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22 June 2018

Tax Lies GOP Worker Disdain Trump Rally "Art Of The Working Class Fraud" GOP Abomination Tax "Scam I Am" Krugman To GOP In 2018: "Make My Day" GOP Kill Safety Net Scheme Cash Dump To Richest Steal Benefits To Pay Debt The GOP Is DOA "Biggest Tax Scam In History" Dirty Rotted Meat Trump GOP GOP Tax "Benefits" All Lies "Professional Malpractice" Per Harvard Economist DJT "Huge Tax Cut For Xmas...Great Big Beautiful Present" (To Himself & Pals) Donors To GOP On Donor Enrichment Plan "Get It Done Or Never Call Again" GOP Tax Cuts Donor Driven 1% Richest Wealthy Corporations Blue Revenge "Morally Treasonable" GOP Lawmakers Agree With Corker and Flake Trump Dangers But Worry More About Endangering Huge Tax Cuts For The Richest "End" Of GOP If No Tax Cut For Richest Says Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) $6.6 Trillion 1% Richest Tax Cut Scam Evade 60-Vote Rule Adds Trillions Debt Trump Lies Huge Tax Cut For Rich Not Others GOP "No Party For Honest Men" KochBros Lie More Make America Pain Again #GoldenTinkleDownEconomics Trump's Tax "Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies" Not One Penny In Tax Cuts For Millionaires Billionaires Wealthy Corporations


REPUBLICATION Update To 7 February 2019


NEWS ANALYSIS

How the Trump Tax Cut Is Helping to Push the Federal Deficit to $1 Trillion



Behind Trump’s Plan to Overhaul the Government: Steal Your Paid Safety Net



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Mick Mulvaney, the president’s voodoo budget director, on Thursday at the White House. The plan to overhaul the government would make social welfare programs easier to cut. Trump GOP Corruption Poster Children Mulvaney and ousted criminal Pruit.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

"How The Trump Tax Cut Is Helping To Push The Federal Deficit To $1 Trillion" by Jim Tankersky, The New York Times, 25 July 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/business/trump-corporate-tax-cut-deficit.html



Credit


TRY TO STEAL IT FAST GOP END IS NIGH RICH WILL BEG TO PAY IT BACK PLUS MORE 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/opinion/business-economics/trump-tax-reform-state-of-the-union-2019.html "The Global Con Hidden In Trump's Tax Reform Law, Revealed" by Brian Setser, The New York Times, 6 February 2019

GOP "Messaging" And Short-Term Benefits Buoy Tax Plan Polls Ignore Long-Term Disaster Awaiting Most
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/economy/tax-overhaul-survey.html

Huge Tax Cut GOP Donor 1% Richest All GOP Plan Benefits Analysis Confirms:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/opinion/tax-state-local-trump.html

"We need to make sure it never sees the light of day. It is nothing but a giant corporate tax cut, the middle class will just be hurt, and the wealthiest will come out even better than they are doing now. . ."
                                                                                                                              Professor Robert Reich  9 November 2017
http:/www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/robert-reich-citizen-activism-is-giving-me-hope-1092125251881 6:20-42
(How wealth inequality works and how to reverse it please see Reich's film now on Netflix "Saving Capitalism")

"Republicans Despise The Working Class, Continued" by Nobel Prize Economics Professor Paul Krugman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/republicans-despise-the-working-class-continued.html

"Tax Bill Lets Trump And Republicans Feather Their Own Nests" by Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/opinion/tax-bill-trump-republicans.html

"Scam I Am: Why Is The G.O.P. Rushing This Tax Abomination?" by Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/opinion/scam-i-am-why-is-the-gop-rushing-this-tax-abomination.html

"The Biggest Tax Scam In History" by Economics Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/opinion/senate-tax-bill-scam.html

"Everybody Hates The Trump Tax Plan" by Economics Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/trump-tax-plan-hate.html

GOP Scheme To Destroy Social Safety Net Tax Cut To Richest Steal Earned Benefits To Pay Off Tax Cut Debt:
http://billmoyers.com/story/republican-long-game/#.WioLJo2tE9J

