Proposal would require all to have health coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats are crafting a plan that would require all Americans to carry health insurance and would help families making less than $88,000 pay the premiums. Employers, too, would have to help foot the bill.
It’s the latest development in President Barack Obama’s push to fix the ailing U.S. health care system by getting the government more deeply involved.[..]
A document obtained by The Associated Press provides an early look at where Democratic leaders in the House are heading as they try to meet an ambitious July 31 deadline for passing their version of the legislation. The Senate is working on a similar plan, with some key differences.
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Not good for business and at a time when business is already hurting. Personally I don’t think our health care system is ailing, I thinks its just fine. Of course TOTUS has to make claims that its in bad shape or else him and the government couldn’t then take more control under the guise of fixing it. This will not improve health care, it will ruin it, the government cant do anything right, not even the really simple stuff. The democrats just want to control everybody and everything. I should have the freedom to not have health care insurance if I choose not to. I guess that freedom is soon to be gone!
Documents: Paulson forced 9 bank CEOs into bailout
NEW YORK — The chief executives of the country’s nine largest banks had no choice but to accept capital infusions from the Treasury Department in October, government documents released Wednesday have confirmed.
Obtained and released by Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan educational foundation, the documents revealed “talking points” used by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during the October 13 meeting between federal officials and the executives that stressed the investments would be required “in any circumstance,” whether the banks found them appealing or not.
Paulson also told the bankers it would not be prudent to opt out of the program because doing so “would leave you vulnerable and exposed.”
It’s no secret that some of the banks had to be pressured to participate in the program, with several bank CEOs saying they had been strongly encouraged to take the funds. But the documents are the first proof of the government’s insistence.
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Nothing to see here its just our government taking over the private sector, you know that same government that sends checks to dead people. And that same government that wants a photo-op of scare force one flying over New York, yeah that government. But remember it was Bush that took away every bodies freedoms. The government needs to just butt out, but then TOTUS couldn’t take control and play do as I say, not as I do. America got what it wanted, a nice big parent that we call the federal government. I think I need a drink!
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Someday far far away the facts will be revealed why B of A had Merrill Lynch shoved upon them by Dartmouth BMOC Hank P.
It’ll be a long while, or 2 or 3 suicides from now.
What have we done electing this fraud to the presidency? By the time this guy is finished America will be unrecognizable (and not for the better).
I think that Obama is probably the best thing that could have happened for Conservatism, given the circumstances.
I mean, I shudder when I think of a John McCain presidency. The man NEVER failed to disappoint me EVERY time he spoke during his campaign. SERIOUSLY.
The only good thing he gave us was Sarah Palin, and if he had that to do over he probably would’ve screwed that up too given his lack of support for her since the election.
We can fight this. Not all Dems are as ready to make this leap as the TOTUS seems to think.
I say we come out stronger, and Obama is an effective tool to illustrate what can happen when populist rhetoric rubber meets the asphalt of reality.
Then again, I’m a glass half full kinda guy.
Don’t forget, that Paulson crap happened under Bush. Bush was a big-government Conservative. The only difference between Bush and Obama is motive. Their objective (more government control of everything) is the same.
Granted, the difference in motive is a big difference, but lets not start posting articles about last October to bash Obama.
As an afterthought I’d like to nominate Hank Paulsons childish rant after some were hesitant to authorize giving him full control of a gazillion dollars just a couple of days after he proposed it as the single most disgusting moment by an American statesman this new century.
# 4. Former Lizard by the Bay
I see your point, but then Obama did nothing to reverse it, he pushed it along.
So yeah I lay the blame on TOTUS, Bush is no longer in office, so TOTUS owns this now.
Quick! It’s an EMERGENCY! Everyone! Don’T THINK! Just hurry up and get your mandated Federal Health Insurance! Hurry Up! NOW NOW NOW! Don’t think about the speediness of the DMV, JUST GET IT NOW!!!!!1!11!!!elventy!
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*sighs*
There was a time that our country meant something noble. Now it stands, apparently, for getting ‘free’ stuff paid for by those who have jobs.
And, for the record, I make less than 88k a year. In fact, I barely broke 30k last year. I was paying out of pocket for school and paying for student loans from my first attempt at school. Those two alone were 12k last year.
I don’t get government assistance and I’ll financially benefit from this government-paid healthcare…. and I oppose it.
Never ask from someone what you can do yourself. That’s from a founding father.
Here’s one from a slightly higher source… What does it benefit a man to gain the world but lose his soul?
The San-Francisco Values Address
…that we Progressives highly resolve that Obama shall not have been elected in vain — that this nation, under Marx, shall have a new birth of social/economic equality — and that a people of the Government, by the Government, for the Government, shall never perish from the earth.
Bar,
I’ll join you with that drink!
There are old as I’ve been collecting them for one over all Thread, but since they seem to fit here, I’ll just post them now instead:
NJ considers ban on bare-it-all ‘Brazilian’ wax
SD governor signs ban on smoking in bars, casinos
House passes bill taxing AIG and other bonuses
It is all about control….
4. Former Lizard by the Bay,
Bush was a fake. All he did was increase our debt, create an environment where wages were held down and good jobs shipped overseas. He kissed up to Muslims after 9/11 started the stupid lets spread democracy crap in Iraq.
Bush was a weak, feeble idiot. That is why I have no respect for him.
As for Bill Clinton,. he is an out right traitor, I hate him more.
This is most likely patterned after the Massachusetts model, brought to you by that true conservative, Mitt Romney!
We already have a shortage of medical personnel in most of the country. (Just try to find an OB-GYN.) Nowhere in the world are there enough excess medical personnel to make up the difference and it takes years to train someone new. We simply do not have the where-with-all to adequately cover 57 million or so uninsured people at once. Our medical delivery system will be paralyzed – at least for all of those who do not have the resources to buy private care.
Moreover, government run health insurance even here in the US is notorious for paying far less for services rendered than the going rate and for paying that at a snail’s pace. It is not uncommon for physicians to wait more than a year for reimbursement.
Going by the experience of Massachusetts, who did enact such a law, they have droves of newly insured who cannot find anyone to treat them. And more than a few physicians have simply decided not to accept insurance.
The health care industry is literally the cornerstone of our economy. This cannot be allowed to stand.
The days of private Health Care are drawing to a close.
*sigh* It looks like the “torture” photos are being leaked:
New ‘prisoner abuse’ photographs emerge despite US bid to block publication
15. Escovado
Those are from Iraq and Afghanistan, not Gitmo.
#16. song_and_dance_man
Yes, I thought that all of the “abuse / torture” photos were from Iraq and Afghanistan.
17. Escovado
They were, it appears. According to the story in your link that appears to be the case. And all this time I thought the pics were coming from the Gitmo interrogations.
15. Escovado
Shocking? Really?
Hmm… let’s see.
Hung upside down nekkid or… battery cables nippin the testicles? Playboy opened to nekkid womens on your lap or… neck sliced through while they film it?
Please. It really pisses me off that it’s even an issue.
#19. m:
No kidding. Pamela Geller needs to make good on her promise to post her collection of jihad videos if more of these so-called “torture” photos are leaked.
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I wonder if it will be like MA, where insurance must cover prescriptions. Just one problem: my company doesn’t pay for prescriptions through its insurer, it’s too expensive. It reimburses prescriptions directly (and tax-free to the employee) through a Health Reimbursement Arrangement. If prescription coverage through the insurer becomes mandatory the HRA will have to be scrapped and our costs go up. Go unintended consequences!
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