centrists and the right agree on insurance reform.

[xchrom]

only the left cares about health care reform.

[Oregone]

1. Which "left" are you referring to?

Because Ive seen some "leftist" wanting to mandate and subsidize private insurance for everyone. Seems like an odd thing.

[lapfog_1]

2. But Obama SAID it was good.

So we are all to fall in lock step, because that's all he could get right now (not that he even HAS it yet).

:sarcasm:

I've seen so many threads today that basically say I'm a bad democrat if I don't support this Health INSURANCE reform that requires almost everyone in the US to purchase private for-profit insurance plans.

But it's a bad plan.

[Oregone]

3. True. And he made it sound so pretty

Either he is a great Turd-Polisher-in-Chief or he is spot on

[emulatorloo]

4. while we are at it, which right are you talking about? All the Repubs sat on their fat asses

shaking their heads "NO" when Obama talked about making it ILLEGAL to deny somebody coverage on the basis of pre-existing condition, making it ILLEGAL to drop coverage on somebody who is sick, and ILLEGAL to water down coverage on somebody who is sick.

[flaminbats]

8. I still remember Shelby and McConnell in 1994

both participated in a filibuster against "Hillary's LIBERAL government takeover of healthcare"

these neocons didn't even support bills like Cooper-Grassley or the Chaffee plan, both of which they derided as Hillary-lite. :crazy:

Senators Shelby and McConnell said allowing insurance companies to discriminate or drop coverage for those with pre-existing conditions was only "a fair business practice"!

[damntexdem]

5. Utter nonsense! Only the right opposes both.

The rest of the country wants to fix a broken system.

[stray cat]

6. From what I see they only care about one aspect of health care reform

and believe anyone who would benefit from regulation of insurance companies can go to hell.

[xchrom]

7. kick

[TheKentuckian]

9. The Republican position on reform is bogus tort reform, scammy risk pools,

and letting immigrants die on the hospital curbs.

and that's on a very generous day. The right wants what they always want lack of competition, price gouging, and zero regulation. Their reform would make the status quo seem warm and fuzzy.