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Health Care Reform: Now With PR Gimmicks! We're Doomed.
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So to strike back the minority leader says "WELL I WANT TO MOVE IT TO JANUARY 20TH WHY DON'T WE VOTE ON THAT". Of course every dem objects.
One of those requests is reasonable and there's no reason to object other than to be an ass.
Motion to move to Jan 20 just to be a little bitch though? Fucking really?
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Kwanzaa-eve.
I guess they're also voting to raise the debt ceiling tomorrow too? And so he has to talk about how "The American People" who voted his party into the superminority are saying that they should something something real america socialist plans stealing the country. I think there's some point to it.
Now Coburn on the other hand, what the hell
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Which apparently was totally the democrats fault.
My favorite part is how he keeps on talking only about the non-defense discretionary funding as though it's all evil. "HOW DARE THOSE DEMOCRATS SPEND SO MUCH MONEY! EXCEPT LET'S SPEND LIKE, INFINITY MONEY ON THE MILITARY ALWAYS"
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Most joy!
And now worry!
They get to eat turkey tomorrow night.
You have to fight through some bad days, to earn the best days of your life.
Does he.... does he not understand what people are saying when they say "This plan will reduce the deficit by x amount"? I'm pretty sure that you only subtract expenses from income, not profit.
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It's the party who cried wolf.
I think at this point the Republicans are opposed to everything. Hell, they might even be opposed to Christmas.
You have to fight through some bad days, to earn the best days of your life.
Which is funny because blanket opposition actually removes their leverage and puts it in Lieberman's lap.
Here they go again, trying to destroy the word Godmas and replacing it with their wishy-washy PC "Christmas" doohickery.
Is it just because that isn't very nice?
Climate/financial reform legislation you don't want to piss off Ben Nelson for, probably.
Also, the public option became symbolic a while ago. As a policy it's not great unless a decent number of people can enroll in it.
Though I never really understood that. Medicare wasn't passed the first time through and they took it up again one year later. Then they campaigned on it and took it up again the next election when it finally passed. Anymore you have one shot per Presidency/decade to attempt to reform anything period. If it fails oh well maybe things'll be better under Kodos. If it 'succeeds' then you pretend that the victory was complete rather than succumbing to politics. That's just stupid.
The press is easily bored. That's basically the real reason.
The soonest any major tweak to what is being proposed now will occur is after 2014 since that's the earliest that the current reform actually happens. Unless we get super duper ultra majorities or something, then they might tack some stuff onto it and pretend that it was there all along.
The Public Option was basically whittled down to the scaffolding necessary to build an actual government-managed health care structure. All it did was make it comparatively easy to make a really good system down the road.
Since it was scuttled, we're now no closer to the Holy Grail of a government-funded plan avail to everyone, which is a shame. But as to what tangible benefit we're actually losing, it's close to nil.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Yeah, Clinton balancing the budget and giving us surpluses was roughly as impressive as some dude managing to pay his credit card bills on time and having money left over the week after he wins the lottery. Except then the dude develops a super-expensive standard of living, spends every penny he has the second he gets it, manages to wind up with no savings after the twenty years of lottery payments run out, and goes into massive debt thereafter to avoid having to curtail his lavish lifestyle. Ultimately he contracts a particularly virulent strain of syphilis, his cock rots off, and he dies in a ditch somewhere outside Las Vegas clutching a sign that reads "Will suck dick for food."
Certain elements of that metaphor may not really apply.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Also, people have the God-given right to die of easily-preventable diseases.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
That metaphor kind of got away from you, didn't it?
What if you can't afford it?
Subsidies.
And actually you're exempt if it would cost you n% of your total income, but I forget what n was.
They should flat out pay for up to the poverty line, because Medicaid is a joke.
Did you know they keep the Medicaid registration fee even if they deny you?
They extend up to 350% of the poverty line, though obviously less generous as they close in. The House's extends to 400% and are more generous generally.
Since government revenues are taxes duh
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Sadly a lot of them aren't. If they were we might have a sane and efficient tax code.
The Village. It's a pocket universe.
Sanjay Gupta told me that if you can't find insurance for 8% or less of your annual income, then you can apply for a hardship exemption.
The mandate starts in 2014 with a $95 fine, which will escalate to $750 by 2016.
Not that I am proposing David Broder feed his nutsack to a paper shredder.
As usual, Jay Smooth is right
EDIT: Bunning didn't vote.
I love this man.
W00t!
I think that's the right reaction.
Dinner at my conservative in-laws will be fun tonight!
He's pissed that his premiums are sure as shit going to go up. What's making him think this? Is it valid?