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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:48 pm
by GORDON
Someone needs to tell me how much this is going to cost me so I can adjust spending accordingly. If I now have to buy health insurance, I can't be buying something else.
Gosh darn simple math.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:43 pm
by TPRJones
But now the government will pay for it all for you, right?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:20 pm
by Leisher
McCain says they're going to repeal it.
The thing that got lost in the MSM's coverage (and it was most likely intentional) is that the majority of Americans didn't want this bill passed.
So to me, the most important thing about this bill was that our representatives voted against their constituents wishes.
That's scary shit. I told the wife "This is going to be the justification for some nutjob(s) to get violent". Place your bets now on when that's going to happen.
I also want to point out the typical Democrat "pay for votes" tactic in the bill. Among the immediate benefits are allowing people to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26 and paying for senior citizens' prescriptions. I guess buying votes is ok as long as you can disguise it as "helping people".
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:56 pm
by Malcolm
Yeah, I trust the adaptable, dynamic, responsive, in-touch, charismatic leaders of the GOP to derail this thing ... just like they failed to do for the past several months.
He said he was repulsed by "all this euphoria going on" and argued that "outside the Beltway, the American people are very angry. They don't like it and we're going to repeal this."
Were there any mass demonstrations outside the White House today? Congress?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:37 pm
by GORDON
So I've heard "16,000 new IRS agents to process this new system."
How does the IRS figure into this?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:17 pm
by Troy
GORDON wrote:So I've heard "16,000 new IRS agents to process this new system."
How does the IRS figure into this?
I believe you are fined by the IRS if you don't have medical coverage by X year.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:21 pm
by Malcolm
Now's the time to get into the IT-medical field or start those med school classes.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:37 pm
by TheCatt
Well, the good news is you now have the right to abuse any fat ass who super sizes their french fries, you know, since we're all in this together.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:42 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:Well, the good news is you now have the right to abuse any fat ass who super sizes their french fries, you know, since we're all in this together.
Crap. That corollary had been lying dormant in my brain up till this point. Fuck, how long before FDA- &\or department of health-inspired legislation crops up that makes sweeping changes to what substances we can consume in processed foods? Like New York's proposed ban on salt, except on the national level?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:54 pm
by GORDON
John Spartan, you have been fined one-half credit for violation of the Language Morality Act.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:25 pm
by TPRJones
Malcolm wrote:Were there any mass demonstrations outside the White House today? Congress?
No, because the people who hate it are all busy having jobs. The bums that have time for a quick spontaneous march on Washington because they don't have to go to work all like it fine. But then they aren't the ones paying for it.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:03 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:John Spartan, you have been fined one-half credit for violation of the Language Morality Act.
They couldn't build the machine to keep up with me.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:13 pm
by GORDON
I think we'll just need MD to take the HEALTH INSURANCE OR ELSE class after April 15 and tell us all how screwed we are.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:59 pm
by TheCatt
Here's my healthcare plan:
$100 for running shoes for everyone every six months.
1 annual checkup to tell people what to work on.
Taxes on tobacco and fatty foods to pay for it.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:14 pm
by GORDON
Heard speculation that companies that provide a health insurance plans... may stop. The penalty for companies with >100 employees is cheaper than actually providing health insurance, per employee.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:01 pm
by Mommy Dearest
Well you all have "heard" lots more than I have. I am reserving my opinion until I find out what it is all about, which so far has been lots of rumors and speculation. I want to see the end results, then I can decide how it will affect me and mine.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:41 pm
by GORDON
I think it was Pelosi who said "We need to pass the bill so we can see what is in the bill."
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:53 pm
by Leisher
John Spartan, you have been fined one-half credit for violation of the Language Morality Act.
I have been saying for years that the writers of that film were prophets.
Well you all have "heard" lots more than I have. I am reserving my opinion until I find out what it is all about, which so far has been lots of rumors and speculation. I want to see the end results, then I can decide how it will affect me and mine.
Yeah, I don't need to shoot myself to know that I'm not bullet proof.
It doesn't matter how you feel about the issue of health care. It doesn't matter how you feel about society taking care of those who can't or refuse to take care of themselves. The real issue is that our elected officials passed a bill into law that most Americans did NOT want to be made a law. The Democrats have officially told the American people that they think we're too stupid to run our own lives.
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:28 am
by TPRJones
Hasn't that been the basis of their entire platform for generations now?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:34 am
by Malcolm
Hasn't that been the basis of their entire platform for generations now?
That's been the underlying plan for both political parties for quite some time. I can barely classify members of Congress as people anymore. They're their own separate subspecies.
EDIT : In order to swipe a few pachyderm votes, I hear there's promise that $0 will fund anything relating to abortions. Compromise : another word for a half-assed solution that nobody wants.
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