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Old 09-26-2013, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Any good estimates with some numbers?

One of the reasons implementation was delayed was to give the insurers an opportunity to raise rates and build up a warchest so they didn't go bust immediately.

How long could, say, a billion dollar surplus last once the Obamination starts draining them?
Obama and the Dems are hoping it'll bankrupt them fast. They wanted to pass a ridiculous bill, so they could come in and rescue everyone with a single-payer system. It's easy to see what the agenda really is. ACA is just another end around.
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:11 PM
 
Location: New London County, CT
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I live in Connecticut which is headquarters to United Healthcare, Aetna, and others...

Gotta tell you... No one here seems worried.
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:15 PM
 
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Does anyone note the irony in how some right-wingers spent today whining about how the industry gets windfall profits from ACA and other right-wingers spent today whining about how ACA will bankrupt the industry? It's interesting to see how the right-wing rhetoric that President Obama referred to as "irresponsible" today ends up being contradictory too.
You're still singing your single note, which solely revolves around how your self proclaimd moral superiority entitles you to force everyone to comply with your wishes.
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:20 PM
 
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I think the teabag wing of the GOP is nuts on parade. Never seen a single president make one segment of the political spectrum this nuts, irrational, and crazed
First we get a Congressional self-serving windbag reading Dr. Seuss and now we get the Looney Tunes on parade. Too funny.
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:25 PM
 
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First we get a Congressional self-serving windbag reading Dr. Seuss and now we get the Looney Tunes on parade. Too funny.
Said by the people who think that government can run your healthcare.

Compared to that, Seuss and Looney Tunes are perfectly normal.
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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Does anyone note the irony in how some right-wingers spent today whining about how the industry gets windfall profits from ACA and other right-wingers spent today whining about how ACA will bankrupt the industry? It's interesting to see how the right-wing rhetoric that President Obama referred to as "irresponsible" today ends up being contradictory too.
Right-wingers know only one thing--if Obama is for it, they are against it. That's why they contradict themselves constantly, they don't really know why they're against it, they just know that they are. Oh, and Obama is a communist.
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:31 PM
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Location: Florida
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I think the teabag wing of the GOP is nuts on parade. Never seen a single president make one segment of the political spectrum this nuts, irrational, and crazed
I agree. Reading some of the message it's almost like the right-wingers are paying 12 year old children to post in support of their corrupt policies.

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You're still singing your single note
Uh - So are you.

Promote a perspective that isn't immoral and guess what? I won't point out how immoral it is. Easy peasy. Why is that so hard to understand?

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which solely revolves around how your self proclaimd moral superiority entitles you to force everyone to comply with your wishes.
People can make their own minds up about whether the egoistic avarice you support or the social consciousness that I promote is the moral perspective.

Why do you think you deserve an unrebutted soapbox for your claims?

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Right-wingers know only one thing--if Obama is for it, they are against it. That's why they contradict themselves constantly, they don't really know why they're against it, they just know that they are. Oh, and Obama is a communist.
And that he's cloth:

http://wonkette.com/402743/typical-f...-campaign-sign
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:35 PM
 
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Said by the people who think that government can run your healthcare.

Compared to that, Seuss and Looney Tunes are perfectly normal.
Government is not running anyone's healthcare and any intelligent person knows that Uncle Sam is not performing pap smears...even though the Teapublicans, the Koch Brothers and Limbaugh want to you to believe that that dumbazz TV ad.
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:38 PM
 
Location: texas
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Said by the people who think that government can run your healthcare.

Compared to that, Seuss and Looney Tunes are perfectly normal.
Just as well as for profit corporations.

Are corporations in charge of you healthcare more adept....or just what you are accustomed to?
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Old 09-26-2013, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Stasis
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Romeycare did not bankrupt insurance companies.
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