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2010-03-20 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 losing %30 to %40 of our doctors, forcing huge payments at penalty of jail to viperous insurance companies and leaving tort lawyers in the game to drive premiums to the stratosphere - yes it's a historic vote...

Posted by 3dc 2010-03-20 01:07|| 2010-03-20 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Historic passing of a set of laws? Yeah, in the way that the Nürnberg Laws were rammed through by the Nazi Party in the as the beginning of the end.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-03-20 01:27|| 2010-03-20 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Bingo OS. Historic indeed, for all the worse reasons.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2010-03-20 01:34|| 2010-03-20 01:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd say that the future of the Republic hangs in the balance but actually it might be more accurate to say that the fate of the putrifying corpse of the Republic that's been staggering around since the 1930s hangs in the balance.

Posted by AzCat 2010-03-20 03:59|| 2010-03-20 03:59|| Front Page Top

#5 "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

- Benjamin Franklin

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-20 07:28|| 2010-03-20 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6
The United States is the only industrialized Western nation which has failed to provide some sort of insurance for all it citizens.

Yeah, and after this mess passes it still won't.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-03-20 10:09|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-03-20 10:09|| Front Page Top

#7 The Coersive Acts Part II. Keep digging.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-20 11:09|| 2010-03-20 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "The United States is the only industrialized Western nation which has failed to provide some sort of insurance for all it citizens."

Notice how the lying liar always stops there. He never goes on to point out that the UK has now formed their own tea party movement or that Germany is in the red and will have to either raise taxes or cut services (or both). Or how about France, who let 15,000 of their elderly die in 2003? Or Canada whose own SC had to rule that it's unconstitutional for people to DIE waiting for health care?

Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-03-20 17:57|| 2010-03-20 17:57|| Front Page Top

#9 "The United States is the only industrialized Western nation which has failed to provide some sort of insurance for all it citizens."

...And yet citizens and illegals alike are not denied treatment at emergency rooms at levels of care that many of the other industrialized Western nations can only wish for.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-20 19:49|| 2010-03-20 19:49|| Front Page Top

#10 "The United States is the only industrialized Western nation which has failed to provide some sort of insurance for all it citizens."

Gee, I must have missed the section of the Constitution that authorizes the federal gummint to "provide" insurance of any kind.

And the section that says the gummint can do it by stealing money from working people and businesses (but I repeat myself) ~~at gunpoint~~ and forking it over to others who don't/won't work.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-20 23:18|| 2010-03-20 23:18|| Front Page Top

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