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1. 

   nomad2112 said, 3 months ago

   … before you blow another trillion dollars.

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   Dale Hopson said, 3 months ago

   “Yeah, Obama, you can only act like a Republican if you ARE a Republican!”

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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   Too bad they weren’t saying this in late 2002.

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   senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

   Without insurance companies, and pharmaceuticals, the republicans will have to spend their own money to run for office.

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   BOB HASTY said, 3 months ago

   Poor omad,
   When you are onMedicare, you will learn that the private insurers have been fooling you out of millions of dollars. I pray you come into the light before you end your own existence.

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   M Kitt said, 3 months ago

   Let’s take Halliburton to task and get back all the no-bid profits from Iraq or from the Katrina gulf states cleanup.

   Speaking of Iraq, universal health care would have cost less than half the expense of that preemptive monument to the war profiteers, ask Cheney how his Halliburton stock is doing, about 7X increased value last I heard.

   Unlikely that we’ll recover any of that “Blood for Oil” money, Enron hasn’t returned the billions bilked out of California’s energy consumers either.

   Corporate profiteering has done well over the last several years, thanks GOP.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 3 months ago

   Let me guess–Toles is a leftwing cartoonist.

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   dwyant said, 3 months ago

   No, he represents the American people – we’ve ALL had enough!!

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   harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

   But but my GPS (teleprompter) tells me this is the right way!

10. 

    Dypak said, 3 months ago

    M Kitt - That money was hidden away long ago. Invested, dispersed and in many other ways made to disappear.

    Harleyquinn - You like that teleprompter gag, don’t you?

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    HOWGOZIT said, 3 months ago

    dwyant–huh?

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    Ira Nayman said, 3 months ago

    Almost three quarters of the American people (72% in the most recent poll) want a public option on health care. The Republicans can obstruct and blow as much smoke as they want, but the people know better what they need.

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    WestTex13 said, 3 months ago

    We have a public health care option.. Join the military.. Serve in a war zone and use VA health care.. The waiting lists aren’t too long and the care isn’t too bad.. ;)

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    senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

    EDGAR BUMPERS, just where are you getting your Medicare now ?
    If you want the government to keep their hands off, where will it come from ?

    I know, it’s a joke, right ?

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    WestTex13 said, 3 months ago

    Hopefully if they do pass something then they will maintain provisions that are at least on par with current programs for children and the elderly.. Doubtful but we’ll be hopeful.. Stretch too far too quickly without funds is a break the bank proposition.. Of course if tort reform, pharmaceutical price checking, and expensive leveraging is implemented then it has some potential. As long as its not like the Social Security Trust Breaking where its screwed forever afterwards..

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    deadheadzan said, 3 months ago

    yes to public health care option, no to war profiteers.

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    Tigger said, 3 months ago

    Just like the Republicans die to Clinton and the Democrats did to RR and Bush 41, and the last 2 years of Bush 43’s term.

    Health Care Reform will nt pass. There are enough ‘Conservative Liberals’ to derial the vote in Congress. It will fail by a slim margin, the ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats will kill this sham bill.

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    rekam said, 3 months ago

    As seniors, we worry that Social Security will be drained for other uses and there won’t be anything left of the money we’ve put in all our working lives in order to have something to live on now. Causes a great deal of worry. Lets just hope they don’t win at getting the money diverted to the stock market.

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    Tigger said, 3 months ago

    WestTes13,

    The same VA Hospital System with Walter Reed, which kills soldiers? The same VA Hospital that infected Hundreds of Vets in Middle Tennessee by using unclean tools for Colonoscopies?

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    harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

    So what you are saying nayman is 72% would vote for something they see as “free” something they can and should get for themselves.
    No thanks i do not need the government holding my hand and providing me something I can find better on my own!

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    4uk4ata said, 3 months ago

    Actually I think Walter Reed was not a VA hospital itself, rather something they “outsourced” patients to. It might be time to bump VA a notch, what with all those veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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    fennec said, 3 months ago

    Tigger, for the nth time on this forum: Walter Reed is part of the medical service for the active military and their dependents. The VA is fro the veterans. They are NOT the same agency. Now have we got that straight?

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    dtroutma said, 3 months ago

    It is Walter Reed ARMY Hospital. And tex, we agree, if they want care, enlist. I find my VA care to be very competent. Part of the problems, a large part, has been under-funding of VA programs since the start of Afghanistan/Iraq to keep up, with returning vets, plus the ones who are getting older from previous conflicts. That is starting to turn around a bit.

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    secondson said, 3 months ago

    Anyone who believes that a government run health care insurance plan would save money is talking straight out of thier rear-end. When something as significant as health insurance is a give-away people will run to the doctor for minor and unnecessary reasons. Here in my city there have been documented reports of people calling 911 to have an ambulance take them to a DOCTOR APPOINTMENT. Please do not forget people, the law of the land is that no one can be denied basic health care when they show up at a hospital with a genuine problem. How else would the illegals get care then?

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    Delawarebob said, 3 months ago

    All this D**n Socialism! Let’s get rid of it: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schools, ANYTHING funded by tax dollars! It’s Socialism, I tell you! Public funded Cops! What a Boondoggle! And members of the Government for crying out loud! Why are THEY feeding at the Public Trough? And God knows what else!!

    Socialism, I tell ya … … .

    (Sarcasm mode off)

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    oldlegodad said, 3 months ago

    Del, and not a minute too soon, thought you were about to implode.

27. 

    M Kitt said, 3 months ago

    Delaware, let’s not forget the Military and Firefighters, Public Works, virtually every government State or Federal service.

    The GOP doesn’t believe that “Socialism” BS either, they’re just selling it to support their “We Love Corporate Healthcare” agenda because many of them share in the profits.

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    harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

    Del again does not understand the difference between state, local and big brother Federal government. sad so so sad.