Is this a great country or what?

Love it or leave it.

mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.

Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under President George W. Bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the Bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt that we must make since the tax cuts were deficit-financed. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they’re paid for). In 2010, when all the Bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits will go to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers. The Bush tax cuts were deficit-financed, which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. They never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts. So, for the price of bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for every American. Instead Americans got bupkus and cheney/bush’s republican buddies got filthy rich off of the Blood Money from No-Bid, Cost-Plus Federal Contracts.

12 Million Americans were denied Health Care Coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a Pre-Existing Medical Condition. 12K Americans lose Insurance Coverage everyday. Over 18K Americans die each day because they lack health insurance. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)

Follow the Money: Link

Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!

Sign Single-Payer Petition: Link

Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.

SEMPER FI!

I understand this sounds totally facetious. But I would like to be able to say that we know you’re getting $XX,000 from the insurance industry. What if we matched it? How would you vote then? Just give us a number so we’ll have a goal to shoot for.

I mean, at this point I’m perfectly willing to contribute if we only knew what it would cost to get a few swing votes.

“Privatize Medicare” What do old people need money for anyway

“Survival of the Richest”

“thanks for protecting our proftis”

“Wealth care not Health care”

I can’t, in good conscience, support a bill without a strong public option. Co-ops have never succeeded in providing competition or lowering rates. A bill with co-ops and a purchase mandate will do nothing more than deliver higher profits to the insurance companies and provide fodder to the Republican party that government can’t do anything right.
I would rather have no bill than this combination. It is a recipe for disaster. Sorry, this isn’t the kind of change I can believe in.
The big slap in the face is the quote at the top of this page from the man himself:
“I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington… I’m asking you to believe in yours.”

you really think he’s going to go back on the backroom deals he’s already cut?