Courageous Teddy Strikes Back at Limbaugh
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"Just imagine a health care system that looks like ... the local DMV," said Blunt. "Lines, paper work, taking a number.

wow. that seems really difficult to imagine...

what the fuck are these guys talking about?? it's like they've never gone to the fucking doctor. ever.

who has ever gone to the doctor and not had to wait or fill out (gasp!) paperwork?!??

I can't imagine the horrors of a health care system where no one would be allowed to profit by allowing patients to die rathrr than treating them.

That's the bottom line here, and I never let anyone forget it in any discussion of "socialist" health care: do you really want to trust your life to a business model where a private company gets to make life and death decisions, and can realize larger profits by allowing their customers to die?

Roy Blunt must live in the alternate reality where there is no insurance company paperwork (if you have insurance). Or if you don't have insurance, in the alternate reality where there is never a line at the ER.

Specter should just switch parties and give us 60 Senators in the Senate if Toomey officially declares.

If I were Cornyn I would encourage Toomey NOT to run against Specter in the primary for that means that they may end up being a Democratic pick up.

Maybe we should get AIG to run our countries health care insurance.

I have _never_ heard a radio address.

I think that it is more for the media than the public anyway: a vehicle to put out a message over a slow news time. The media's repeating of the address is where the action takes place, not in hearing or seeing the original... My $ 0.02...

Ok, this is newsworthy. Maybe people will finally wake up on this stupid issue. It is substantially cheaper to keep murderers in prison for life rather than executing them. Throw on top of that that you don't have to worry about killing someone who might be innocent and having 12 law abiding citizens become murderers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_re_us/expensive_to_execute;_ylt=ApIPVAvgVSV86gzGwWHaswsDW7oF

When will people wake the f' up?

IRS or DMV? Is that the best you losers got?

Jesus.

Okay, I realize that they are going to obstruct on healthcare reform until the last, miserable minute that something is signed into law. And i understand it, in the sense that their entire ideology rests on things like Healthcare reform not being effected in this country...

That said, why can't we simply start a talking point of wanting to at least TRY some reform, and if it fails like Republicans insist that it will, there are circuit breakers installed in the plan that will allow it to easily lapse and revert to what we have now.

Let the Republicans be in the ridiculous position of telling the American people that they don't even want to give it a chance to fail... let them say every minute of every day that it WILL fail, but let them say out the other side of their mouth that they don't want to try it out even for a second

I'm kinda suffering an epiphany. With the legions of unemployed growing daily, the ranks of people with cable/internet connects will start dropping rapidly. It won't be too long before ISP's begin moseying up to the feeding trough for bail-out funds. Also, without internet and cable service, people will be switching back to the old modes of info sources: television, newspapers, land-line phones, and 56-k modem connections for internet access. People will still want their television service for inexpensive entertainment so the selling off of the television bandwidth may not happen or the converter boxes will be freebies by the government for those under financial duress. Phone companies will see a resurgence in subscribers - no mo cellphones, and newspapers and magazines will see an increased demand for circulations and advertisers will be back supporting the local media. In short, we're on our way back to the past to cope with the future.

btw Blunt...we are so sick of hearing "Republicans are committed to....perfection". Might as well just end after "republicans are committed"... as you actually have no plans except the continuation of failure...No one wants government 'bureaucracy'...we want government efficiency which, with people like you will seldom be Accomplished since you are dedicated to proving how government doesn't work and always find new ways to privatize and profiteer off of the taxpayer.

Government would work a lot better if we could get rid of those trying to demonize it. Getting rid of republicans everywhere we find them is a good start to restoring our democracy and our economy.

Here in MO we know you won't be with us much longer as a rep or a senator and hopefully your corruption will eventually come out for aiding in the sale of states secrets...once the gag orders on the whistle blowers put there by Ashcroft are removed.

"Just imagine a health care system that looks like a government run operation most of us are all too familiar with - the local DMV," said Blunt. "Lines, paper work, taking a number. Or how about another government agency - the IRS."

Yeah, uh, that's what we people in the real world already have to put up with, dumbass. Well, those of us who are "lucky" enough to actually have coverage.

I wasn't sure what I was hearing, so I copied it verbatim:

I'm concerned that if the government steps in it will eventually push out a private health care plan that mills of Americans enjoy today. this could cause your employer to simply stop offering coverage, hoping the government will pick up the slack.

So, what Blount is saying is that if the Feds drive the private plans out of existence, your employer might consider not offering that NON-EXISTENT coverage.

Sheesh. What's insulting--among so many other things--is that they don't even make the effort to come up with a logical argument. And the truly sad thing is that you will hear the Rush, Hannity, Coulter, O'Really spout this line, followed by millions of Dittos dittering.

Interesting comments! Beetlejuice seems to have a good grasp of the situation. This discussion on health care is Obama's promise to the people. Unfortunately not much is likely to happen. Ask the Calnurses. There are some elements of power in the nation that are beginning to feel a little uneasy. The question for them is how to placate the people in the lowest cost way. The really big people are still quite smug. Witness the United States Federal Reserve of Private Banks refusing to tell congress who they handed the AIG money off to. Things are going down fast now. When people begin seeing their children's stomachs knotting up from hunger they will pick up the sword. It will be an ugly world.

Anyone read the NYT article from today?

Specifically this part.

Q. Have you figured out how you would draw the lines against endless rescues?

A. Part of the function of the stress test that is being conducted by Treasury right now is to make a determination using some worst-case scenario – what that would mean for a bank’s balance sheet. And I think that what you should see emerging there is an awful lot of banks that are in decent shape considering the circumstances. They’ve been managed well. They didn’t take undue risks. Obviously, they’re being hit like every business is being hit by the recession, but they can recover, and if they do need help, it’s going to be short-term help. There may be a handful of institutions that have more serious problems. And what we want to do is to cauterize the wound.

The news on the stress tests sounds good to me. I'm sure the results will ease peoples concerns.

I'm assuming, once they are complete, Geithner will release his plan for the zombie banks out there. Then the talking heads on T.V. can scour for something else to complain about since he'll have acted on the three pillars he spoke of; creating jobs through his recovery act, helping home owners caught in this mess with the home affordability act and lastly, and lastly, Geithners announcement on his plans going forward which will surely be announced when the stress tests are complete.

Even though I live in a state where the DMV was part of a major scandal that resulted in the governor's conviction, at least people who need drivers' licenses can get them. That's not true of health care.

IIll and Uninsured in Illinois