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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 09:47 AM Original message |
Report: Health costs up slightly under Senate bill |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. So much for bending the cost curve. Costs will be higher than if we do nothing. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. ...because millions more people will be covered, yes. n/t |
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Texastornado (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. But didnt Obama promise $2,500 savings a year in premiums for the typical family? |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. I have no idea of the specific status of that promise. But this report has nothing to do with it. |
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grytpype (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. "even with so many more people receiving coverage." |
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Texastornado (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. We were told it would be affordable. We werent just promised an expansion of number of insured |
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grytpype (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:34 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Right, like I've been saying, the libs want free health care. |
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Texastornado (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Not free. Just $2,500 a year less in premiums |
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nightrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 12:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. please cite a source. That's not at all my experience. Try to be accurate. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-11-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Haven't you been hearing the words "affordable health care" |
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nightrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 12:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. it's not affordable, by any stretch of the imagination.... None of |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-11-10 10:14 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. And that is the way they intended it to be. From the begining |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. Cut costs, increase coverage? |
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ThisThreadIsSatire (697 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
3. First Step... |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
5. "Kill the bill! Kill the bill! Kill the bill!" |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
6. So we trade a reasonable house bill for a waste of a senate bill. I'm glad I worked so hard getting |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #6 |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. I've never voted for Kucinich what I have done is work my ass off across 7 swing state |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-11-10 10:11 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. I didn't see that post before it got deleted |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
13. Kill this fucking bill. |
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TomCADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
14. This Is The Same Report Being Issued Again and Again With The Assumption... |
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nightrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
18. The price of premiums is artificially high, having to pay that ~30% overhead. That |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. So its just like MORE TAXES for MIDDLE CLASS |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 03:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I'd post something in agreement here, but |
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RBInMaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-10-10 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
21. Oh screw the RePUKES. |
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