A Possible Campaign add and a question.

MADGE GOES TO THE DRUGSTORE

INT. – DRUGSTORE – DAY

MADGE FELDSTEIN, a very old lady with a walker, slowly makes her way to the pharmacist’s counter, with each step she winces in pain.  JIMMY, the Pharmacy technician, with a very sympathetic look on his face, watches as she approaches.  Finally, MADGE reaches the counter.

JIMMY

Good morning Mrs. Feldstein

 

MADGE

Oh, it’s a rough morning today Jimmy. I hope my medicine is ready.

 

JIMMY nods, turned around and starts the processes of getting Madge her medication. When he has the boxes, he scans them into his register. He stops, stares at the screen, and the scans them again, he repeats the process several times until he is certain he’s doing it right.

 

JIMMY

I’ll be right back Mrs. Feldstein

 

He hurries over to his manager, MR. HOOPER, we can’t hear what they say, but MR. HOOPER nods with a knowing sad expression before coming back and taking over the counter for JIMMY.

 

MR. HOOPER

I’m sorry, this is going to be fifteen hundred dollars.

 

MADGE

Fifteen hundred? I don’t understand, I have Medicare. Here let me get my card out.

 

MR. HOOPER

.We have your insurance information, but your coverage has changed.

 

MADGE

Changed? But I didn’t do anything. It’s what I’ve had for years

 

MR. HOOPER

I know. They threw out the Healthcare Reforms, so the donut hole is back. Once you’ve paid six thousand dollars, the insure will cover you again.

 

MADGE

I don’t have six thousand dollars. I don’t have anything since Harry died.

 

MADGE starts to cry, pain, shame, and despair evident on her face. MR. HOOPER, near tears himself turns slowly and puts the medicine back on the shelf.

 

EXT – DAY – SOME PARK

 A pretty, blonde, new reporter is standing in front of a large crowd. The crowd is carrying signs calling healthcare reforms socialism and other conservative slogan.

 

NEWS REPORTER

It’s official, Brent. The Supreme Court has thrown out all the Healthcare reforms. This is a massive setback for the Obama administration

The crowd erupts into cheers, jumping with joy at the verdict.

 EXT – DAY – PARKING LOT

MADGE sits in her car, all alone, crying.

 

ANNOUNCER

This November, who will you cheering with? Send a message and Vote Obama 2012.

 

 So, how do you counter that ad?

 

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11 thoughts on “A Possible Campaign add and a question.”

  1. Bob Evans Post author

    Is the CBO perfect, hell no, but if we are going to have a rational discussion and not simply dueling partisan arguments, then there must be an outside, nonpartisan, objective standard of measurement. I know that if as evidence I presented something to you that came from unnamed Liberal staffers, you would rejected it. Rightly so I might add.
    I believe in objective, if flawed, sources and not switching metrics because the previous metrics no longer give me the answer I desire. Too many in political discussions are more interested in the results than the facts.

  2. Brad

    Do you seriously believe Obamacare improves the long term Federal Budget deficit? Despite all the accounting tricks, and absurd assumptions that were presented to support the claim of an improved balance?

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576089702354292100.html

    “The deepest spending cuts in the ACA are in Medicare. Let us be very clear: Medicare needs real reform that generates genuine budget savings. Sadly, the ACA’s cuts are illusory. Medicare’s payments to health care providers would fall below those of Medicaid. The network of hospitals and physicians willing to care for Medicaid patients is notoriously constrained. About 15 percent of the nation’s hospitals would have to stop seeing Medicare patients in just a few years to stem their losses. The idea that Medicare could pay less than Medicaid is such sheer folly that Congress will rapidly reverse course. What’s worse, ACA’s advocates are double-counting this fictional savings, claiming it can pay both for the ACA’s entitlements and Medicare solvency too. The truth is, these cuts cannot be relied upon to pay for anything.”

    The CBO estimate is not based upon judgement of the accounting tricks and unrealistic assumptions. The CBO is not allowed to. The CBO has to use the numbers presented to it. GIGO. Garbage In Garbage Out.

    http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/01/obamacare-and-the-budget-playing-games-with-numbers

    “CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf wrote:
    [C]urrent law now includes a number of policies that might be difficult to sustain over a long period of time. For example, PPACA and the Reconciliation Act reduced payments to many Medicare providers relative to what the government would have paid under prior law. On the basis of those cuts in payment rates and the existing “sustainable growth rate” [SGR] mechanism that governs Medicare’s payments to physicians, CBO projects that Medicare spending (per beneficiary, adjusted for overall inflation) will increase significantly more slowly during the next two decades than it has increased during the past two decades. If those provisions would have subsequently been modified or implemented incompletely, then the budgetary effects of repealing PPACA and the relevant provisions of the Reconciliation Act could be quite different—but CBO cannot forecast future changes in law or assume such changes in its estimates.[5]”

  3. Bob Evans Post author

    Those are eggs you are counting not chicks. You don’t know if it will be struck down, and if it is if they strike just the mandate, sections, or the entire law.

  4. Bob Evans Post author

    You’re confusing Obama with your man GW Bush, who passed the Part D coverage without any sort of funding stream at all. Just whipped out that government credit card and ran up the bill.

    Let see your source is republican staffers, and the results of the CBO’s analysis still indicates that the ACA has a net benefit of reducing the deficit, I’m going to be suspicious of the Republican staffer’s analysis I think that they might be a wee bit partisan.

    If the ACA is repealed in it entirety then the budget situation gets worse because the revenue generating aspects also get tossed out. So if the republican want to close the Part D donut hole, they’ll have to find more money somewhere.

  6. Brad

    You will have to tell us if you see any ads running on Florida TV about Obamacare after the Supreme Court strikes it down. We will have proof soon enough to support or dispel your theory.

  7. Missy

    Brad and Bear, I’m sorry but you aren’t living where there is a significant population of seniors. I am. You can’t counter this add. It would give Obama Florida, in spite of the strong conservative base here. This is a fear that can be played on and this would work.

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  10. Bear

    The Republicans then introduce legislation to fix the donut hole. It either passes or, as is likely, the democrats stop the legislation so as to use the suffering of senior citizens to advance their agenda, and the Republicans call them on it.
    Bear

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