GOP Tax Plan Undo New Deal Return To Halcyon Days Of Hoover Administration Great Depression
http://billmoyers.com/story/republican-tax-plan-new-deal/

Donors To GOP "Get It Done Or Don't Ever Call Me Again"
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/7/16745584/republican-agenda-unpopular-polls-tax-reform

       Harvard economics Professor Lawrence Summers to MSNBC Lawrence O'Donnell 21 November 2017: GOP tax cut and benefits "analysis" feeds more Trump lies on overdrive 98% of actual real economists consider GOP economic "analysis" to be "Professional Malpractice" misrepresenting a financial disaster including a huge economic burden for Americans and the United States to pay off richest 2% GOP donors who bought Republicans their seats.

       GOP House released tax cut plan released 2 November 2017 without Democratic input brings no surprises in proposed massive giveaway to GOP donors richest 1% wealthy corporations already bursting with cash who have no need for it at all while further squeezing middle class with very modest tax cuts and even increasing tax burden for others while admittedly adding at least $1.5 trillion to the national debt while halfheartedly calling back tired old zombie of long debunked false promises of #GoldenTinkleDown economics and jobs that are neither returning nor paying more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/opinion/trump-republican-tax-plan.html

       Economics Nobel Prize Winner Professor Paul Krugman's handy list of some of Trump's biggest lies about his and the GOP's phony Tax "Reform" just massive Tax Cuts cash giveaway just for himself and the very richest payback for greedy rich GOP d/owners demanding a very handsome return on what it cost them buying Republicans into office does nothing good for the Nation and no tax cut cash giveaway for anyone else besides the very richest no more jobs no economy boost and sorry no more money for truckers or anyone else at all just sticking it to honest hard-working Americans with a h-u-u-g-e increase of about two trillion dollars over ten years to the United States deficit that's Trump giving it to his voters doggy-style just doing business as usual the Trump GOP way:
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies/

       The vile truth perfectly well understood by lying GOP wretches indifferent to the misery and harm to their constituents whatever honor and integrity they once had long lost along with the complete humiliation of their GOP leaders first silent now actively complicit have fallen in with Trump like him selling their souls in his latest "Art of The Steal You Can't Refuse" bogus "tax reform" fully contemptuous of the overwhelming majority of those deceived voters who elected them.
       Their filthy lies falsely promise meaningful middle class financial relief which in reality is just the GOP's latest scheme for massive tax cuts to the top 1% richest including fully corrupt Trump and family nearly entirely rewarding the richest biggest Republican d/owners screeching threatening drooling and slobbering for their biggest payout yet of which they have no need at all but certainly will let "fellow" Americans stay sick and die to get it. That being quite transparently what GOP so-called "tax reform" is all about leaves Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman incensed and disgusted with the continuous GOP nauseating lies "justified" if at all by phony paid-off know-nothing "wingnut welfare" ignorant nutjobs peddling long discredited bogus economic "theories":
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/columnists/republicans-taxes-honesty.html

       House GOP barely passes 216-212 budget blueprint tax cut vote for up to $6.6 trillion tax cut giveaway to richest drops revenue-neutral requirement to allow up to $1.5 trillion added to deficit despite cutting state and local tax deductions as well as drastically reducing middle class savings favorite pre-tax 401(k) limits in fact raising some middle class taxes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/house-budget-blueprint-tax-cut.html

       Even Goldman Sachs back on Wall Street whose partners slimed straight out of the swamp right into the Trump White House to do Trumponomics policy and fly around in military planes predicts at best a very minor boost from a Trump GOP tax cut giveaway only to the very richest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/09/goldman-sachs-predicts-dinky-boost-from-trumps-tax-cuts/?utm_term=.69c31e1563d9

       Meanwhile the Koch Brothers just slobbering mad for their Republican tax cut payout in the billions stuck on other Americans' debt tab leaked top secret internal memo to their network of the rest of the richest GOP d/owners panting for their own massive tax cut payouts totaling as much as two trillion dollars more to the U.S. deficit  sent out as well to their army of paid phony "grass roots" goons spells out the KochBros marching orders to dupe and defraud their "fellow" citizen slaves to once again buy into the tired old Reagan lie updated especially for Trump to #GoldenTinkleDownEconomics the great fake "miracle" which does nothing but increase the wealth gap even more between the very few richest and the rest being everybody else stuck with a couple trillion dollars more debt:
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/13/koch-brothers-internal-strategy-memo-on-selling-tax-cuts-ignore-the-deficit/

