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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   Idiots Explosive Deception
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   old1953 said, 3 months ago

   I never thought I’d see the day when Republicans argued for free medical care delivered by emergency rooms, while Democrats argued that the poor should be forced to pay. Then I read (and understood, which seems to make me unique) the transcripts of the debate on the Affordable Health Care Act. Which is rather throughly misnamed, as it does nothing to make health care affordable, it just forces insurance companies to do something about it. Actually understanding how hospital bills are created and what the charges are is very nearly a PhD level subject. And that’s pathetic.
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   Clark Kent said, 3 months ago

   We should have universal healthcare like other nations have.
   And yes I’ve heard all the tedious RWNJ talking points against it.
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   Radish said, 3 months ago

   “This is something we will not give up on because we are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.”
   Paul Ryan
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   motivemagus said, 3 months ago

   @old1953

   Well, naturally. It is a Republican plan, something they were very willing to claim until Obama took it up as a desperate attempt to get SOMETHING passed. Obama’s first choice was a single-payer program — and in fact if we simply extended Medicare to the whole population it would be much cheaper. His second choice, people seem to have forgotten, was a nonprofit, self-funding, government-backed insurance company, which the insurance industry lobbied against, with the help of their supposedly “free-market” allies, the GOP.
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   OTaxCare is looking worse and worse everyday. When do you cut out cancer instead of calling it a wonderful thing?
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   Well, Ima, why don’t you ask Darrell Issa about his recently introduced bill H776? He has now “decided” that the Federal Health Benefits plan should be open to non-federal employees. Sure sounds like government health insurance to me! (Federal Times, issue delivered 3/7/13)
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   ARodney said, 3 months ago

   Obamacare is a really, really big deal. Not perfect, and still the most expensive in the world, but it’s the free-market solution to a serious problem that kills over 40,000 Americans a year. If you’ve got your own solution Ima (just kidding! of course you don’t!) we’d love to hear it. “Stay healthy, but if you don’t stay healthy, die quickly before you bankrupt your family.”
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   Nos Nevets said, 3 months ago

   Go Ryan.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    But if we had universal healthcare the sky would fall don’t ya know. Just like it did all those other soshulistik coontrys.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago

    @ARodney

    And if you’re poor don’t forget to die young from an otherwise preventable disease and “reduce the excess population.”
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    Fourcrows said, 3 months ago

    @edinbaltimore

    Maybe Obama’s plan was to make Obamacare, which was the Republicans’ initial proposal, so distasteful to them that they fight it and eventually propose universal health care themselves. Kind of like having that coworker or boss who won’t agree to anything unless you make it sound like they came up with the idea themselves.
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @old1953

    I fundamentally agree with you except “that’s pathetic”. Shouldn’t a system as complex as a health care system for 300+ million people be designed by PhD level intellects?
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @Fourcrows

    make Obamacare … so distasteful to them

    Since the GOP strategy is to oppose the President on everything I think the Republicans are pissed because he took something good that they came up with and forced them to be against it,
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    SkepticCal said, 3 months ago

    Use whatever tool it takes to do the job. Get ’er done!
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