I mean, it’s one thing to think dumb, paranoid thoughts or even to test them out on your nearest and dearest, but to say them in public, with cameras and reporters present? It’s as if they were scheming “How can we best insure that this evil government conspiracy to wipe alla us out can know who we are, and where we live, and how intractably and stubbornly resistant we are to reason and to social awareness and all that nasty stuff? Can we get, like, name badges, and ranks, to make it super-easy for them to climb into our bedroom windows and smother us while we sleep?”
GET THE PARANOIDS!
God forbid they should be disappointed!
Spokeman for and definer of the near-universe: Bryan Ekers. Thanks. I depend of your probable assessment before I post. Your opinions have gotten increasingly meaningful to me over the years, and I rely on them for sound judgment. And of course, it’s not just me. It’s nearly galaxy-wide. I’m quite sure.
See, that was weakness on display for all the world to see. Sarcasm without cleverness is, well, “lame” encapsulates it perfectly.
Can we get back to the killin’? Because that’s what I was promised.
Nope, the killin was bargained away in negotiations with blue-dog democrats. Now it’s just red hot pokers up the ass.
I would recommend that anyone with a genuine interest in how health care works in other 1st world countries check out these posts at the Denialism blog:
What is health care like in the UK, Canada, and New Zealand
Are Patients in Universal Healthcare Countries Less Satisfied?
The findings, in a nutshell, are that wait times, access, money, results, rationing, and any of the other bugbears I haven’t heard of are, for the most part, bogus arguments against universal health care. (Wait times are a concern in Canada and the UK, but not in the other countries listed.)
I think murder is a little too much, but I’m fine with compulsory sterilization.
Can we throw in frontal lobotomies at no extra charge?
I think we’re too late.
On the plus side, they paid full price.
I’m Vinyl Turnip, and I approve his message.
It’s propoganda, in my opinion, if it is disseminated by the govnernment, whether it’s true or not. A “Just Say No” campaign is propoganda, even though it is true that some drugs can really fuck you up.
Now Michael Steele is doing it. :rolleyes:
People keep saying this, but they also keep saying that if the plan goes into effect then insurance companies will be forbidden to write new policies…so, if you ever lose your private policy, you’ll have to take the government one.
These things can’t both be correct, so which is it? You can still buy new private insurance policies ****or ****the insurance companies won’t be able to sell them to you?
Yes, but they want old people to believe that they’re going to be killed so they’ll become allies in their battle to continue financially raping the young people.
That’s because people are making things up.
I thought we just got through with 8 years of that…
That’s not true. The bill has some requirements that any new policy has to meet i.e. they have to ignore pre-existing conditions, they have to renew you unless you don’t pay premiums, some other things that mostly help sick, old or at risk people get covered more affordably, presumably at the cost of premiums rising for young healthy people. Old policies are grandfathered in, and do not have to meet these requirements.
Before anyone else goes into any detail attempting to correct the errors, how about a little good faith offer on your part. If you read the bills and get information, etc. will you start rejecting the information from the people who are either mistaken or lying?
My mother will parrot talking points and then, if they are disproven, go back and listen to those same people again and parrot those talking points. She never says, “Enough. This source is tainted.”
Like the Doobie Brothers, man.