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Has he bought the WSJ yet? Or did he just take Rupert Murdoch out for lunch a couple days ago while they agreed what headlines should go in the next paper?
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I'm only 25 so I usually ask my parents for guidance if it's my first time dealing with some great Adult Responsibility (TM), but they're not so therapy-positive.
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If it is individual insurance, they should still have to provide you with the same basic information. You can call your state insurance commission for details.
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While I will support his rights to say what he says, he in turn would never support mine. He is in this game for his own profit and perspectives and not the Ameican people.
I am a republican and I denounce Karl Rove as the crimminal he truly is.
Support true health care reform that lowers our costs and stops the imperial insurance companies from receiving and taking our money, homes, and lives.
We would never let a dictator do this, why are we allowing insurance companies to do this to us?
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When we decided to make health care a for-profit industry. Because once we decide it's a good idea to let the free market dictate health care, that leads to the scenario you described: an executive in a boardroom deciding his first priority is to the shareholders, not the people who buy policies and trust that those policies are going to protect them when they get sick.
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The problem is that this is our moment, this is our time (as our President once said). I lived through health reform failing in the 90's and it took over 10 years to get another opportunity. This is our opportunity for a public plan. We won't have the opportunity next year. People will say health reform was done and when people are unhappy, they will say the Democrats screwed up. Then nobody will want to ever talk about a public option again just like nobody wants to talk about single payer after it failed in the 90's.
I work every day with people who are underinsured. People who have insurance but can't pay their hospital bills. People who have insurance but skip pills because they can't afford their medications. They are underinsured because their employers won't pay for good coverage. It sickens me every single day and I don't think the Senate Bill will do anything for them.
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At least it puts the thing up to a referendum. Dunno, I'm undecided about this, but my guess is it's better than nothing.
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The GOP is winning the debate right now because they are so much better at scaring the American people than the Dems are. From a purely political perspective, the opposition to health care was brillant. Death panels? Amazing what they can come up with.
Maybe the Democrats will pull it together and surprise the hell out of us, but I'm not holding my breath.
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1. Publicly traded companies are not going to raise salaries to make up for the fact that they're using less expensive employee health plans. They're in the business of making profits to please shareholders. Despite what Ben Bernanke says, this recession is not over in the sense that businesses and individuals will be feeling the effects of it for awhile before things on a micro level get better. Companies have trimmed themselves to bare bones staff and aren't rehiring in order to preserve the illusion that they're profitable. They're certainly not going to scare already skittery investors further by cutting away at a potential source of future profit on paper (cost cutting via going skimpy on the health care plan).
2. Just as everyone feared when Murdoch bought the WSJ, his crazypantsness is creeping from the conservative editorial page into the main pages of his paper. I trust the WSJ for basic information, but I no longer look to it for a nuanced and balanced approach to business goings on. It's heading in the direction of becoming Fox: The Newspaper. Srsly.
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Once again I'd like FoxNews to just call a spade a spade: they are a conservative channel/site. "Fair and Balanced" my ass. If they were so 'Fair and Balanced" they'd be covering presidential speeches like everyone else. But no, regular programming takes precedent. Unlike during the Bush years...
The poll I saw on Andrew Sullivan the other day had support for health care reform on the up and up. [andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com]
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