Bush to Propose Help for Uninsured

AP via NYTimes.com ^ | 1/29/02

[AAABEST]

"Thinks it's 'bout time for some more peein' on my conservative base"

[Cosmo]

You got that right! Coercion in its most insidious form. As everyone else has been saying, it sounds like one of Al Gore's schemes.
Feel the gin

[motzman]

There are already enough federal programs to shelter the lives of those truly in need.

Since need is a subjective term, they're will never ever be enough programs. Never ever.

[LiberteeBell]

bttt

[hattend]

Bush is simply expanding the existing safety net to catch some of those who have fallen off the private insurance market. Once the economy kicks in, the safety net can be retracted as the number of uninsured shrinks.

Look at the facts....no government program has ever "retracted"

[AAABEST]

Once the economy kicks in, the safety net can be retracted as the number of uninsured shrinks.

Lemme guess, you're another one of those that think Bush is promulgating some covert grand scheme to grow government to enormous proportions now, so that he can scale it back later?

Are there actually people this effen' daft?

[Rowdee]

Rather Clintonesque.....or should we call it Blintonesque!

[Rowdee]

I had to give up MY own purchased insurance for health care....I am a widow.....at the time my monthly premium was $98.40 with a a $5,000 deductible. Up pops Uncle Sam demanding all sorts of s**t be covered, and with the usual increase based on age....my premium jumped 58%. Thanks to good, kind, beneveolent Uncle Sam.

I finally got wise, too, to taking care of everybody elses' brats! Damn funny I had to do it all for my kids.....but government can force me to take care of others, too.....F'em....I quit smoking....now y'all can divvy up the price of the premiums.

Every damn thing government touches turns to CRAP. Everything! Get the sumabeaches out of the unlawful involvement and let things take off.....

[Rowdee]

Go look for compassionate socialism someplace else....or at least have the guts to DEMAND your government change its Constitution to cover all this bullcrappie.

[Rowdee]

Congratulations on starting to see the light.

But, frankly, don't you think it is more important to set aside everything you have learned about him and his party, that what you thought was said really wasn't said; that what you thougt was written really wasn't written, and just concentrate on who looks cutest in a pair of tight fittin' jeans?

[SteamshipTime]

Any mechanism by which the consumers of a commodity do not bear 100% of its cost of production can only result in its increased scarcity.

Compassionate conservatism is neither.

[My2Cents]

You're talking about government mandates on private health care coverage. That is NOT what Pres. Bush is talking about, or what I am talking about. I'm referring to an enhanced safety net at a time when the number of uninsured is skyrocketing....a temporary expedient until the economy responds and begins to shrink that number of uninsured.

[Harrison Bergeron]

Answer me this: Just who are these "poor people" that you socialists keep yammering about? Then tell me what insurance they're not getting now that we all need to chip in for.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"...a temporary expedient until the economy responds and begins to shrink that number of uninsured..."

Let me guess... your a sophmore, right? Not even the most wild eyed democrat believes in temporary entitlements.

[philman_36]

I've got an idea! How about reducing eliminating the 20-25% that gets skimmed from every paycheck I make? I could afford to get insurance on my own then!

I know, I know, it'll never work. Got to keep the hogs at the trough so they know who the master is.