       GOP voodoo $6.6 trillion tax cuts to 1% richest not the middle class some of whom will owe even more taxes evade Senate 60-vote rule let CHIP kids starve Republican senators no longer "budget hawks" now add over $1.5 trillion to U.S. debt for Trump and d/owners payoff who bought minority GOP lawmakers into office now own them broadcasting lies false promises wedge issues to voters suppress minority voting "Democracy Republican Style":  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax/senate-poised-for-crucial-vote-related-to-tax-reform-measure-idUSKBN1CO0ET    feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
 
       FY 2018 Budget blueprint passes GOP Senate 51-49 with only Sen. Rand Paul (R-/KY) voting against it because he wanted an even worse "libertarian" budget . The Senate budget bill also allows Alaska National Wildlife (ANWR) oil drilling + a $1.5 trillion addition to budget deficit without specifying what federal programs need to be cut + must require large cuts over time to Medicare and Medicaid despite Trump's repeated campaign promises never to cut either Medicare or Medicaid. If reconciled with the House budget parliamentary procedure lets the GOP get away with avoiding the Senate 60-vote requirement to go on and next pass massive tax cuts totaling $6 trillion over time for the 1% richest with just the simple Senate GOP majority.
       There will be ruinous consequences for Republicans it still being uncertain if windfalls for the richest driving other legislation will succeed if they fail to cut taxes now as it is the few so richly rewarded (apparently better than from other investments) wealthiest who cynically keep the undemocratic Republican party alive dependent on their mountains of cash pumped in ("oxygen" as Steve Bannon calls it) dictating their terms as they are absolutely essential to the Republicans' survival paying for a vast array of dishonest GOP campaign necessities from phony paid "grassroots" networks of GOP support  to floods of crassly sophisticated television and other propaganda and everything in between inhumanely manipulating, misleading and exploiting the ignorance which they encourage and feed in those as to whom their true dictated GOP agenda is hugely harmful and entirely antithetical to their best interests to the extent that the GOP now relies entirely on these wealthiest as its life support even as Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican of South Carolina and a member of the Budget Committee frankly acknowledged in the below article that without them getting their too long awaited tax cut payoffs and getting them now "that will be the end of us as a party":
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/budget-vote-senate.html

Furious "morally treasonable" Republican lawmakers at Senator Bob Corker (R-AZ) Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee who warned of risk of World War III although they share Corker's concern about threat Trump poses to country these Republican lawmakers are more scared about  endangering huge $6.6 trillion tax cuts for the 1% richest including GOP d/owners slobbering mad for returns on the seats they bought GOP lawmakers with huge tax cuts also including Trump and his family and his cabinet expected altogether to add at least $1.5 trillion to the U.S. national debt despite GOP lies about long discredited #GoldenTrinkleDownEconomics:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/republicans-furious-with-bob-corker-for-endangering-tax-cuts

Copyright Martin P. 2017-2019 All World Rights Expressly Reserved

30 September 2017

GOP Tax Lie Worker Disdain Trump Rallies "Art Of The Working Class Fraud" Tax Abomination GOP "Scam I Am" Krugman To GOP In 2018: "Make My Day" GOP Kill Safety Net Scheme Cash Dump To Richest Steal Benefits To Pay Debt The GOP Is DOA "Biggest Tax Scam In History" Dirty Rotted Meat Trump GOP GOP Tax "Benefits" All Lies "Professional Malpractice" Per Harvard Economist DJT "Huge Tax Cut For Xmas...Great Big Beautiful Present" (To Himself & Pals) Donors To GOP On Donor Enrichment Plan "Get It Done Or Never Call Again" GOP Tax Cuts Donor Driven 1% Richest Wealthy Corporations Blue Revenge "Morally Treasonable" GOP Lawmakers Agree With Corker and Flake Trump Dangers But Worry More About Endangering Huge Tax Cuts For The Richest "End" Of GOP If No Tax Cut For Richest Says Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) $6.6 Trillion 1% Richest Tax Cut Scam Evade 60-Vote Rule Adds Trillions Debt Trump Lies Huge Tax Cut For Rich Not Others GOP "No Party For Honest Men" KochBros Lie More Make America Pain Again #GoldenTinkleDownEconomics Trump's Tax "Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies" Not One Penny In Tax Cuts For Millionaires Billionaires Wealthy Corporations



