Republicans For Bankrupt Americans
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Republican obstruction to health care reform leads to more and more medical bankruptcy. That isn’t the change we need. That’s more of the same.
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“bankruptcy builds character”-repubs and bayh dogs
Legislating by anecdote: It’s how quality, effective, and cost-concious laws get made!
And how exactly is Obama’s health care plan going to stop people from having to file bankruptcy because of medical bills that pile up due to their illness?
I just love how people live under the delusion that the Democrats health care plan is going to be this magic elixir that is going to cause any and all problems related to the health care go away.
“Medical bills tied to [over] 60 percent of bankruptcies: Most families had health insurance, but still overwhelmed by health debt.” -Reuters
“Using a conservative definition, 62.1 percent of all bankruptcies in 2007 were medical…”
It’s likely that that percentage of bankruptcies due to medical bills is significantly higher now and growing inexorably higher by the week.
Not to mention that bankruptcy is a solution, not a problem. It allows you to keep most of your paycheck, your house and your car. As pointed out above, what will the new law do? Let you keep your flat screen TV?
In most of the advanced industrial countries around the world, bankruptcies due to medical bills is almost unheard of.
http://google.com/search?q=bankruptcies+due+to+medical+bills
Right winger “Frank DiSalle”: “bankruptcy is a solution”
Except that Republicans made it significantly more difficult to declare bankruptcy so it’s NOT a solution available to many people.
You haven’t been paying attention for several decades, “Frank”.
But, please, continue to illustrate how ill-informed right wingers are.
Oliver conveniently omits the fact that its intelligent LibDems that are pushing back on the Pelosi/Obama plan.
Who did Obama meet with yesterday??? Oh, okay.
Things that bring a smile to my face.
In another example of Barack Obama’s appeal diminishing with the public, the White House was forced to reschedule Wednesday’s press conference to 8PM from 9PM as NBC didn’t want its summer hit “America’s Got Talent” to be pre-empted.
Appearing on Wednesday’s program will be an interview with “Britain’s Got Talent’s” Susan Boyle, who became an international star earlier this year with her miraculous performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables.”
As The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed revealed Monday, NBC didn’t want to bump Boyle for Obama:
Except that
RepublicansJoe Biden made it significantly more difficult to declare bankruptcy.fixed!
“JoeQueen’s” still confused about basic things, the handful of “LibDems” are completely supportive of the push for healthcare, many actually want(ed) a far more progressive healthcare plan.
The debate is being hurt by “Blue Dogs”, who are basically moderate Republicans that were purged from the right wing extremist Republican Party.
Certainly there’s been nothing significantly constructive that’s come out of the Republican Party. Despite well over 100 Republican Amendments being included in the current legislation, Republican Eric Cantor was completely dismissive of Republican Amendments as being meaningless on last nights’ PBS NewsHour.
It was an odd moment to watch Republican Eric Cantor besmirch his own Republican Party’s contributions.
It’s only understandable when it’s recognized that the Republican Party of No are simply trying to slow-walk healthcare to death.
The Republican’s explicit strategy is to “kill” health care reform.
Republican’s killed healthcare reform in 1935, 1946, 1993, and are now saying, 74 years after healthcare became a Democratic initiative, that it’s happening ‘too fast’.
In the meantime, 100′s of THOUSANDS of Americans have died because they didn’t have healthcare.
More than 18,000 deaths a year in America are because of lack of health insurance.”
Republican policies kill Americans.
“The debate is being hurt by “Blue Dogs”, who are basically moderate Republicans that were purged from the right wing extremist Republican Party”
Actually, the debate is being hurt because the majority of Americans disagree including a lot of LibDems in Congress.
Call your next case!
The American people Do. Not. Want. this bill.
Why are Democrats so anti-American?
Actually, the debate is being hurt because the majority of Americans disagree including a lot of LibDems in Congress.
You’re a lying and evil sack of shit.
Liberal and moderate Democrats aren’t impeding progress. It is conservative Dems and the GOP.
And the American people want reform, not the status quo.
I just love how people live under the delusion that doing nothing will cause any and all problems related to the health care to go away.
Not really. I’d rather die trying to help resolve difficult problems than doing nothing. To the outside world, most of America’s greatness came from it’s ability to build and fix the big stuff better than any other nation.
“SaveFarris” is reduced to citing one of Republican Scott Rasmussen’s notoriously unreliable right wing polls.
It’s almost like someone is paying Rasmussen to be persistently wrong… oh, wait…
It’s not just Rassmussen. Gallup and WaPo both showed the same public revulsion earlier this week.
