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August 06, 2009 07:29 AM UTC
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a mob of nutjobs.
I mean it’s not like the majority of Americans disapprove of the health plan is it? The whole “mob” meme is a desperation move by an administration whose leader just dropped to a 50% approval rating. The whole plan is sinking under its own weight and we are now seeing how the President handles public criticism. He will demonize his opponents however he can.
All those polls are just astroturfing, too. Those poll responders are well-organized minions with swastikas.
Right Nancy?
As the health insurance industry put their lobbying effort into gear.
It couldn’t be that people just don’t want the government running their healthcare.
This thing is over. If it passes it won’t have a public option, and it’s already caused card check and cap-and-tax to be put off until next year.
Which happens to be an election year.
Except that “government running their healthcare” isn’t part of the proposal and hasn’t been for a long time. This is a bunch of frightened people ginned up by the health insurance industry with made-up stories.
It’s the same logic as stating that EFCA doesn’t eliminate a secret ballot.
Right, well, it doesn’t say it, but it is the intended consequence of the bill.
What employer is going to keep any other kind of insurance if he’s already paying higher taxes to fund this turd and has the opportunity for the heavily subsidized but artificially less expensive public option for his employees?
How many insurance companies will be able to be competitive against a regulator (who’s also competition, BTW) who has just mandated that they cover everyone, regardless how risky they might be?
Look ant the polling for independents on this. It’s over.
than the millions of uninsured, and the rest of us that are preyed upon by them. This is the root of the problem with you guys.
I’m concerned about the hundreds of millions who are insured (including myself) that this boondoggle will affect.
What the Democrats are proposing is the equivalent of finding a bad spark plug in your car, and as a result you send it to the crusher and replace it with something different but not necessarily better.
If the proposal was to expand Medicare and Medicaid to help those who cannot afford insurance and want it, there would be far less opposition.
And we provide quality health insurance to our employees (Aetna) – please get us the public option.
If you have to raise my taxes – do it. If I have to pay another percent and in return they no longer exclude or jack up rates for anyone who might get sick – well worth it.
Those of you on the right that don’t own a business with a bunch of employees are missing a key fact – the existing health insurance system hurts small business. A lot.
If you aren’t happy with what your (male) employer is doing, what do you do?
You get a union.
This is the free market, baby. Love it or leave it.
but you seem to not understand the specifics of it.
The public option you’re so a-feared of will only be available to individuals and companies that employ 500 or fewer workers. Small businesses are getting destroyed by health care costs right now, so I don’t see why you’d argue against anything that could save small business owners money. Big companies will still be forced to cough up whatever the private insurers can get on the free market.
You’re obviously entitled to your opinion, but this, like your concern about a middle class tax increase, is totally unfounded and unjustified.
The initial company size is much smaller than 500 workers – perhaps as small as 20 or 50. At Y3 (tentatively scheduled as 2016), the Commissioner can evaluate the readiness of the public option and exchange system, and if he/she deems it ready to handle a larger load, can increase the size of companies eligible. Realistically, this will happen in several stages over several years. At Y3 if we’re really lucky it might be extended to cover all small businesses (500 employees).
And it makes my point even more valid.
When I was at Microsoft the PPO plan was self-insurance. Microsoft hired a company to administer it and get their discounts from providers. But they did not buy insurance but instead just paid the bills as they came in.
Try doing that has a 50 employee company…
Does that mean they want to end medicare & medicaid?
IIRC, some Democratic House member put up a bill to end Medicare just to prove how two-faced the Republicans are about the evils of government-run health care.
And the funny part is, anti-reform groups are spending a lot of their effort convincing seniors that the reforms will hurt them, up to and including ending Medicare.
In other words, their increasing poll numbers are based on lies made to people already depending on government health care.
Remember when she eviscreated that blowhard Scarborough about a year and a half ago?
FYI, it’s still on utube.
She allways comes prepared, she stays focused, she remains calm, she NEVER gets personal, she’s the ultimate respectful host (unlike those creeps on clusterfox) and she isn’t afraid to back somebody down with facts.
That she’s not trouncing hannity in the ratings speaks volumnes about how the older white demographic, the demo that went for Mccain by about 10 points, is cable tv’s biggest audience and how the young crowd probably is busy living in the real world.
She’s my hero too.
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