Happy Health Care! — Page 4

I'm glad it passed and all, but I fear that it's gonna be one of those things that ain't as easy as it seems, like when all that mortgage modification was supposed to help out struggling homeowners and obscene amount of people STILL couldn't get help.

I hope that at the very least, the pre-existing condition reform stands.

"All of the attorneys general in the 10 states mentioned by McCollum are Republican, but McCollum said the lawsuit would be about the law and not politics."

Yea. Right.

And yes, uncageg, you are right. It's all about money with those people who are yelling the most, all about the money they can't steal from sick people.

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Really apropos of nothing, but this this seems to be the place for it - every person I have spoken to personally who lives in a country with a single payer system has had nothing negative to say about it.

PRS, my better half LOVES it. It's just something she never has to think about. Yes, the taxes are high, but there's free health care, around a $180 cap on all prescriptions for the year (which can be paid as you get them or broken up over the 12 month period), sick leave for up to 3 years that pays 80% of your total income, 16 months of maternity to split between the parents at 100% of your income for the first 3 months and 80% after that, free dental care including braces up to age 19, it includes chiropractic and therapy. Unemployment benefits are 80% of your income. Preschool is free. Elementary through high school is free with a hot lunch provided. The last two years of high school, ages 18 & 19, are career specific. College and grad school are free, plus you get a small education stipend for food and books. (It's tiny so it has to be stretched.) Yes, there are some negatives, but the positives are pretty damn positive.

Riddle me this, people... My boss gets all his talking points from right wing radio. The big discussion today is that an Executive order doesn't trump law, so Obama's promised executive order to ban any abortion coverage is crap. Is this true? If an EO doesn't trump law, what's the point?

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Updated On: 3/22/10 at 09:04 PM

The executive order was a redonkuous bow to fetus fetishists. What does it say - "Even though it's long been established that no federal money will touch abortion payments, but this time we really really mean it"?

I had a surgery in January that I'm still getting bills for (I think I've gotten five separate ones). A friend of mine in Canada was like "Hospital bill? What's that?"

Everyone wants to talk about Canada because they are closest and yes, they have had some bad scenarios, but I don't know a single Swede who thinks their health care is crap.

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What about the fact that Sarah Palin's family went to Canada for health care when she was a kid?

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Do you really need a brain dead person as a friend, uncageg?

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Interesting Conservative Journalist's Opinion

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When you start the discussion by saying the other side wants to kill your grandmother, it's impossible to work with them later.

Now that the healthcare reform is law, this is what the GOP is running on:

* allowing insurers unfettered rate hikes
* allowing insurers to drop coverage on premium paying customers
* increasing the deficit
* increasing senior citizens' prescription costs
* denying healthcare to millions of Americans

Perhaps I'm naive, perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I think that's a hard sell.

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Well, it's not as if the GOP will ever acknowledge that poll or any other that favors this bill.

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