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Don Quixote
08-18-2009, 06:47 PM
spent by the health care industry on non-health items

6 billion on advertising (16.5 million a day)

.5 billion on lobbying (1.4 million a day)

what is wrong with this picture

still gender discrimination

still no coverage for preexisting conditions for 6 - 12 month

still can cancel if you get sick for too long or expensively

wtf

uscitizen
08-18-2009, 06:57 PM
It is part of what what Republicans want to preserve.

Don Quixote
08-18-2009, 07:00 PM
It is part of what what Republicans want to preserve.

that and the tens of millions per day in profits

Fish
08-18-2009, 07:26 PM
It is part of what what Republicans want to preserve.

Removing the public option from the bill makes this statement true for Democrats too.

belme1201
08-19-2009, 11:22 AM
spent by the health care industry on non-health items

6 billion on advertising (16.5 million a day)

.5 billion on lobbying (1.4 million a day)

what is wrong with this picture

still gender discrimination

still no coverage for preexisting conditions for 6 - 12 month

still can cancel if you get sick for too long or expensively

wtf

Do you suppose the $6 billion spent on advertising might be the reason the networks aren't spending much time on de-bunking the BS about a healthcare change out there?
NBC/WSJ changed the wording of their poll questions then posted a negative "change" in support for the public plan without noting a significant change of wording in the questions asked. An oversight?
This thing is going down in flames because once again in our country, money talks. Another 15 years will be too late, this country will be on its way down the tube.

uscitizen
08-19-2009, 11:55 AM
I am assuming that the 6 bill in advertising does not even cover what the prescription drug industry spends on advertising?

Topspin
08-19-2009, 12:00 PM
free markets baby, leave the socialism to Russia

FUCK THE POLICE
08-19-2009, 12:27 PM
free markets baby, leave the socialism to Russia

Free markets in healthcare is a concept that is contradictory to the laws of economics.

Topspin
08-19-2009, 12:32 PM
Free markets in healthcare is a concept that is contradictory to the laws of economics.

you lack of a real job is contradictory of economics

FUCK THE POLICE
08-19-2009, 01:25 PM
you lack of a real job is contradictory of economics

I have a job. I am also going to college. And me lacking a job would not be contradictory to the laws of economics, or as you like to put it, "contradictory of economics".

Topspin
08-20-2009, 05:13 AM
I have a job. I am also going to college. And me lacking a job would not be contradictory to the laws of economics, or as you like to put it, "contradictory of economics".

flipping burgers is not a real job,

pay about 30,000 in taxes then come back to me and say you should be paying way more. Stick to the soft food gerber.:pke:

Hermes Thoth
08-20-2009, 05:32 AM
Yeah. The totalitarian left wants to take over healthcare specifically to deny care to people, to save the planet. Their goals are not noble either.

belme1201
08-20-2009, 08:54 AM
Yeah. The totalitarian left wants to take over healthcare specifically to deny care to people, to save the planet. Their goals are not noble either.



Making a profit is a far more noble goal. Everyone knows insurance companies are only in it for the good of the people and will deny care to nobody.

Topspin
08-20-2009, 08:56 AM
so dems want to eliminate insurance companies.
Oil companies will be next.
Freaking banks you'll realize you should have killed them too.
Are toe-fu makers the only good companies?