Comments on: Third Way to Health Insurance Industry’s Rescue

By: solerso

solerso — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:51:28 +0000

these people are ammoral, money grubbing, shit-eating criminals. my favorite is “ease the minimum benefit rquirement”: as if consumers want that “eased” what a bunch of self serving, slimy, scummy, fucking carpetbaggers. if an asteroid struck the building that turd way holds their meetings in, the country would be iommediately better off.

By: dipsop

dipsop — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:28:55 +0000

Thank you. It is done.

By: xargaw

xargaw — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:37:42 +0000

Not really, because 99% of the population is either this stupid or deliberately uninformed. Stupidity and intentional avoidance of knowledge has become truly American.

By: fatster

fatster — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:40:56 +0000

You’re kidding me. Since when did patients quit taking joy-rides in ambulances, lying to get dialysis three times a week, and other such rip-offs they’ve been pulling for decades?

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:07:20 +0000

On the right hand side of the front page is a box entitled “Seminal Reader Wire”. At the bottom of that box is a smaller box that says: “Write a Diary”. If you press that button it will take you to a screen in which you can cut and paste or write or do whatever. It’s pretty much self-explanatory. Most of us have learned thru trial and error, but you can still ask questions on threads if you get into trouble. Please note that there is a band at the top of the FDL front page that has links to sister sites. Seminal, which is the only sister site that is populated mostly with reader input, is the sixth one in that band lineup.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:07:18 +0000

That list of Third Way’s honorary chairs says it all, doesn’t it?

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:56:12 +0000

Yup.. and senate finance took a vote on a republican introduced amendment of that very nature last week. IIRC, Blanche was the only d who voted with republicans.

She’s just doing what Ross did in August… yelling, read the bill - read the bill.. knowing most folks wont… and if she yells that .. she wont have to talk about substance.

By: dipsop

dipsop — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:50:32 +0000

Ann–

Thank you for your comments. I’m a bit new to this. What is Seminal and how do I work it?

Jim

By: bmull

bmull — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:50:32 +0000

Doctors for America are big-D Democrats first and health care reformers second. They weren’t allowed to stake out a position on any of the controversial issues like the Public Option–though there are many single payer and public option supporters among them.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:47:48 +0000

I agree with Potter and great letter dipsop. All of the machinations we are seeing are so predictable that you could almost tell the time by them. I hate to have to keep repeating this but Obama and the Democrats are not on our side or the side of the American people on healthcare. This has been crystal clear from the beginning. The simplest means to test this is just to ask yourself how you or anyone else would have handled both the content and presentation of healthcare in this debate. All the places where you would have pushed hard for particular principles like the public option and where you would have shown leadership, note how Obama and the Democrats were AWOL on these. Would you have put the fate of healthcare into the hands of Max Baucus, Grassley, or the Gang of Six? Would you as President have announced a big push for healthcare and then essentially dumped it on Congress and walked away from it for 5 or 6 months? Would you only deal with industry representatives and leave everyone standing up for ordinary Americans out in the cold? Seriously would you be repeatedly reaching out to obstructionist Republicans and dumbshit Blue Dogs or using the 70% of the American people who want to this as one enormous club to threaten them with?