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   filmsgraded said, 11 months ago

   The important thing is that billionaires pay as little in taxes as possible.
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   Tigger said, 11 months ago

   Plan B Replace the ACA with a Single Payer System
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   dtroutma said, 11 months ago

   The acetylene torch is in Boehner’s pocket, and gasoline in McConnell’s tanker parked just out of frame.
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   Wabbit said, 11 months ago

   I have heard that in Massachusetts the people are very happy with their health care. I have Also heard that fewer voters in that state are for Romney than in most all other states.
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   braindead08 said, 11 months ago

   Those three are the very best the Republicans have to offer — Mr Etch-a-sketch for prez, The Town Crier as Speaker, and McConnell who set the party’s negative single priority for four years.

   Pathetic.
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   Litho stone said, 11 months ago

   Nice follow up Pat!
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   rightisright said, 11 months ago

   WSJ Chief Economist: 75% of Obamacare Costs Will Fall on Backs of Those Making Less than $120K a Year
   
   http://tinyurl.com/82ybjun
   
   What a surprise.
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   explorer543 said, 11 months ago

   Quick! What percentage of the population is expected to make less than $120,000 a year? . It is certainly a large number, maybe 75%. They will be getting health care coverage for these “costs” and some will be paying a penalty for not having health coverage. This would not be a headline in the Journal, but is HUGE in the Human Events (extra conservative blog). All headline, no story.
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   Craig Linder said, 11 months ago

   @rightisright

   That can be cured by altering the tax code. It’s not an argument for denying 30 million Americans decent healthcare.
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    Gary Kleppe said, 11 months ago

    @Tigger

    Actually, a single-payer system was plan A. Every unbiased analysis, not to mention the experience of every other industrialized country, says that that would be the way to control costs while providing care to everyone who needs it.
    
    The ACA itself was plan D. We’re down to it thanks to right-wing ideologues and insurance “industry” whores who blocked consideration of the plan that would’ve actually worked.
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    meetinthemiddle said, 11 months ago

    @Wabbit

    As someone who lives in MA, I can say the health care plan is okay… We already had the most expensive healthcare in the country by a good bit long before the measure, and since our premiums have generally risen less than the national average.

    As for Romney, you’re right… To call John Kerry a flip-flopper and then nominate Romney… Or to call Obama inexperienced and put Palin on your ticket… Mind-staggering hypocrisy.

    Bringing the threads together, the typical Romney MO – take credit for the health care plan, then try to veto funding the measure before walking out on his term early. As he did to the state he’ll do to the country.

    The only good point of his tenure here was that he didn’t take the salary.
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    hippogriff said, 11 months ago

    There is already an excellent plan; all it takes is to change just two words whenever they occur. Where it says province, change to state; where Canada, change to United States. Problem solved as well as humans can be expected to do.
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    lookinside said, 11 months ago

    @rightisright

    Down from the current 99%?
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    lookinside said, 11 months ago

    @hippogriff

    Agreed!
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    AlexanderTheGoodEnough said, 11 months ago

    Just gotta LOVE the Richthuglicons, whose motto these days seems to be “Billions for the billionaires, pennies for the penniless!”

    Rock on!
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