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Loge23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 08:14 PM
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64. No public option = no reform.
Period. End of sentence.
How can we expect any meaningful reform of this cartel without any competition?
This bill stinks. Let's hope for some action in Congress.
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  -Senate Panel Clears Health Bill With One G.O.P. Vote Merryweather  Oct-13-09 02:05 PM   #0 
  - Here comes change. nt  WriteDown   Oct-13-09 02:06 PM   #1 
  - But not for the better.  Pab Sungenis   Oct-13-09 02:12 PM   #2 
  - Anything is better than nothing.  Fearless   Oct-13-09 02:19 PM   #4 
  - I don't agree that anything is better than nothing  Ms. Toad   Oct-13-09 02:24 PM   #5 
  - We don't need to be handing out subsidies to insurance companies!  bluethruandthru   Oct-13-09 04:03 PM   #34 
     - The bills subsidize people who can't afford coverage - not  Ms. Toad   Oct-13-09 08:20 PM   #65 
  - Careful what you wish for  Oregone   Oct-13-09 02:25 PM   #6 
  - I'd rather pass a good bill piece by piece than pass a bill..  mvd   Oct-13-09 02:30 PM   #7 
  - Exactly!  Fearless   Oct-13-09 03:29 PM   #23 
  - Thanks! I'm not for passing the Baucus bill, but..  mvd   Oct-13-09 05:42 PM   #52 
     - Agreed.  Fearless   Oct-13-09 08:57 PM   #72 
  - Like medicare and ss  graywarrior   Oct-13-09 04:44 PM   #40 
  - Eloquently said!  Joe Chi Minh   Oct-13-09 04:01 PM   #31 
  - I hope you dont really mean that. A bad bill could turn the public against reform. nt  rhett o rick   Oct-13-09 03:26 PM   #22 
  - Tell that to the millions who will now be able to afford health care...  Fearless   Oct-13-09 03:31 PM   #24 
  - Please, I am honestly interested in how millions will now be able to afford health care?  rhett o rick   Oct-13-09 04:01 PM   #30 
  - This bill will make it possible for 20-25 million of the 45+ million who don't have insurance...  Fearless   Oct-13-09 09:33 PM   #78 
  - LOL  humbled_opinion   Oct-13-09 04:07 PM   #35 
     - Have you read the bill?  Fearless   Oct-13-09 09:33 PM   #79 
        - Yes I have  humbled_opinion   Oct-14-09 04:31 PM   #84 
           - Unappreciative of the sodomy joke.  Fearless   Oct-14-09 06:58 PM   #85 
  - A bad bill will also cost the Dems the majority.  tblue   Oct-13-09 05:10 PM   #47 
     - I'd like to think that's true...  Fearless   Oct-13-09 11:19 PM   #80 
  - not necessarily  ixion   Oct-13-09 03:32 PM   #25 
  - Read the rest of the article....  Fearless   Oct-13-09 03:34 PM   #26 
  - A poor living person may, indeed, be better than a poor dead one but...  laughingliberal   Oct-13-09 08:33 PM   #67 
     - And a 20-25 MILLION people will no longer have to choose between  Fearless   Oct-13-09 08:59 PM   #73 
  - yep, Mandatory insurance? Insurance co's doing happy dance  katty   Oct-13-09 04:16 PM   #36 
     - It's a step.  Fearless   Oct-13-09 08:59 PM   #74 
  - Fuck that. That mentality is stupid.  Fading Captain   Oct-13-09 04:46 PM   #41 
  - Fuck that... your mentality is stupid... Nuh-uh... Yah-huh... Etc...  Fearless   Oct-13-09 09:00 PM   #75 
  - NO - NO IT'S NOT!!!  TankLV   Oct-13-09 08:38 PM   #71 
     - This isn't THE BILL... There is no THE BILL and never is for anything...  Fearless   Oct-13-09 09:01 PM   #76 
  - You are cryptic and not all that convincing  CreekDog   Oct-13-09 02:52 PM   #15 
  - Wow. The sky is falling. Look at that!  demwing   Oct-13-09 02:55 PM   #17 
     - No the sky isnt falling. It already fell. And I propose ts anyone saying "my bad". Nothing  rhett o rick   Oct-13-09 04:02 PM   #32 
        - yeah well so what  demwing   Oct-13-09 05:36 PM   #51 
           - Touche. I have no patience for polly-annas. nt  rhett o rick   Oct-13-09 06:27 PM   #57 
              - #1 - Pessimists often mistakenly think they are realists  demwing   Oct-13-09 08:37 PM   #68 
                 - Sorry, polly-anna wasnt called for. But look around. Americans homeless, out of work  rhett o rick   Oct-14-09 12:28 PM   #81 
                    - Don't think I've been under a rock, or in an ivory tower  demwing   Oct-14-09 12:47 PM   #82 
