By ardee, October 8 at 6:19 am #

Well, I wish it was good to be back, because ever since robert scheer just had to go jazz up this site, I have had nothing but troubles with it so I go to other sites, but I still show and piss some people off occassionally.

Yup.  They’re done ! 
Health care is hereby reformed - wrapped up in paper and topped by a nice pink bow.  Wellpoint and Cigna and Aetna and United Health Group would like to thank Congress and the following list of special interest groups .... (too numerous to list).  The US will once again be able to proclaim “we” have the best medical know-how in the world. 
  The problem is that once everyone is considered “covered” there will be one tiny item to figure out: 
NObody will be able to pay the new premiums and co-pays and deductibles .... except for the people the media calls “those with substance” - which typically means heads of state from other countries.  Within a few years of passage 94% of Americans will be so strapped by health costs and premiums that “we” will all qualify for ever-increasing subsidies from Uncle Sam.  The banks will be in great shape since they will have foreclosed on just about everybody - they will own almost all the real estate.  And what does that mean?
    Once it gets expensive enough, the US really WILL have single payer - de facto style:  Medicaid for All.
    See ya at the ER !!

How many Democrats are we going to retire in 2010?

If we teach the Democrats that they have to deliver on single-payer National Health Insurance, or else they don’t get any progressive votes and thus always lose to the Republicans, then we’ll have national health insurance in this country within 4 years of that lesson.

If we keep voting for Democrats that screw us over every time, then we’ll never have national health insurance in this country.

How many Democrats are we going to retire in 2010?

Once the big ‘health’ corporations have beaten the bill into one that guarantees their profits and blocks any real competition or regulation, they’ll slap a title that says ‘Health Care Reform’ on it and pass it with celebration in the Senate and to great cheers from all the paid-corporate-shill media.

But, just because they call it “Health Care Reform”, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t fell nervous about them pulling on the latex gloves and telling you to bend over.

Health care: The operation was a success, but the patient died in the O.R. They’re goona fix this corpse up, though, with a lot of make-up and a sharp hat and tell you it’s all right. Don’t get too close, though, the stench is enough to gag you…

samosamo, October 7 at 7:42 pm

Good to see you back.

Absolutely ardee, because 2010 is just 3 months away and those congresspeople will have to deal with a campaign that explains why there is not anything done on healthcare reform which is why not much in the way of campaigning has been going on as far as I can see.

Rose colored glasses alert.

Despite the articles fait accompli assertion one must see a bill prior to believing that passing a piece of junk is the resolution to any existing problem.

I opine that anything excluding a “public option”, and I believe single payer a much better if currently unattainable solution, is not health care reform it is appeasement to the Industry and a betrayal of the peoples best interests…but what else is new?