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   motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

   This is really not fair. The Democrats watered down the plan hugely, which wasn’t all that strong to begin with, added different options (including floating one of McCain’s), and only one moderate Republican voted for it?
   
   The GOP Congresspeople do follow their marching orders, don’t they?

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   Ken Warren said, about 1 month ago

   This Health Care plan is a Frankenstein monster created by Blue Dogs so that can say they passed a health care plan while to still keeping the Health Care Industry happy.

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   ANandy said, about 1 month ago

   A lot of Jackass ears there.

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   av8tor said, about 1 month ago

   RINO ALERT!

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   cabrobst said, about 1 month ago

   The majority want the public option.
   Why don’t we have it?

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   av8tor said, about 1 month ago

   The majority does not want the public option, the majority wants tort reform and laws allowing the 1300 health insurance companies to compete accross state lines..

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   Copperdomebodhi said, about 1 month ago

   Sure about that, Avatar? According to the 10-08-09 Quinnipiac poll (http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1382&What=&strArea=;&strTime=0) 61% of Americans support a public option.

   Deregulation? Not after what it did to Wall Street and the airlines. Tort reform? They established it in California and Texas years ago. Nothing’s changed. Texas is home to the highest Medicaid costs in the nation. (which kills the “medical costs are going up because of lawsuits” argument). The only majority in favor of those ideas is the majority of people who think massive giveaways to the insurance industry is the answer.

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   avatrbr, they have the right to operate across state lines now if they abide by each state’s laws regulating insurance within its borders. They just don’t want to, they want all the regulation dumbed down to nothing, usurping state rights along the way. BTW, conservatives are supposed to favor state rights, and oppose federal government intervention, remember?

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   scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

   Stop the deceit, “believe.” Conservatives don’t side with states when states play the types of stupid games they’re playing with insurance companies, and there are clauses within the Constitution pertaining to tolls, border-crossing fees, which should quite obviously be applied because they are IN SPIRIT intended to prevent the exact types of abuses taking place in regards to health insurance premiums today.

   We’re dealing with a concept–health insurance–which didn’t exist in 1792. Yet despite what stupid Leftists think, this doesn’t mean we ignore the entire Constitution and just make sh-t up from scratch, like they always do in regards to anything not specifically spelled out for them.

   No, we examine the Constitution, meditate upon its overall ORIGINAL intent towards anything related to our present-day issue IN SPIRIT(exactly as its authors instructed us to do), and build from there.

   Again, there are clauses designed to keep states from getting into pissing contests involving commerce moving through their borders, into their cities, or beyond their borders entirely, into other states. These clauses are intended to keep states from tacking on tolls, fees, etc, and basically robbing consumers and stifling competition.

   BINGO! Intelligent men have already made the connection as to what I am getting at, and why and how this pertains to modern-day insurance compaines, and their ability to compete between all the different states. Hence I will not elaborate further. Except to add that the GOP is as usual right, and is trying to take the Constitutional approach to refrorming health care, rather than the Unconstitutional “grab it all for one political party” approach the Demoncrats are employing..

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    Jase99 said, about 1 month ago

    Once again, Scott is full of blind partisan BS. The GOP ignores what ever part of the Constitution it doesn’t like. The Bush Administration frequently and flagrantly ignored the Constitution. That he would ignore that and then call out the Democrats for alleged violations of the Constitution is cheep partisan hackery.

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    believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

    ^^ you are full of something and it is not facts.

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    cdward said, about 1 month ago

    As always, scott makes things up for our entertainment. But NeoconMan is far more interesting. NeoconMan where are you?

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    NeoconMan said, about 1 month ago

    I seldom comment on petty political issues. We own both parties so it doesn’t matter much who’s elected this year.