-By Matthew J. O’Connor
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) yesterday released its latest report scoring the cost assessment of the healthcare reconciliation [Slaughter i.e. Pass & Deem i.e. Fix] bill that Congressional Democrats have been secretly working on – in their attempts to render an optical illusion that Obamacare, over a 10 year period, would cost less than $1 Trillion, the Congressional Democrat’s version of a $99.99 price-point.
The CBO scored the House’s “fix” bill at around $940 Billion – and from the moment it was released yesterday afternoon, Speaker Pelosi’s office started in with the Maytag super spin cycle and the mainstream media, true to form, fanned the wires with the CBO’s ”good” news through their efficient process of non-fact checking and non -analysis. Feigned reporting from the mainstream media establishment that mainstream America has increasingly come to reject.
The lack of an objective mainstream media over the past several decades has significantly impacted our society by allowing political correctness to manifest and become the reporter’s proxy. Never more than now has the American public needed the application of objective investigative reporting from its traditional news media. As America currently has a collective “pit” in its stomach as it witnesses the Obama administration and congressional democrats running fast and loose with the rules in their attempt to fundamentally transform the American healthcare system.
A transformation from which the government will control the delivery of healthcare services under an aggressive (6) year phase-in process with billions of taxes to immediately take effect as a pre-funding mechanism – a mechanism that essentially allows the CBO to render a 10 year “revenue neutral” score. An ingenious scheme . . . base the scoring on a 10 year time frame, collect huge taxes immediately starting year one and then kick-in the corresponding services starting at year 6 and voila, you have a “revenue neutral plan.” A plan that if ever tried in the private sector under the authority of generally accepted accounting practices, would land the purveyors of such a plan in jail. Yet in the case of the private sector, the mainstream media would gladly air such a story during prime-time, that is if they didn’t wait to showcase it as a 2 hour special during May ratings sweeps.
And the coup de grace of the this nefarious scheme to transform America’s healthcare system, is that the final blue-print has just been released after some 14 months of having been crafted behind closed doors. A 14 month period during which the American people have essentially been told by their government to go along or be dragged along, period end of story. President Obama has nearly said as much the past two weeks after stating several times something to the effect, ”the time for talking is over” because it’s now time for a, ”straight up or down vote.” And no sooner was this said, the “Slaughter rule” entered stage left serving to ”deem” healthcare legislation in the House as being passed . . . as simple as that make up a, “deem” and “pass” rule. Why was this done? Answer: Because the House determined they did not have enough votes to pass it under a “straight up or down vote.” So the Democrats who make up the voting rules in the House simply changed the rules.
. . . And the healthcare band, minus America’s mainstream media, plays on while Rome West begins to rumble.
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For those who remain supportive of the founding principles of the land of the free and home of the brave, I highly recommend you skip reading or even skimming the 153 page “Slaughter Rule Reconciliation Fix” bill altogether.
But for those of you, and you know who you are, that can’t get enough of this stuff and feel compelled to look at the 153 page monstrosity, my recommendation is that if you must peruse, do your perusing listening to The Who’s, ‘Eminence Front’ cranked at volume 8 on a pair of Sony MDR-V150 Dynamic Stereo Headphones. For as Pete Townsend sings, “it’s an Eminence Front . . . It’s a put on, put on, put on.”
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Matthew J. O’Connor is the founder of Clarion Advisory, LLC , a politically conservative media production company and currently serves as the executive editor of ClarionAdvisory.com, a site featuring conservative political commentary and the continuous aggregation of national and international news covering politics and business.
Prior to forming Clarion Advisory, Matt worked within the commercial insurance industry, serving as a broker and vice president within a division of an international fortune 500 brokerage with offices based in Los Angeles, California.
Matt was born and raised in Minnesota and is a 1991 graduate of Saint John’s University. Matt currently resides in South Orange County, California with his wife Arlene, a clinical psychologist & consultant, and their three young children.
Matt’s passion is writing and publishing and advancing the conservative cause.
When not writing, Matt enjoys racing around after his children attending his sons’ baseball and soccer games and daughter’s dance and drama performances. And working on his hook in golf and newly re-discovered interest in downhill skiing.
Matt welcomes comments and can be reached at, editor@clarionadvisory.com.
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