Posted on 07/26/2009 9:58:57 AM PDT by Nachum
Congress’s failure to deliver major health care legislation by President Barack Obama’s deadline next month transforms the traditionally sleepy August recess into what could be the decisive moment in the battle to win support for the legislation, especially from conservative Democrats considered crucial to its fate.
The recess, scheduled to begin August 7, will put to the test Obama’s vaunted, high tech political machine and the coordinated network
of progressive groups that has been quietly preparing for months for this battle. They face, on the other side, a bruised Republican camp hoping to revive itself through a winning campaign against their opponents’ top priority.
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We need tax credits to buy our own health insurance from non-profit insurance companies which will really spread the risk rather than HMOs which pay huge salaries to CEOs and dividends to shareholders.
We do not need government run health care to fix the system.
“Cap and Trade bill tells us how to live.. Health Care bill tells us how to die.” Bauer and Rose
NO ChappaquidaCare!
So, it’s those nasty for profit business that have screwed everything up?
Beautiful. The Obama agenda in two short sentences.
Huh?
Not sure that is necessarily true. I do not think it is a fait acompli - yet. There is a great deal of anger over this and a lot of things in motion. It aint over till its over.
Yes, non profit insurance companies. Blue Cross Blue Shield was such in some states early on. The Knights of Columbus had such life insurance. Self insured businesses are non profit.
Insurance should be non profit.
Yes it is greedy, corporations with greedy CEOS and demanding shareholders operating as HMOS which have really screwed the system up.
I see. And you probably believe that all advances in, say, modern surgery and pharmacology have been made by non-profit corporations, because private business would only screw it all up?
Car insurance, life insurance, home insurance should be non-profit as well?
You must be a Democrat shill. Of course I don’t believe that all advances in pharmacology should be by non-profits, but some could be and are.
Advances in surgery are usually done at med schools which have endowments as I recall.
Even if you were correct why would that preclude non-profit health insurance companies?
Good ideas.
.Oh, isn't that clever.
You must be unfamiliar, by the way, with the Cleveland Clinc or the Mayo Clinic.
Russia thought them up years ago.
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