Reply #6: Glad to see Democrats call Republicans on their crap. It's a BAD bill [View All]

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and Senators Clinton, Schumer, Menendez, Lautenberg, Obama, Nelson, Durbin should be given the Standing on Principle Award and not compromising on yet another really insulting, impotent and malicious attempt to gut health care services and funding to people in this country.

The currently proposed legislation that these Democratic heroes oppose is yet another year of not funding the real needs of people in this country. Indeed, Senator Kennedy, whose initial attempts to compromise and at least get something decent out of this Congress have led to the typical Republican response - lull Democrats into doing something to help people throughout the country, refuse amendments that would make the bill acceptable, then pit red states against blue states, poor and ill people all desperate for basic primary care and support against each other for what can only be described as a huge cut in funding - of creating a loser's bill that doles out money to those who supported the Republican Party and their candidates. It's the Medicare Prescription Drug ACT playbook all over again.

That Housing Works post is old but the amendments, as well as additional ones, would make a good bill. The current bill will not be voted on until after the November elections. Time to get the ahole Republicans who would yet again try to allocate less than the amount it costs to be in Iraq for 12 hours out of office so we can fix the Medicare bill, restore Medicaid cuts, protect Social Security, increase the number of individuals with health care coverage, and put forward Ryan White Care Act legislation that doesn't call for splitting a baby in half to address the needs of the people of this country.

Passing the bill in its' current state, unamended, is like letting the Republicans appoint another Supreme Court justice - it will be in place for five years. Before it can be fixed, decades of work and care will be lost, as will the lives of many people.