THE ARCHITECTS OF DISMANTLING AMERICA: New York Senator Charles Schumer
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- New York Senator Charles Schumer defended the special
Medicaid payments that
Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska obtained for his state before agreeing
to support health-care legislation, saying all states got something in the
measure.
“Every state has its own unique situations,” Schumer said in an interview on
Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
“That’s why we have a Senate.”
The Senate is scheduled tomorrow to vote on an $871 billion measure that
would extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans. Lawmakers
will
then face the challenge of melding the Senate bill with legislation passed in
the House on Nov. 7.
The Medicaid deal hasn’t been well received in some corners. Republican
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called the agreements
“backroom deals that amount to bribes.”
New York Governor David Paterson said today the Senate legislation would cost
the
state more than $1 billion a year in lost Medicaid reimbursements. “It’s not
fair,” he said at a news conference at his Manhattan office.
Since Medicaid reimbursement is based on a state’s per capita income rather
than its poverty level, the federal government reimburses New York for half its
expenses while paying as much as 80 percent of those of other states, Paterson
said.
Benefits for State
The legislation does benefit New York in certain ways, Schumer said, such as
providing funds to the state’s teaching hospitals and exempting certain
Medicare
Advantage programs where payments go to patients rather than insurance
companies.
“Every state got something,” Schumer said.
He said he would fight for provisions in the House version of the health-care
legislation that are more favorable to New York.
Asked about reports that Nelson is considering giving up the benefits he
landed for Nebraska because he has received criticism, he said his colleague
“laid out his principles and stuck to them.”
Because the Senate will need 60 votes to enact the final legislation
following negotiations, “there are constraints” on how many concessions can be
made to the House, Schumer said.
It isn’t unusual for congressional leaders to make deals with reluctant
lawmakers. Then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, was
admonished by the House
ethics committee in September 2004 for offering to endorse the congressional
candidacy of the son of retiring Republican Representative Nick Smith of
Michigan if Smith would vote for a $395 billion
Medicare prescription-drug program in 2003. Smith voted no.
FOR CAMBODIA .
"Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou
En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter
would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the
"Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . Wilfred Burchett book "The China
Cambodia Vietnam triangle " P-176-177
UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
FROM AMERICA WITH LOVE.
VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA continues 1979-2009.
US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INSISTS ON CAMBODIA INDEPENDENCE. 1988.
On April 28, 1984, Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, meets U.S. President Ronald
Reagan in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Photo: fmprc.gov.cn)
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President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
BURY
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