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Why Are GOPHeads So Perfect At Pointing Out What The Dems AREN'T Doing About Health Care...?
...And yet have not one single thing to offer in the way of a viable answer themselves? Maybe they can't recite the list of things because they're out of breath...from lugging around all that kickback money the lobbyists from Big Insurance have stuffed into their back pockets. And in the interest of being fair, there are plenty of Dems suffering from the same condition. But, c'mon! Private health care accounts? REALLY? Didn't Georgie Porgie suggest we do the same exact thing with Social Security? That slurping sound you hear is all of Bernie Madoff's brothers in arms, licking their chops and hoping your suggestion succeeds.
As usual, lots and lots of obfuscation and plausibe deniability from the lock-stepping Right. And just FYI, I happen to be a self-described "unhappy Democrat." No, I don't like the non-solutions the Repugs have come up with, but that doesn't mean that I'm one of the "shiny, happy people" agreeing with everything my party says and does, either. Someone here who might get the Best Answer award put it best: the GOP had EIGHT FULL YEARS to do anything and everything to address health care woes and provide Americans with a better way, a better plan. Where did all those billions of dollars go that could've helped them knock it out of the park? IRAQ, for one thing. So, please - yell all ya want about how the Dems are going to take us to hell in a handbasket when it comes to health care reform. YOU had nearly a decade to do better, and you blew it. BIG time.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
How about Republicans who were HOLDING the ball on healthcare the last 8 years and didn't do a damned thing to help it, and let the cost TRIPLE in that time!!!
And now the rest of us are somehow supposed to CARE what their opinions are? And listen to what they say?
Isn't that kind of like putting Charles Manson in charge of school personal safety classes?
Source(s): To the guys above - any "tax cut" for healthcare is just another CORPORATE REPUBLICAN giveaway, since that money will go to Republican Donator private insurance companies - REAL FRIGGIN SURPRISING that's your idea. AND it will just further exacerbate the budget deficit, won't it geniuses??? - The PatriotLv 71 decade ago
They have answers. None of which really would work.
FACT - Insurance companies in the USA admit to pushing up prices, buying politicians and not paying out claims when they should
FACT - PER PERSON the USA spends more on healthcare than any other nation on the planet
FACT - Obama debated his plans before the election for healthcare
FACT - the chance of a child under five of dying in the USA is greater than industrialised nations with universal health coverage
FACT - Obama was elected by the American people to bring in change
FACT - Obama wants to stop insurance companies from screwing the American people
FACT - The reforms Obama wants work in the Netherlands and Switzerland
But then, they are funded by those who profit out of the current system...
Source(s): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/26/us-hea... http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erspfMkqLN4 http://www.unicef.org.uk/campaigns/publications/pd... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elect... http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/world... http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publicatio... - 1 decade ago
Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff was a big time Liberal Democratic, donor and fundraiser. Your hitting on the right topics, however, your not connecting the dots. For example, there is nothing wrong with our health care. Many many Lobbyists are working in the WH for Obama. Big Pharma, Insurance, all are on board with Obama. Also, Republicans have very little to offer as far as most Conservatives are concerned. They too are going to be replaced in 2010.
- david vLv 41 decade ago
want a few?
AMA offered to give free medical treatment to the uninsured for tax deductions.
Why wont Dims talk about malpractice insurance that costs the average doctor between 35 to 45% of every dollar he brings in. I know your a Dim and this might be hard to understand but if insurance is costing you that much maybe just maybe you will raise your costs to cover it not because of greed but out of need.
Pass loser pays including the attorney tort reform. Let the doctors treat the sick. Then we can talk about some catastrophic coverage for emergencies. This pressing need to immediatly throw away our health care system is stupidity at its finest.
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- 1 decade ago
do you REALLY think pelosi and reid are about to allow any GOP bills to be considered? you're maybe forgetting who controls the agenda...
there have been numerous suggestions floated that have been dismissed out of hand...like tort reform, which would have an immediate impact on the price of health care...allowing health care proviers to simply treat the uninsured for NOTHING, then claim the expense as a deduction on their taxes...expand medicaire to cover the uninsured as they do the elderly...allowing more choice in coverage thru competition by allowing health insurers to cross state lines...allowing people to keep their coverage from 'job to job'...that's just from a quick, 3am 'off the top of my head'...just because the dems choose to ignore any other ideas besides 'intergalactic collectivist comrade care', doesn't mean that the ideas aren't being offered
the biggest problem in the whole debate is that it's based on a flawed premise...that there's a 'crisis'...the number of uninsured floated by 0bama is a BIG whopper...take HIS numbers and divide by about 2 1/2 to 3...over 3/4 of the American people are happy with their insurance coverage and with their health care provider
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The liberals that want free health care want their neighbors to borrow more money from China to pay for it and hope your children and grand children can pay the bill.
Each month we pay another 1.4 Billion dollars in interest on the National Debt. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office states that Obama will double the debt in 5 years and tripple it in 10 years.
They also estimate the 10 year cost of Obama care to be 1 trillion dollars.
Is it too much to ask for a responsible federal government?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
They don't. $5,000 tax credit per year per family? It costs $1500 a month for family for good insurance. They are not ready, willing and able to provide a good health care bill so that hard working middle class citizens can afford insurance. They do not want anything changed. Sad.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Wait, this is a joke, right?
Here is one of the many proposals.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Maybe if you pay attention, you would realize that your Party has ignored many attempts by the GOP. You seem that close minded that you have never even heard the other options. Don't worry, Pelosi/Reid/Obama made sure you didn't. You might like the Republican idea better. Tax Credit/Reform.
Look it up. I don't feel like leaving you links to common sense and responsibility. Oh wait, you like Obama, nevermind...............
