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So why didn't the Republicans do something to fix health care when Bush was President? They scuttled the Clinton's health care reform, so they knew it was an issue. Hell, didn't they even have control of Congress for awhile? They could have proposed their own health care reform and passed it easily.
No, the Republicans did not have a filibuster-proof majority. Everything Bush and the Republicans tried to do to correct all the Democratic crap from the past was blocked by Dems filibustering! People seem to forget that!
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Hell, look at how many Republican states refused the Medicaid expansion. They turned down federal money to help their own needy constituents because it's "too expensive". Because those people are poor, and the poor tend to vote Democrat, so it's in the Republican's best interest if they drop dead like that woman in Florida, I guess.
Of course, those States were smart because they knew that piece of candy dangled on the string from the Feds was short-lived and would disappear within 3 years as I recall. Then the States would have to shoulder the full burden.
Don't like Obama, don't care for Michelle either, but if this is true what you say, about what some sickos do, this is really sick and disgusting, but it was also done to Bush, and most idiots thought these kind of things were funny and did not seem to have a problem with them. I do, because this is low as it gets.
And shows the idiotic inmature attitude that some kunckleheads possess.
Obama is the first president to serve in an age of a relatively robust internet and social media which has unleashed nut jobs who go after Obama 's mother, wife and children. It's unprecedented and despicable, beyond "knucklehead" regardless of who is sitting the oval now or going forward.
Obama is the first president to serve in an age of a relatively robust internet and social media which has unleashed nut jobs who go after Obama 's mother, wife and children. It's unprecedented and despicable, beyond "knucklehead" regardless of who is sitting the oval now or going forward.
The around the clock media existed during Clinton. Hillary was lambasted even after the sex scandal.
Obama is the first president to serve in an age of a relatively robust internet and social media which has unleashed nut jobs who go after Obama 's mother, wife and children. It's unprecedented and despicable, beyond "knucklehead" regardless of who is sitting the oval now or going forward.
No, he isn't. Social media and a robust internet existed before Obama was even a blip on the presidential radar. Bush was lambasted all over the internet on a daily basis by the left, including photo shopped pictures of his head on a hanging corpse. His daughters were the focus of smear campaigns, and even Laura Bush, who is far classier than Michelle Obama will ever be, was the subject of ridicule.
Right, now your "middle-class employees" have to pay thousands of $'s in deductible before their wonderful AHA insurance ever kicks in and tells them what doctors they can and cannot use, in what hospitals their wonderful AHA insurance will be accepted, what procedures can and cannot be used, etc., etc. Whoopee!
If you think AHA (aka Obama Care) is higher quality, you had to have had one of the worst health insurance policies available. VBG
My group healthcare deductible was and remains the same, $1,000. My PPO plan has always dictated which doctors and hospitals are in network, and thus less costly than using out of network providers. That an MD was in network last year does not mean it will remain so next year. This was true before ACA and remains true.
Insurance has rationed healthcare all along. Those who can and do choose and pay for higher level plans have always had more choices. And those who can pay in full, out of pocket, at the point of service, have the most choices.
What has changed with the ACA is that there is no longer an annual or lifetime cap, pre-existing / existing conditions cannot be excluded and every insured's out of pocket is capped, a trifecta of benefits that did not exist before ACA legislation, for the majority of plans.
Obama is the first president to serve in an age of a relatively robust internet and social media which has unleashed nut jobs who go after Obama 's mother, wife and children. It's unprecedented and despicable, beyond "knucklehead" regardless of who is sitting the oval now or going forward.
You mean, kind of like how they went after Sarah Palin and her children?
AND...that subsidy means that other people are paying the way for the ones accepting any subsidy. Not the American way of taking responsibility for yourselves...that's what our Country guarantees; i.e., everyone has the opportunity to create their own good life. If they are too lazy to educate themselves, stay spaced out on drugs and/or booze, etc., etc., they have thrown away their opportunity and no one else should pay for their ignorance.
County, state and federal governments have been subsidizing healthcare for uninsured and underinsured for decades. Back in the 80's when ERs were mandated to STABILIZE patients, regardless of their ability to pay, the federal government began making Disproportionate Share payments to hospitals to reimburse them for a percentage of bad debt. Medicare has been paying for healthcare of qualified pregnant women, children and the disabled for decades.
Since you mentioned booze and drugs I would not be too surprised if, at some future distant point in time, those who make lousy lifestyle choices were denied healthcare. So much of what ails people is substantially preventable by lifestyle choices.
You mean, kind of like how they went after Sarah Palin and her children?
Are there pictures of Sarah's mother, husband and children photoshopped onto pornographic pictures?
I am aware of Michele Backman and ginormous corn dogs. That's very unfortunate but goes with the territory of running for public office. But no one went for her mom, husband and children as has been done to Obama's family. He may be the first but won't be the last.
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