Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[TheMercenary]

You knew it would happen sooner or later. This is funny as hell. A Youtube of the Demoncratic party discussing the Healthcare Bill.....

Laugh already...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aQC...layer_embedded

[classicman]

Don't bet on the House rubber-stamping the weaker Senate health care reform bill, Speaker Nancy Pelos (D-Calif.) said Thursday.

"I don't think it's possible to pass the Senate bill in the House," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. "I don't see the votes for it at this time."

But, said Pelosi, there are a number of different options that the House is considering, including passing the Senate bill along with a secondary bill making patchwork improvements that implement the compromise reached by the chambers.

"There's a recognition that there's a foundation in that bill that's important," she said. "So one way or another, those areas of agreement that we have will have to be advanced, whether it's by passing the Senate bill with any changes that can be made, or just taking" some elements of it.

"We have to get a bill passed. We know that. That's a predicate that we all subscribe to," she said.

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fuckin A - now what?

[TheMercenary]

Put a fork in it. I was thinking before that it would pass in some form. Now I think it may be dead. So we go from some promise for reform, which was needed, to a shit single party bill that gave the hen house to the fox, to just shit.

[Spexxvet]

This whole story is stupid and has very little traction among the middle class. They could give a shit. Will it provide good healthcare and will I be protectd from bankruptsy and corporate money pigs is a much more important question. There is no story here.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

This whole story is stupid and has very little traction among the middle class. They could give a shit. Will it provide good healthcare and will I be protectd from bankruptsy and corporate money pigs is a much more important question. There is no story here.

Fucking crybaby.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Fucking crybaby.

Haggis!

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

This whole story is stupid and has very little traction among the middle class. They could give a shit.

I disagree.

Will it provide good health care and will I be protected from bankruptcy and corporate money pigs is a much more important question?

I thought a great deal of the health care issue was just that.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

This whole story is stupid and has very little traction among the middle class.

I submit that none of the "middle class" people you are associating with has a very sick family member.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Wait, what? I should think a middle class family with a very sick family member would be most worried about, "Will it provide good health care and will I be protected from bankruptcy and corporate money pigs"?

[Clodfobble]

I was thinking that whether the bill passed, and in what form, was a prerequisite for knowing the answer to that question?

[xoxoxoBruce]

OK, I'll buy that... but I think Spexx is right in saying that's the foremost question in most people's minds.

[Clodfobble]

Sure, I guess I just don't see why that question makes Classic's link a "non-story." It seemed to me that Spexx was saying no one cares what form the bill passes in, when that is kind of the entire question, isn't it?

[xoxoxoBruce]

I got the impression it was because the story was about the political maneuvering (which we're all sick of), whereas most people want to know what the bill will do for them... or to them.

[classicman]

Congress could pass health reform if men were 'sent home'
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.) said that both Republican and Democratic women members of Congress understand how to care for relatives and thus want the healthcare system to change.

"We go to the ladies room and the Republican women and the Democratic women and we just roll our eyes," she said. "And the Republican women said when we were fighting over the healthcare bill, if we sent the men home..." at which point she was interrupted by loud applause.

"You know why? I'm not trying to diss the men but I'm telling you it's the truth that every single woman there has been responsible for taking care of a [relatives] and so we think we can find a common ground there," she said.

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Maybe thats the solution send all the men home and let the women get it done.
Actually I really hoping this was said in jest, then again, consider the source.

[Happy Monkey]

There was a point when all we needed was one Republican woman, who could have had pretty much anything she wanted for her vote. It wasn't enough.