CreditAl Drago for The New York Times

UPDATES to 13 August 2018

"You Know Who The Tax Cuts Helped? Rich People" by The New York Times Editorial Board, 13 August 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/12/opinion/editorials/trump-tax-cuts.html

GOP "Messaging" And Short-Term Benefits Buoy Tax Plan Polls Ignore Long-Term Disaster Awaiting Most
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/economy/tax-overhaul-survey.html

Huge Tax Cut GOP Donor 1% Richest All GOP Plan Benefits Analysis Confirms:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/opinion/tax-state-local-trump.html

"We need to make sure it never sees the light of day. It is nothing but a giant corporate tax cut, the middle class will just be hurt, and the wealthiest will come out even better than they are doing now. . ."
                                                                                                                              Professor Robert Reich  9 November 2017

http:/www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/robert-reich-citizen-activism-is-giving-me-hope-1092125251881 6:20-42
(How wealth inequality works and how to reverse it please see Reich's film on Netflix "Saving Capitalism")

"Republicans Despise The Working Class, Continued" by Nobel Prize Economics Professor Paul Krugman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/republicans-despise-the-working-class-continued.html

"Tax Bill Lets Trump And Republicans Feather Their Own Nests" by Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/opinion/tax-bill-trump-republicans.html

"Scam I Am: Why Is The G.O.P. Rushing This Tax Abomination?" by Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/opinion/scam-i-am-why-is-the-gop-rushing-this-tax-abomination.html

"The Biggest Tax Scam In History" by Economics Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/opinion/senate-tax-bill-scam.html

"Everybody Hates The Trump Tax Plan" by Economics Nobel Prize Professor Paul Krugman:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/trump-tax-plan-hate.html

GOP Scheme To Destroy Social Safety Net Tax Cut To Richest Steal Earned Benefits To Pay Off Tax Cut Debt:
http://billmoyers.com/story/republican-long-game/#.WioLJo2tE9J

GOP Tax Plan Undo New Deal Return To Halcyon Days Of Hoover Administration Great Depression
http://billmoyers.com/story/republican-tax-plan-new-deal/

Donors To GOP "Get It Done Or Don't Ever Call Me Again"
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/7/16745584/republican-agenda-unpopular-polls-tax-reform

       Harvard economics Professor Lawrence Summers to MSNBC Lawrence O'Donnell 21 November 2017: GOP tax cut and benefits "analysis" feeds more Trump lies on overdrive 98% of actual real economists consider GOP economic "analysis" to be "Professional Malpractice" misrepresenting a financial disaster including a huge economic burden for Americans and the United States to pay off richest 2% GOP donors who bought Republicans their seats.

       GOP House released tax cut plan released 2 November 2017 without Democratic input brings no surprises in proposed massive giveaway to GOP donors richest 1% wealthy corporations already bursting with cash who have no need for it at all while further squeezing middle class with very modest tax cuts and even increasing tax burden for others while admittedly adding at least $1.5 trillion to the national debt while halfheartedly calling back tired old zombie of long debunked false promises of #GoldenTinkleDown economics and jobs that are neither returning nor paying more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/opinion/trump-republican-tax-plan.html

       Economics Nobel Prize Winner Professor Paul Krugman's handy list of some of Trump's biggest lies about his and the GOP's phony Tax "Reform" just massive Tax Cuts cash giveaway just for himself and the very richest payback for greedy rich GOP d/owners demanding a very handsome return on what it cost them buying Republicans into office does nothing good for the Nation and no tax cut cash giveaway for anyone else besides the very richest no more jobs no economy boost and sorry no more money for truckers or anyone else at all just sticking it to honest hard-working Americans with a h-u-u-g-e increase of about two trillion dollars over ten years to the United States deficit that's Trump giving it to his voters doggy-style just doing business as usual the Trump GOP way:
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies/

