for the third consecutive year, the Obama administration said Monday.

The rate of increase in health spending, 3.9 percent in 2011, was the same as in 2009 and 2010 — the lowest annual rates recorded in the 52 years the government has been collecting such data.

Slower Growth of Health Costs Eases U.S. Deficit

WASHINGTON — A sharp and surprisingly persistent slowdown in the growth of health care costs is helping to narrow the federal deficit, leaving budget experts trying to figure out whether the trend will last and how much the slower growth could help alleviate the country’s long-term fiscal problems. [...]

Health experts say they do not yet fully understand what is driving the lower spending trajectory. But there is a growing consensus that changes in how doctors and hospitals deliver health care — as opposed to merely a weak economy — are playing a role. Still, experts sharply disagree on where spending might be in future years, a question with major ramifications for the federal deficit, family budgets and the overall economy.

Part of the slowdown stems from “the recession and the loss of income and wealth” causing people to cut back on health care, Douglas W. Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, said last week. But he added that a “significant part” of the slowdown “probably arises from structural changes in the health care system.”

 

[bripat9643]

Shocker. Another Jim Hoft Op-Ed.

And to add some "content":

Accosting people on the street with rude questions is usually a way to get rude answers in return. IF the reporter actually wanted to ask him the question, he could have through regular channels.

Accosting politicians in the street is standard operating procedure for left-wing "journalists." The "regular channels" is how scum like McDermott avoid answering tough questions.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Shocker. Another Jim Hoft Op-Ed.

And to add some "content":

Accosting people on the street with rude questions is usually a way to get rude answers in return. IF the reporter actually wanted to ask him the question, he could have through regular channels.

Accosting politicians in the street is standard operating procedure for left-wing "journalists." The "regular channels" is how scum like McDermott avoid answering tough questions.

It's no more reputable when "left-wing journalists" do it.

Also, do you have any examples of this "standard operating procedure"?

 

[tjvh]

Cock brothers? In the presence of two women... What a class act McDermott is.

 

[bripat9643]

Cock brothers? In the presence of two women... What a class act McDermott is.

Not to worry. They're Democrat women.