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Why just stop with health coverage? Why not also provide car insurance, home owners insurance, theft insurance, and every other kind of insurance to the poor as well? Insure them from things they don't even own. GOP is now officially the cradle(No Child Left Behind) to grave(prescription drugs) party.

Why not also provide car insurance, home owners insurance, theft insurance, and every other kind of insurance to the poor as well?

The government already does provide a home owner's insurance of sorts for people that consciously and continiously decide to build in flood plains, tornado alleys, or on the edge of a cliff overlooking the water.

As for comments about how this is going to 'privitize' medicare I just laugh. Did welfare downsize by giving it $400B more in funds?

We're headed to a country where all high tech jobs are done overseas, and everyone in the country is dependant on the government for some sort of assistance. Course FReepers will continue to blame this on Clinton, on FDR, or some other boogeyman than look at their own policies.

"...Insure them from things they don't even own. GOP is now officially the cradle(No Child Left Behind) to grave(prescription drugs) party."

You have a point, but on the other hand, all we have heard from the rATS in recent years is how "the GOP is trying to starve seniors, or take away their SS and medicare.".

Now, in this greedy society that we now live in, it's either play hardball and give the seniors nothing at all. If the Pubbies don't do it, the rATS will.

Let the rATS get in there and institute hillary's "socialized medicine"...and the cost of that will make what Dubya has spent, pale in comparison. Not to mention giving the rATS total control over a major portion of the economy and socialized medicine almost always results in lousy healthcare.

So it seems to be the less of two evils, especially when confronted with the enormous, aging, baby boomer population. The President is making good on his campaign promise to overhaul medicare; it will probably be done in stages and this is stage 1. Prescription drugs ARE out of sight, and something needs to be done.

It seems that some in this thread are just jumping on the "bash-Bush" bandwagon. To the stealthrATS (RINO's) Bush can't do anything right anyway.