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View Poll Results: Do you support legalization and/or and ObamaCare?
I support legalization and ObamaCare 17 38.64%
I support legalization and oppose ObamaCare 18 40.91%
I oppose legalization and ObamaCare 6 13.64%
I oppose legalization but support ObamaCare 3 6.82%
Voters: 44. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-19-2010, 05:45 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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I want the same type of healthcare coverage for all in this country that provides AFFORDABLE healthcare, right now the insurance cartels are all about raking in obscene profits and their lobbyists get their clueless Tea Party/wingnut supporters of insurance company profits to oppose healthcare legislation that attempts to get coverage for poor people.

Decriminalize pot or, better yet, make it legal. Congress and the military get true universal healthcare coverage. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Old 05-19-2010, 05:48 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Government-run health care gives the government complete control of our lives with regard to our property, our behavior, who lives, and who dies.

Insurance cartels decide if you qualify for medical coverage. Their behavior dictates that 40,000 Americans (at least) die prematurely every year.

If the government makes healthcare affordable it is DOING IT'S JOB, protecting its citizens.
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Old 05-19-2010, 05:55 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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I agree with odanny. The Obamacare is flawed because it only considers private sector insurance. IMHO the entire health care industry need to be nationalized because all citizens eventually need health care and everyone should pay for providing it. Removing the private sector from this industry would save countless dollars in excessive administrative costs and monopoly profits while still paying the workers competitive wages and better benefits.

OP - All the recreational drugs should be legal and regulated for quality by the government. Regualtory fees could be used to rehabilitate the addicts that wish to quit.
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Old 05-19-2010, 10:33 AM
 
Location: The ends DO NOT justify the means!!!
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So it seems clear the pro-"some" freedoms crowd is oblivious to the obvious.
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Old 05-19-2010, 11:04 AM
 
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What we have on the table is "Insurancare".
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Or CompromiseCare..
With no public option. A long way off from comprehensive
universal health care for our citizens.
Physicians for a National Health Program

Marijuana and Hemp were legal at one time. I am
all for the lifting of it's prohibition
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Old 05-19-2010, 11:12 AM
 
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Insurance cartels decide if you qualify for medical coverage. Their behavior dictates that 40,000 Americans (at least) die prematurely every year.

If the government makes healthcare affordable it is DOING IT'S JOB, protecting its citizens.

It shouldn't take genius level IQ to add 2+2. The stocks of the insurance companies went UP the moment the bill was signed.

Taken a step further (if that isn't obvious enough for you), can you not understand the benefits to an industry that would gain 30-50 million new customers BY DICTATE OF LAW ?

And if that isn't obvious enough, can you imagine why congress exempted itself from Obamacare if it's such a glorious thing?

"If a people expect to remain ignorant and free, they expect what never was, and never will be"
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Old 05-19-2010, 01:05 PM
 
Location: California
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Not sure what Obamacare is supposed to be but I'd like to have universal healthcare that covers everyone.

And I fully support the legalization of pot.
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Old 05-19-2010, 01:09 PM
 
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So it seems clear the pro-"some" freedoms crowd is oblivious to the obvious.
We're getting dangerously close to zero-some freedom.
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Old 05-19-2010, 01:18 PM
 
Location: The ends DO NOT justify the means!!!
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We're getting dangerously close to zero-some freedom.
You would think that the outright hypocrisy would lead to some cognitive dissonance on their part, but that would presume that thugs have any practical cognitive abilities at all.
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