The new health care proposal...Follow

Call me a skeptic, but perhaps this has some influence.



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uh-huh.

Nexa

It's a punishment for not having insurance. Apparently that makes more people get insurance. Disregard, for the moment, the already egregious punishment for not having insurance, and that such a measure is basically just a codification of already present limits.

Punishing someone for not doing good, of course, is completely counter-intuitive to the ideal of public aid in the first place. If not stricken (though I'm sure such provisions will be stricken or highly qualified) something like that would just be ignored by the really poor people anyway.

Liberals can and will blame conservative self-reliance fetishism, and conservatives can and will blame liberal big government fetishism, for any instantiation of such a principle in the health world.

Okay, I think that's all for the platitudes.

This is not Obama's plan. This is what came out of committee.

Also, fines are not taxes.

rofc.

Yes, yes, this is just the first step. /soothe

I do agree with the spineless comment, though. Jesus, people, stand up for something.

And it did absolutely nothing. For all the concessions and things given up versus the House bills, not a single Republican is willing to give even qualified support for it. Here's hoping that this serves to drive the lesson home that the GOP has zero intent on allowing any health care reform legislation to pass. If anything passes and Obama can say that he started us down the road to reform, they'll consider it a catastrophic failure.

I previously quoted Senator DeMint calling health care Obama's "Waterloo" and the GOP's chance to "break" the president. But, to go further, look at how the GOP continues to poison the well on health care. Hysterical accusations of death panels and Mexicans stealing your insurance and medical rationing and socialism and doctors fleeing the US and all the rest of that shit. All designed to get the Tea Party sign-wavers and town hall screamers worked into a froth. Do you really think these guys are going to go back their base of people and say "You know, we worked it out with the Democrats and think we can meet them halfway on the death panels and rationing and socialism..." Of course not. They have no intent of ever working with the Democrats on this. They never did. You don't whip up a group of people into a hysterical frenzy just so you can say "Ok, settle down now and listen to how this bill from the Democrats is gonna be okay." This was a pure slash & burn campaign and people suggesting otherwise are outright lying.

It's time to say "fuck it" and come up with a liberal bill, public option & all, get it through the House and push it through the Senate via reconciliation. The GOP has their chance to be at the table and they not only passed it up but they never wanted it in the first place. Throwing health care under the bus to score political points against the president is much, much more important to them.\

Some of you were lucky enough to see a similar rant posted on Facebook!

The irony is that the "progressive" party does more to maintain the status quo than the "conservative" party does.

Don't try to figure it out. It's like staring directly into the sun.

Keep those tears in mind once the liberal version gets passed

Until the Republicans give a shit about Americans, it doesn't really matter.

And this is why a direct democracy would be hilariously more effective.

Wait.. when we tax the middle class out of existance, do I get bumped up or down? This is important.

Do you mean I enjoy depriving children of food or that I enjoy hanging out with the malnourished? This is also important.