A Whodunit: The $100 million mystery hospital

Just wait.This is just the beginning.
Do you think that if the ‘reform’ bill passes that this will end?
Democrats are eager to hand out (or withhold) health care funding for specialists, medical equipment, clinics and hospitals, etc in the same manner that they now horse trade for roads and bridges.
Do you really want your health care used as a political football by Congress in perpetuity?

A secret pay off? Gee… what a shocker!
What other little goodies are buried within this bill?

I’d vote for University of Colorado at Denver. I believe they are a full service hospital with both medical and dental schools, and they are the only publicly funded medical and dental schools in the state.
Then again, several states may qualify.

I am sure you will be shocked to learn that the University of Nebraska Medical Center is the sole public academic medical and dental school in Ben Nelson’s home state.

There are probably several states that have one university with the state medical school and dental school. ND, SD, Co, WY, ID?
Is this one lump sum for all or each gets 100 mill?
Would be funny if this was so ambigious that several states fit the description.

I would think everyone should telephone their Senator and ask them if they received at least $100 million for “our state”. And if not, why not. He/she should withhold their vote until that happens. Otherwise, it is clear they are not as good a Senator as the many other ones getting the goods.
Let’s see, $100 million times 60 Democrats…

First they were surprised at the unexpected agitation at the Tea Parties in the spring.
Then they were shocked at the sheer anger of the town hall meetings in August.
Just wait….

Being that the stimulus money goes 2 to 1 to democrat districts we have an idea where it won’t go.

Powerline blog now has a pretty good post suggesting it is Indiana and therefore Democratic Senator Evan Bayh.

Medicare has unfunded libilities in excess of 29 Trillion dollars and Social Security has unfunded libilities in excess of 5 Trillion dollars. The debt of the federal government is now in excess of 12 Trillion dollars and this bill is estimated to probably cost in excess of 2 Trillion dollars if it passes. The revenue that the US Treasury collects does not approach the amount required, for 2008 the revenue was 2.7 Trillion dollars and the expenditure was 3.6 Trillion dollars. For 2008 the increase in revenue was 1% from the previous year while expeditures increased by 25% over the same time frame. I fully expect 2009 to reflect the same picture if not worse as this administration has broken all records in spending.
Where do you suppose that the idiots in DC are going to get this kind of money from? Whereever it will cost generations tocome because of their financial irresponsibilty.

I’d look to Burlington, Vermont to find this hospital…

All those blue dogs in red states will lose their seats for being idiots who gave Nancy Pelosi power, and didn’t get sweetheart deals.
My Blue Dog didn’t get a hospital for his district, so he will be voted out in November 2010.

When they secretly attach something to an appropreation bill we call it pork the stuff in this bill is plain criminal, Free medicaid for NEBRASKA FOREVER, somehow we need to have them read this sucker out loud on TV so States can begin to fire these Idiots that were elected to represent us, NOT HAPPENING.

So – a member of the Executive Branch gets to hand out $100 million, with no oversight, to those states that are deserving of it…
Welcome to Chicago…

“Wouldn’t surprise me if Jim Webb is the beneficiary of this latest ObamaCare giveaway.”
As a Virginia resident, I hope he got something for bending over and grabbing his ankles.

Apparently Senate votes now cost $100M. They should stop with the kabuki and just start cutting checks directly to the Senators.

I have never in my life seen such dirty, underhanded politics as in this administration. All the secret meetings and all the bribes paid to secure votes is definitely not what we expected nor deserve. And it should be illegal! Why should my state fund all these perks for other states? The unemployment rate where I live is 17%, our state budget is a castastrophe and people are hurting. But we’ve got idiots in DC that don’t do anything but spend, spend and spend some more. The fiscal irresponsiblity is breathtaking.

Drudge has it as a payoff to Dodd to try and help that crook get re-elected.

In the end, you’ll find that there is something for every Democratic Senator somewhere in this bill or doled out secretly in the “stimulus” bill. How else do you explain these hoppleheads voting for a bill that over 50% of the citizens clearly oppose?

“I have never in my life seen such dirty, underhanded politics as in this administration.”
Where you out the country during the previous Republican administration and Congress? Because they did the exact same things you’re now up in arms about.

I thought buying votes was illegal, but then everything this government does is illegal. Every senator and congressman takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, when are they going to honor that oath? 2010 is an election year, lets hope the American people remember what this bunch of corrupt politicians did.

“It’s Connecticut and Joe Lieberman. The UCONN Health center loses money and needs big money to make it larger.”
Would make sense if Leibs finally voted for the bill – did he come back to DC Sat nite? If he left Conn. after end of Shabbat he wd have been able to make it by 1am, since that was the shortest day of the year Shabbat probably ended by 6pm.

No they didnt Gary. What the Dems are doing is much worse. Which cities in the US have the most corrupt patronage politics with big deficits, shrinking populations, permanent underclass? Which party runs them?

Louisiana (Landrieu’s home state) is one such state. LSU is the only public university with a medical school, as well as the only dental school. Last I knew, they also happen to owe the feds a boatload of money for post-Katrina accounting errors (…overcharging?) and are trying to re-establish the state-run medicaid hospital (yes, more than four years after Katrina hit, New Orleans’ government run hospital has still yet to reopen its doors… Tulane, which is situated across the street, has had it’s doors open since 3 months after the storm…)

Connecticut: Univ CT School of Medicine & Univ Ct School of Dental Medicine (the only dental school -public or private) in the state) located in Farmington CT. Hospitial is John Dempsey Hospitial and they have been looking for $$$ to build a new hospital/building. The state turned them down for funds.
payoff to Lieberman?

Every blue dog democrat running in a red district or a district that did not get a hospital, no medicaid payments, free medicare advantage, a Louisiana Purchase, a Cornhusker Kickback, a Connecticut Con, will be run out of office.
Democrats who vote for this in the house better have a sweetheart deal for their district or they are not going to be reelected. Since the democrats have bankrupt the country, there is no money left.
Republicans need to run on “sorting out the mess, bribes, backroom deals that lead to inequalities in health care across this country”
Why shouldn’t state that didn’t get deals succeed?

Whats wrong in advancing the cause of a health center that has national level dental and medical school, that is home of multiple top rate researchers in the whole country who publish in top rated research journals, develop cutting edge technologies for the advancement of the science, ranging from cancer to neurological disorder and working relentlessly to apply pluripoten stem cells in in medicine?
I do not see a reason for objections posted here. What else could be a better use of tax dollars?
Arvind

I would second University of Colorado. Their medical school has been in danger of losing accreditation (according to a recent issue of the Rocky Mountain Collegian) due to a lack of funding. Colorado voted heavily Democratic in the last election as well.

I dare say this is the most CORRUPT Congress I’ve ever known of in US history.