madinmaryland
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:50 PM
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A 2000 page Health Care reform bill. What the fuck is in it? |
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Edited on Tue Dec-15-09 07:50 PM by madinmaryland
There is no:
- Single Payer Health Care plan - A public option - Medicare for everyone. - Medicare for 55 and above.
What the fuck is in there?
- Abolishment of pre-existing conditions? - Abolishment of the ability of Ins. Co's to drop coverages at will? - Abolishment of the Ins. Co's anti-trust exemption. - Government regulation of the Ins' Co's.
Or is this it: - A blank check to the insurance companies. - A blank chack to Big Pharma. - A blank check to Wall Street.
Hmmm.
My guess is the third option.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:51 PM
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1. It's Congre$$' stock portfolio.n/t |
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:52 PM
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2. No, they didn't even keep the pre-existing condition ban last I heard |
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Tue Dec-15-09 11:25 PM
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20. I think they kept the requirement to cover preexisting conditions |
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but they didn't put a limit on how high the mandated premium will be for covering them.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:52 PM
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3. Mandates! Mandates! Mandates as far as the eye can see! |
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It is 2000 pages with ONE WORD on each page: MANDATE!
O woe! O ignominious defeat! O would that it had never been born!
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madinmaryland
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:56 PM
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10. A mandate that tells the insurance companies and big pharma to screw us |
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:57 PM
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11. Woe unto the corporatists I say! |
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:59 PM
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14. Actually, I think the mandates are between |
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LIEberman mandating the Ins. CO's and Big Pharma.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:52 PM
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I agree with Kos. This thing has become a piece of shit. A few days ago I was willing to support it, but this is a side step, not a step forward. Fucking cowards. I wish we could just get rid of Congress in lieu of a Parlimentary system. They're relatively useless.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:52 PM
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5. 2000 pages of total... |
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obfuscation to protect the innocent(Reps and Senators). ;^)
Tripe by any other name is still just tripe.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:53 PM
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6. 5x Palins book size - and all empty fill-in-the-blank pages |
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:53 PM
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7. Oh stop asking silly questions. Don't you know it has to be better than nothing? |
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:54 PM
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9. It's nothing with a front and back cover. Just what I wanted for Christmas. |
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They suck, every damn one of them.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:54 PM
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8. Your third guess is correct! |
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I could've lived with guess #2 without a public option/medicare buy-in, etc.
Guess #3 is a travesty, a betrayal, a blank check to the powers that be.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:58 PM
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I thought #2 would be automatically be part of it.
But yes, we will get #3. (and the fucking teabaggers will be rejoicing that they have killed HCR). The irony abounds for those assholes.
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Tue Dec-15-09 07:59 PM
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13. I suspect the anti-trust exemption will never be abolished. |
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Way to much money fighting it.
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Tue Dec-15-09 08:00 PM
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15. If they can't kill baseball's exemption, they will NEVER kill the Insurance Cartel's. |
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Tue Dec-15-09 08:17 PM
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16. Another bail out for anyone but the American people who foot the bill |
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Tue Dec-15-09 11:03 PM
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17. Yes. That is what is happening. |
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Tue Dec-15-09 11:20 PM
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19. The Enronization of HC |
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