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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:16 PM Original message |
313 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid spending. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Cut subsidies to hospitals treating uninsured? Counterintuitive. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Actually, with health care reform, hospitals won't have nearly as many uninsured. |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. that's what I was thinking. If no one is uninsured (or few people) due to health care reform... |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. that particular aspect sounds more like a shift in money rather than a cut |
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MauriceCobert (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. afraid this might be a dividing point |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yep. that's why we need single payer. It's affordable and comprehensive unlike what we |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. It's not about reducing health care. It's about reducing subsidies so that |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. the poor don't want their benefits reduced so the poor can have insurance? |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. Ridiculous. What a disappointment. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. It is expanding the programs with health care reform. The subsidies won't be needed. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Yet those of us who expected just this kind of crap were yelled at until we left. |
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katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. More money for wars |
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TheUnspeakable (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. and the banksters |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 02:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
19. And huge embassies. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. so if medicaid/care funding is cut, & people choose the "public option," |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
8. Tell Me: Are Any Bankers Hurt By This? |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. Stunning. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. Maybe the idea is to make it un-viable for providers to take and thereby |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. ya..this grampa is`t going to be thrown under the train |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
11. cutting to save? |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. Can't we use the tarp money banks are returning? Oh |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. This is all part of Obama's grand master plan... |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
21. There are so many drugs about to become generic that the 75 billion |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
23. The BS argument that Medicare patients get too many procedures is starting... |
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