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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:08 PM Original message |
The Lies Begin With The Name Itself- The Affordable Health Care for America Act |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. You've got it. The minute that bill was framed in language of affordability |
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DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. replies |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Hey Don |
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DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
39. Your point |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #4 |
47. You're right that continued privatization of other public services |
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Chisox08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 12:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. I see the Dems in Congress using this as an excuse to put off |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. Many good people disagree with that. |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. It was a fucking sham the minute the insurance companies were consulted. |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Doesn't matter |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. When I say good people, I mean people who understand this as well if not better than you do..... |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:48 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Wow |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. of course, those folks who will be forced to buy insurance with NO price controls |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. What does nothing get you? Any crumbs? Any bones? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. I hear it's a 2000-page bill. how do you know *what's* in it? |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:59 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Obviously the same way you do. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 12:06 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. i.e. you don't, for sure, & neither does 99% of the population, because few people |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 12:20 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Well Go Hannah Bell, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 12:38 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I have just as much second-hand information as you about the bill, & i've |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 03:47 AM Response to Reply #22 |
31. You said.... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #31 |
48. if ordinary people can't read it & know what they're getting, it's bullshit. |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 01:09 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Wow thats the most embarrassing post I have seen in a while |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 03:43 AM Response to Reply #25 |
30. i've read "summaries" and "sections," just like the poster i responded to. but i'm not |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 08:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
33. One could say the exact same thing about the Obama election. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:29 AM Original message |
Are you kidding? Big Insurance is gonna love whatever passes. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
36. Are you kidding? Big Insurance is gonna love whatever passes. |
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quinnox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. And as a Duer asked - Why would it be bad if the health |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Because if they go in that manner, they are taking many of us with them...... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. huh? |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
9. Sounds like a name Bush would have come up with |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. So the bill should have been named something horrible, |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. The bill should have been named honestly |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
37. Another DUer used the term |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
23. The insurance industry is losing all of the baby boomers in the next 20 years starting in 2011. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:57 AM Response to Reply #23 |
43. There it is, plain as day. |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
24. yup, right up there with the Healthy Forests act, the PATRIOT Act, etc. |
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BeHereNow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
26. Recommended and laughing my ass off at some of the replies. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Comedy gold, I agree. |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #34 |
42. personifided, too. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 09:41 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. Yes, this thread has personifided fun! n/t |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
27. Should have called it the "Prevent 40,000 Deaths A Year Act" |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
28. when blocking a bill would almost guarantee a better debate in round 2 |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
29. AHCAA... sounds like somebody with a horrible hacking cough |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
32. Bumpage |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
38. We fight over the scraps. |
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SIMPLYB1980 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
40. Eat your shit sandwich or not. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
41. The lipstick smeared all over that pig is fading fast. |
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mule_train (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
44. If you ever want to know what a bill does, just read the title, and invert it |
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mule_train (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
45. why is it 2000 pages? who wrote it? |
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mule_train (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
46. "Prior to the affordability act, this family of 4 had to choose between food and health care" |
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Cherchez la Femme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
49. That's the entire problem with that bill |
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