And it ain’t the GOP who are impeding anything. They’re literally in no position to: they don’t have the votes. If this doesn’t pass, it’s ENTIRELY on the Democrats.
Responsiblity: it is a bitch…
Legislating by anecdote: It’s how quality, effective, and cost-concious laws get made!
The right is the side spending millions of dollars to have Canadians go on TV and lie about how their health care system will kill them.
the same public revulsion
A 53 percent “disagree” is “public revulsion”? That’s funny. Seems like it was just last year that 30 percent meant “wildly popular.”
I guess down really is up.
If this legislation is soooo popular, why hasn’t it been voted on, sent to the Senate, passed and sent to Pres. Zero, I mean O, and signed into law?
I’ll tell you why. Because Dem. Congressmen that are up for election are being watched by their constituents. They are also getting an ear-full at town meetings and their offices are getting flooded with calls and emails.
Of course, it is a hoot to watch you look foolish by sitting there blaming the Republicans. Please continue.
Liberal and moderate Democrats aren’t impeding progress. It is conservative Dems and the GOP.
By way of
BigHugeass Insurance.If this legislation is soooo popular, why hasn’t it been voted on, sent to the Senate, passed and sent to Pres. Zero, I mean O, and signed into law?
Because of what economists like to call “The Bobbi Flekman Principle.” (e.g., http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/special-interest-money-means-longer.html)
Not really. I’d rather die trying to help resolve difficult problems than doing nothing
Then get off your ass and go DO SOMETHING.
People kill me. The people who are forever clamoring to “do something” are usually the same ones whose version of “doing something” is hoping some government program gets passed.
Er…
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/special-interest-money-means-longer.html
The
Americanmajority of people that Rasmussen asked Do. Not. Want. this bill.Fizzed.
More idiotic bullshit, typical of the wingnut. The reality is one doesn’t know anybody until they know them.
My point (which you missed while spouting your stereotypical nonsense): The Apollo space program, aircraft carriers, the interstate highway system, ATL, the Golden Gate bridge, the internet, GPS, New Horizons, Grand Coulee dam, the Pentagon, the World Trade Centers… without symbols of American greatness and all that they inspired the US would look a lot more like Brazil – colorful yet unispirational, rich yet poor, a great place to party by day but not to walk around in at night.
In Wingnutworld symbols of American greatness and how they came to be are meaningless. Sanctioned tribalistic ideologies are everything.
Indeed,
who’s the one that’s bringing special intests to the table in the first place? Why, Barack Obama!
Hope. Change.
who’s the one that’s bringing special intests to the table in the first place? Why, Barack Obama!
I’m with ya! ( http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/22/colbert/index.html ). See Update II, but it’s all very good.
So you’ll help us fight
BigHugeass Insurance? Awesome. Thanks a lot. With your help, SF, we can get the 45 million some decent, civilized insurance.(And Hugeass Oil? Tobacco? Et al? Much appreciated.)
who’s the one that’s bringing special intests to the table in the first place? Why, Barack Obama!
Which is to say, The Bobbi Flekman Principle is a nearly unstoppable force.
(and “in the first place”? Really?)
Just because you don’t have insurance doesn’t mean you don’t get care.
Of course you LibDems would like to conveniently preach otherwise.
Just because you don’t have insurance doesn’t mean you don’t get care.
Yeah, according to Former Technical President, all you have to do is go to the emergency room! We already have Socialized Medicine! Problem solved! 18,000 people annually die because they’re too lazy to go to the emergency room! Or because they want to die! Heh. Indeed.
And because the financial geniuses of the wingnut world think that the best way to keep health-care costs down is to leave the poor with no health option but the insanely expensive emergency room (which we end up paying for in taxes because they are, you know, poor). Anything that doesn’t hurt insurance company profits is fine with them.
Hey, and don’t forget the many illegals that also die from lack of health care and insurance. They also die because they are horrible driver, but that’s another story.
Just as long as they die, right joaquin?
America is the only developed nation on Earth where even if you _have_ health insurance, a disease or major injury will bankrupt you for the rest of your life.
This isn’t how civilized humans should live, nor how modern nations should conduct themselves.
“Just because you don’t have insurance doesn’t mean you don’t get care.”
No, it just means you go into life-long bankruptcy for a relatively minor medical procedure. Not mention a major one.
Let you keep your flat screen TV?
Bankruptcy laws already let you do that.
Actually, the debate is being hurt because the majority of Americans disagree including a lot of LibDems in Congress.
Again, what the hell is a “LibDem”?
Except that Republicans Joe Biden made it significantly more difficult to declare bankruptcy.
Ah, making shit up, the hallmark of a true ultra-con. The Republicans were the ones who pushed for and passed the bill. Deal with it.