Comments on: Worse Than Nothing: Carper’s “Alternative”

By: NAVDOC3rdMAR

NAVDOC3rdMAR — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:05:06 +0000

Senators Rockefeller, Schumer, Stabenow and Widen of the Senate Finance Committee Sub-committee on Health, did a great job of pointing out that the Medical Industrial Complex’s contribution to Health Care Reform, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is $20 BILLION and in return they will get $500 BILLION in TAX-PAYER FUNDED SUBSIDIES. Democratic Senators baucus, conrad, carper, lincoln and nelson voted with the republicans to kill the public option 09-29-09.

Criminally corrupt politicians are the reason the U.S. is ranked near the bottom of every catagory when ranked next to other modern, industrialized nations. Time for publically funded elections.

lieberman $12.6M, mcconnell $7.8M, baucus $7.7M, cornyn $6.7M,
kyl $5.6M, grassley $5.4M, ensign $5.2M, conrad $5.1M, cantor $4.9M,
nelson $4.9M, burr $4.8M, boehner $4.4M, hatch $4.4M, lincoln $4.1M,
vitter $3.9M, carper $3.6M were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform. (Source: OpenSecrets.org, Aug. 09)

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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.

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By: erinmblair

erinmblair — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:28:41 +0000

It is not going to work in California, that’s for sure.

By: SomeGuy

SomeGuy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:06:55 +0000

If this becomes law it will be worthy of its own giant Mission Accomplished banner.

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:04:53 +0000

It also looks to me that by requiring the ‘executive’ to agree to a given state-level insurance offering, this law is offering, in perpetuity, the means for a state’s governor to just junk the whole system at any time, for any reason. No legislative involvement required.

I mean, let’s say it’s January 2013 and Governor Haterbot (R-obviously) immediately decrees that he doesn’t think there should be any public insurance option, thereby canceling the policies of everybody currently in the system. Or the Governator deciding to ‘terminate’ the coverage for everyone currently in the CA system, because of a budget impasse.

Seriously, as I read the amendment, there’s nothing to stop an incoming governor from canceling the entire thing. It’s like a perpetual right-to-veto.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:12:50 +0000

he’s got a lot of tan in his can
but mostly it covers his soul

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:23:55 +0000

It’s got to be tan in the can.

By: bmull

bmull — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:23:50 +0000

I completely agree with you, Jon. Ezra was way too easy on this “plan”–although I think it might have been to get the senator to agree to an interview, during which Carper proved to everyone what an ass he is.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:22:49 +0000

Me too.

By: tbsa

tbsa — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:20:12 +0000

I guess he’s too busy to step out of the tanning booth. Idiot is far too kind a word for what he is.

By: Twain

Twain — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:12:03 +0000

Poor thing doesn’t get out much. He’s such an idiot.