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k2o4 United States. Mar 25 2010 10:08. Posts 4803 | | |
A friend of mine posted this blog with a link to 18 immediate effects of the Health Reform bill. I liked his post so here's some of it or go read it all at the first link.
| | As many of you know already, history was made on Sunday with the passing of comprehensive Health Care reform, and yesterday when President Obama made that bill the law with his signature. After almost a year of working to overhaul the Health Care system, voters, volunteers, community organizers, activists and politicians brought the change that so many needed. For the 14,000 people who lose their health insurance every day, this is a huge victory. For the 32 million people who will now have health insurance, this is a massive victory. For our nation that has been fighting for Health Care Reform for nearly 100 years, this is historic.
Fear and lies have ruled the Health Care Reform day ever since it was proposed by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt. The rumor spread by opponents back then was that it was a secret plot by the German Empire to take over the United States. Fear and lies won and the measure failed. When a health care overhaul was proposed by Democratic President Harry S. Truman it was destroyed by a rumor that the “Red Army,” or the Soviet Union, would be marching across our land. Fear and lies won again. When Bill and Hillary Clinton attempted to pass a major overhaul of the health care system, it fell flat on its face due to a particularly nasty lie, the “rationing of care,” which meant that the government would have a say as to when a sick person should stop receiving care. Fear and lies won by a landslide.
It should come as no surprise then, that the opponents of our generations push for health reform tried every lie in the book. They took a page from Teddy Roosevelt & Harry Truman’s day, saying that it was a socialist/communist take over by the governmen. Next thing you know, Obama will be telling you when to sleep. They took a page from Bill & Hill’s day by conjuring up the catchy notion of “death panel” that would decide when you grandparents would die. Even comparisons of Barack Obama and Hitler were drawn in attempts to “kill the bill.” This time, thankfully, fear and lies lost. |
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k2o4 United States. Mar 25 2010 10:09. Posts 4803 | | |
btw due to traveling I have short time on the net and sometimes go quite a few days without being online so that's why my posts are so short, sporadic, and I haven't replied to any comments =) |
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blackjacki2 United States. Mar 25 2010 12:16. Posts 2582 | | |
I thought the huffingtonpost link was interesting, but the blog you quoted was kind of lame. The theme seemed to be that people can rise up to make change. Would make more sense if the "people" didn't disapprove of the bill and the Dems didn't need to twist arms or bribe their party members just to get the votes from their colleagues who fear being voted out of office by the "people." |
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Highcard Canada. Mar 25 2010 15:28. Posts 5428 | | |
i like the 18 things, seems like a good new law. I can't believe you guys have a lifetime max insurance and once you go over that you are no longer covered for the rest of your life.........WTF |
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all this means is that i'm gonna have to pay a shitload more in premiums so some lazy ass with no job can get insured off my extra premium  |
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NewbSaibot United States. Mar 25 2010 20:44. Posts 4946 | | |
| | On March 25 2010 16:54 rS.Wisdom[9] wrote:
all this means is that i'm gonna have to pay a shitload more in premiums so some lazy ass with no job can get insured off my extra premium |
Or that when you get cancer your insurance company cant say "lol have a nice day!" after paying into the system for 30 years. |
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k2o4 United States. Mar 29 2010 03:50. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On March 25 2010 11:16 blackjacki2 wrote:
I thought the huffingtonpost link was interesting, but the blog you quoted was kind of lame. The theme seemed to be that people can rise up to make change. Would make more sense if the "people" didn't disapprove of the bill and the Dems didn't need to twist arms or bribe their party members just to get the votes from their colleagues who fear being voted out of office by the "people." |
The people do approve of the bill from the last I saw, and there was a huge movement of people working to get it passed. And the arm twisting had to happen because of the threats from special interest lobbies and right wing republicans. |
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