       The vile truth perfectly well understood by lying GOP wretches indifferent to the misery and harm to their constituents whatever honor and integrity they once had long lost along with the complete humiliation of their GOP leaders first silent now actively complicit have fallen in with Trump like him selling their souls in his latest "Art of The Steal You Can't Refuse" bogus "tax reform" fully contemptuous of the overwhelming majority of those deceived voters who elected them.
       Their filthy lies falsely promise meaningful middle class financial relief which in reality is just the GOP's latest scheme for massive tax cuts to the top 1% richest including fully corrupt Trump and family nearly entirely rewarding the richest biggest Republican d/owners screeching threatening drooling and slobbering for their biggest payout yet of which they have no need at all but certainly will let "fellow" Americans stay sick and die to get it. That being quite transparently what GOP so-called "tax reform" is all about leaves Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman incensed and disgusted with the continuous GOP nauseating lies "justified" if at all by phony paid-off know-nothing "wingnut welfare" ignorant nutjobs peddling long discredited bogus economic "theories":
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/columnists/republicans-taxes-honesty.html

       House GOP barely passes 216-212 budget blueprint tax cut vote for up to $6.6 trillion tax cut giveaway to richest drops revenue-neutral requirement to allow up to $1.5 trillion added to deficit despite cutting state and local tax deductions as well as drastically reducing middle class savings favorite pre-tax 401(k) limits in fact raising some middle class taxes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/house-budget-blueprint-tax-cut.html

       Even Goldman Sachs back on Wall Street whose partners slimed straight out of the swamp right into the Trump White House to do Trumponomics policy and fly around in military planes predicts at best a very minor boost from a Trump GOP tax cut giveaway only to the very richest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/09/goldman-sachs-predicts-dinky-boost-from-trumps-tax-cuts/?utm_term=.69c31e1563d9

       Meanwhile the Koch Brothers just slobbering mad for their Republican tax cut payout in the billions stuck on other Americans' debt tab leaked top secret internal memo to their network of the rest of the richest GOP d/owners panting for their own massive tax cut payouts totaling as much as two trillion dollars more to the U.S. deficit  sent out as well to their army of paid phony "grass roots" goons spells out the KochBros marching orders to dupe and defraud their "fellow" citizen slaves to once again buy into the tired old Reagan lie updated especially for Trump to #GoldenTinkleDownEconomics the great fake "miracle" which does nothing but increase the wealth gap even more between the very few richest and the rest being everybody else stuck with a couple trillion dollars more debt:
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/13/koch-brothers-internal-strategy-memo-on-selling-tax-cuts-ignore-the-deficit/

       GOP voodoo $6.6 trillion tax cuts to 1% richest not the middle class some of whom will owe even more taxes evade Senate 60-vote rule let CHIP kids starve Republican senators no longer "budget hawks" now add over $1.5 trillion to U.S. debt for Trump and d/owners payoff who bought minority GOP lawmakers into office now own them broadcasting lies false promises wedge issues to voters suppress minority voting "Democracy Republican Style":  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax/senate-poised-for-crucial-vote-related-to-tax-reform-measure-idUSKBN1CO0ET    feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
   
