blaze's Comments (93)

“All the more reason for single-payer. The moment that the Dems agreed to keep a for profit insurance scheme in play, they guaranteed a weaker bill.

That said, $3000 sure is better than $12,000.”

“Leeuniverse...

I DO believe that Conservati­ves/Republ­icans are immoral like that. They show me every day (and twice on Sundays).
Not only are they immoral like that, but they project that immorality onto others and deny it in themselves.”

“lmb421... The Government is not "profiting" from insurance companies. Insurance companies are lobbying Congress with dollars. That's what all the $$$$$$$$$$­$$$$$$$$$$­$$$$$$$$ are about. If we had single-payer healthcare (not to mention publicly financed elections) that problem would disappear.

By the way 421... For profit medical insurance is like paramutuel racing. The race track takes all the bets, takes their 25% from the top and pays out with the rest. What a racket, but at least the race track owners own the track. Insurance companies simply pays our bills with our money. The provide nothing toward health care and take that 20% anyway. Why do you support that?”

“The government is not subject to the court of public opinion... Hello? Beuler? What do you think elections are all about? What a maroon.”

“I suppose you'd have to mine their harbor.”

“I see... nobody in a Socialist country can go to movies because they have no money. Nobody in Socialist countries ever make profits. The Swedish government told Ingmar Berman what movies he could make.
Any other mis-information you would like to give us?”

“You are so right. The Bible says.. The love of money is the root of all evil.
Imagine our Capitalist system in play for a family sitting around the dinner table. Each family member is a corporation.
Since corporations are required by law to maximize profits for their investors, then the biggest family member around the table would be required by law to eat all the food, or at least as much of the food as he can control. Poor sister, who can't achieve the same market share is left with the bones, or with nothing.
It's that simple. Loving family is socialism at it's best. Let's extend our concern from the just the immediate family to the Family of Man.”

“So racism in America boils down to Liberals wanting to see racism.
How many times have you been associated with monkeys daffey? How many racist jokes have been thrown your way? I'm not sure you're qualified to make your statement.
It's amazing to me how many Republicans (not that you necessarily are, daffey) claim complete innocence to racism when I remember the Righty blogs pushing "The Bell Curve" on their sites. "The Bell Curve" argues that blacks just aren't as smart as whites.... that's their real problem.
My John Bircher father gave that book to all his sons one Christmas. He doesn't think he's a racist either because he's nice when he meets a black person. However, in the big picture, he's trying to prove to his sons that "they just aren't as smart as us".”

“The public option is not yet dead and even Howard Dean says that there is much to like about the plan even without a public option. That said, LET US HAVE A PUBLIC OPTION!”

“Again, like the Republicans always say, the uninsured really do have health care because they can always go to the emergency room. So, that 40 million you are talking about are flooding our ER's where the cost is quadruple. They are already in the system, it's not like they have been waiting for the all clear.
The savings that Obama claims will be recognized when that 40 million can see a GP rather than an ER doctor.
Social Security, Medicare, the Post Office, the VA...
If you want to see a system RIFE with fraud and abuse, check out the Insurance companies. Google the multitude of fines levied at them for fraud and abuse. Check out the 22% increase in premiums they are telling us they will levee this year. Budgets are easily handled if you can raise revenues by 22% on a whim.”

“I seem to remember a group of Muslims that were kicked off of a plane because they spoke Arabic and were seated in different areas of the plane.

It does happen in America.”

“You don't seem to think we would have to pay for a public plan as well. We who support such a plan don't mind paying for our health care. We do mind giving $60 billion dollars a year to a corporate middle-man who does nothing but take our money to pay our bills.
The CEO for Cigna health, not too long ago, realized over $1 billion of personal gain for one year of taking our money to pay for our bills. Not bad work if American Idiots let you get away with it.

Where does it say in the Constitution that, in order to bow down to the altar of Capitalism, 70% of Americans who want to create a national non-profit health insurance payment pool that is run by the government (we the people) are not allowed to do so?”

