Comments on: Kill the Bill, Part 1

By: Blue Bluegrass » Blog Archive » Congressman John Yarmuth Proposes $20 Billion in Small Business Loans from Leftover Bank Bailout Funds

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:14:36 +0000

[...] there are some places where the Democratic Party has lost its moral and political compass, helping the American people through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is not one [...]

By: kentondem1

kentondem1 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:27:43 +0000

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.:)

By: Bob Layton

Bob Layton — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:04:44 +0000

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.

By: LumberJock

LumberJock — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:01:38 +0000

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.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:23:43 +0000

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!”

By: LumberJock

LumberJock — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:17:58 +0000

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 underwriting

republican’t valhalla

By: kentondem1

kentondem1 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:34:34 +0000

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.”