dilettantedude

First Read of House Health Care Reform Act (H.R. 3200)

it's refreshing to see someone who doesn't indulge in the hypocrisy of claiming any of the higher human virtues like mercy or compassion for those less fortunate than you are. just keep the money and to hell with everyone else. god forbid we should pay for better schools or healthcare if it doesn't benefit us personally. much better to spend that money on ourselves for granite kitchen countertops and another 500 square feet of 'bonus room.'


On Jul 17 01:03 PM jackooo wrote:

> Where does it say that the average or richer person has to subsidize
> other people or their children?
> I do not get the dependent tax write off. I did not have the pleasure
> of conceiving them.
> So what do I get? I get to pay for their schooling. Pay for their
> incarceration. Pay for their welfare. Pay for their medical care.
> Pay for their housing. Anddd now pay for their health insurance?
>
> Wise up democratic congress & Obama. I would like to keep some
> of the change you promised in MY pocket!!

First Read of House Health Care Reform Act (H.R. 3200)

this is simply ignorant. overhead expense in medicare is a bit above 3%, compared with 20% - 25% for private plans. i suppose if it actually is in terrible shape (evidence, please?), then our private pay scheme is far worse. we could easily pay for an expansion of the medicare program for all citizens with far lower overhead by using the huge private healthcare premiums we all pay today anyway.

the us is the only industrialized country in the world that would rather use its money to maintain a huge offensive standing invasion force and kill foreigners for oil, than to pay for health care and a decent education for its citizens.

next time please do try to use some facts and an intelligent rationale.


On Jul 16 11:39 AM SPOTS wrote:

> As a medicare and health care insider, I have said for 3 years that
> it was absolutely certain that Congress would create a national insurance
> plan. The reason that it assuredly will happen is that medicare
> is in impossibly terrible shape. Much worse than the people understand.
> The numbers say it will fold in 2017. But even that near date paints
> it much better than it is.
>
> So the only way out is to bury the disastrous numbers in a national
> health plan. The plan is in 2 basic stages: 1) create a national
> insurance plan funded by taxpayers 2) merge it with medicare, probably
> under the guise of saving overhead costs. 3) Use the tax increases
> to prop up medicare.
>
> To summarize: much less medical care for much more tax, for everyone.