So, it appears that, with direct help from Rahm Emanuel, Joe Lieberman has managed to kill the latest version of health care reform that included a medicare buy in for some people age 55+. As far as I can tell, what’s left is a plan to force everybody to buy insurance with no provision to hold down premiums. Joe and his insurance company owners win. So, I think it’s time to just bullet in the brain of this so-called reform and give up. This is worse than doing nothing at all. I understand that Senate rules allow a minority of Senators that represent a tiny fraction of the population to have Caesar-like control of the process (unless Republicans are in the majority, in which case the rules are vastly different), so it’s time to do the only thing left – kill the bill and take your lumps at the polls in the next election. It’s time to stop protecting and apologizing for the White House. And of course it’s time to cut Lieberman loose. There’s really no point in having him caucus with the Democrats if he’s not going to vote with them. If the Republicans want him, fine. And if Connecticut wants him, good for them.
Not exactly where I want to see a bullet right now. :fu:
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Doesn’t a medicare buy-in actually help insurance companies? The older – i.e., sicker – generation gets out of their for-profit plans while the government then passes a medical “reform” bill subsidizing premiums “forcing” these corporations to take on the younger – i.e., healthier – folks. Sounds like a win-win for the amoral insurance industry. I’m so sick of this crap.
Wish the Napoleon-complex Liebermonkey would come spend a day or two with me and see what I see. Course, that won’t happen as he doesn’t care about Americans.
Oh yes, and he’s devoutly religious, too. Yeah, that’s meaningful.
Lieberman doesn’t have a problem with Israel, does he? Has he ever turned down giving them BILLIONS? nope. And lookie here:
OKat, Lieberman makes me cry.
But, Franken makes me fell a little better.
Sue P- Can’t thank you enough for posting that clip. I was about to post a screed about why should we not put a bullet in this bill since nothing is going to happen for four years. Now I’m rethinking things.
Plus now I know what a colloquiy (?) is. :doh:
Joe Lieberman will fuck over liberals for the rest of his term, won’t have to worry about running again because he knows he’ll lose, and instead will be on the insurance industry dole making millions of dollars a year once he’s out of the Senate.
Laughing all the way.
And there’s nothing any of us can do about it. Aint America great?
I just wish “Fight’in” Big Al Franken had told Thune to
STFUP!! :fu:
“And there’s nothing any of us can do about it”….,
There’s one thing that comes to mind but that emo has (perhaps sadly, perhaps for the better; who am I to judge?) gone away……..
Republicans and non-socialist independents are 👿
Every progressive known to man weighs in on the senate health-care bill
http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2009/12/15/kill_not
My head hurts 😯
It’s been all “compromise” all the way. Fuck it. They don’t wanna play. That much is clear. Single Payer or nothing.
Even though Al’s argument struck me on an emotional level and having listened to Howard Dean and reading progressive’s on both sides, I come back to “what’s the big rush?”. So we take another year to get it right.
Couldn’t ‘bama take the $5 billion Franken was talking about that goes to subsidize the uninsured from the start from unused TARP funds and subsidize the unemployed and uninsured TOMORROW!?
:slap:
After a lot of deliberation, yeah fuck it.
But we’ll all be dead before there’s single-payer in this capitalist worker’s paradise.
British health
thanks for posting that sp as well as the biker one the other day. Al has been awesome, I think. I especially loved it when he joined Senator Coburn.
How much would Medicare buy-in cost? Anyone know?
I heard about $600 a month.
Franken is just so much smarter than the fuckin’ 40. He must be driving them crazy.
re:#15 :rofl2:
Nothing better than a good laugh before going to bed……,
that and :40:
I hope they don’t drive him crazy :billcat: