Bachmann's hubby might be taking Medicare for "gay therapy"Follow

It seems the only benefit to modern elections is exposing the illicit dealings of the upper classes.

And if <insert liberal politician/pundit here> is really dedicated to eliminating tax deductions for the rich, they should just donate more of their money to the government and not take any of those tax deductions.

It's a bogus argument. It's always a bogus argument, no matter which direction it's going.

Well, the difference being that someone not donating additional income to the government isn't an act of corruption, whereas someone not cutting ineffective government programs that personally benefit them is an act of corruption. That is with the assumption that the details of this situation are accurate as described in Catwho's link.

They nominated Jesse "The Body" Ventura as governor. They need all the mental health professionals to practice as they can get.

Where was it determined that she was "defrauding medicare"? I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that they qualified for the medicare payouts they received, just like any other health care facility might. If you think medicare should be reformed so that whatever type of care they provided for which they received medicare payouts can't be allowed anymore, you're free to make that argument. I suspect you might want to start by actually finding out what services they provided which qualified for medicare in the first place, right?


I'm going to go out on another limb and assume that you have no clue what services they got medicare payouts for. So how about you cool the whole "OMG! They defrauded medicare!!!" rhetoric, ok?

Ok. Where was it determined that he was "defrauding medicare"?



No. It's stated that he (her husband) was involved in such activities, but doesn't specifically state that the agency he works for provides that as a service, much less that they were paid by medicare for providing that service.



And no where is it stated that medicare dollars were received for that reason.




Yup. None of which addresses the reason the medicare dollars were received, much less that said dollars were received as a result of any sort of fraud. Do you know what the dollars were for? Did you bother to find out? Or did you just go "RAR! They try to pray away the gay, so therefore nothing else they do is allowed to qualify for medicare!"



Ah. So it doesn't meet the legal definition of fraud, but you'll call it that anyway because... well... you don't like the people. I get it. Let's just not pretend that there's anything more to this than "A man on my TV told me to hate the Bachmann's, so I'm going to attack them on even the most ridiculous pretense".

I'm not a huge fan of Bachmann, but can you at least make your criticisms make a damn bit of sense? Isn't it enough to just say that she's married to some loony toon guy who thinks you can pray away the gay, and that enough of that must have rubbed off on her to mean that she shouldn't be president? I mean, isn't the whole "I don't agree with her positions on X, Y, and Z" enough? At least those are reasonable rational reasons to oppose someone's run for president. But to invent wild claims of fraud for no apparent reason?

All you're doing is making yourself out to be just as crazy as you're attempting to make those you criticize out to be.

Edited, Jul 6th 2011 7:00pm by gbaji

Unless you have some source other than the one you linked, we have no information about how many other people work at the agency, what credentials and/or licenses they hold, what other care is provided by their agency, what care was refunded in some way by medicare, and what criteria medicare requires to receive that funding. You're just speculating about what must be required to receive those funds, and then speculating that said requirements weren't met. Heck. You're even speculating about what care those funds were received for.

Isn't it cute how Gbaji always goes to bat for the Pubbies.

My points of contention with a politician is typically with the politician and their platform.

What's with the witchhunt?


Edited, Jul 7th 2011 3:32pm by Elinda

You don't know? You should look into it and make a real point instead of just telling us all how ignorant you are.

Sarah Palin is terrified of Congresswoman Bachmann as Bachmann is rapidly making the GOPrincess irrelevant. So there's that.

That's probably it - she was both.

Either way, she DID undergo intense scrutiny for her job while Obama was a candidate, and in effect had to resign once he was elected. It's rather demeaning that a successful professional woman had to give up her career for the sake of her husband, but the reality is that being First Lady is a full time job anyway.