Arianna appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" tonight to discuss GOP fearmongering on health care reform and the need for Democrats to stop appeasing Republicans in this critical debate.
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Momentum can build into something bigger and more progressive over time: Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ all achieved most of their big historic changes after more than a year in office.
A.O.Olmos
Advocate For Seniors And The Disabled
A.O.Olmos
Advocate For Seniors And The Disabled
The death panles are there. They are in power and wotrling overtime to kill off any person who WAS insured and got REALLY ill. Because the private companies boot out anyone who costs money to feed profits tp people who never did a single day of productive work in their entire lives.
Every BOOOO they call at us to scare us is already in place! - The problem is they do not object to thousands of americans dying. - They want to be the ones controlling who dies.
They have to hide that everything they scare us with is already there and in working condition - making profits for shareholders. In a field like medicine and others there is a golden rule we all have to realize: Every single dime going into the pocket of anyone how neither needs it nor worked for it is lost to the base cause of what that money was spent for in the first place. People do NOT give insurance companies money to make the rich richer. They do it so they get help when they need it. But that is the exacvt opposit of making profits so they don't get the help.
Profit in and of itself is not bad. But in a field paid for by the people to make the people healthy or safe ANY profit made by outsiders of that process causes damage to
I totally agree. As long as we are distracted by a discussion of right wing antics…however seriously disruptive…we give their actions credence and delay the business at hand.
I love you but you played into their game. We need to STOP talking about their fear mongering because that becomes the story. We need to START talking about how broken the system is. If we can get across to the people that the system is broken, corrupt, decayed and gone on to its final reward, then and only then do we have a chance to offer a solution. Premature elaboration of the solution will result in a bad solution or none at all.
Denis
We have socialist police protection.
We have socialist fire protection.
We have socialist highways and bridges.
We have socialist public schools.
We have socialist parks.
We have socialist prisons.
We have socialist military protection.
We have socialist airports and trains.
We have socialist health care for seniors (Medicare).
We have socialist pensions for seniors (Social Security).
Using their logic, aren't we already "socialist"?
And what's wrong with being SOCIAL when you live in a SOCIETY?
The only things fitting the definition on your list is Medicare and Social Security.
These are things which redistribute the wealth. Taking from one category of people and giving it to another.
Social Security takes from one class (Those who earn it) and gives it to another (those that did not earn it).
Nothins wrong with being Social; just as nothins wrong with being Liberal.
Where oh where did we go wrong...
need a secondary insurance to pay the remaining 20% after Medicare pays their reduced amount. Medicare also takes a monthly fee from the social security check.
However, this is a pretty good system for most.
Why can't the Gov't offer this to people who need ins. and leave the status quo alone.
They are spending billions on stimulus and tarp etc and should be able to fund this for the truly uninsured. (not the illegals who don't go thru the immigration service.
So many in between Medicaid and Medicare are in need of vision, dental and health care.
Give the insurance some competition but don't run them out of business the way so many of our other businesses have been driven away by some of the tax policies.
Who will pay for the single payor option when the dollar collapses?
I was a day ahead of your dear leader's friend Buffet.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a9mG8NMzMGTw
The details of the plan won't matter if no one can sign the check.
But, the new health care reform WILL be fully funded. We are not borrowing money to pay for it like the Republicans did when they brought us Medicare D. FYI the cost is one trillion - over TEN YEARS. To compare it: the Iraq War costs us 8 - 9 billion ONE year.
My blog:
http://next-world-war.blogspot.com
Think Progress is reporting on the latest demonstration of how morally bankrupt he is. He now has a conspiracy theory that he shares with the Financial Times:
Armey: Obama will hype up ‘outbreak of swine flu’ to get ‘bed-wetters’ to support health care reform.
"In September or October there will be a hyped up outbreak of the swine flu which they’ll say is as bad as the bubonic plague to scare the bed-wetters to vote for healthcare reform," said Mr Armey. "That is the only way they can push something on to the American people that the American people don’t want."
Is this going to be the next talking point?
So when we have an outbreak and it's reported in the news is Armey going to say "See, I predicted it."
It could be a very bad time. Just recently Britain was reporting over 100,000 new cases a week.