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House to vote on health care reform Sunday.

Started by jimmy olsen, March 21, 2010, 07:49:56 AM

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Brazen

Welcome to the socialist paradise we've enjoyed since 1948 :)

Brazen

Here's a short informational film that will help you cope with the transition. You're welcome.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/NHS60/Pages/BirthoftheNHS.aspx

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 22, 2010, 05:59:35 AM
I'm fairly confident it will end up being closer to 586 billion than to 674 skajillian.

Depends on the conversion rate of skajillians to real numbers.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 22, 2010, 06:29:04 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 22, 2010, 05:59:35 AM
I'm fairly confident it will end up being closer to 586 billion than to 674 skajillian.

Depends on the conversion rate of skajillians to real numbers.
When the dollar collapses as a real currency skajillians will be chump change.
PDH!

Razgovory

Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 22, 2010, 06:37:49 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 22, 2010, 06:29:04 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 22, 2010, 05:59:35 AM
I'm fairly confident it will end up being closer to 586 billion than to 674 skajillian.

Depends on the conversion rate of skajillians to real numbers.
When the dollar collapses as a real currency skajillians will be chump change.

Well at least it well help exports.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

DGuller

Quote from: Martinus on March 22, 2010, 05:31:41 AM
For the record, the "browning" poster seems dangerously close to a criminal threat or an incitement to violence.
Doesn't seem that close.  That seems well inside.  Both parties are equally guilty of this, BTW.

Martim Silva

FINALLY. Socialism in America.

Ok, as the Big Government advocate, I will now oppress all of you by meddling in your lives and forcing you to have health insurance. To add insult to injury, I'll even subsidize the poorest, so that NOBODY escapes my dictums.

MWAHAHAHA.

Also, sez here in my "To Do" list that I have to kill your grandmas who are on Medicare.

Don't ask me why, it's what the list says.  :hmm:

Fate


Strix

This is historic!

It will make ALL Americans healthier, it will not only cost the government nothing in the long run, it will actually make money, and the Democrats get all the credit for making America a place worth living in again.   :ccr
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: Martim Silva on March 22, 2010, 09:07:32 AM
FINALLY. Socialism in America.

Ok, as the Big Government advocate, I will now oppress all of you by meddling in your lives and forcing you to have health insurance. To add insult to injury, I'll even subsidize the poorest, so that NOBODY escapes my dictums.

MWAHAHAHA.

Also, sez here in my "To Do" list that I have to kill your grandmas who are on Medicare.

Don't ask me why, it's what the list says.  :hmm:
My state is a few billion in the red because it led the country with this thing.  Making healthcare available means more people will be going to use it.  For me this meant my rates went way up and what I get back in terms of health care went way, way down.
PDH!

DGuller

Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 22, 2010, 10:20:04 AM
Making healthcare available means more people will be going to use it.
That's always the danger when you try to make sure that people who need care get care.

Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: DGuller on March 22, 2010, 10:23:04 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 22, 2010, 10:20:04 AM
Making healthcare available means more people will be going to use it.
That's always the danger when you try to make sure that people who need care get care.
Ya.  The people who set the thing up didn't take into account how much $$$ that would cost though.  I don't think Washington has done so either.

The bigger problem I have with it is that is is so divisive and so polarized that even if this plan was the best thing since sliced bread a large enough portion of the country is freaking out about it, implementation will never really happen properly.  Without a decent sized majority in government -state and federal and the country as a whole backing this the whole 'reform' thing will just totter along until the next election cycle kills it.
PDH!

Vince

Coincidentally NRO has a 503 error the day after Healthcare gets passed.   :tinfoil:


Martinus

Aren't people freaking out a bit about this (on both sides)? From what I understand it is pretty much a bunch of minor tweaks making the system more civilized (stuff like the insurers being prohibited to deny health care insurance to people based on a pre-existing condition, so people who get an incurable disease and then lose their work are not suddenly left without any health insurance for example), rather than being some sort of a socialist overhaul (for example there is no public option).