Congressman Parker Griffith, who switched from the Democrats to the Republican party, says the current health care bill is too costly and needs to be scrapped and re-written. (March 6)
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GOP voters or aka …
GOP voters or aka neo-anarchists WANT insurance industry government.
they have the kind of mind that doesn’t grasp what everyone learns in the 5th grade. branches of government like the senate who does what insurance industry lobbyists pay them to do – at tax payers expense.
the same ones that cheered the trillion dollar iraq invasion for oil profits and said nothing about GOP wall-street that permanently destroyed our economy.
and they believe democrats can fix what’s gone forever.
Parker – just …
Parker – just another turn coat like Lieberman. While the cob webs grow to their sorry butts, real reform will come, even if it has to be incremental because of them.
i can’t?
1 …
i can’t?
1 unreasonable search & seizure – bush ordered national security letters
2 habis corpus – unlimited detention
3 due process – bush declaring a us citizen an enemy combatant with no judicial review
4 freedom of speech – fox news – anyone who criticizes the president in time of war is anti-american
5 equal protection under the law – defense of marriage amd
6 right to an attorney – michele bachman “they don’t deserve attorneys”
it’s a lie the gop believes in the constitution or freedom
Does not have …
Does not have anything to do with HC really (except all the newly unemployed NASA employees insurance) so it does have to do with jobs a few thousand people in Florida (including my uncle) will be losing their job at NASA. I just find it odd that the EPA got a 34% increase in funding and NASA gets grounded because of their 0.55% of the total budget. Anyhow was off topic just noticed your space theme.
jeffluebke
you …
jeffluebke
you really dont know what you are talking about, the house bill and the senate bill is like day and night.
obama and the democrats dont have the votes in the house right now, or the bill would have passed.
you are SO CLOSE TO YOUR FREE HEALTH CARE, BUT ONLY SOME OF THE democrats ARE IN THE WAY.
THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DONT WANT THIS HEALTH CARE BILL.
you are NOT THE MAJORITY.
SO WHO WILL WIN?
Both the Senate and …
Both the Senate and the House have already passed health care reform.
If the House accepts Senate version with reconciled amendments it’s ready to be signed and become law.
Hate to burst your bubble, but you’re just wrong.
Republicans are blamed because they have backed up over 275 bills passed by the House refusing to allow votes without supermajority… This is not one of them
Conscience, this …
Conscience, this man claims to have one so when is he going to refund the campaign contributions made to him from Dems.? His conscience has a dollar sign right next to it.
what does nasa have …
what does nasa have to do with hc reform thou?
do u know “priority” or do u want me spell it out for ya… LoL
“what i did say was …
“what i did say was, “oh yah, republicans hate those rights”"
And yet you still can’t cite an example of GOP efforts to remove those rights. Hmmm. Perhaps then your claim that the GOP “hate those rights” is pure baseless partisanship.
“wraps themselves in the constitution to sound good, while they work to tear it apart”
It’s not the GOP that is anti-constitution. They don’t oppose 2nd amendment, private property rights, wealth, freedom (personal & speech), etc…
government has a …
government has a terrible track record on every program it runs…why would anyone think they can effectively run health care?
Medicare and Medicare is obviously broken and bankrupting the country…yet we are going to ad 30 million more Americans.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Public Schools and Public Housing all government programs that are BROKEN or in DEBT or even both!
anybody got anymore government programs to ad to the list?
Get OVER IT
this …
Get OVER IT
this is old news, the democrats cant pass this bill because some democrats dont want it, that it, if you dont know this by now then you have to be BRAIN DEAD.
The document is …
The document is actually 2700 pages. But it’s full of blank pages, huge fonts and wasted space. It’s actually about 400 typed pages. *Roughly the size of Sarah Palin’s book.
The problem isn’t the hypochondriacs it’s the people that haven’t seen a doctor in 10 years.
We’re now down to this bill or business as usual. (e.g. another generation of what we have.)
I can only assume you have health care and don’t have to buy it. Also that you and your family are healthy. You’re very lucky.
I am not going to …
I am not going to pretend to know everything there is to know about the 1k + page document but i have seen several sources of info that said they count Medicare money twice and use 10 years of taxes for 7 years of spending to get those numbers…
also yes the military medical is great i spent 10 years in the marines 99-09, but if you think you are just going to go to sick call any time you fell like it under this plan you are out of your mind.
