http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100219/pl_nm/us_usa_healthcare1
Obama will release his version of healthcare reform. Will it be another left-wing nightmare or just bi-partisan enough to get RINOs on board?
It’s not in the interest of the GOP to see Obama win, so there will still be plenty of opposition.
Guess we will see.
What they ought to do is insist on a slim package of just the stuff that makes sense…buying insurance across state lines, tort reform, etc.
Obama and co will try to make minor changes to the existing abortion. The Republicans have to stand united against the vast majority of the bill…and the yahoos who voted with the dems on all those procedural votes that brought the healthcare plan to the point where it could potentially pass in the first place need to hold their damn water.
if its from a Democrat, of course the Republicans will say no.
They are there to represent the people that elected them…if that means not buying into Obamacare then so be it. I didn’t elect my representative to go to DC to vote for socialist BS with trillions of new spending and taxes.
And yet when the republicans/conservatives oppose things like this people just write it off as just opposing the opposite party not thinking as to why they are opposing. Its funny Ive seen quite an alarming amount of politicians lately that say the more people that oppose this healthcare bill, the more they will fight to approve it:eek:
I don’t really care what side of the party lines someone stands on, if it comes from this President or Pelosi and her thugs I hope they say no. You guys can bicker all you want about Democrats vs Republicans but the bottom line is any of the proposed healthcare reform bills will be a nightmare for this country and it doesn’t matter who you voted for in the last election or who you plan to vote for in the next.
you really believe thats what they’re doing? 
they’re only opposing it because of partisan politics, not for the good of the country.
they all voted for the prescription drug plan didn’t they?
same thing with the stimulus plans. they all voted against it yet run back to their districts and tout what great programs its brought to them. they height of hypocrisy.
Obama is releasing his version? WTF happened to the Separation of Powers? Obama wants to be a king, not a president.
I think Obama is making a huge mistake. His ego just will not let this die and it sounds like he’s just mixing together and repackaging the same proposals from the House and Senate that have the Dems running scared for the 2010 elections.
He already had his best shot at passing this abomination and came very close to doing so, but that ship has sailed for now.
This! We need something to bring health care costs down. We do not need more bloated government programs (i.e. medicare/medicade). However, the only bill that came close to passing, was stripped of anything that might harm the insurance companies profits.
I hate threads like this because it the same old Dem v. Rep crap. Both parties have been bought and paid for and they’re screwing ALL of us. Big insurance and big pharma are running this show.
this is kinda where i am. i think i want both parties to crash an burn a little.
I tell you what, Im against the healthcare bill and these outrageous stimulus bills and any decision to vote against it is an ok decision by me. Whether its your idea of partisan politics or not. Im not saying every republican out there that votes against it would get my vote but I think more than you’d be willing to bet on are waking up and voting how their constituency says to.
Who in the hell is stupid enough to think this a responsible effort to improve the health care of America???
I guess there really is one born every minute.
This make me laugh. The Democrats bitch and moan about the Republicans blocking health care, when in fact its the Dems themselves that have blocked health care reform. They had a super majority in the Senate (and still have the majority) and a majority in the house. Why couldn’t it get passed then? Because their own party CAN’T even agree on this crap, yet they don’t want to appear incompetent (but they do) so they try to put it on the Republicans. The Dems could have passed this BS legislation last year if they themselves were able to unite around it. :rolleyes:
And the Dems are trying to ram it through for their own political gain, not for the good of the country. Most major polls (and I’m not talking about ones from Fox, MSNBC or CNN) shows the majority of Americans do not want this type of healthcare reform. The only good thing to come out of this IF it gets shoved through, is that a lot of Dems on the Hill will be out of a job by the end of the year.
If public, gov’t run health care is so great, why was there a Canadian politician down here in FL getting heart surgery? Afterall, Canada has a gov’t run system.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/02/a_canadian_politician_gets_hea.php
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h0QC7bditrEb3wYz_6_b-gsGGDxA
This is a populist position not supported by the facts or common sense. This is demonstrably not true. “Big Insurance and big pharma” are caught in a system they did not develop or encourage and from which they cannot escape.
Govt intervention and govt destruction of the insurance market have created a monster. Now the govt claims they can save us from the monster they created.
Do you think “Big Insurance” wants to pay every time you go to the doctor for any reason? To deal with the government for everything and have the gov looking over their shoulder blaming them for everything?
Do you think “Big Pharma” wants to subsidize the rest of the worlds medicine and pass the costs onto the US market (this is what happens with the price controls in effect in other countries). If you take a good look at the economics of “big pharma” (and many researchers have) they make a lot less money (by margin) than a lot of other companies do. They do research and develop a lot of potential medications that don’t pan out. And they get sued for lots of big bucks for many of the ones they do get to market.
Govt has destroyed healthcare.
Right on!!!
They need to back off rather than throw more money at it.
I voted “A left wing nightmare that gets RINO votes”…
i don’t disagree with you at all. i’m not saying the Democrats are smelling like roses here. You’re right, they couldn’t even pass it with the majority they had which is laughable. But the Republicans sure are trying to do anything about it either.
The backlash is a direct result of their backroom dealings and giveaways to insurance companies. Forcing people to buy insurance is ridiculous. And healthcare reform without some type of public option is a waste of time. (I’m not saying government run healthcare, I’m saying some type of government provided healthcare. There is a difference.)