“Yeah, but the CBO said that with Clinton's surplus, the DEBT would be eliminated by 2008. Candidate Al Gore pledged to continue to buy down the debt and then put the surplus into a "lockbox" to "shore up Medicare and Social Security". Don't you think Americans would feel much better if Medicare and Social Security were secured for their futures? Doesn't Clinton/Gore get any credit for the amazing economies of the 90's? The middle class has never been so vibrant as during the Clinton years.
Instead, within months, Bush had eliminated that surplus and then tripled our national debt. The Bush administration were out front in their deregulation of the banking and energy industries that directly led to our "near depression". I realize that Clinton signed a deregulating bill, but it was a 2004 move by the Republican SEC commissioner Chris Cox that reduced the amount of security needed by brokerage houses and raised their debt ceilings, thus allowing them to deal with credit swaps and other hybrid vehicles that was the real culprit.
The same Republicans who declared their desire to "make government so small that you can drown it in a bathtub" ran the government so poorly that they now claim that they were right all along when they say "the government is the problem".
It really seems to me that the absolute disaster of the Bush presidency has been glossed over and forgotten by the US media. Where are the post-Bush analyses?”

“Where does it say in the Constitution that, in order to bow to the altar of Capitalism, a majority of United States Citizens is not allowed to form the largest possible NON-PROFIT insurance pool to pay for their health care?
The teabaggers are demanding that we all pay exorbitant profits to Insurance Corporations in order to get health care. If patients don't want to continue to add to their $60 billion a year profit margin, then they're called Un-American.
This demand for profits is just as onerous as any Stamp Tax. King George is in the board room and is truly frightened of an inspired, free populous that says, "WE CAN DO HEALTH CARE BETTER FOR LESS."”

“Where does it say in the Constitution that, in order to bow to the altar of Capitalism, a majority of United States Citizens is not allowed to form the largest possible NON-PROFIT insurance pool to pay for their health care?
The teabaggers are demanding that we all pay exorbitant profits to Insurance Corporations in order to get health care. If patients don't want to continue to add to their $60 billion a year profit margin, then we're Un-American. That demand for profits is just as onerous as any Stamp Tax. King George is in the board room and is truly frightened of an inspired, free populous that says, "WE CAN DO HEALTH CARE BETTER FOR LESS."”

“There is no bill. When we arrive at a final product, we can discuss it then.”

“How many of that 70% are on Medicare?
Just because they are happy with their current health care doesn't mean they won't be happy with health care for all.”

“To quote the prophet Isaiah, "Take counsel together and it shall come to nought." What a sad, sad, cynical statement. And what a sad state for Christians who have such devotion to their prophets.
What is happening in DC is not "counseling together", rather it is obfuscating, vascilating and outright lying. Counseling together implies good will and an intention toward an agreed end. The problem here is that there is no agreed end.
Single payer is absolutely the only way to go. The reason everything is going to be so expensive is that we are protecting insurance companies' profits (not prophets). People complain of $600 billion dollars cost in 10 years. Well that is exactly what insurance companies' PROFITS will be over that same year.”

“Obama just said, through Robert Gibbs, that it doesn't matter to him whether we have a public option or multiple co-ops. Tenacious?”

“Gates did show him his ID. It was the officer who refused to give his name and badge number as is required by law. The officer had already decided that it was Gates house... why did he say that Gates had to come outside instead of just leaving? He wanted an audience so he could press those charges. A person can yell all they want in their own house.”

“When a document is archived like Obama's birth certificate was in 2001, you cannot see an original, you can only see copies. The original is now in electronic form.”

“How is "A Certificate of Live Birth" not a birth certificate?”

“Yeah.. President of the Lou Dobbs fan club.”

“I e-mailed Lou Dobbs and asked him to fly to Hawaii and personally research the birth certificate and the two announcements in the papers. After all, that is what a real journalist would do. This is all about the "birthers" wanting the President to jump to their paranoid fantasies.”

“Liz is defending Iran/Contra. Another secret government fiasco that her Dad was involved in. Daniel Ortega was democratically elected to office. The fact that he is disgusted by the US who fought him in Nicaragua with a secret army, navy, and air force that was funded by US billionaires putting their money in secret off-shore accounts seems like a legitimate rant by Ortega.”