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 GOP Plotting to Undercut Health Care ReformPosted on Sep 7, 2010
The ink has dried on President Obama’s much ballyhooed health care reform bill—that’s “Obamacare” for all the haters—but according to select scheming members of the GOP, the fight might not be over yet on this one. —KA
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By Fan of the ACA, September 8, 2010 at 7:33 pm Link to this comment
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Mitchum22 wrote:
“Is this a joke? ObamaCare is nothing but another massive wealth transfer of trillions of dollars
from working Americans to vampire corporate totalitarians.”
Mitchum ... would you expand and support your argument? How is the ACA a massive wealth
transfer, and to whom is it being transferred?
You said, ” Start over. In fact, at this sorry point, start the whole damn country over.”
“Start over” was the cry of McConnell, Boehner, and their sycophants in the run-up to the vote.
How soon do you think there would have been another serious attempt to improve the system? In
2019 when the projected per capita expenditure on health care will be almost $15,000?
Everything “our friends on the other side of the aisle” have said about the ACA legislation has either
been a flagrant distortion of the facts or an outright lie. The ACA is a bona fide, incremental improvement
that builds on our existing system, preserves the role of private, free-market players, recognizes State’s rights, and will save lives and make families more secure. Not perfect for sure, but neither were Social
Security or Medicare.
The naysayers and vampires have been given a new lease on life with the Citizens United decision
from the hyper-partisan Roberts Court. No stakes will be driven into their hearts until the
balance in the Court changes and this cynical, stupid decision can be overturned. How can the
several voices of a powerful, monied few (CEOs and their Board of Directors) be equated to those
of millions of middle-class voters? The monied few do have undue, disproportionate influence in
the halls of Congress. They spent $200 million lobbying Congress in the run-up to the vote.
It may be hard to define obscenity but we all recognize it when we see it. The Citizens United
decision is obscene.
Mitchum 22, I’m eager to listen to your arguments. We begin with a common ground. There
Report this*are* “vampire corporate totalitarians” with bloodied fangs, ready to suck your neck and mine.
By PatrickHenry, September 8, 2010 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment
Capt Suave
Why so regressive about the U.S. providing socialized health to its citizens? it is far more important to national security than a military.
Report thisBy Proud Tea-Party Member, September 8, 2010 at 12:14 pm Link to this comment
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Stop whining, Philistines! My own Teabag Party is on the ball and will save our country, first by reinstating the leadership role of insurance corporations. Do you think it’s easy to walk by a group of milling Democrats, wearing my teabags hat, and hear comments about my being nuts. It feels just like being flapped in the face with a damp sack of oysters. I’m sick of this insult to my dignity. Gloria Steinem, quoting Cartman, “suck my balls, Kyle.”
Report thisBy ocjim, September 8, 2010 at 9:49 am Link to this comment
If the Republican miscreants gain power in Congress, they will realize that Obama passed a perfect health care bill for Americans without it but one which vastly rewards big pharma and the private health care industry.
They will embrace it for that reason: ugly hypocrites they are, for their next breath will be more lies on the other side of the issue.
Report thisBy mitchum22, September 8, 2010 at 8:45 am Link to this comment
Is this a joke? ObamaCare is nothing but another massive wealth transfer of trillions of dollars from working Americans to vampire corporate totalitarians. After all, that’s why the Hustler was put in there, non?
Good riddance. Start over. In fact, at this sorry point, start the whole damn country over.
Report thisBy G.Anderson, September 8, 2010 at 7:31 am Link to this comment
No the fight will never be over. Take a look at social security, the Republicans have been trying to get rid of that for several generations.
I bet what happens is that the Republicans settle for some changes that make the new system more profitable for the insurance companies, and the Doctors who own them.
Report thisBy Pat Henry, September 7, 2010 at 9:39 pm Link to this comment
“GOP PLOTTING TO UNDERCUT HEALTH CARE REFORM”
Of course they are! They’ve proven that they are more concerned about their own, selfish political power and ability to manipulate the rest of us, than they are about the welfare of mainstream Americans. McConnell and Boehner don’‘t have our interests at heart. They’re all about taxes for the rich and keeping themselves in the limelight.
Am I angry? You bet I am!
We’ve had a family health crisis in the last 24 hours. Our oldest child is in a
Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, fighting for her life. No warning before her
apoplectic stroke. We pray her insurance will cover her and that the bills won’t bankrupt her family. At this early stage and without complications, she will have at least $100,000 in medical expenses.
The Affordable Care Act will protect her and her family from bankruptcy.
The cynical Right sneers about “Obama-care”, yet offers nothing better except the same old bromides that have brought us to this unhappy place.
If they regain the majority in November, they will do their best to overturn the meager progress we made since January 2009.
Am I angry? Yes, but I am sad for our Country as well.
We’ve lost the ability to think rationally, and we no longer seem to care for each
other.
We’ve come to a sad place. I am pessimistic that we Americans will be able to
Report thisfumble our way out of it.
By purplewolf, September 7, 2010 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment
AS for Pat Roberts(R-Kan.) comment that “No one spends someone else’s money as carefully as they spend their own”, works equally as well for other government pet projects and ego trips as well. George Bush’s lied for war in Iraq is a good point in which to start, tax cuts for the rich while racking up the debt, bailing out big business and Wall St., the list is endless for thehaves and the have mores, Bush’s base.
Report thisBy call me roy, September 7, 2010 at 6:52 pm Link to this comment
Gee, I wonder why?
Report thisMonday, May 24, 2010. Dr. Donald Berwick, nominated by President Barry Barack Hussen Obama to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that runs Medicare, published an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), advising leaders of Britain’s socialized health care system: “Please don’t put your faith in market forces.” The article, published in the July 26, 2008 issue of the BMJ, compared the U.S. health care system unfavorably to the British system, which Berwick said he was “romantic about.” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who serves on the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight over Berwick’s nomination, told CNSNews.com that he believes Berwick misunderstands the American health care system. “Nobody spends someone else’s money as carefully as they spend their own,” said Roberts, “and that’s what we’ve seen happening over the last several decades as the government pays for more and more care.” Roberts noted that Berwick’s “avid support for the rationing system” in Great Britain makes him a candidate to carry out a similar system here in the United States now that President Obama’s national health care plan has been enacted. “Obamacare will take on payment responsibility for a whole new class of Americans and, predictably, the Administration is searching for ways to contain their newly acquired costs,” said Roberts. “Rationing of health care will be their plan.
By Inherit The Wind, September 7, 2010 at 6:30 pm Link to this comment
rico, suave, September 7 at 11:06 pm Link to this comment
Pat, ITW:
I’m mean really.
NO ONE on the right is making it a secret that the health care bill is number one on the chopping block if Republicans take over even one chamber.
Needless to say, I wish them luck.
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Yeah, it takes away money for oil-drilling subsidies, military spending and tax-cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
Report thisBy rico, suave, September 7, 2010 at 6:06 pm Link to this comment
Pat, ITW:
I’m mean really.
NO ONE on the right is making it a secret that the health care bill is number one on the chopping block if Republicans take over even one chamber.
Needless to say, I wish them luck.
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, September 7, 2010 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
“GOP Plotting to Undercut Health Care Reform”
That’s like saying:
“Flash! The Sun is planning to rise tomorrow!”
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, September 7, 2010 at 2:39 pm Link to this comment
Move along, no story here.
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