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sad sally

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13. How they propose to pay for it will just pit another group of people against each other.
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:13 PM
Feb 2012

At a cost of $20-25 billion, extension of unemployment compensation is likely to be paid for in part with cuts to federal employee retirement benefits.

The "doc fix," the roughly $35 billion is expected to be offset with health spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, is an even dumber pay-for idea - take the money away from prevention (in the ACA) and Medicare payments to hospitals and nursing homes (kick those old sick and disabled people out!) and give it to doctors.

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