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Sun Jul-26-09 12:16 AM
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Poll question: Should Congress be stripped of their health benefits? |
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Edited on Sun Jul-26-09 12:18 AM by WillYourVoteBCounted
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:19 AM
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1. This is the easiest poll I've done. |
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:25 AM
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2. They should be forced to have worthless "indiviudal plans" or HMO's or health savings accounts |
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:29 AM
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3. I'm sick of paying for their health care |
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when they refuse to get care for everyone else.
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:29 AM
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4. Maybe those 3 no votes are congressmen that are on DU..hey we don't get healthcare you don't either |
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:31 AM
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5. Heh. Tempting, but no. Because then only people rich enough to afford their own... |
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could reasonably contemplate running. It's hard enough for normal folks now - don't wanna make it worse. No matter how satisfying it would be.
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:33 AM
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6. don't they get health care for the rest of their life - after |
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serving just one term?
and aren't most of them wealthy once they serve, if they weren't already?
Certainly little Pattie McHenry in North Carolina got rich after he was elected.
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:41 AM
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7. Until we have what they have... |
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Sun Jul-26-09 12:52 AM
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8. You forgot clawback of their salaries to reflect the bad economic conditions & their non-performance |
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and infecting their kids/spouses with tuberculosis and/or HIV.
That should light a fire under their ass.
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Sun Jul-26-09 01:10 AM
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9. Stripped by who? Congress? |
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Mon Jul-27-09 01:00 AM
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30. lol. exactly. (i voted yes anyway!) n/t |
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Sun Jul-26-09 02:10 AM
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10. Absolutely. They should be required to go a year with no health insurance. |
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Sun Jul-26-09 04:01 AM
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11. Doing that would turn off their life support. Then again most have been dead for years. |
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Sun Jul-26-09 04:04 AM
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12. No but I think they deserve a downgrade |
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to "American-style health care", or Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
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Sun Jul-26-09 04:28 AM
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13. And send em to the Wise County Fairground in West Virginia |
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And make them stand in line, WITH their families in tow!:mad:
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Sun Jul-26-09 01:20 PM
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20. or tell them to go to the ER |
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like we are so often told.
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Sun Jul-26-09 06:01 AM
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14. Without a doubt. They need to get it through their heads they are no better than the rest of us. |
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If its too expensive or burdensome to make health care affordable and accessible to the rest of us then its too expensive and burdensome for us to continue subsidize it for them. We don't do monarchies here and they should have to live under the same system the rest of us do.
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Sun Jul-26-09 06:03 AM
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15. I said no on basic principle. |
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But I understand how that would be an effective method to get them to do something about health care.
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Sun Jul-26-09 06:04 AM
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so sure, it's a nice fantasy.
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Sun Jul-26-09 07:43 AM
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18. Agreed. Asking Congress to deny themselves. |
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What were you thinking . . . .
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Sun Jul-26-09 07:07 AM
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17. Their health benefits, their pay &, in many cases, their heads. |
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Sun Jul-26-09 09:44 PM
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21. where's the HELL YES button? |
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Tell them ALL they need to go on COBRA, and then buy their own insurance on the open market. And STOP giving insurance to single-termers. Let THEM deal with REALITY just like the rest of the poor slobs out there.
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Sun Jul-26-09 09:47 PM
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23. Congress should have to live under all the same laws the rest of us |
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do that they exempt themselves from (such as civil rights laws).
Oh, and they should all be paid minimum wage, with no $100,000 plus salaries for the rest of their lives after they get out...
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Sun Jul-26-09 11:28 PM
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24. AND they shd have to buy their own ins. under pseudonyms, to make sure |
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they don't get special treatment from the ins. cos.
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Mon Jul-27-09 12:01 AM
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25. I'd like to see some kind of check against them for taking so much in campaign contributions |
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from the healthcare industry. People probably vote for these guys and fall for their political ads, without really knowing how much money and influence is affecting campaigns. I know that political contributions are a form of free speech and can't be curtailed. But how about mandating free time on network television for every political ad, giving a citizens' watchdog group the opportunity to reveal how much that politican has taken in from the healthcare and insurance lobby (or any other lobby group for that matter)? The health care sector gave $167 million in campaign contributions to congressional candidates in the 2008 election cycle. And health care companies poured $484 million into lobbying efforts in 2008, and are on pace to exceed that this year. The healthcare industry is trying to get deeply involved in healthcare reform as never before, making sure they have their say on how it's going to come down. I know it's hard when the only ones who can effectuate change are the congressional people themselves and the media are not going to stick their necks out to embarrass and expose these Washington beltway aristocrats.
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Mon Jul-27-09 12:38 AM
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26. Well of course we know the answer; but what does knowing the answer do for us? n/t |
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Mon Jul-27-09 12:48 AM
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27. They should have to feel for just a month, even, the terror |
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and fear that people who have lost or might lose, their health insurance feel. I know it is a fantasy, but I would like them to have to really understand this from the ground up. Just one illness or unforseen injury, and poof! Your future is gone.
Barring that, I would be happy to require all of them to go to a RAM event (the Remote Access Medical event that we all saw pictures from) and wait, and wait, and wait. I'd be happy if they took the time to go there and really have the scales fall from their eyes, have a real epiphany.
And in third place, I'd settle for them being barred from any campaign contributions from the Health Insurance Industry.
Hey, if this is a fantasy, I'm going for broke.
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Mon Jul-27-09 12:54 AM
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28. Other: I don't care because they are already rich and wouldn't feel a thing but pride stinging them |
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if that.
I think it's goofy that people think these people take their jobs for the same reasons we do. They could give a fuck.
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Mon Jul-27-09 12:55 AM
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29. They should be FORCED |
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Edited on Mon Jul-27-09 12:57 AM by elleng
by LOUD word of mouth in their jurisdictions to acknowledge that the existing proposal(s) contain provisions similar/identical to their own, that is, the health insurance exchange, and SHAMED if they maintain they will not support such, that is, they won't provide the same as they have for their constituents.
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