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Whopper of the day: Sebelius says half of America will be denied coverage if 0care repealed

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Posted by Beavis 2011-01-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Nothing they ever say is the truth.

Posted by newc 2011-01-20 00:22|| 2011-01-20 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 But the media will be sure to repeat the lie over and over and over again. Even when they know it's a lie.

After all a 8% increase in Social Security was a slash-cut which would leave billions of seniors eating catfood back in the 80's.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-20 00:53|| 2011-01-20 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll take my chances.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-01-20 04:39|| 2011-01-20 04:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Yesterday, I heard a Dim on the radio blasting the Trunks because if they repealed Obamacare, nobody's kids would have the insurance that Congress' kids do. Then he called the Trunks hypocrites (for wanting better insurance than "The Children"). My irony meter exploded.

Careful how many times you repeat that, Sherlock. Voters may start to look at your health care coverage, cost to you, and the taxes you pay on it, you hypocrite.

Posted by Bobby 2011-01-20 06:14|| 2011-01-20 06:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Whopper of the day: Sebelius says half of America will be denied coverage if 0care repealed

Make more sense when one considers the idea that the Donks don't consider anyone who'd vote against them as being 'American'. Based upon the last election that would be more than half of the available electorate. In turn that would leave a quarter of the total, or one half of the Donk defined Americans, who'd face coverage issues as recipients of the traditional Donk bread and games for votes programs.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-20 09:08|| 2011-01-20 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 The very title of the act -- "Affordable Care Act" -- IS A LIE.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-20 12:12|| 2011-01-20 12:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Another socialist sob story. And the part about losing coverage if you move to another state, exactly why is that? Does the Secretary care to explain? Anybody?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-01-20 12:13|| 2011-01-20 12:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh she damn sure knows, it is that knowledge which paved the way to the governorship...and beyond!

Somewhere between 48% and 86%. Ah, memories, really pinned that one down Scarecrow.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-01-20 12:28|| 2011-01-20 12:28|| Front Page Top

#9 So recommend that Congress pass a one page act limiting "pre-existing condition" clauses. While you're at it, allow people to buy health care insurance across state lines.

Posted by KBK 2011-01-20 19:51|| 2011-01-20 19:51|| Front Page Top

#10 i admit i never understood and probably it is because i come from a former british colony where we have universal health care guaranteed by government

but i never understood the US obsession with thinking govt provided healthcare was so evil

while then thinking at the same time that it is somehow sensible for private sector employers to be forced to pay expensive health insurance for their employees?

makes no sense at all to me

Don't know the ins and outs of obamacare, i'm sure it is pretty silly

but really the NHS works a treat in Britain

just like Medicare used to work in Australia

it is so much more civilised to not be worried that if you have a heart attack they will ask for your insurance number before they treat you

or that if you marry a poor man but your child needs cancer treatment that they will just die

I don't think it is socialist to have government healthcare

but i do think it is socialist to get in the way of private enterprise with too many regulations

or to bail out banks: they should have been allowed to fail. That is the healthy creative destruction phase of capitalism, it weeds out the weak.

i reckon 3 fixes would make the US a paradise on earth
1) universal NHS britain-style
2) Pay for it with funds that previously went to the UN. Pay the UN nothing from now on
3) Gun control laws. Seriously ordinary people don't need to roam the streets with deadly weapons. UK doesn't have it, Australia doesn't have it, we are very happy about that, it's a paradise!

Posted by anon1 2011-01-20 22:58|| 2011-01-20 22:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Dear God, not a British-style national health service, anon1! I already have to pay for my most expensive prescription out of pocket -- if we had an NHS I wouldn't be able to get it at all because I'm an adult.

Bottom line, when it works, a national health service is aimed at the greatest good for the greatest number. This means that common diseases and conditions will be budgeted for. But those of us that have things difficult to diagnose, or are rare, or difficult to treat, are cut off, because there is no money or time to deal with us.

At least here in the U.S., if my doctor is willing to spend the time, and my husband is willing to spend our money, we can have tests and treatments that keep me and about 5,000 others diagnosed with the same problem physically and mentally functioning. If I lived in a country served by a national health service, I would have died of lack of physical and mental function seven years ago.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-21 00:06|| 2011-01-21 00:06|| Front Page Top

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