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America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 - The USCHO debates

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GoBlackBears said:
We're going bankrupt anyway.
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I think Tim Pawlenty is the poster child. I hope he wins in 2012. No man has encountered more financial problems in office than he has while Governor of Minnesota. And while encountering all those problems he managed to solve NONE of them and increase his national political standing at the same time.

Rome Burns.
 
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Dick Durbins comments about town hall meetings that aren't going his way


“These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town hall meetings for visual impact on television. They want to show thousands of people screaming ‘socialism’ and try to overcome the public sentiment, which now favors health care reform. That’s almost like flooding the switchboards on Capitol Hill. It doesn’t prove much other than the switchboards have limited capacity, so we want to have a balanced approach that allows members of Congress to hear both sides of the story, rather than be sucker-punched, or sidetracked by these tactics.”
 
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Priceless said:
So we ration care?
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Sounds like a plan.

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Explaining the new order to Helen.....
 
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walrus said:
Dick Durbins comments about town hall meetings that aren't going his way


“These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town hall meetings for visual impact on television. They want to show thousands of people screaming ‘socialism’ and try to overcome the public sentiment, which now favors health care reform. That’s almost like flooding the switchboards on Capitol Hill. It doesn’t prove much other than the switchboards have limited capacity, so we want to have a balanced approach that allows members of Congress to hear both sides of the story, rather than be sucker-punched, or sidetracked by these tactics.”
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Does Dick Durbin allow questions during his town hall meetings?
 
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I'd just like to say that after careful consideration I consider this legislation and the process of said legislation a disaster.
 
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Priceless said:
No, I'm asking what we do now since he said there's not enough doctors or nurses.
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Sorry, I should have been more explicit. There are enough doctors and nurses now (barely), but there aren't enough to handle another 20-40 million people thrown into the mix.
 
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Bill said:
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. There are enough doctors and nurses now (barely), but there aren't enough to handle another 20-40 million people thrown into the mix.
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So we ration care.
 
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GoBlackBears said:
Does Dick Durbin allow questions during his town hall meetings?
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As long as you're a cheerleader for the present health care reform. yes would be the answer. If not, you're a plant from anthem
 
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I thought this was a decent anaolgy.

OK .. let's build a little scenario here. You're in business for yourself. You own a restaurant. You find out the government is going to open a restaurant right next door to you. The government says that they're not trying to run you out of business .. they just want to give you a little competition so that you will improve your product. You find out, though, that while your restaurant will have to operate at a profit to survive, the government restaurant can operate at a loss ... for ever. If the government restaurant needs money all it has to do is go out into the community and seize it. If you tried to do that you would be arrested and charged with robbery. You also learn that the government restaurant is going to be able to set all the rules about how you operate: How you cook and serve your food, what kind of menu you will have, the hours you will be open ... everything. Those same rules will not necessarily apply to the government restaurant.

Yeah .. that's some fair competition, isn't it? Can you tell me how you are possibly going to stay in business? The answer is, you won't. Sooner or later you close your doors, and if your customers want to eat ... they head to the government restaurant.
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