It is my belief that if we do not get **real** health care reform in the ObamaI admin ......

Stinky The Clown

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Sun May-17-09 07:58 PM
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It is my belief that if we do not get **real** health care reform in the ObamaI admin ......

.... we will not get it until a future president, who is now in her teens, takes office.

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WhaTHellsgoingonhere

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Sun May-17-09 08:04 PM
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1. ...and white men become a significantly smaller % of Congress.

Many white men (like myself) get it, but sadly, single payer health care is far from the top of the priority list of most.

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Phoebe Loosinhouse

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Sun May-17-09 08:05 PM
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2. Like I've said before, healthcare is where the rubber hits the road for a lot of people

Edited on Sun May-17-09 08:09 PM by Phoebe Loosinhouse

It's a pocketbook issue they deal with every week, every paycheck, every non-paycheck, every visit to the emergency room. If we don't get real healthcare reform with a Dem Congress and President , then we are sunk.

There will be NO excuse, since apparently they folded it into budget and only need 51 votes to pass.

My biggest fear is that we get something that resembles healthcare reform but isn't healthcare reform.

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dflprincess

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Sun May-17-09 09:16 PM
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8. My fear is that it will only be called reform

but won't be. All their worried about is protecting the insurance companies and the bribes received from them. As another poster in this thread mentioned, it's starting to smell a lot like Romney Care.

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billyoc

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Sun May-17-09 08:14 PM
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3. The only thing I've even heard them discussing is RomneyCare, so brace yourself.

Single payer is a revolutionary impossibility at this point.

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Sebastian Doyle

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Sun May-17-09 08:19 PM
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4. RomneyHillaryCare is more useless than what we have now

Mandatory corporate coverage. Some states have that for auto insurance, and it doesn't make a goddamn bit of difference when you wreck your car, they still try to get out of paying for it.

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roody

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Sun May-17-09 08:26 PM
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5. We'll get it. The dominoes are falling.

I never visualized that gay marriage would be a reality in my lifetime.

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Oregone

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Sun May-17-09 08:46 PM
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6. or ever

Harry Truman put it in the Democratic Platform in the 50s. His plan was quite amazing actually. Long forgotten as any promise of real change is

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Jackpine Radical

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Sun May-17-09 08:50 PM
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7. Too damfucken bad FDR didn't get it through in 1934 or so.

I'm afraid the insurance companies are so entrenched, and so rich, and so dominant, that nothing will happen that they don't want.

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Hanse

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Sun May-17-09 09:19 PM
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9. If we don't get health care from a teenage girl president...

It is my belief that we will get it from a robot with a human brain from Tantulus IV.

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