Comments on: It Lives!

By: Bill Bush

Bill Bush — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:06:28 +0000

Bonnie, Cund and Swami, you guys are dangerous. If your sort of ideas get loose among the public, all kinds of progressive horrors could rear their heads and even be seen from Russia!

By: MNPundit

MNPundit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:50:02 +0000

Medicare Reimbursement Rates will bankrupt Rural Hospitals.

http://www.boomantribune.com/comments/2009/10/17/174719/31/5#5

Thus, not sure if it would be enough as it stands now.

By: Swami

Swami — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:02:43 +0000

I recently read an article online that stated that the banking industry pulls in 82.? billion dollars a year in penalty fees. Late payment fees on credit cards, overdaft fees on debit cards, returned checks, and the whole myriad of ways they’ve devised to tag the consumer. If the banks can generate that kind of money in penalty fees..Then I don’t see 87 billion a year for healthcare as being a big financial obstacle to overcome. Just tax penalty fees at 50% and we’re half way there.

By: c u n d gulag

c u n d gulag — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:49:03 +0000

Bonnie,
But those dollars weren’t budgeted by the Bush adminstration, so they don’t count!
Sweet Jesus, what are you? Some sort of Commie, Fascist, Socialist, Rascist, Liberal Fag, or something? You must be to bring up the cost of protecting the USA from EVIL TERRORIST’S who hate out values and blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, etc,…

In the real world, providing health care for all will be cheaper over the next 10 years to any one OCCUPATION we’re involved with. Just don’t tell anyone!

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:10:33 +0000

And, how many tax dollars have been spent on two wars . . .

By: felicity

felicity — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:49:14 +0000

If nothing else – and I hope to god that’s not solely it – Congress has been outted. Anyone who’s paying attention to this health-care issue can readily get that, for the most part, members of Congress legislate according to their own self-interest, the American people be damned.

That aside, depending on how this all turns out, Obama may be even more cool, calculating, shrewd and brilliant than anyone suspected. I’ll spin that as he’s about 10 steps ahead of all the rest of us when it comes to getting what he’s going after.

By: Mike Goldman

Mike Goldman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:11 +0000

“Government-run health care plan” is okay, I think. We don’t get to require them to use our name for it, as long as the description is accurate.

Calling it a “government takeover of health care” or some nonsense would still be over the line, of course.

By: Rick Massimo

Rick Massimo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:50:51 +0000

A preliminary estimate from the Congressional Budget Office projects that the House Democrats’ health care plan that includes a public option would cost $871 billion over 10 years, according to two Democratic sources.

Oooh, $871 billion over TEN YEARS! That’s …

… oh wait – $87.1 billion a year.

In other words, not really all that much.

By: Bill Bush

Bill Bush — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:47:52 +0000

Isn’t it funny how all during elections politicians poll and parse to be and promise what the voters want, yet when elected and faced with a clear disposition of the public’s wishes, they find it impossible to do what the public wants?

How much clearer can we make it?