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Politico: But House Speaker Says She Wants to Raise Income Levels Where Proposed Health Care Surcharge Takes Effect
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- Yes, tax the wealthy. They are no better than everyone else. All people deserve access to a doctor, health checkups, dental services, vision checkups....If Europe can do it so can we. Thousands of people have gone without consulting a doctor for years...and have suffered illness in silence. This is immoral. If life is to be respected then let us provide all with access to good healthcare...because the quality of life is very important, and we are the United States of America...and we should be leading the way. Right now, we are the only industrialized nation that does not give all it's citizens free access to a doctor.
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- Hey, just put on your ACORN hoodie, grab that pitchfork, jump into the bus supplied by SEIU and kick some rich SOB's butt!! Ya!! Holler OOOOHWEE!
You are just what your messiah wants. A true marxist at heart.
Now, here's a quote I love to share with you class envy folks "socialism works until you run out of other people's money". That's a quote from Margaret Thatcher. I knew I always liked her. Shame your thug doesn't like the Brits. Good people, the Brits.
Do some research for yourself and see how well the system works in Canada and England.
- Hey, just put on your ACORN hoodie, grab that pitchfork, jump into the bus supplied by SEIU and kick some rich SOB's butt!! Ya!! Holler OOOOHWEE!
- Yes, it's about time that the wealthy stop having undeserved privileges, while the working class struggles with illness and no way to pay for a doctor. Thousands of people have spent years working full time jobs at miserable minimum wages with no healthcare whatsoever...thousands more, have lost their jobs through no fault of their own and have no money to pay a doctor for preventive healthcare. This is immoral. Everyone deserves free healthcare because it is a human right. All lives deserve access to basic healthcare, medicine, dental and vision, all of it should be free. The rich are no better than everyone else. If the Europeans can do it, so can we. This will show the world that we Americans are indeed a humane and generous nation.
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- Hahahahahaha!
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- Thanks ya', Thanks ya' Massa.
You'uns gets all them Million airs and givs us da' muny. - Reply to this comment
- Yaaaay another smart idea by the worthless bunch of idiots that run our country.
Lets tax the people who fund our coffers some more. Wait lets also take every opportunity to malign them and paint them as evil malcontents interested in only a profit.
They pay close to 40 cents on every dollar they earn? Forget that lets make it 50. In fact why don't we keep going until they finally decide to make their money somewhere else or better yet decide its easier (and more profitable) to not work????
When did it become un-American to work hard to make money and better the lives of you and your children??? I think I missed that memo. - Reply to this comment
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- Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are no
Rich no more
The rich did this to us.
I say stick it to them every chance we get.
- Tax the rich
- The Democratic Party's marxist agenda is a national nightmare of tax-and-spend policies that are indeed unsustainable. We need to return to democracy in 2010. Barney Frank; Pelosi; Reid; Obama and the rest are keystone communists with no clue as to what they are doing other than that they mean to legislate themselves total power over the people.
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- Pelosi knocks the "hope" out of "hope and change". Maybe this socialist pig just doesn't get it. People come to America with the "hope" of achieving success and yes (omg!!) becoming "millionaires". The Democrats like Pelosi dream of a worker's state in which poverty is enforced by the government, where there is no hope of ever bettering yourself or rising above the herd, where suffering is mandated and where egomaniacal psychotics like Pelosi get to "hand out the welfare" . This is a sort of social "Van Munchhausen's syndrome", and Pelosi is like the sick parent who injures her child and then enjoys being the "savior" who takes the victim to the ER.
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- Pelosi is an absolute idiot.
Just like the people who voted her in. - Reply to this comment
- We really don't need to be scared of the costs. It is not that which will cause us grief, it will be the change in the ministering of care. Older people, infirm unemployed or underemployed will be forced to the back of the line for care so that "productive" citizens can have access.
Check any country with socialized medicine - even our fairly contemporary neighbors to the north - Canada and ask what hospital care is like.
I just heard a story of a woman in an accident with a motor vehicle resulting in broken bones. She was in a room with two others and the size of the room was comparable to a single in the US. Her husband forced her release and he flew her to the US for a New England hospital's care.
She had been in the Canadian hospital five days - never bathed or changed and barely saw a nurse except twice daily "rounds". Now I betcha the Canadian medical officials will scream "never happened" but when a guy pays high five figures ($7,500+) to get good care - something stinks in the room!
America wake up: "sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you get what you DESERVE". Which will it be for us? - Reply to this comment
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- Got actual proof and not just a story? Here's a story for you: Shona Holmes, the most famous American-lobbyist-financed Canadian attacker of Canadian health care, has been found to be a big fat liar: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/19/755113/-Another-Healthcare-Lie,-and-the-Lying-Liar-Thats-Telling-It
- We already have a system... Medicare/Medicade---both need to be fixed.. or Medicade eliminated and Medicare be expanded..so not Sup. Ins. is needed... and what Medicare does not pay.. it would be up to Doc's/Hosptals/Med's to ask Fed for the money and show why it cost so much..would not be our problem...Bet that would clean up some BS on costs... Example.. $3.00 for a single Asprin .......
