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Tue Nov-03-09 07:15 PM
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No single payer health care, no strong public option. How about we all |
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get what our public servants get in the form of health care insurance?
Good enough for them?
Should be good enough for the rest of us, if nothing else. Right?
Too much to ask for? :shrug:
As I recall, in 2004 campaign, Kerry said as much.
So why not at least that? :shrug:
Food for thought.
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:16 PM
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1. They have an insurance exchange n/t |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:19 PM
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4. So are we going to get that? |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:17 PM
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2. What we're going to get is the plan whose description made Alan Grayson famous |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:21 PM
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:26 PM
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11. That's pretty much what I'm expecting whenever I get sick. |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:29 PM
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:19 PM
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3. don't forget to eat your crow when the PO passes |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:20 PM
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:23 PM
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8. good, you're in for a heapin' helpin' |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:28 PM
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12. Really, and you know this how? |
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Wed Nov-04-09 05:57 PM
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46. HE'S A DOCTOR, FOR FUCK SAKE!!!@!#!$!!!!!!111111 |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:23 PM
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9. It depends on the so-called public option. What is on the table now is |
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not an option because only a small percentage of the population are going to be able to opt into it, so it's not an option at all. An option would cover everyone who wants it. So save your crow pie until the final bill is passed and signed.
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:50 PM
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18. a Public College has admissions policies, a Public Option has admissions policies |
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Only those who qualify financially can get a Pell Grant, yet it is still a Public Grant.
Once again, what you want isn't a Public option, it's Single Payer.
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Tue Nov-03-09 09:52 PM
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32. I remember when every deserving young person in California |
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could get a college education through either the state university or college system. No grants were needed; no qualifications needed, just good grades. It was all wiped out with Proposition 13. The millionaires, who are now billionaires loved it.
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Wed Nov-04-09 01:49 PM
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40. they still had to have good grades. It wasn't an option for everyone. |
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Yet it was still Public.
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Wed Nov-04-09 07:39 PM
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47. So did the taxpayers of California that voted for it. |
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Wed Nov-04-09 08:40 AM
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39. "option" and "grant" are actual words in English each with |
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a specific meaning. An option is a thing which can be freely chosen from among alternatives. A grant is an award of money given for cause. "Grant" is the act of providing a subsidy. A grant must be given and an option must be taken. Words have meanings. One can not simply declare that 'option' now means 'last resort'. "Up" can not mean "down". The word in question is not 'public' but 'option'. The 'admissions policies' themselves mean that it is not an option at all. An option is freely chosen. Words mean things, they always have. Pretending that they do not is just another form of a lie. Red is blue, good is bad, war is peace. No choice is choice. What you are forced to take is an option. Single Payer, well, it does not allow for options at all. Single. Payer. Only one. Not a choice of options at all. So you are misusing that term as well. I think you need to look up the meanings of these words and terms.
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Wed Nov-04-09 01:53 PM
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41. hey mr. thesaurus, there will be a Public Option despite your objection |
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if you really thought about it, you would realize that there are literally thousands of things called options, which are not available to everyone.
Get over your semantics and quit trying to drag the PO down.
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:40 PM
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17. Oh, I'm sure some sort of "PO" |
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will pass, but it'll amount to little more than a big pile of BS.
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:53 PM
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20. PO will likely be for us Pissed Off. |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:56 PM
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21. not to the millions of uninsured who will now be able to get medical care |
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those with a selfish attachment to 'Single Payer or Bust' overlook those people who won't get any insurance if your opposition to the PO is successful.
You probably already have Health Insurance and just want a better deal.
Some people can't even get the treatment that would save their lives. Think about that while you're trashing the Public Option.
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:09 PM
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23. I don't have health insurance. My husband is on SSDI he won't be eligible Medicare for another |
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Edited on Tue Nov-03-09 08:14 PM by SammyWinstonJack
18 mos. He has to be on SSDI for two yrs before he qualifies for Medicare. I am not employed, so I don't have health insurance and we, on his SSDI, can not afford private insurance. No matter, I would probably get a subsidy for the mandatory health care insurance. I still think it's wrong. I think the middle class can't afford this.
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Wed Nov-04-09 01:56 PM
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44. how have you been deluded into thinking that the very thing that will give you coverage is the enemy |
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Edited on Wed Nov-04-09 01:57 PM by Dr Robert
it's baffling....
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:17 PM
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25. Only 2% !!! more will be covered with this option... |
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and with the hidden stuff in the 1500 pages, the insurance companies will be making even more than they do now...this is no public option!!
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:48 PM
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How can some not see this? :shrug:
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:53 PM
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31. Some not only see it but are willing to risk arrest to see health care justice |
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Wed Nov-04-09 01:08 AM
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Wed Nov-04-09 01:55 PM
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43. those people aren't helping one bit by acting like buffoons |
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Wed Nov-04-09 01:54 PM
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42. 96% of all Americans will be covered with this Bill when it passes |
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just because everyone can't buy in, doesn't mean it won't help those who need it most.
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Wed Nov-04-09 05:56 PM
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45. That's bullshit, just not true, nt. |
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:37 PM
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28. If strong PO passes I won't have to eat crow, you agree on that, right? |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:21 PM
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6. To be hopeful, the fat lady hasn't sung yet. |
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However, when the final legislation is signed into law, then we will have to get the torches and pitchforks out. Bernie Sanders has said that nothing less than the civil rights protests of the sixties will get this Congress to pay attention. That means organizing busloads of people from every precinct in America to head to Washington, set up camp grounds and dig our heels in until they get the picture. I don't know if we have the will or leadership on our side to organize such an undertaking.
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:26 PM
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10. Well I have more time than money for health care insurance and I have no health care insurance so I |
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have 'time' to protest. :silly:
I am up for protests.
Count me in!
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:29 PM
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14. Lets go one better. Take theirs away. |
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Then see how fast they get moving on an affordable public plan. Wiener posted a list of members of congress who are against "government run health care" who are on Medicare. http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/22/weiner-55-republicans-public-option/
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:32 PM
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15. I think yes I know that Edwards said he would do that, take away their health care insurance if they |
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didn't give us at least what they had. Take theirs away!
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:35 PM
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16. That would be excellent, but how? n/t |
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Tue Nov-03-09 07:51 PM
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19. They are in charge of their health care insurance so not much chance of rescinding that |
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But why won't they allow us the same? I don't get that?
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:01 PM
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22. I have decent health coverage and a pension as a gummint employee. |
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Others should have the same.
It should be right not a gamble.
End of story.
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:10 PM
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human needs should be granted to all...
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corporate taskmasters right?
K&R
Drowning in their gravy spills.
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Tue Nov-03-09 10:58 PM
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33. No, it's not too much to ask. Let's face it-we are nothing but peons to everyone in Washington DC |
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Wed Nov-04-09 01:10 AM
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35. Pee ONs. Yes that is us! We only matter on election day. |
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Wed Nov-04-09 02:17 AM
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36. Don't forget also that they want our donations to their bullshit campaigns too. |
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Edited on Wed Nov-04-09 02:18 AM by earth mom
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Wed Nov-04-09 04:14 AM
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37. There are a number of provisions in proposed legislation that could be passed separately |
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I have no idea why a program for generating more primary care physicians needs to be tied to a bill whose foundational premise is that the more money you have, the more more care you deserve.
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Wed Nov-04-09 08:24 AM
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38. put Congress on the PO at 12% of their income. |
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