Objective, Non-partisan, Thread about He alth Care

“I think more and more of us should take advantage of the free healthcare to help reduce the national debt.”

“And, that fine is to make make the insurance companies look good? Should people that don't believe in the colonization of the middle east be allowed to not pay taxes for something they don't want or need. We need private military insurance then? We'd have a cat fight forever, when your side isn't in the majority.”

“So $700? If that's significantly less than the annual cost of insurance for a healthy young productive person, it seems conceivable that it would be worth it just to pay the fine.�
Mutt
11:11:17 AM
3/24/10

i haven't read the whole thing but so far i haven't seen a definition of what insurance is in this bill...it will be interesting to find out what it will take to satisfy this "requirement"...there are a lot of alternative and supplemental products out there”

“What we are forced to pay for Rebublican military graft and all the other Corporate Welfare makes single payer healthcare look like chump change.”

“the Dems are in charge, Tilty”

“@ C!B!”

“I thought it was funny how Obama had these people there at his big victory speech as examples of poor people who would now get coverage (AKA people Barry has saved!). If a republican president did that the loony left would be claiming he was exploiting the sick and dying.”

“The last one(R) did.”

““maybe we should make all insurance companies not for profit?...heck, why stop with insurance companies...maybe everything should be not for profit”
thriftyhiker

The church has already proven that non-profit is FAR more profitable than for-profit.”

“““maybe we should make all insurance companies not for profit?...heck, why stop with insurance companies...maybe everything should be not for profit”
thriftyhiker

What a nut!”

“Bust a nut!”

“those evil insurance companies with their whopping 2% profit margin”

“2%!! It's that high now? C#@ksuckers! Everyone should make the exact same money no matter how much or how little you do. It's only fair.”

“even restaurants are higher...which by the way are taking a hit by this bill as well...all chains with more than 20 stores will now be required to have calorie information on their menus because we can't be trusted to find this information on our own”

“The poor, poor health insurance industry. Shed a tear...”

“insurance accounts for a meesly 4% of the healthcare cost pie.

FOUR PERCENT!

You idiots just sold your children's future down the river for 4 %

This massive entitlement program, if allowed to stand, will absolutely bankrupt this nation

You think America can't fall? Better strap it up, it's coming and it's gonna get ugly..

The progressives have almost achieved their goal of destroying America and you fools lap it up like a junkie gett'n his next fix. Blindly following a failed model and corrupt pigs to your own demise. Your kids or maybe your grandkids, won't forgive you for ruining their future.


Great idea guys, thanks.....”

“Yeah but we still, like, get free stuff, right? Right?”

“FREE PROCTOLOGY EXAMS FOR EVERY ONE ! ! !”

“fact sheet on healthcare:


http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/19/fact-sheet-the-truth-about-the-health-care-bill/”

“Awesome! A provision in the new bill calls for a 10% tax on tanning. Obama protocol: bend over grab ankles.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tan-tax27-2010mar27,0,7737739.story”

“Insurance Accounting Bait and you bottom feeders took it hook, line and sinker. The Hedge Funds, Banks, Investment Bankers and Brokers could learn a lot about creative accounting from the Insurance Magic Wand Action.”

“Wow.

Just wow.

Wow.

http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/03/27/brilliant-government-testing/”

“Cuban leader applauds US health-care reform bill
Dubious endorsement? Cuban leader endorses US health care reform, says it's about time


Paul Haven, Associated Press Writer, On Thursday March 25, 2010,

HAVANA (AP) -- It perhaps was not the endorsement President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress were looking for.

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform "a miracle" and a major victory for Obama's presidency, but couldn't help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago.

"We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his (Obama's) government," Castro wrote in an essay published in state media, adding that it would strengthen the president's hand against lobbyists and "mercenaries."

But the Cuban leader also used the lengthy piece to criticize the American president for his lack of leadership on climate change and immigration reform, and for his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, among many other things.

And he said it was remarkable that the most powerful country on earth took more than two centuries from its founding to approve something as basic as health benefits for all.

"It is really incredible that 234 years after the Declaration of Independence ... the government of that country has approved medical attention for the majority of its citizens, something that Cuba was able to do half a century ago," Castro wrote.

The longtime Cuban leader -- who ceded power to his brother Raul in 2008 -- has continued to pronounce his thoughts on world issues though frequent essays, titled "Reflections," which are published in state newspapers.

Cuba provides free health care and education to all its citizens, and heavily subsidizes food, housing, utilities and transportation, policies that have earned it global praise. The government has warned that some of those benefits are no longer sustainable given Cuba's ever-struggling economy, though it has so far not made major changes.

In recent speeches, Raul Castro has singled out medicine as an area where the government needs to be spending less, but he has not elaborated.

While Fidel Castro was initially positive about Obama, his essays have become increasingly hostile in recent months as relations between Cuba and the United States have soured. Washington has been increasingly alarmed by Cuba's treatment of political dissidents -- one of whom died in February after a long hunger strike.

Cuba was irate over the island's inclusion earlier this year on a list of countries Washington considers to be state sponsors of terrorism. Tensions have also risen following the arrest in December of a U.S. government contractor that Havana accuses of spying.

In Thursday's essay, Castro called Obama a "fanatic believer in capitalist imperialism" but also praised him as "unquestionably intelligent."

"I hope that the stupid things he sometimes says about Cuba don't cloud over that intelligence," he said.”

“Maybe, this is where the two week cadillac SPA visits are seen as tax free vacations rather than health care?”

“As usual, Obama kissed the Union's A$$es bigtime....”

“They played the same role in getting him elected as the NRA has on their past favs.”

“no comparison”

“They both give money.”

“And, more money.”

“Dis be a goodly bil. Wat be wrong wid doin god fo de peeples. Now de peeples can hab de medecale ganjah to heel dim and giv dem spirituel vison. Obama is de Mon. De W bush mon be de evel bush. Yah Mon de oposit ob de good bush. De oposit bush mon be de antechriss. All dat folo dis evel W mon be ob de devel.
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