Comments on: Putting Health Care into Context

By: chriszolkowski

chriszolkowski — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:41:07 +0000

People don't get it do they. We are trying to have the highest standard of living and have all the amenaties of other countries like free health care, too. Well, if we continue on the road we are on, we will get our free healthcare and also, our economy will go down the toilet. But does anyone care. No. All we care about is what we think we can get out of the government now. Hey how about free college and free cars. If we would have free college, everyone would have a chance to succeed, right. And free cars is very important. How are people to get to work and school without vehicles. Now there is public transportation but we can force people to use public transportation can we? We don't make the rich take public transportation. Most of your rich people get company cars or government owned cars. That is an insult isn't it. Give me my government car I demand my rights.

By: Father_Time

Father_Time — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:31:08 +0000

Yes it is extraordinary political skill to say the least. It is very difficult to actually get something done in American politics. Even if you do, you will live to regret it, such is the partisan state of politics created by our Social Darwinist republican party and their corporate puppet masters. Though their elimination is painfully slow, we are determined to create some semblance of Social Justice within our country.

Unfortunately our newly passed bill must take on more machinations before it becomes law. As well, it will still take years before we have proper Socialized Medicine thanks to the false belief that Socialized medicine or even the very word “Social” is a spell of satan’s evil, thanks to corporate funded propaganda. However it is a milestone passed virtually without any republican help what-so-ever.

Right makes might as it were. We shall drag our ignorant diluted brethren kicking and screaming into the twenty first century as the rest of the free world applauds their approval with our intrepid modernization project.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:11:32 +0000

Don't forget the failure to pass health care legislation completely this year (though in addition to hyping the Senate legislation in and of itself, passing the Senate legislation seems to be quickly being claimed as “passing health care legislation” by some, I've noticed — as well as calling the Senate but not the House legislation “landmark” (!) legislation).

I actually don't blame Obama solely for any of these delays, though perhaps he (excuse me, Bush) could be delayed for these as well, because it's like failure to fill so many vacancies in his administration in a timely manner. (Of course, that can be blamed on Bush as well, too.)

By: dduck12

dduck12 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:36:46 +0000

And, rightfully so. Everyone knows that Bush left a secret device that squirts out a psychedelic gas every three hours. This gas, appropriated from Saddam's secret WMD (weapons of mass delusion) stockpile, causes the inhalers to continue the thinking and actions of the previous White House tenant. Hence, the Iran decision and the failure to close Guantanamo, among other things. However, it is weakening so it may be pure O, from here on.

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:20:51 +0000

“Answer the ones with the 60 votes.”

1) It's Bush's fault! 2) The Republicans should have known better and Done Something when the could have; it's their fault. (As would still be the case, today, if we began hostilities now with Iran)

By: dduck12

dduck12 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:01:56 +0000

I wonder what your friend would say when, given that the Dems have 60 votes, they couldn't have done this months ago. Or they could they have just set up a fund to pay for the 30 million, again months ago. Hmmmm, smells like BS, and feels like a lack of starch in the spine. But, this is show business, and the show must go on.
Nonsense question, if some of those 30 million people died while this unnecessary delay took place, who is responsible? Answer the ones with the 60 votes.