@ryen1992
ah… …
@ryen1992
ah… all caps doesn’t mean “listen to me, i know what i’m talking about” it means either my caps lock key is stuck or my point isn’t smart enough to stand on its own.
and we should not stop blaming republicans because republicans are to blame. they lied, they appealed to fear, they scared the elderly, they targeted immigrants, they caused the economic and banking crisis then blamed it on someone else
yes, republicans will win seats in 2010 and then be destroyed in 2012
since i never …
since i never asserted the “gop removed” anything since they don’t have that kind of power. what i did say was, “oh yah, republicans hate those rights”
in addition, “equal protection under the law” is a constitutionally protected right as well as the right to privacy.
you can twist and contort the constitutional to support your own bigotry and biases, but it doesn’t change the fact that
the right wraps themselves in the constitution to sound good, while they work to tear it apart.
Democrats have done …
Democrats have done more for health care in less then a year then republicans have EVER DONE!!
obama and the …
obama and the democrats HAD TOTAL CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND THEY COULD NOT PASS THE HEALTH BILL.
STOP BLAMING REPUBLICANS BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
NOVEMBER 2010 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL HAVE THEIR VOTE ON HEALTH CARE.
If you made less …
If you made less than $250K last year you already got an Obama tax cut. Health insurance went up 60% in Illinois last year and one out of five lost insurance last year. The average insurance rate would go down 13-14% after passage according to CBO.
Almost everyone over 30 has a pre-existing condition.
Bush tax cuts for wealthy cost $1.7trillion
Health reform bill saves money and is defiicit neutral.
Besides being the right thing to do.
CBO states the bill …
CBO states the bill will save 100billion first ten years. 1trillion 2nd ten years. First Bush tax cut to wealthy cost 1.3trillion & 2nd tax cut cost 400billion both “rammed” via reconciliation by Republicans.
If socialized medicine is good enough for our soldiers it should be good enough for our Senators, used car salesman & even Republicans. It’s the most cost effective approach. Insurance companies are the death panels and the only part of the equation that isn’t vital
The bills HAVE …
The bills HAVE passed with both a supermajority in the Senate and a majority in the House. The payouts will be removed in reconciliation and the bill will pass. It will historically be viewed positively and the Republicans will be remembered as voting against it unanimously. Republicans have supported facets included now until included by Dems then rallied against them.
Doing nothing is an option that will destroy America.
The mission of …
The mission of government is serve and protect. You will likely be affected by financial ruin and death before being harmed by a jihadist or France.
Wilson & FDR didn’t envision a time when the cost of health insurance for individuals would equal their mortgage payments or pre-existing conditions would exclude children at birth.
Healthcare is a right in the civilized world, but not in the US.
You sound young.. I hope you don’t suffer like our family has.
YES and why stop …
YES and why stop with Heath care when you can take over the banks and car companies… oh wait… well we can still take over the Rail Roads, Air Ports, Shipping, Power Plants, and who knows what else, Socialism may not have worked elsewhere but that was because those people where not kick Americans we can make anything work, then we can open reeducation programs like Hugo Chavez, and naturally Government controlled media is a must!
So Youtube will need to be censored or shut down!
Yes even if they …
Yes even if they have to circumvent the hole democratic process to do it right? Not that Obama has had a problem doing that thus far… EPA to get his carbon tax crap around congress… executive order to go around congress with the joke of a debt commission. (Hint congress is a debt commission) and lets not forget his SoU speech where he said he was going to bypass the Supreme courts.
ummm PartVIII, I …
ummm PartVIII, I do not know where you are getting your polling data, even the white house knows the majority of the people oppose the bill, they just say the reason is people do not know enough about it, and the fact that the totally Democrat controlled congress cannot pass it should tell you something… the members of congress know they are risking their jobs if they vote for it.
Jeff, while I agree …
Jeff, while I agree with a tad bit of what you say, health care is a right? not even illegals can be thrown out of a hospital if they need care, this is not about heath care it is about insurance, and while I agree changes need to be made to that system this bill is not the answer.
Protection should start with medicine not the military? Glad even the progressives Wilson and FDR did not think that way. If people did this country would have been concurred 200 years ago.