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Dec17
Kill the Bill, Part 1
7 CommentsPosted December 17th, 2009 6:02 am
Unless there is a massive compromise and overhaul during House/Senate negotiations which then only requires a bare Senate majority that restores the bill, the Senate should kill the so-called health care reform bill. When in the name of health care reforms the government empowers the insurance companies to have increased mandatory customers who nonetheless are subjected to uncontrolled premium rises, it’s not reform. It’s some sort of governmentally assisted pickpocketing by the insurance companies, and should be killed. And the Democratic Party, which was going to face a difficult election in 2010, will have hurt itself even worse by alienating the independents and liberals who expected the party to make good on its promise. Because of that, the price paid in mid-term elections will be much more severe than it otherwise would have been. A political price will have been paid, and yet no political achievement will have been accomplished in exchange for that price.
Howard Dean, DailyKos, and Hillbilly Report got it right—kill this thing that was once a health care reform bill.
7 Responses to “Kill the Bill, Part 1”
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kentondem1 December 17th, 2009 at 10:34 am
The worst part is watching so-called progressives try to sell this “thing”. “It may be an unwashed 1980 garbage truck, but hey, it has one new tire.”
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LumberJock December 17th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
This bill has been crafted to replace Democrats in Congress with republican’ts.
Thinkaboutit!
Quasi-monopolies
No regulated price restraints
Mandated purchasing
Relaxed actuarial standards
Unregulated underwritingrepublican’t valhalla
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I may be mistaken but I believe that similarly short sighted rapacious pro-corporate policies and measures similar to those named in LumberJock’s comment contributed to a world-wide financial crisis just recently. Didn’t they? I am glad to see the Republicans are not giving up on their agenda despite that one small setback. The Republicans are by constitution, proclivity, and choice unwilling and unable to embrace new ideas or concepts. Instead, as “true” conservatives they are required to push the same old ideas, and keep pushing them in order to preserve the “good,” even those ideas that are dangerous, silly, or fatally flawed. As one of their own once said, and I now say to them: “There you go again!”
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LumberJock December 17th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
All riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone who correctly quotes ronald reagan.
Well, Cicero has to be a Democrat; it’s one of the things republi-can’ts.
And now Cice, you may have the last word.
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Jock, you’re exactly right on the characteristics. In some ways, it’s reminiscent of what was done with Medicare reform under Bush. The marketplace benefits given to the private insurers by governmental contracting were combined with no corresponding consumer gains.
As a result, a friend and neighbor of mine was killed 37 months ago by the donut hole of Medicare. She hit it in October, couldn’t afford her high blood pressure medicine, and was so upset that that same afternoon she had a massive stroke from which she never recovered.
If this thing is simply going to provide even more benefit to the insurance companies, kill it now.
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kentondem1 December 17th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Thirty- to – Forty Million new mandated customers. And the Insurance Industry gets to set the premiums.
There is no way this is a win for the Insurance Industry, you guys need to turn off your computers and come up out of the basement.:)
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