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The Public Option takes a punch to the groin
1. Public Option Denied in Committee – Senate Finance committee denies public option 15-8, and then again 13-10 on a similar plan, to put a public option into the health-care reform efforts. Five democrats joined all of the Republicans. The Public Option isn’t just stalled, someone took the rims and put it up on blocks [...]
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The Argument against, and also for, healthcare reform.
1. Sure it’s a nice idea, but we can’t pay for it - That should be the consensus. Forget death panels and socialized medicine fear mongering… President Obama’s Health-care Reform proposal is a nice idea, but there’s just no way to pay for the public option. Instead, ease off the gas, and find something somewhere [...]
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Obama Healthcare Speech Fact Check
1. Fact Checking last night’s Healthcare Address - More proof that anyone can screw with the numbers to make it look like they want it to look like. Would his plan jack up the deficit? Mneh… maybe, depends on how you look at it. Would preventative care measures really save money? No, not really. What [...]
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Americans don’t understand the healthcare debate
1. The Masses are Asses. Especially when it comes to Healthcare Reform - Step 1: As soon as anyone says: “Well from what I’ve HEARD…” stop listening to them. They don’t have a firm grasp on reality.
The amount of misinformation, misinterpretation, and “I’m pissed off for no reason”-ness is getting a bit difficult to handle. [...]
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Baucus Bill Boogie-down