DISQUS

debbietee · 3 months ago

John--If we don't watch ourselves, the progressives will drive costs up just for increased mental health services. We. Need. Cold. Hard. Facts. About. Costs.

jimfromthefoothills · 3 months ago

Now Now John, that wouldn't be a sporting thing to do. Queens rules...

If our opponent drops his sword we must pick it up for him.

SCLiberal · 3 months ago

I've read that liberals are smarter and better educated than conservatives.
Is someone putting something in the water at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Obama seemed smart until he got there.

Ralph Kramden · 3 months ago

I suspect the Dems haven't been keen on the idea of attacking the insurance industry, because it owns most of their caucus and the entire Republican Party. Just a hunch!

synical · 3 months ago

Born and raised a blue collar Democrat, decades of loyalty to the party even when they pissed me off. On Monday I'm becoming an Independent. I just can't be associated with these geniuses anymore. They are a utter embarrassment.

Common sense may be the least common of the senses, but in the Democratic Party it's not only uncommon, it's fucking non-existent.

The party establishment as a whole can go fuck itself. I'll support smart Democrats, courageous Democrats, principled Democrats, real Democrats. That leaves, what, less than ten in the whole of the party? So be it. They have my support, the rest can have my contempt.

ezpz · 3 months ago

So they will attack the insurance industry as they continue to be be funded by the insurance industry:

"EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option"
by: David Sirota

http://www.openleft.com/diary/15066/unitedhealt...

Joe Bacon · 3 months ago

Oh we cannot attack the insurance companies, why, they are run by such wonderful god-fearing Christians, they only do what THE BIG "G" wants...

Sadly that is what millions of people including members of my family believe...

mwfolsom · 3 months ago

Obama & Company knew this - the decision was made long ago not to attack the Insurance Companies. It was part of his and their deal to sell us out -

If you want a big laugh go read the article by Reed Abelson in todays NY Times about how badly the little old Insurance Companies have been treated over the last few months:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/health/policy...

If the author wasn't serious it would be funny!!!!!!

What a fool I was for working/voting for/giving money to Obama

NAVDOC3rdMAR · 3 months ago

The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.

mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.

Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under cheney/bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the cheney/bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they're paid for). In 2010, when all the cheney/bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5% of the benefits will go to the richest 5% of taxpayers. The cheney/bush tax cuts were deficit-financed(borrowed money from China), which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. cheney/bush never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts, they just threw Trillions of Dollars worth of debt on the backs of America's Children/GrandChildren and Future Generations. So, for the price of cheney/bush's tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for ALL Americans. Instead Americans got BUPKUS and cheney/bush's republican WAR-PROFITEERING/CRIMINAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS got TAX-CUTS and then got filthy rich off the Blood Money from NO-BID, COST-PLUS FEDERAL CONTRACTS in IRAQ.

12 Million Americans were denied Health Care Coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a Pre-Existing Medical Condition. 12K Americans lose Insurance Coverage everyday. Over 18K Americans die each day because they lack health insurance. (Source: WaPo Article 05' by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)


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Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!

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Don't let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.

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