GOP's childish opposition to healthcare reform

Los Angeles Times ^ | January 21, 2011 | David Lazarus

[stylin19a]

he needs to buy a history book.

The Volstead Act was a done deal until it wasn't.

[GailA]

When I first went to work we had health ins. It covered ER visits with a co-pay, in hospital stays with the doc bill covered if you were in the hospital @ 85%. But NO RX’s NO doc visits.

So you didn’t go to the doc’s unless you were truly SICK.

[lentulusgracchus]

Don’t forget the talking point [LIE] that millions of people with pre-existing conditions are dropped or can’t get insurance.

Well, whether they were or weren't -- let's say arguendo that their claim is true, okay? -- it is still a second-order concern compared to the horrendous proposition of having to depend for your health on a totalitarian political party and their ruthless adherents.