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Double Jeopardy (1999)
IMDB rating: 5.90
Plot: When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the “murder”.
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Directors: Beresford Bruce
Actors: Jones Tommy Lee,Weir Benjamin,Brazeau Jay,Greenwood Bruce,Maclaren John,Evanko Ed,Campbell Bruce,Elliott Brennan,Gaston Michael,McBeath Tom,Jacox David,Thriller,Drama,Mystery,Crime,
How much will this $1.2 trillion "reform" ACTUALLY COST?? (govt. estimates usually off 100-200%)?
For instance: Bush’s prescription drug bill was supposed to cost $500 billion. How did that work out??
Isn’t Obama attempting to subsidize coverage for the uninsured (the same way Bush subsidized drugs for those who couldn’t afford them)??
http://www.slate.com/id/2134456/
President Bush thought that millions would welcome his intervention. But the effort has not gone as planned. Costs are spiraling out of control, and many of the people we wanted to help are protesting that the situation is worse than ever. Three years later, the entire poorly conceived enterprise is in jeopardy.
I refer, of course, to the administration’s program to subsidize the cost of prescription drugs for the elderly. This plan, which went into effect on Jan. 1, offers so many baffling options that only 1 million of 21 million eligible Medicare beneficiaries have signed up for it on their own. Many of these early adopters, along with millions of impoverished Medicaid recipients transferred into the new system automatically, have been unable to obtain their prescriptions at the promised discounted price. The specter of citizens going without needed medications has provoked action by several governors, some of whom have invoked emergency powers to pay for drugs. Meanwhile, the estimated cost of this plan that no one likes has already more than doubled and is now projected at more than $1 trillion over the next decade.
hillbilly…….yes, I was under the impression the "change" candidate was getting us out. Is that not happening??
Yes, it costs too much. We shouldn’t be there. Anything else??
You are wrong that govt estimates are usually off 100-200%.
Medicare was off by over 1,000%.
They are off because once the program starts, the Congress keeps adding to and distorting the programs and what they were intended to be.
Neither Social Security nor Medicare resemble the original intentions of the programs. These two alone, untouched, were destined to bankrupt the U.S. in 20-30 years, adding in health care will move that date up 10-15 years.
SammyCal | Nov 07, 2009
$5 trillion
Cigar that Bill Clinton Sniffs | Nov 07, 2009
Don’t have a clue, but it’s a sure bet that the actual cost will be quite a bit more than what the official wild guess, errr estimate published by congress. My guess is that it will be at least 2 or 3 times more than than the official guess.
Mike W | Nov 07, 2009
Ditto for the Iraq War. It will cost more than $3 trillion.
Where is all the ‘patriotic’ dissent about that?
$3 Trillion!!!!
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Hillbilly heroin(e) | Nov 07, 2009
If anything, the data shows they UNDER estimate the price of things. Of the past big spending bills, only 1 or 2 were actually over estimated in price. But that’s not a statistic you hear about all too much.
They are about to saddle us with MASSIVE debt that I cannot even conceive paying off.
Brent H | Nov 07, 2009
I look at it this way. Iraq was supposed to pay for itself. It ended up costing over $1T. Health care is supposed to cost over $1T, so it will end up bankrupting our entire nation.
Willis Jeffords | Nov 07, 2009
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