       FY 2018 Budget blueprint passes GOP Senate 51-49 with only Sen. Rand Paul (R-/KY) voting against it because he wanted an even worse "libertarian" budget . The Senate budget bill also allows Alaska National Wildlife (ANWR) oil drilling + a $1.5 trillion addition to budget deficit without specifying what federal programs need to be cut + must require large cuts over time to Medicare and Medicaid despite Trump's repeated campaign promises never to cut either Medicare or Medicaid. If reconciled with the House budget parliamentary procedure lets the GOP get away with avoiding the Senate 60-vote requirement to go on and next pass massive tax cuts totaling $6 trillion over time for the 1% richest with just the simple Senate GOP majority.
       There will be ruinous consequences for Republicans it still being uncertain if windfalls for the richest driving other legislation will succeed if they fail to cut taxes now as it is the few so richly rewarded (apparently better than from other investments) wealthiest who cynically keep the undemocratic Republican party alive dependent on their mountains of cash pumped in ("oxygen" as Steve Bannon calls it) dictating their terms as they are absolutely essential to the Republicans' survival paying for a vast array of dishonest GOP campaign necessities from phony paid "grassroots" networks of GOP support  to floods of crassly sophisticated television and other propaganda and everything in between inhumanely manipulating, misleading and exploiting the ignorance which they encourage and feed in those as to whom their true dictated GOP agenda is hugely harmful and entirely antithetical to their best interests to the extent that the GOP now relies entirely on these wealthiest as its life support even as Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican of South Carolina and a member of the Budget Committee frankly acknowledged in the below article that without them getting their too long awaited tax cut payoffs and getting them now "that will be the end of us as a party":
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/budget-vote-senate.html 

Furious "morally treasonable" Republican lawmakers at Senator Bob Corker (R-AZ) Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee who warned of risk of World War III although they share Corker's concern about threat Trump poses to country these Republican lawmakers are more scared about  endangering huge $6.6 trillion tax cuts for the 1% richest including GOP d/owners slobbering mad for returns on the seats they bought GOP lawmakers with huge tax cuts also including Trump and his family and his cabinet expected altogether to add at least $1.5 trillion to the U.S. national debt despite GOP lies about long discredited #GoldenTrinkleDownEconomics:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/republicans-furious-with-bob-corker-for-endangering-tax-cuts

Copyright Martin P. 2017-2018 All World Rights Expressly Reserved

30 September 2014

Insured Patients Who Go To "In-Network" Hospitals Ambushed By Huge Bills From "Contract" ER Doctors Who Accept No Insurance

