White House preparing health care bombshell

[still_one]

http://www.theage.com.au/world/white-house-preparing-health-care-bombshell-20081202-6ppr.html

[slackmaster]

1. I don't understand why they are bothering with this "scorched Earth" crap

It's just going to get reversed, hopefully quickly, in the new administration.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Why? They are republicons

...and republicons, as they have evidenced repeatedly, are totalitarian fear-and-fail FREAKS who are dead set on destroying America to force their perverted, greed-driven, diaper-clad, wide-stance hypocritical 'Homeland' into full fascist flower.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Cheers! Three great lines My Friend

[blm]

4. It's the Republican Way.

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[still_one]

6. Because that is all they know, HOW TO DIVIDE /nt

[Cerridwen]

9. Because it will take time and effort to reverse. Time and effort

which could be used to implement helpful change.

It's a way to "run out the clock" and make it take weeks or months to start up the damned thing again.

[bigtree]

5. they won't get far with this

typical tho

[NashVegas]

7. Hey, Great, Let's Extend That to EVERYONE

For example, a janitor who cleans up Merrill Lynch headquarters can refuse to take out the trash, as long as they recommend stocks of companies that outsource - and Merrill can't fire them! It's their conscience talking, after all.

I think this is great!

[still_one]

8. don't give them any ideas /nt

[baldguy]

10. A "right of conscience" to refuse treatment to people who disagree with your politics?

[SoCalDem]

11. All that's needed is a memo sent to all employees and included

in paperwork for "new-hires"..

The wording is simple too..

This facility provides a myriad of services/products to patients/customers/clients. All are LEGAL services/products, and if you have issues with the MORALITY of any of these services/products, you will be/might be offered a transfer to an area of service that prevents contact with these potential issues. The pay rate for these alternate jobs may or may not be equivalent to the job vacated.

then make 'em sign it..

a lifetime of experience tells me that when it's a choice between a $15 an hour job that may "bother" you a bit, or an $8 hr job with "no issues", people will choose .....WALLET :)

[Horse with no Name]

12. So what about lefty healthcare workers like me?

Can I *refuse* to take care of Republicans because they are scum of the earth and go against everything I believe in?
I believe there might be some unforeseen consequences to this...