Senaturd Voinovich frames his opposition to health care in fiscal terms in this month's newsletter

[Kolesar]

The Naked Truth About Our Fiscal Situation


As the health care debate continues, Sen. Voinovich has serious concerns about the long-term fiscal impact of the bills being debated in Congress. He recently took to the Senate Floor to provide his colleagues and the American people with an update on our catastrophic national debt. Sen. Voinovich used the popular children’s fairytale, "The Emperor’s New Clothes," to describe the fiscal train wreck facing our nation. He told his colleagues and President Obama, "the emperor has no clothes, and we are naked in terms of dealing with our deficits and national debt." Sen. Voinovich asserted that the irony of the situation is that the American people know we are naked and so does the rest of the world. The question now is, can we really afford a new trillion-dollar health care program when we have yet to deal with our current fiscal responsibilities? Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf has said the current health care proposal would 'significantly expand the federal responsibility for health care costs,' putting the nation further into debt. Our national spending is already out of control and our national debt continues to skyrocket. The debt burden has grown from $5.6 trillion in 1999, when Sen. Voinovich first came to Washington, to a staggering $11.8 trillion today – a more than 100 percent increase in 10 years. http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsCenter.SenVoinovichsColumns&ContentRecord_id=e9c6bda1-d787-46e0-4544-1b94a45d9e25&Region_id=&Issue_id=">Sen. Voinovich will continue to shed light on these catastrophic economic facts until Congress takes real action to reverse these harmful trends.
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Or until his cognitive disfunction totally does him in

Where was his prudent skepticism when he cheerleaded a trillion dollar fiasco in Iraq?
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More Voino newsletters (electronic bird cage liners): http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsCenter.Newsletters

[ladym55]

1. George will never do anything for the people of Ohio

He was at the helm of Ohio and helped send IT into a ditch before toddling off to DC.

I know George has been hearing often from Ohio citizens who support health care reform and the public option ... but he pretends we aren't there.

[cmd]

2. Once again George is behind times

The naked emperor was yesterday's story. He left office in January.

[Capt. America]

3. This is the same "fiscal conservative" that voted for 1 Trillion in tax cuts and 1 Trillion in wars.

[WCGreen]

4. This is the guy who stood in the way of reforming the way Medicare

pays for medical devices. Now, a good old fashion O2 machine costs about $1,000 to purchase but 'fiscally" conservative George single handedly stopped the reform so that people keep on renting and causing Medicare to shell out close to $4,000 saying "why would people want all that equipment in their homes..."

[cmd]

5. As I listen to the concentrator puffing away

I totally agree with you. Every month we get a rental bill and every two months we get more bags of nasal canulas and water bottles that we don't need. It is a lucrative racket for the medical supply companies. Mr. cmd and Medicare paid for that concentrator over and over again. It makes no sense.

[WCGreen]

6. To make it safe and fair, the machine is purchased and then a $ 30.

fee to cover maintenance and a replacement warranty for the machine.