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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:44 AM Original message |
Can we please stop calling this a "health care reform" bill? |
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Desertrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. Thanks....insurance bailout bill. Yup. |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. It is more like a few good regulations combined with weasly social program |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. Well, not a "bailout" -- that would imply the industry was about to collapse. |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Good point. Or "giveaway bill" maybe. nt |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. And the Campaign Contribution Protection provision |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:57 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. They are also looking at a loss of 80+ million baby boomers to medicare in the next 15 years |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 02:11 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. OMG!! |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Right on both points. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Right you are. nm |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
4. Let me know as soon as the insurance industry stops pumping out $$$$ trying to kill it |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. they don't want to kill the whole bill; some parts they love. |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. its a private insurance requirement bill. |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:57 AM Response to Original message |
9. knr - insurance companies stand to lose a good amount of customers... |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
10. yup . . . classic case of passing something -- anything -- to say . . . |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. It is a damn joke. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. They didn't even wait for the Bubble before doing the Bailout |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
13. "The Insurance Industry Profit Protection Act of 2009" |
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greennina (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. Requiring me to give money for nothing to a private company... |
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quiller4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. No. It is a reform bill -- a bill I'd do cartwheels about if I didn't suffer |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
16. k*r Truth, do tell |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
20. How about "The Insurance Industry Taxpayer Extortion Bill"? |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
21. The Monica Lewinsky Memorial Corporate Fellation Act of 2009 |
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New Dawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. "Individual Mandate" = Fascism |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
23. Insurance Industry Giveaway |
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