I take great exception to this. The Democrats’ version of the healthcare reform bill included a public option. The version that passed was a totally gutted form that only included what Republicans would agree to, which was to push everything through their big money supporters, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. That is exactly the same thing Bush did with Medicare D when we could have bought the drugs from pharmaceutical companies much cheaper.
The Democrats know, as does anyone with any sense, the only way to fix healthcare is to get the huge cash-sucking cow called insurance companies entirely out of it. What they’re taking out of the system plus what we’re already paying would pay for healthcare for everyone without costing us one cent more. In fact, if we dealt with pharmaceutical companies and healthcare beaurocracies it would probably be cheaper.
However, since the insurance companies and pharamceutical companies have all of our money to buy the government with the only way to get rid of them is to provide a non-profit competitor to make it unprofitable for them. Their greed has exceeded all bounds and they need to be stopped cold.
But that’s the Republican game, gut the healthcare bill and make it ineffective then rage against it and blame the Democrats for it being unaffective. I’m smarter than to buy that and I sure hope the majority of Americans are.
Posted by CherisPlace on Apr 17, 2010 at 9:23 PM
And I can tell you what’s wrong with kansas. They’ve been brainwashed, along with the rest of the country, to be one-issue-voters. They’ve been told the GOP is against abortion yet they’ve had a long time with control of the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade has never been overturned. The only two Democratic appointees are the two Clinton appointed.
They sure can overturn the only piece of campaign fincance reform we’ve been able to get passed but they haven’t even looked at Roe v. Wade and they’re not going to. Why? Because they never really cared one way or the other about abortion, just about getting elected and using Chrisitan people to do it. Doesn’t anybody see this?
The fact is until the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade NOBODY can do anything about abortion no matter what they say or how strongly people feel. So to lie to them and tell them they’re going to do what they want to get elected is unconscionable. These people need to wake up and realize they are being lied to.
The bigger issue is that when women are desperate they’ve always had ways of getting rid of babies they couldn’t feed and take care of whether there were abortion clinics or not. So why would you vote for people that don’t even want to feed or give healthcare to the children who are already born? Abortion rates actually dropped under Clinton/Gore because the economy was thriving and they actually did what they could to give women a choice. I think very few women would do that if they were not desperate.
If they really want to stop abortion they’ll raise their boys not to abandon a young girl or woman with a child she has no way to feed. Abortion is a horrible thing to me but watching your child cry because they’re hungry is also a terrible thing. So the real question is why do we have hungry children in the richest nation in the world?
These same people don’t want to fund birth control. They may claim people should be celibate but anybody with any sense knows that’s not going to happen. So are we going to fund birth control and give women choices or we going to crucify them because they feel desperate. I don’t believe abortion is a choice. I believe it’s a last-ditch struggle for survival.
Posted by CherisPlace on Apr 24, 2010 at 4:35 PM
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I take great exception to this. The Democrats’ version of the healthcare reform bill included a public option. The version that passed was a totally gutted form that only included what Republicans would agree to, which was to push everything through their big money supporters, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. That is exactly the same thing Bush did with Medicare D when we could have bought the drugs from pharmaceutical companies much cheaper.
The Democrats know, as does anyone with any sense, the only way to fix healthcare is to get the huge cash-sucking cow called insurance companies entirely out of it. What they’re taking out of the system plus what we’re already paying would pay for healthcare for everyone without costing us one cent more. In fact, if we dealt with pharmaceutical companies and healthcare beaurocracies it would probably be cheaper.
However, since the insurance companies and pharamceutical companies have all of our money to buy the government with the only way to get rid of them is to provide a non-profit competitor to make it unprofitable for them. Their greed has exceeded all bounds and they need to be stopped cold.
But that’s the Republican game, gut the healthcare bill and make it ineffective then rage against it and blame the Democrats for it being unaffective. I’m smarter than to buy that and I sure hope the majority of Americans are.
And I can tell you what’s wrong with kansas. They’ve been brainwashed, along with the rest of the country, to be one-issue-voters. They’ve been told the GOP is against abortion yet they’ve had a long time with control of the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade has never been overturned. The only two Democratic appointees are the two Clinton appointed.
They sure can overturn the only piece of campaign fincance reform we’ve been able to get passed but they haven’t even looked at Roe v. Wade and they’re not going to. Why? Because they never really cared one way or the other about abortion, just about getting elected and using Chrisitan people to do it. Doesn’t anybody see this?
The fact is until the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade NOBODY can do anything about abortion no matter what they say or how strongly people feel. So to lie to them and tell them they’re going to do what they want to get elected is unconscionable. These people need to wake up and realize they are being lied to.
The bigger issue is that when women are desperate they’ve always had ways of getting rid of babies they couldn’t feed and take care of whether there were abortion clinics or not. So why would you vote for people that don’t even want to feed or give healthcare to the children who are already born? Abortion rates actually dropped under Clinton/Gore because the economy was thriving and they actually did what they could to give women a choice. I think very few women would do that if they were not desperate.
If they really want to stop abortion they’ll raise their boys not to abandon a young girl or woman with a child she has no way to feed. Abortion is a horrible thing to me but watching your child cry because they’re hungry is also a terrible thing. So the real question is why do we have hungry children in the richest nation in the world?
These same people don’t want to fund birth control. They may claim people should be celibate but anybody with any sense knows that’s not going to happen. So are we going to fund birth control and give women choices or we going to crucify them because they feel desperate. I don’t believe abortion is a choice. I believe it’s a last-ditch struggle for survival.
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