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Sunlei

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17. republicans want to allow insurance corps to keep on selling fake, scam insurance to Americans.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2013, 09:11 AM

Nov 2013

That way their states will continue to get billions in free federal money to pay for those Americans who don't have insurance that covers care.

I say the Federal Gov should stop handing over Federal money to state control and Feds should pay the hospitals directly. Use the military healthcare system and the Vet hospitals, expand them.

Cut out the middlemen.

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House approves plan to let some keep their health plans [View all] alp227 Nov 2013 OP

Can't stand up to big insurance? sharp_stick Nov 2013 #1

Did any f-----g Democrats vote for it n/t doc03 Nov 2013 #2

Thirty-nine Democrats voted for it--no doubt from very red districts. flpoljunkie Nov 2013 #3

roll call: alp227 Nov 2013 #6

Julia Bronley is my Rep. in a newly carved LibDemAlways Nov 2013 #10

SEE the OP on the LINK below :) Tx4obama Nov 2013 #14

SEE the OP on the LINK below :) Tx4obama Nov 2013 #15

And allowing the health insurance companies to remain the same Iliyah Nov 2013 #4

Oh hell no. So rather than getting affordable insurance I can use, I can keep my overpriced uppityperson Nov 2013 #5

SEE the OP on the LINK below :) Tx4obama Nov 2013 #13

Thanks, I was hoping that would happen. nt uppityperson Nov 2013 #24

You CAN keep it. I don't believe there's any law that says you HAVE to. n/t hughee99 Nov 2013 #19

Since the insurance company no longer offers that plan, I can't. They said they'd move me to uppityperson Nov 2013 #21

I'm confused, at first you sounded like you were mad some people were going to be able hughee99 Nov 2013 #22

I had overpriced catastrophic ins that I could not use. ACA took it away, replacing it with uppityperson Nov 2013 #23

I like this idea. christx30 Nov 2013 #25

I don't like paying taxes for military bloat either. How about we change the tax thing around so uppityperson Nov 2013 #26

Paying taxes is different than christx30 Nov 2013 #27

My tax dollars go to pay a private company for shit I'm not going to use. Or you you think the milit uppityperson Nov 2013 #28

I thought this might be appropriate here. Thank you EarlG uppityperson Nov 2013 #29

Who?? DreamSmoker Nov 2013 #7

I'm extremely disappointed with 2 of the D's in Oregon davidpdx Nov 2013 #8

SEE the OP on the LINK below :) Tx4obama Nov 2013 #11

My rep, Rick Nolan. mac56 Nov 2013 #9

SEE the OP on the LINK below :) Tx4obama Nov 2013 #12

This won't go anywhere PSPS Nov 2013 #16

republicans want to allow insurance corps to keep on selling fake, scam insurance to Americans. Sunlei Nov 2013 #17

We couldn't stand to have a thread about Minnesota, could we? Thor_MN Nov 2013 #18

Because it was a duplicate of a larger national story. alp227 Nov 2013 #20

National interest, yet there are stories all the time about coastal CITY events. Thor_MN Nov 2013 #30

What about this thread about the happenings in the Rethug-run Wisconsin assembly? alp227 Nov 2013 #31

Congratulations. You posted a thread that hasn't been locked. Thor_MN Nov 2013 #32