Wait Just a Minute, Louie!
Holy cow, I know this is going to come as a shock to you because Louie Gohmert is such a fine upstanding Christian human being. But, doggone it, he’s for damn sale.
Lookie here:
Earlier I told you about Louie accepting illegal campaign contributions and one of the donor is the Texas Spine and Joint Hospital. Here ya go —
Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen was nosing around his internet machine this afternoon and found this little tidbit.
Texas Spine and Joint Hospital of Tyler filed a joint lawsuit with Physician Hospitals of America, Thursday.
The lawsuit questions the constitutionality of a specific part of the health care bill. PHA said Section 6001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act prohibits physician-owned Medicare hospitals from expanding after March 23, 2010.
PHA said new physician-owned Medicare hospitals that are not certified as Medicare providers prior to December 31, 2010 are now banned.
Now, there was a good reason for excluding them.
Texas Spine and Joint Hospital was in the midst of a 22-million dollar expansion when the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, was passed.
It restricted hospitals owned by doctors, who take medicare and Medicaid money, from expanding beyond a certain point.
The feeling is, such facilities have a vested interest in ratcheting up the bill for treatment.
As you know, “Ratcheting up the bill” is actually a plank in the Republican Party platform. Republicans are real good at ratcheting.
Now even though Louie hates Obamacare, he’s willing to go to bat for his donors to get their share of Obamacare. Yeah, there’s money on the table and even though that money is going to cause the downfall of America and the end of civilization as we know it, Louie wants his friends to get their hands on that money on the table!
So, Louie signs on as a cosponsor of the some legislation that would encourage ratcheting up.
We have no idea how many letters and pestering Louie did to help these poor pitiful ratcheting doctors.
You know, a couple of illegal campaign contributions is a bargain to get your hands on Obamacare funds.
So, if you go to the Texas Bone and Joint Clinic, just be aware that part of your bill will include the care and feeding of Louie Gohmert.
Thank you, Alfredo, for the heads up.
re: Texas Bone and Joint Clinic
Make your own jokes.
1How much dos Louie get from Tenet Health, which has a track record of Medicare fraud?
2Loopy Louie only thinks that is God’s voice in his head, but it’s a Koch inserted paperclip complete with instructions. Brought to him by the same people who want to privatize and capitalize on everything, while paying no taxes. To them, taxes are for dummies.
I could agree with that dummies assessment, if the idiots who vote for the Koch appointed politicians were the ones paying the taxes. But no, the low information voters who vote for the likes of Louie are scraping by on minimum wage and government assistance, or some pie in the sky promise that they too will be invited into the kingdom of the billionaires.
Meanwhile, the rest of us pay taxes for the insanely wealthy and the insanely st00pid. The taxes I pay don’t bother me nearly as much as the fact these insane idiots will destroy the planet, before we can restore electoral sanity to save the planet.
3Maybe Louis the Louse ain’t Nature’s Dumbest Critter, unless somebody helped him with the sale.
4montag, the Koch brothers not only take care of Loopy Louie’s pocket change, they send enough advisers as they can to protect their investment. But, it’s Louie.
Try as they might, the Koch brothers may control state legislatures and the US Congress, but they can’t control all the fools in every situation.
If not for morons like Louie, we might not know the extent of Charles and David’s “philanthropy.” Should we thank Louie for his greed and st00pid?
5So much of this is going on..is the FEC up to the job?
6Well, I feel better already knowing that Louie is keeping an eye on things.
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