Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill
In which John offers a summary of the health care reform bill that just passed the US senate, discussing the insurance exchange market, pre-existing condition clauses, medicare taxes, and other fine points of the still-under-debate bill. Here’s a good explanation of how the insurance exchanges will look like: bit.ly Thanks to Alan Lastufka ( youtube.com ) for the Ben Nelson asshat photo. About abortion: The senate plan works like this: Policies covering abortion would be available in the …
wesleywildcat84 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 8:35 am
@megarational: Gee, you mean like comparing health care to EVERYTHING but… Health Care?
wesleywildcat84 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 9:29 am
If you know something about history, it was once said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Freedom of choice (including the choice not to choose, while accepting the consequences) is what makes America great, not the only thing, but it’s one of them. This is a THREAT to that.
I should pay for what I use and want to protect, not having something that I MUST buy or DIE.
I should make a law in Canada that you must buy a washer and dryer or I can legally assault you… sound good to you?
wesleywildcat84 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 10:11 am
That’s not an option, and that’s why it is so very un-American and anti-Capitalist (meaning, against what’s pushed us forward before). It’s anti-Freedom and so on.
I want lower taxes, I want MY health insurance and OPTIONS, not something the government calls an OPTION when it is a requirement.
A tax credit to buy health insurance (like a voucher for schools), let’s talk.
When my options are, buy this, go to jail, get fined, or die? Big problem.
wesleywildcat84 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 11:10 am
Uh, yeah:
Taxes = Public Requirement
Voluntary Premium = Not for Profit Option
The latter sounds fine, the former? Not good.
I know that taxes are required, and I want them cut significantly, or I want the government see through with simple legislation that anyone can learn and understand over lunch doing something beneficial. To try and twist my words and act like I don’t know that taxes are required and this would raise them is ridiculous. Alzheimer’s got a hold on you.
wesleywildcat84 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 11:21 am
Complete with a swing set and sandbox… you said public parks, not conservation lands. How these even translate, I don’t know. You know what would happen? So called Environmentalists would have to put their work into fundraising for conservation instead of raising energy costs instead of letting innovators innovate.
Al Gore wouldn’t make money, at best, he’d make a regular man’s salary doing something good. By the way, developer condos in Wyoming… not classy.
wesleywildcat84 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 12:12 pm
Yeah, Private Corporations do that to raise profit and also job opportunities.
If you want them to stop, tell your government to repeal legislation where an honest mistake could put a CEO in jail for 10 years and a mass fine, cut corporate taxes so that they can expand their business and hire more people, and maybe even have some extra money to pay for employee health care as to keep their brightest and best around… see how this works? They leave America because of taxes… like this one
EllysaE Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
I love how Willy blinks, he’s like I’m sooooooooooo interested in this -.-
scopapa33 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 1:24 pm
uh no, not like the government. again, what would a 62 year old canadian farmer know about the us gov? not much. BTW, i am still waiting for an answer on why there is a cornhusker kickback if this is so good for each state and its citizens?
petiemac12 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 2:19 pm
lol….just the ones in bed with the government…..like Fannie and Freddie!!!
petiemac12 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 2:58 pm
So now the government can force me to buy something? Can you say USSR?
petiemac12 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 3:31 pm
lol…o god u kill me….Look at post offices, amtrak, social security….they are all bankrupt!
petiemac12 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 3:38 pm
You are making my cheeks hurt….lol…..We do all have health care just not health insurance.
petiemac12 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
lol….You trust the government?….lol….You are the only person I ever heard say that.
petiemac12 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 4:56 pm
Wow….This guy is socialist. Ron Paul for President 2012….Peter Schiff for Senate 2010!!!
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 5:14 pm
And corporations don’t suck money out of you?
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 5:44 pm
Maybe that woman worked her whole life at a low-paying job. Maybe that woman lost everything in the Enron scandal. Maybe health problems destroyed her savings.
You don’t know her history, but judge her because she doesn’t have money.
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 6:24 pm
If the U.S. had a national health care program everyone would have to contribute. It would be up to you whether you wanted to buy supplementary insurance.
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 6:57 pm
Taxes are a requirement, not an option. Learn the difference.
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 7:35 pm
The American national park system, without government intervention, would have been a sea of private developer condos.
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 8:01 pm
For important social goals I trust the government more than I trust private corporations.
Private corporation only have the goal of sucking as much money out of the public as it can. Then they use the money for huge CEO salaries or ship it overseas.
yaoshao2002 Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 8:49 pm
I resent that you say people without insurance are making *stupid* decisions. Most of the time those people just can’t afford healthcare insurance plans that are worthwhile and will cover a lot, and cheap insurance plans have high deductible so you just wind up paying out of pocket for that plus the monthly fee. If you want to say something is stupid, call corporations that pay workers too little *stupid.*
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 9:00 pm
That would be a good guess.
In any case, inflation or no, America really should try do something to insure all citizens at least have access to h.c.
If it can’t even do that, when all other advanced nations have done it, ………
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 9:41 pm
Most people are taxpayers.
A health care system that insures access no matter what circumstances, even if temporary, is insurance FOR taxpayers as well.
megarational Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 10:26 pm
And h.c. insurance, which is really just a tax to make possible the goal of more universal access to h.c., is mandatory if you live.
If you live, you have a chance to get sick or injured, or to live to an older age where you may develop health issues that make you “high risk”, or live to be a senior where you may need a program like Medicare.
RefusetoListen Said,
January 10, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
cute and informative, five stars!