A day without Harry Reid cutting a deal to favor a friend or stab an enemy in the back would be like a day without, well, corruption.
As if all those other special tax breaks and giveaways — tax breaks for windmills, tax breaks for Nascar, subsidies for rum and algae, pork for Hollywood films and electric scooters, to name a few — Harry had to work in a measure that screws over a competitor of one of his friends.
This ions storage facility at UNLV uses a Varian turbo molecular pump in combination with a Leybold mechanical pump.
According to The Wall Street Journal today, Harry dropped in a last-minute provision to the Medicare reimbursement for doctors using something called a Gamma Knife, which is produced by the Swedish company Elekta, which is a competitor of Varian Medical Systems, which sells Linac. Both machines are used to attack cancer tumors with radiation. Reimbursement, according to the WSJ, had been nearly double for the Gamma Knife because it usually required only one treatment, while Linac sometimes required multiple uses.
Harry’s insert cut Elekta’s reimbursement rate by 58 percent.
The WSJ says nine years ago, Reid got Varian funds to work with the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNlV and Varian has donated $1 million in equipment to UNLV. Varian is partnering with the university on a multimillion-dollar Accelerator Center.
Adam Jentleson, a Reid spokesman, told the WSJ the insert “saved money, restored equity to an unfair payment regime, and most importantly, it protects Nevada jobs.”
And gains points for Reid from this friends who stand to make a considerable amount of money and owe a big favor to Harry.
Business as usual……
Level Playing Field?
This didn’t come out of the blue, there had to be some tit for tat with others of the corrupt senate gang, first I’d look to see what New York’s Chuck Schumer added but there are 98 other suspects. Perhaps it will all be explained in the next formal budget, you know, like the formal budgets Harry and the gang proposed and adopted over the last 4 years.
Schumer has to give figureheadHarry his due.
[...] algae, pork for Hollywood films and electric scooters, to name a few. At the last minute Harry Reid tossed in a measure that screws over a competitor of one of his friends. Harry cut the Medicare reimbursement rate by [...]
The Varian turbo molecular pump is made by Varian Inc. a completely different company than Varian Medical Systems, the beneficiary of the new reimbursement legislation.