Senate passes 600 billion dollar healthcare overhaul

[deee757]

Dont know where the money is coming from, but it sounds good.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul

[El Nino]

What do you mean you don't know where the money is coming from?

[deee757]

What do you mean you don't know where the money is coming from?

"But ranking Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming argued that the bill would break Obama's promises by adding to the deficit."

Dont see where 600 billion dollars appears out of thin air and does not raise the deficit that Obama has pledged to thin within his first term. I think Sen. Enzi has a point.

[Nicole Dupre]

The economy is already a nightmare. If we're going to spend money that we don't have, let's spend it on our health. Young men and women coming back from the Middle East wishing they were dead is more than enough of a disgrace. Btw, fuck the pharm. co's and the ins. co's HARD in their culos. Overall, they are both fat, greedy vultures.

[Quiet Reflections]

What do you mean you don't know where the money is coming from?

"But ranking Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming argued that the bill would break Obama's promises by adding to the deficit."

Dont see where 600 billion dollars appears out of thin air and does not raise the deficit that Obama has pledged to thin within his first term. I think Sen. Enzi has a point.

he has 3 1/2 years left in his first term. he can raise it up some now and still have time to thin it there is still quite some time left before 2012. Did you really think everything was going to be fixed by either candidate in 6 months?really?Alarmists trip me out

[El Nino]

The money is going to be printed out of thin AIR by the private 'Federal' Reserve, loaned to the government with a heavy interest and you and your grandchildren's children will be attempting to pay for it (just like America's Wars)... and as we strggle to pay these taxes, certain individuals will be getting rich from them. Don't you understand how this Country works nowadays? No taxation without representation, my ass. Bow down and kiss your masters asses, slaves!

[SarahG]

The economy is already a nightmare. If we're going to spend money that we don't have, let's spend it on our health. Young men and women coming back from the Middle East wishing they were dead is more than enough of a disgrace. Btw, fuck the pharm. co's and the ins. co's HARD in their culos. Overall, they are both fat, greedy vultures.

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Actually some of the big hospitals and pharmaceuticals want the overhaul because it would effectively give them a monopoly by making it too hard for new companies or small companies to prosper in the industry.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2009071...08599190994600

[raybbaby]

this doesn't sound like it has in fact passed, just simply "made it out od commitee" or whatever. I pay relatively close attention to politics, and it will be a big fight and ongoing news story for weeks when it comes time to do this. I myself would love to see single payer health care, but it ain't gonna happen, not any time soon. So while this thing kinda sucks, it's a damn sight better than doing nothing.

[SarahG]

this doesn't sound like it has in fact passed, just simply "made it out od commitee" or whatever. I pay relatively close attention to politics, and it will be a big fight and ongoing news story for weeks when it comes time to do this. I myself would love to see single payer health care, but it ain't gonna happen, not any time soon. So while this thing kinda sucks, it's a damn sight better than doing nothing.

That would depend on what they end up designing.

It would actually be fairly easy to make a health care system worse then what we already have.

[El Nino]

The economy is already a nightmare. If we're going to spend money that we don't have, let's spend it on our health. Young men and women coming back from the Middle East wishing they were dead is more than enough of a disgrace. Btw, fuck the pharm. co's and the ins. co's HARD in their culos. Overall, they are both fat, greedy vultures.

Agreed