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Do you think that Obama's health plan will pass muster or is it destined to die?
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Asked 3 years ago
by Jackofdiamonds  United States |
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It will pass, there is no viable alternative and the status quo is too expensive.
I think you underestimate the power of the insurance companies.
With the liberals in charge it better pass. I think it will change a lot before the fall, but it will pass. Staying the course doesn't work. Wish reps would understand that. Nothing changing is not the answer.
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[1 point] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyI dont think it will pass.
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[1 point] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyIts just an opinion, but I feel like the majority of people who have influence with congressmen and senators are fine with their level of health care. I think a lot of people would be happy with small incremental changes but are afraid of a large wholesale change. There may be some type of watered down health care pass but it wont be a huge change that Obama is looking for. Again, just an opinion, but I have gotten two e-mails from my senators and they (Democrats) are saying that they are against it or that it needs to be looked into further. Both have received money from insurance companies recently as pointed out by the local media.
Regretfully I think it will pass in some form. BO will not get it like he wants but that will be OK with the Libs. because they will keep modifying it until they get it like they want it---complete control of our health care and our lives. Once the Camel gets its nose under the tent it is all over.
Hopefully it's all over. Change is a good thing. Many people were against the industrial revolution, many were against the automobile, heck... in my lifetime many people even balked at switching to touch-tone phones. To advance civilization change is imperative. Those who don't like it will be run over by those who favor progress; their obstinance will only too happily be forgotten as time goes by.
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[1 point] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyConservatives cannot rule the status quo forever. Change will happen either immediately or it will creep in largely unnoticed.
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[3 points] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyI think it will go down to defeat because the electorate has had time to shine some light on the House and Senate proposals of it that are available and they are not liking what they see. HC is the main reason Obama's poll numbers are crashing and that is why Obama was in such a rush to get it voted in before Congress recessed. It is impossible to answer if it will pass in some form because, so far, no one knows what it consists of and how much it will actually cost. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has said that it's cost will be trillions more than what Obama is claiming. I don't believe anyone is so anxious to have yet another govt. takeover of private industry. Obama said in TownHall that AARP was 'on board' but AARP denies that today. Too many people just don't trust the govt. and think the takeover may be about power and control, not necessarily for the public good. Debate, even if prolonged, is always a good thing and there hasn't been any meaningful debate about the best way to fix HC. In my opinion, adding another huge layer of federal govt. bureaucracy should be the last resort. I've never been involved much in politics but Bush's last inept,disastrous term got me to wake up and now Obama's and this Congress's ineptness has really got me energized I notice that the American people are finally getting their nose out of People Magazine and getting involved because they see our country being bankrupted in an administration power play. The senior citizens and ordinary people who are interrupting the TownHalls have been rude but their outrage is genuine and is overcoming their manners. I don't believe any of it is organized by any group.
Are you by any chance Binky Gaskowski ?
Nope..........
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[1 point] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyThe whole brouhaha is premature because there are no final bills in either the House or the Senate. The proposals alone are what the COB says is going to go way over the administration's cost estimates. The rich won't pay all the tab so it'll be up to the middle class to suck it up and take the tax increases, too...and we still have the cap & trade costs looming out there which will cause prices to go way up for all goods and services. Until Congress gets it's act together and has a final plan to submit to the American people I prefer to wait rather than rush helter skelter into a program of this magnitude. I'll take the devil I know over the devil I don't know. For me, it's not about shoving it down the other party's throat, its about exercising caution because once we commit we cannot go back and the financial consequences could crush America for generations to come.
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[1 point] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyRight, as far as I can tell the proposed bills don't include language that provides for tax increases. That is a separate issue and the administration's plan was originally to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans (earning over $250k yearly?) but when the cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office came out, the realization was that more taxes would be needed and several administration officials, notably Treasury Secy. Timothy Geitner first 'floated' the news that a middle class tax increase may very well be have to be in the works. Once the word was out there Obama has also mentioned it. I don't recall the news source for these statements but a Google search should turn them up.
Obama wants to kill their grandparents?
That must be what was on my mom's mind today when she told me all Obama wants to give old people are painkillers so they won't complain. I thought to myself who's been brainwashing this old woman? Then I thought about all the emails she's been forwarding me from six months before last November's election onward, emails about a candidate who is not an American citizen to warnings about the dangers of a candidate whose best friends are terrorists.
Even though she's my mom I couldn't help thinking, "You old fool, how can you be so stupid (so gullible, which is about the same thing)?" I told her to quit living in the past and to have some faith in the future. People are more educated today than at any earlier time in humankind's history. We have to live for the future and not wallow in the past. It seems that is all old people are concerned with, that which is over -- people need to live for their happier cheerier tomorrows.
If Obama was really just interested in assuaging old people's pain don't you think he would have already taken steps to legalize heroin and make it readily available to everyone getting Medicare?
I find it amusing that she thinks Obama is going to do that when the insurance companies are already doing it.
It's easier for her to blame one person I suppose than it is for her to blame an entire industry.
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[1 point] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyThe USA is full of wackos and loonies.... I've just been hoping mom wasn't one of them, ...but I suspect she is. ;)