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• Even with 60 Senators health care not a slam dunk - Buck Galaxy - 5/3/2009 11:37:18 PM
  • Interesting that the Nays all have public health care - azstrummer - 5/4/2009 5:40:50 PM
    • "slowly phase out private industry" - Lee - 5/6/2009 5:29:48 PM
    • So do the "pros." - TB - 5/4/2009 6:08:43 PM
      • In 6 days, my daughter will have no health insurance at all. - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 12:43:28 AM
        • Just let private enterprise handle it. - David F Mayer - 5/5/2009 4:41:01 AM
          • What? - Lee - 5/6/2009 5:33:20 PM
          • What? - Lee - 5/6/2009 5:33:15 PM
          • Ever actually priced insurance for a college graduate? (n/t) - TB - 5/5/2009 4:43:35 AM
            • Yes. I know that I exaggerated, but I was using poetic license. - David F Mayer - 5/5/2009 4:55:48 AM
              • re: poetic license - TB - 5/5/2009 5:10:40 AM
                • Fair enough, but apply same standard to GOP reform - dtb - 5/5/2009 5:25:46 PM
                  • re: Fair enough, but apply same standard to GOP reform - TB - 5/5/2009 5:44:10 PM
                    • I could live with that... - dtb - 5/5/2009 6:37:51 PM
                      • re: I could live with that... - TB - 5/5/2009 8:25:41 PM
        • My son passed a kidney stone... - Jody - 5/5/2009 3:20:02 AM
          • I bet he couldn't go to the doctor to have his blood calcium level detected before the stone formed. - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 12:46:01 PM
            • *I* would understand the problem a little better? - Jody - 5/5/2009 8:05:25 PM
              • If you say so. - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 8:31:24 PM
                • Oh...I am a hypocrite too. (n/t) - Jody - 5/5/2009 8:50:42 PM
            • That is neither here nor there for me.. - Jody - 5/5/2009 6:40:14 PM
            • Well, he could - TB - 5/5/2009 5:07:30 PM
              • I think that getting antibiotics for bronchitis from the doctor's office... - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 5:57:40 PM
          • Yes it gets charged to medicare - Buck Galaxy - 5/5/2009 6:18:04 AM
            • typo "treatments" (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 5/5/2009 3:31:05 PM
          • I had one, and it cost ME $7,000 to have it removed, and the health insurance paid the rest. - David F Mayer - 5/5/2009 4:45:17 AM
        • What state does she live in? (n/t) - TB - 5/5/2009 2:13:05 AM
          • Pennsylvania - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 12:33:08 PM
            • re: Pennsylvania - TB - 5/5/2009 4:54:20 PM
              • 180 days. Yes, I know. - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 6:02:28 PM
                • I assumed you were looking for something to fill a gap. - TB - 5/5/2009 8:27:48 PM
                  • Yes, the starving artist in the attic with tuberculosis. - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 8:34:05 PM
                    • It's still a choice. - TB - 5/5/2009 8:44:53 PM
                      • Data-entry and dogsitting aren't BFA stuff, either. - Mary Anne - 5/6/2009 1:32:24 AM
      • And by the way... - TB - 5/4/2009 6:10:45 PM
        • '- - -how destroying the private insurance industry - - - " - Bowser - 5/5/2009 1:16:43 AM
          • In what remote way does that address my question? (n/t) - TB - 5/5/2009 2:13:57 AM
  • re: slam dunk - TB - 5/4/2009 2:41:23 AM
    • "Working well for me" - azstrummer - 5/4/2009 5:54:54 PM
      • re: "Working well for me" - TB - 5/4/2009 6:18:28 PM
        • First paragraph should be italicized. - TB - 5/4/2009 8:04:56 PM
    • re: slam dunk - Buck Galaxy - 5/4/2009 3:03:54 AM
  • One more proof of the need for a TOTAL ban on all campaign contributions. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/4/2009 1:01:27 AM
    • Then who pays for elections? - TB - 5/4/2009 2:48:00 AM
      • Nobody. Elections will have strict limits of $10,000 for Congress & $100,000 for President paid out of CANDIDATE's own pocket. - David F Mayer - 5/4/2009 3:21:14 AM
        • British election funding - TB - 5/4/2009 2:49:05 PM
          • That is why I prefer NO contributions whatsoever. That cuts of the head of the hydra. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/4/2009 5:22:46 PM
        • And who puts the money into the candidate's own pocket? - Mary Anne - 5/4/2009 11:22:58 AM
          • Himself. Another part of my reforms is that nobody can give any candidate or official - David F Mayer - 5/4/2009 5:24:56 PM
            • So only the extraordinarily wealthy will ever hold office. - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 12:27:05 AM
              • WRONG! A $10,000 limit for Congress would not limit candidacy to the rich. - David F Mayer - 5/5/2009 3:13:17 AM
                • Heh. - Mary Anne - 5/5/2009 1:21:00 PM
                  • Exactly why such things should NOT be permitted. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/7/2009 11:57:56 AM
            • Plutocracy squared. - TB - 5/4/2009 5:32:59 PM
              • Not with a $10,000 dollar limit. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/5/2009 3:13:57 AM
                • Why not make it a five dollar limit? - TB - 5/5/2009 3:48:20 AM
                  • I want some modest expenses permitted. Basically, we are back - David F Mayer - 5/5/2009 4:35:55 AM