On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> "It still has nothing to do with socialism." >> >> Ahh, but it does. The bill itself is a socialist ideal. The health care >> system will come to resemble European health care systems unless the bill is >> repealed. > > At this point I have to question your intelligence Jerry. I followed > the bill progress very closely because 1) It is a long standing > interest of mine. I was knocking on doors in 1994 for health care > reform and 2) this is the industry I work in. > > The bill, as passed, basically requires every citizen in country > (under Medicare eligibility age) to buy private health insurance. > Private health insurance, Jerry. > > Your bullshit about "socialist ideal" is a giant pile of crap. Obama > and the Senate Dems explicitly took single payer off the table before > negotiations even started. Which is a lousy way to negotiate if you > ask me, but then again, the Obama administration doesn't really ask > progressives what they think. Then came the so-called Public Option or > "Medicare for all". In yet another nod to the Republicans and > corporate-owned Dems (hi Blanche Lincoln!) that was taken off the > table. > > Not only did governmental control of health care not happen, > governmental control of health insurance didn't happen and not even a > government backed plan was allowed to compete with private insurance. > > We instituted a Republican sponsored Individual Mandate and took every > progressive backed plan to bring down costs (the Public Option reduced > the deficit, remember?) off the table. > > Yeah, fucking socialism Jerry.
Maybe Jerry meant Communism? ;) :Den -- The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. Michel de Montaig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326626 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