                       - My greatest sympathies for the lost of your son and your financial situation.  rhett o rick   Oct-14-09 02:04 PM   #83 
                       - My deepest condolences on the death of your son n/t  24601   Oct-14-09 07:16 PM   #86 
  - SHE WINS ---- SNOWE... a republican with a heart... as rare as a bush with a brain!!!  happygoluckytoyou   Oct-13-09 04:59 PM   #43 
     - i thinks its all bull$hit  AusDem   Oct-13-09 07:56 PM   #62 
  - That's all right. The wing nuts have no chance of being in power again  EFerrari   Oct-13-09 02:15 PM   #3 
  - What makes you think they're going to give up that easily?  TrogL   Oct-13-09 02:33 PM   #9 
     - They won't give up, maybe ever. But they won't be in power  EFerrari   Oct-13-09 02:52 PM   #14 
  - this is BS  april   Oct-13-09 02:31 PM   #8 
  - How's this for a possible scenario  groundloop   Oct-13-09 02:35 PM   #10 
  - Now a real bill can start taking shape  high density   Oct-13-09 02:36 PM   #11 
  - Fuck Olympia Snowe and her vote: She is against a real public option  debbierlus   Oct-13-09 02:39 PM   #12 
  - Kick  goclark   Oct-13-09 02:45 PM   #13 
  - no public option, no dice. n/t  endless october   Oct-13-09 02:52 PM   #16 
  - Jesus christ on a fish  demwing   Oct-13-09 02:56 PM   #18 
  - I'll take her vote.  Skinner   Oct-13-09 03:03 PM   #19 
  - I'm not convinced this bill is a significant improvement, though.  SteppingRazor   Oct-13-09 03:25 PM   #21 
  - I think I would go without my tablets and eat more carefully, just to spite  Joe Chi Minh   Oct-13-09 04:18 PM   #37 
  - "Still a chance in conference?" I say flood the phone lines  alp227   Oct-13-09 03:43 PM   #27 
  - This bill worsens the situation  Lydia Leftcoast   Oct-13-09 05:04 PM   #45 
  - I just realized, the one time we dont need Olympia Snowe, she votes with us. n/t  Mr. Sparkle   Oct-13-09 03:05 PM   #20 
  - This is a piece of crap.  humbled_opinion   Oct-13-09 03:52 PM   #28 
  - and big corporate health care smiles!  makeanoise   Oct-13-09 03:57 PM   #29 
  - Be proud democrats  lovuian   Oct-13-09 04:03 PM   #33 
  - no public option?  fascisthunter   Oct-13-09 04:18 PM   #38 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-13-09 04:23 PM   #39 
  - You tell'em...  gatorboy   Oct-13-09 04:46 PM   #42 
  - "provide subsidies to help millions of people buy insurance"  Joe the Liberal   Oct-13-09 05:02 PM   #44 
  - Why did they need 'Republican support' anyway?  DutchLiberal   Oct-13-09 05:05 PM   #46 
  - The end? If I am not mistaken there are now three senate committees  jwirr   Oct-13-09 05:27 PM   #48 
  - exactly! This is not the final word, it's just what the finance committee proposes. n/t  pink-o   Oct-13-09 05:46 PM   #53 
  - Actually, 2 Senate bills, 3 House bills nt  laughingliberal   Oct-13-09 08:37 PM   #69 
  - One republican vote. nt knr  wroberts189   Oct-13-09 05:28 PM   #49 
  - We don't need Republicans to govern because we are the majority  NecklyTyler   Oct-13-09 05:31 PM   #50 
  - Wish Snowe had voted no. Would have made Baucus look more like the shit he is.  JBoy   Oct-13-09 05:51 PM   #54 
  - This is an Olympian Snowe Job! Thanks for NOTHIN', Max!  stlsaxman   Oct-13-09 06:08 PM   #55 
  - Individual Insurance policies are more profit  GinaMaria   Oct-13-09 06:15 PM   #56 
  - One day we might get proportional representation  Rosa Luxemburg   Oct-13-09 07:04 PM   #58 
  - Hopefully this bill can morph into something better.  Geek_Girl   Oct-13-09 07:07 PM   #59 
  - Healthcare reform needs a “Parody Option.”  thincaboutit   Oct-13-09 07:27 PM   #60 
  - Too much money for the insurance companies. That's all it is. A giveaway.  bluerum   Oct-13-09 07:50 PM   #61 
  - Who Gives a Flying Fuck What Snowe Thinks?  StreetKnowledge   Oct-13-09 08:06 PM   #63 
  - No public option = no reform.  Loge23   Oct-13-09 08:14 PM   #64 
  - Maybe Olympia's hubby Jock McKernon, the former Dem Governor of Maine  MUAD_DIB   Oct-13-09 08:28 PM   #66 
  - So we will now make THIS bill more like ALL THE OTHER more LIBERAL bills, right?!!!  TankLV   Oct-13-09 08:37 PM   #70 
  - The Senate Finance Committee bill is important  Indy Lurker   Oct-13-09 09:18 PM   #77 
  - I wish we could pass it with zero republican votes.  DireStrike   Oct-14-09 07:19 PM   #87 
 

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