[Peace-discuss] 1, 2, many FAAs: let's ask Congress to protect cancer clinics

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

They that wasted us demanded of us mirth.

Q:  How many O's are there in Schadenfreude?

A:  N0N3, just like in H0083RT H33V3R.

Seems like everyone is a heavy metal kid.



On 04/30/13 7:31, Robert Naiman wrote:
> So far, the following have gotten sequester fixes: the Pentagon, aid 
> to Israel, meat inspectors/agribusiness, air traffic controllers/airlines.
>
> It seems to me that the more fixes there are, the more ridiculous the 
> whole Obama strategy of torturing the public with sequester into 
> accepting Social Security cuts in the Grand Bargain looks. The more 
> exceptions, the more ridiculous the "across the board" story appears.
>
> So it's in the interest of the masses that there be as many exceptions 
> as possible.
>
> Therefore, as soon as anyone comes up with a plausible story for an 
> exception, everyone should pile on. Meat inspectors! Absolutely! Air 
> traffic controllers! Absolutely!
>
> In this light, I offer you: cancer clinics.
>
> Cancer clinics: Our cuts from sequester needed earlier remedy than FAA’s
> http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicare/296509-cancer-clinics-our-cuts-from-sequester-needed-earlier-remedy-than-faas 
>
>
> A particular argument for it: the big picture story was supposed to be 
> that the sequester was supposed to exempt Medicare and Medicaid 
> beneficiaries. But apparently cancer treatment has turned out to be an 
> exception, because of the way Medicare decided to calculate the cut to 
> providers in this case.
>
> A second argument: making people go to hospitals instead of clinics 
> costs the government more money.
>
> Here is an alert
> http://www.communityoncology.org/site/blog/detail/2013/04/29/send-congress-a-message-you-fixed-flight-delays-now-save-cancer-care.html
>
>
> -- 
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
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>
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