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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:18 PM Original message |
"we're about to pass a $900 billion bill to help low-income Americans afford health-care coverage" |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. The Most Important And Significant Part Of This Legislation Will Be The Implementation Of The SYSTEM |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 01:25 AM Response to Reply #1 |
38. They got their orders.. |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. characterizing opposition to this bill as "marching with the |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. If they had used an increase on income taxes instead of mandates |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. The difference between a tax increase and a mandate is not as large as everyone lets on. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Bullshit. |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. "buying private pools for health insurance execs", BS, the bill requires 85% of intake for CARE. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. And how, pray tell, is that 85% benchmark going to be monitored |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. The claim that there are no controls, regulation or oversight exposes your ignorance of the bill. |
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Milo_Bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
45. They already have gotten around it. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Taxes are income based |
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T Wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. You mean that the government will now take even more money and give it to the corps |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. Classic progressive values |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Is this intended as irony? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. There is precious little that can be called REMOTELY progressive in this bill, |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. You must not be a progressive if you can't identify them. (nt) |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Please list the top ten "progressive" elements of this bill that cannot be subverted by the |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Those lists are all around you. |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. You can't defend your position with more than 6 words? Really lazy |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I'm lazy, but there are lists both for and against all around you and you refuse to read them. |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. OK so you can NOT list 10 progressive things in the senate bill. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Ok, so you're utterly incapable of reading. (nt) |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. More like a reminder to those who have forgotten |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Forgotten what? |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. That it's about helping people |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Helping corporations to people's money. |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. So you claim |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Who do you work for? |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. None of your business. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. I'd just like to know which corporation you're helping shovel money into. |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
31. WTF are you talking about? |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. The more I learn the less I know. There are |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
26. One Simple Question -- Instead of funneling all those "subsidies" into Private Corporations.... |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
27. Sen. Bernie Sanders said it would be the biggest expansion of primary care in this country's history |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. he said they'll achieve the public option in the future |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Well that's the biggest crock of baloney I've heard yet. Next year's Christmas children!! Believe us |
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golddigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Sanders and Leahy also said: |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. But it doesn't do SHIT for me. |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
35. Taxes going to corporations |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
37. Worthless shitty coverage that only "covers" 60-70% of actual COSTS |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #37 |
42. And your basis for those numbers? |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 05:51 AM Response to Reply #42 |
46. It's in the bills |
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Tippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
39. Klein...was on Maddow's show last night... |
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mcablue (625 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
40. What about the middle class? |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. If our rulers continue to gut the middle class, their propaganda and disinformation |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
44. what I don't understand - if we, the taxpayers, are going to |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 08:30 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. ding! ding! ding! ding! A Winner! |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #44 |
48. it's been fascinating, in a way, to watch this trainwreck |
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