       Tuesday, 30 September 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The New York Times in the first of a series of articles on the shameful state of the United States healthcare system to which interested readers may follow the below link reports that fully insured patients who are careful to use "in-network" hospitals still are increasingly completely ambushed by later surprise huge bills particularly for "contract" Emergency Room (ER) physicians by whom they have no choice but to be seen having been made to sign mountains of forms when usually waiting in distress in the ER which they are in no condition to read nor understand but are given to believe they must sign or die which means they essentially are signing under duress incomprehensible to them pre-prepared documents with no opportunity and in no condition to understand nor give meaningful agreement.
       This effectively means these piles of documents are worse even than for example the printed insurance company "adhesion contracts" which courts invalidated as unenforceable non-contracts almost a century ago as not fulfilling fundamental requirements of contract law such as a meeting of the minds and moreover being completely invalidated by the fact that attempts to bind people to such documents merely by having them sign them in such circumstances is per se unconscionable. As by the way are the fees often charged by the ER "contract" doctors as documented in the Times article which gives examples of even physicians bringing family members in for care and objecting to "contract" ER doctor bills as absolutely outrageous. Also when being gouged for such simple things as putting in eight stitches later followed by a surprise out-of-network surgeon's bill for $4,878.
       Apparently many ER doctors often just gouge completely uninformed patients for relatively simple procedures because being an "ER doctor" was not even a specialty until the 1980's meaning that if any complicated medical work has to be done it still needs to be done by an actual medical specialist and not just someone who is merely a specialist at overbilling unknowing patients in distress and protecting their precious medical licenses by undermedicating patients in serious pain and distress because they are too scared of the DEA, the FDA and/or the state medical board so whenever possible they leave that risky problem to the actual treating physician they tell patients they must see as soon as possible anyway.
       The Ninth Amendment wishes this could be said to be the exception and not the rule but the hard numbers prove otherwise. There have to be a great many ER doctors seriously overcharging to have in a period of just the past four years driven the average ER doctor's annual income up from $247,000 to $311,000 during an era of near zero and even negative inflation and when the average American's real income has not even yet risen back to previous levels. The Times horror stories include an ER physician charging $2,000 for having a patient hooked up to a heart monitor for a few hours before being released. In the stitching case mentioned above an out-of-network surgeon (not ER doctor) saved the day in the ER by putting eight stitches in a girl's chin and later charging $4,878 creatively coding his valiant work as "open wound, jaw, complicated". The Times did not detail if "complicated" referred to the procedure of putting in eight stitches or for thinking up a word that could possibly justify charging that amount for putting in just eight stitches and not getting sued (good thing it was not Medicare).
       Likewise ER physicians' overcharging now has driven up their average annual incomes to more than that of all the previously most notoriously expensive out-of-network specialists being anesthesiologists, radiologists and pathologists (who best we recall often used to be want-to-be surgeons with challenges like alcohol problems who were directed away to a specialty where the patients were already dead) for basically looking at bloodwork, ordering x-rays, oh yes having nurses glance at heart monitors, and interrogating any patient who believes they need medicine that the physician possibly believes might be abused with any subsequent doctor then de rigeur giving an inconsistent explanation of why it cannot be prescribed.
       It has been the experience of the Ninth Amendment that most but not all such physicians lie to patients on such matters more creatively than many law enforcement officers sworn on a witness stand and that is pretty bad. Even the ER physicians' spokesman Dr. Jeffrey Bettinger, chairman of the reimbursement committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians, apparently could not help himself from lying to the New York Times when he "said that out-of-network emergency room doctors were an unusual phenomenon and expressed doubt that the practice was widespread".  Actually the Times reported that the occurrence of out-or-network emergency room doctors indeed was "widespread" having now risen to an overwhelming 65% in the Nation's emergency rooms.
       In fact the Ninth Amendment actually has been informed by emergency physicians for example in a Florida hospital that it is the policy of the State of Florida that because of the high level of abuse of pain medication that patients no longer can be treated at the hospital for previously existing pain conditions.  We suggest the license plate slogan be changed from "Florida The Sunshine State" to "Florida It Is Going To Hurt A Little" superimposed over a five thousand dollar invoice rather than an orange. When the Ninth Amendment asked nurses if they had had many cases of deaths by prescription pain medicine overdoses coming in to the hospital they were able to remember none other than ones in which hospital anesthesiologists had accidentally given patients additional doses of pain medicine on the operating table after they forgot they already had given patients pain medicine which then overdosed them. Anyway pain apparently is now one less worry for ER "specialists" at least in Florida since they can let the State and the DEA practice medicine without a license and just follow orders and not treat it.
       THE NINTH AMENDMENT IS IN NO WAY QUALIFIED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL NOR LEGAL ADVICE. READERS SEEKING LEGAL OR MEDICAL ADVICE OR CARE MUST CONSULT A PROPERLY QUALIFIED LICENSED LEGAL OR MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.
       The Ninth Amendment sympathizes that the situation exposed by the New York Times in the article with link below describes an impossibly frustrating situation for even readers who take every possible reasonable step to see that they are not shocked by what would seem to be a blatantly unfair circumstance that may arise especially in the case of a medical emergency for which they rightfully believe they have taken all apparent possible prudent precautions to avoid surprise unscrupulous catastrophic costs and expenses for which they have purchased and/or arranged insurance or other health cost coverage to the best of their ability.
       It is apparent that the Times describes a healthcare system that is broken and completely unworthy of a country blessed with the great God-given resources of our Nation. How can President Obama repeatedly say in good conscience that the United States has "the best military the world has ever known" fully aware that he can say no such thing about the United States healthcare system? Although the Ninth Amendment can offer no suggestion at this time of a considered workable long-term solution it is our lay opinion in the meantime that given our understanding that all hospitals are obligated to provide emergency medical care to all patients who enter in need of it until such time as they have been stabilized properly with appropriate arrangements made for their continued care that the signing of prepared documentation in conditions such as those as set forth above is arguably unconscionable and cannot be a requirement of necessary medical treatment.
       Rather than argue the point based on past experience we would be inclined to refrain from signing documents which we are in no condition to understand nor able to meaningfully signify agreement but rather simply scribble "I willl not pay" and hand them back as if they had been signed. But then that may just be us.