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- Mill's tax... Ummm... let me see... people you will tax--own biz's .. guess what they are going to do.. U will see a rise in product prices to pay for there costs... gee guess who will pay in the end....GUESS...
Ever know how it runs down hill... and US tax payers are down the hill.. - Reply to this comment
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- Six of every ten bankruptcy filings is due to medical bills -- and most of these people had medical insurance:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/05/earlyshow/health/main5064981.shtml
"Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman reports the study says getting sick is a factor in 62 percent of personal bankruptcies -- an increase from just eight percent in 1981. And among those who filed for bankruptcy, 75 percent reported having some type of medical insurance. But The Washington Post says people in bankruptcy with insurance were nearly $18,000 in the red. And those without insurance had an average of almost $27,000 in medical debt."
There is a cure, and it's current House bill HR 3200. Robert Reich describes why: From http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/16/tax_the_wealthy/ :
According to the most recent data (for 2007), the best-off 1 percent of American households take home about 20 percent of total income -- the highest percentage since 1928. Yes, I know: Critics will charge that these are the very people who invest, innovate and hire, and thereby keep the economy going. So raising their taxes will burden the economy and thereby hurt everyone, including those who are supposed to be helped.
But there's no reason to suppose that taking a tiny sliver of the incomes of the top 1 percent will reduce all that much of their ardor to invest, innovate and hire in the future. Yet if this tiny sliver means affordable healthcare for a far larger number of Americans, who will be able to get regular checkups and thereby stay healthy and productive, the positive effect on the American economy is likely to be far greater.
- Six of every ten bankruptcy filings is due to medical bills -- and most of these people had medical insurance:
- No Healthcare "reform". We are still trying to recover from the Social Security debacle that FDR set up with GOOD intentions.
We have precious few resources to make a hasty decision on ANYTHING, let alone this socialistic "reform", before seeing the current state of the budget, which Obama is withholding.
CAll, write, or email your representative to tell them "NO" !
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- We already have a system... Medicare/Medicade---both need to be fixed.. or Medicade eliminated and Medicare be expanded..so not Sup. Ins. is needed... and what Medicare does not pay.. it would be up to Doc's/Hosptals/Med's to ask Fed for the money and show why it cost so much..would not be our problem...Bet that would clean up some BS on costs... Example.. $3.00 for a single Asprin .......
- Social Security is in much better shape than our health care system. Don't believe the Cato Institute lies. (For one thing, Social Security never runs out of money so long as the average long-term economic growth rate stays over 2.7%. During the 75-year period from 1929 to 2004 -- years that included all of the Great Depression -- our average growth rate was 3.6%.)
- I am single and have no children. I am a homeowner. Roughly 2/3 of my local property taxes go to pay for someone else's children to go to school. I do not receive a break in my taxes for not having children in my local public schools. Whether on the local, State or Federal level, the principle is the same--someone else is using my money to pay for their benefit.
Question 1: Is this "Socialism"? Why or why not?
Question 2: Do you think this practice should be outlawed with each family having to pay per child for their own children's education? Why or why not?
- There's nothing wrong with Social Security, except for what was caused by reagan and the neocons robbing from it, crippling it enough so they could lie, point to it and say it doesn't work.
The 'pubs did what they could to skrew it up, and they should get all the credit for it.
- Sorry. We are out in large numbers telling them "YES". Many of our Congressmen/women are meeting with groups interested in reform this coming weekend. GO to the Organizing for America website for more information on events near you.
Medicare and Medicaid eat up about a fifth of the Federal Budget, more than Social Security. That number has to drop or we will pass an insurmountable debt to our children. Social Security can be fixed over time. That challenge will be next.
We can't afford not to fix Health Care. It's costing us jobs, businesses, creating large deficits and threatening our economic status as a nation. The cost and percentage of the country's GDP continue to climb.
We do a lot of things right in this country with health care. Some things better than anywhere in the world, particularly in cancer cure and treatment. We must fix the parts that are broken.
- The inconvenient truth about Medicare/Medicade that the your Washington Bureaucrats don't want you to know is that there are billions of dollars of fraud in the system. They acknowledge (claim ?) that it is more cost effective to pay the fraud than prosecute the Health Care Offenders. With all the cheats, frauds & outlaw czars you have on Capital Hill now don't expect anything to change. oldman47701 has it right, start by cleaning up the Medicare/Medicade debacle. Don't hold your breath while the Health Care Industry is lining your Politicians Pockets and providing them with the best health care you won't get. So Sad!
