This is what is included in NEW HEALTH CAAARE BILL. Does this sound like health care to you?
Posted from senate.gov/Min
Thursday, June 11, 2009
What’s in the Fine Print? Sidewalks, Grocery Stores, and Jungle Gyms
HELP Committee Democrats’ Bill Chock-full of Wasteful Spending
Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Senate’s
only accountant, today criticized wasteful spending in a health care reform bill released
by HELP Committee Democrats this week.
“The Kennedy-Dodd bill will pave sidewalks, build jungle gyms, and open grocery
stores, but it won’t bring down health care costs or make quality coverage more
affordable,” Enzi said. “In a time of record debt and deficits, how can Democrats justify
the wasteful spending in this bill?
“We need to root out the waste, fraud and abuse that is driving up health care
costs – not create a whole slew of new wasteful programs,” said Enzi, the only Senator
to serve on the HELP, Finance and Budget Committees, which share jurisdiction over
health care reform.
The HELP Committee Democrats’ bill would:
Establish a “Community Makeover Program” to spend billions to beautify streets,
up to $10 per person in selected communities;
Fund a federal government program to build new sidewalks and bike paths, and
put up street lights;
Finance new grocery stores and farmers’ markets;
Revoke employers rights to provide free wellness benefits to employees;
Mandate that a new Washington health police bureaucracy dictate what local
restaurants can offer their customers; and,
Subsidize community projects like building jungle gyms in parks.
“Some of these programs may have value, but this is the wrong bill at the wrong
time,” Enzi said. “With our nation’s health and economy at stake, this bill must not turn
into a Christmas list for every partisan interest group in Washington.”
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Comments (15)
What the **!#?
SUM BAGS ALL SCUM BAGS!
Search for the "line item veto" thread. It is completely the solution for this "issue" .
Take away all health care benefits for Congress, the Senate and the President (current & 5 retired + their families). LETS ALL HAVE THE SAME HEALTHCARE BENEFITS and see what happens! Something will!
Agreed! NO MORE PORK!!!! On subject or theme per bill should be the RULE!!!
Well who would've guessed this,,,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_go_co/us_senate_disclosures
More sidewalks and bike paths, grocery stores and farmers' markets contribute to the health of the public if they use these resources. Jungle gyms and beautified parks would encourage children to play outdoors more... something we should all be in favor of.
Has this been verified? How ignorant can congress be if this is true? What happened to their brains?
Sweet Jesus save us!
They're gonna build sidewalks.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.
Shocking how your stupid Rebuplicans just take what you're fed by politicians. Can't you see they're just looking for another political maneuver to save their insurance company sponsors who force everyone to pay an insurance tax?
Yea ,,all the libtards will approve of this too, how stimulating
http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=47976
to mkasin: Health care has nothing to do with building sidewalks, jungle gyms and parks. And you are right, the only one who can save us now is Jesus. It surely is not this Health Care package.
Amen to wswyatt!!!! This entire administration is a very evil, bad, sick, perverted joke!!! S___can this bill. I'm a Wyoming Native who just left a message with Enzi's office yesterday morning along with a lot of other folks!!! Yaaaaaay for our great Senator Enzi - What a guy!!! Go get 'em (our country needs more like you!!!!!
Thank you captiria. I am hoping that the rest of the world will also wake up. But you know, I think common sense is dead. Obama seems to have not been gifted with common sense. This health care package doesn't have much common sense in it either. We need to attend our local tea parties and continue voicing our thoughts and opinions as taxpayers
Actually if you really want to bring down health care costs funding things like sidewalks and bike paths is the right thing to do. The largest proportion of health care goes for chronic illness care. If you prevent chronic illness you cut health care costs. How do you prevent chronic illness? You encourage people to exercise [walkable and bikeable cities, playgrounds, etc], eat right [accessible grocery stores with fresh fruits and vegetables, etc], and stop smoking [youth prevention, tobacco quitlines, etc].
Even if you are lucky enough to have the resources to prevent chronic illness for yourself, you are paying for those with chronic illness. So it is your choice -- don't pay for sidewalks, etc. and pay mega dollars for health care or pay for sidewalks, etc. and see your health care costs contained. My pocket book tells me to vote for the latter.
Did you ever hear that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink? You can build all the infrastructure in the world, but lazy people won't use it. This has nothing to do with healthcare, but everything to do with the corrupt douche bags in Washington. If people really want to exercise, they can do it with out even leaving their home.