Reply #4: You got it Frenchie [View All]

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To say FU to 31 million people because the bill isn't perfect is indeed "far out".

It is also "far out" to suggest that a reference to the "far left" (or for that matter "far right") implies anything other than the boundaries of current political thought in the USA. If I call someone "far right" I do not mean to align them with Hitler. Inthe same way, if I refer to an argument as being from the "far left" I do not infer anything farther left than, say for example, the positions of Dennis Kucinich.

At one point this bill would have been a great boon to me personally. However, as it reads today, the bill no longer has the provision for a Medicare buy in before age 65 (the current law). That provision would have allowed me to retire this year without fear of a recurrence of my cancer before my 65th birthday at the end of the year.

I could, if I chose say "the hell with the bill, it doesn't help me so kill the bill", but I'm not so cocksure nor self absorbed to be willing to throw those 31 million out because my own needs are not met or because the Bill has flaws. Many here apparently are willing to do just that.