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healthcare overhaul needs GOP to pass?

Doesn't it just need the Democratic party for it to pass? Is that a way of putting the blame on the GOP when their own party doesn't agree due to serious flaws?

Update:

Why should it be passed? The majority of the people don't want it. Aren't politicians elected to represent the people?

What difference does it make what the European coutries do? America is thrived because of our freedoms and our separation from these other developed countries.

Why does the democratic party need republicans to pass this bill? all it need is full backing of its own party. Only the extreme left want this. The moderates(who actually represent the people) know this is a bad idea.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It didn't get rushed through before the recess.

    Congress is going home.

    When they get there, they will hear a big earfull from about 80 million baby boomers whose Medicare Trust Fund is now up for grabs and ready for some "spread the wealth around" to the ACORN street people, who don't vote, and don't have addresses.

    Each politician depending on their IQ will need about 1 to 5 Town Hall Meetings before they get it into their heads -- Medicare in the Third Rail of American Politics -- if they touch it they're dead.

    So give this idea some sink in time, it's got to get through about four inches of bone to get down to those little walnut sized political snake brains.

    But know this, when those guys and gals get back to DC, there will be Pelosi and about 19 others in the House for Obama to count on, and there will be Dodd and about 4 others in the Senate for Obama to look to.

    It's toast.

    Pack in up, wrap it in cellophane, get in ready the shelf in the National Archives next to Hillary Care.

    Flaws Schmaws -- the Obama Care Plan turns Medicare into another huge Ponzi scheme, now exploded, like Bernie Madoff's scheme.

    My generation is not going to get mugged by this President, I don't care how smooth he talks.

    Third Rail = Big Zap = Dumb Move

    Landslide to Lame Duck in under 6 months -- what a sprinter!

    If there's any boxes that he hasn't unpacked at the White House, he could just leave the tape on them.

    Source(s): The School of Ballet Dancing and doing Pirouettes in Tights told me when I was there photographing the Rahm E.
  • trip
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    to furnish the visual charm that this may be a bipartisan difficulty. Comrade Obama and something of the socialists controlling Congress % the GOP votes to fool the american human beings into helping his communist well-being care plan.

  • 1 decade ago

    Health care overhaul is like a band aid on a broken leg. what is required is socialized medicine in the same fashion more developed countries have.

  • 1 decade ago

    Believe it or not there are some democrats with a vested interest in the status quo. So yes, the reform does need republicans to be in favor. Shouldn't they be anyway though?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    typical pass the buck liberal coward stuff. go figure, I wonder how many will give a question to your question instead of answering it?

  • DAR
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Any GOP who vote for this will be remembered, and not favorably.

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