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29 April 2013

Times Columnist Professor "Krugtron The Invincible" Blasts Richest 1%'s Ignorant Tool Austerity Economists As "Knaves And Fools"

    Monday, 29 April 2013, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - New York Times economics Nobel Prize-winnng columnist Princeton Professor Paul Krugman yesterday assumed the name of "Krugtron The Invincible" in response to what he described essentially as continuing annoyingly ignorant criticism from so-called  "austerity economist" mouthpieces of the United States' richest 1% (soon to be if not already 0.1%) which tools of the rich Professor Krugman dismissed as "Knaves and Fools". The Ninth Amendment editorial staff's responsive comment published yesterday in the digital New York Times appears verbatim below. Readers may click on the link below to go directly to the comment and Professor Krugman's piece entitled "Knaves, Fools and Me (Meta)" to which the below comment responded.
  1. April 28, 2013 at 3:26 p.m.
      • BigMartin
      • waronnothing
      Professor Krugtron The Invincible, The editorial staff of the Ninth Amendment log at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com encourages you as all to express yourself as you will yet cautioning your new moniker may impede your chances of a second Nobel Prize. However our research staff has yet to determine definitively either one person's eligibility to win more than one Nobel Prize per corporeal manifestation (i.e. lifetime) or the probability thereof in any case. In which case your name change actually may be another brilliant tact to garner a second Nobel Prize consistent with your tendency undeniably to be scrupulously correct. As to the knaves and fools to whom you refer in the curious medieval/comic book world which you this day seem to inhabit we further agree that be it ignorance, stupidity, greed, avarice, absolute lack of knowledge or respect for some of this Great Country's harshest lessons of its none-too-distant history they do seem determined not only to repeat disaster revisiting past mistakes with exponential fervor but indeed to make them irreversible. Professor we fear that you may be too kind as many inhabiting a medieval/comic book world might be quick to point out that tragically some people are just plain self-centered dangerously no-good evil liars. We wish however to believe this ultimately not to be the case but prefer to maintain our belief or in any case imagine (John Lennon) in the triumph of the essential goodness and knowledge of humanity the world over.

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06 October 2011

Recent Reports Indicate That U.S. Doctors Earn More Money Than Any Other Doctors In The World!

     Thursday 6 October 2011, 51st STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS - The Ninth Amendment gently reminds faithful readers to avoid READING FREE UNLIMITED CONTENT OF THE NEW YORK TIMES SIMPLY BY SETTING THEIR FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING". The Ninth Amendment post below was published verbatim (i.e., no minor editing here) in the 2 October 2011 digital Times in response to the article Who Gets to Be Called a Doctor?  The fact of the day is that the median salary for a Family Physician in the United States is $141,660.  The hidden fact of the day is that the median salary for a Special Education Teacher is a whopping $43,866.  We know, it made the Ninth Amendment staff sick too!

Comment:
     U.S. doctors recently were reported to earn more money than any other doctors in the world. In most cases much more. Orthopedic surgeons were singled out for the obscene amounts they earn even in relation to other doctors.
     What do they expect if nurses now add some hours and become prescribers, "doctors", and next probably orthopedic and other surgeons, today being notoriously eager to cut patients open for the slightest medical uncertainty which will get them paid but not sued for malpractice?
     The Ninth Amendment in earlier posts describing insurance and pharmaceutical companies, whose only professionals appear to be bevies of attorneys scheming to raise premiums incessantly constantly developing techniques to redefine available covered care at astronomically rising rates while making the actual facts of coverage absolutely incomprehensible to the insured upon whom they prey. Or in the case of pharmaceutical companies attempting to patent not-really-"new" nor "reformulated" drugs so as to benefit from protected obscene profits for medications which required near zero research, development, nor clinical trials regarding efficacy so as sell minute quantities of active substances derived largely directly from nature which cost hundreds or thousands of a cent per a pill that they sell for thousands or millions per cent profit and are slipped to doctors by usually young women in short skirts who buy them lunch.
     Our doctors confirm the degree now needed to practice much vitally important medicine is a G.E.D. as DEA agent , the FDA, or pick most states' medical boards staffed by nephews and nieces of politicians. Doctors who catch on seize the opportunity just let them play "practice medicine" while the savvy M.D.s become merely pushers who require needless ever-increasing appointments for patients with good insurance in order to dispense many routine medicines in minute quantities. If the CIA can push drugs so can they.
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