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Topic started on 7-11-2009 @ 10:47 PM by HunkaHunka

House passes health care reform bill; Vote garners only one Republican


www.nydailynews.com
The biggest overhaul of America's medical system since Medicare passed with a tight vote in the House of Representatives Saturday night.

The bill passed with a vote of 220 to 215, with only one single Republican - Joseph Cao from Louisana - choose "Yea."

(visit the link for the full news article)


reply posted on 7-11-2009 @ 11:15 PM by whatukno
reply to post by xstealth



You speak for everyone now?

Well that's a load off my mind, now that I don't have to do that pesky thinking for myself.

Up till now I was of the opinion that Health Care reform was a good thing. But seeing as how your doing the thinking for everyone I guess that opinion of mine was wrong.


reply posted on 7-11-2009 @ 11:19 PM by HunkaHunka
reply to post by xstealth



I for one support this vote, and am very very happy to see this come to pass.

Pretty amazing actually...


reply posted on 7-11-2009 @ 11:45 PM by xstealth
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to
post by xstealth



You speak for everyone now?



I can read polls, and the majority of Americans don't want this.

Ask around...



reply posted on 7-11-2009 @ 11:53 PM by tommy_boy
reply to post by xstealth



Quit it with the polls. One can find just as many polls citing the popularity of what the Dems are doing. There's probably a more compelling argument for the American people wanting a big sweeping wave of reform. Remember that the Dems (Obama) ran on EXACTLY what they're doing now. They got elected, and now they're doing it. So it's a bit ridiculous to claim that the majority of Americans don't want this.


reply posted on 7-11-2009 @ 11:54 PM by whatukno
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I can read polls, and the majority of Americans don't want this.


Depends on who you ask.

www.washingtonpost.com...

www.huffingtonpost.com...


reply posted on 7-11-2009 @ 11:58 PM by jam321
reply to post by tommy_boy



Remember that the Dems (Obama) ran on EXACTLY what they're doing now. They got elected, and now they're doing it. So it's a bit ridiculous to claim that the majority of Americans don't want this.


and remember that people were tired of Republicans, wars, and torture.

So it this what they really wanted or were they just voting for the lesser of two evils.


Even you have to admit that John McCain didn't give his own party much hope, much less anybody else.


reply posted on 7-11-2009 @ 11:59 PM by HotSauce
reply to post by HunkaHunka



Wow this is trully a sad day. Our only hope is that it fails in the Senate, or that the people that voted out lose in the next election and it is repealed, or the states stand up for their constitutional rights and refuse to participate, or it is found to be unconstitutional.

Well having sad all that now I feel a bit hopeful again.



reply posted on 8-11-2009 @ 12:02 AM by tommy_boy
reply to post by jam321


Jam, your premise is fine, except where I disagree with you is that in order for that to be true generically, tea-baggers, moderates, etc, would have to have felt that communism, the loss of ones freedoms, socialized medicine, and everything else they call it now, would have been BETTER than McCain and the status quo.

There is no way the American people chose Communism over Iraq and Afghanistan. Do you get my point?


reply posted on 8-11-2009 @ 12:13 AM by lynn112
Thanks Obama!

Thanks so freaking much for FORCING me to buy something I DON'T want!

Thanks so freaking much for putting our country further into debt when we are already sinking to the point where my great-grandchildren will be paying for your mistakes!

Thanks so freaking much for adding another bill onto the 10.2% of Americans who are trying to scrape by on unemployment benefits!

Thanks so freaking much for giving me notice that I will go to JAIL if I chose to stand up against a government that is FORCING me to incure a debt I want no part of!

And before anyone says a word, no one pays my medical bills but me. I go to the hospital, I get a bill, I pay the bill. It's all rather simple & some of those bills have been pretty damn big.

And no, this is not like car insurance. I can CHOSE not to own a car & I certainly won't go to jail for it. This is the government INFRINGING upon my rights & they are using threats of fines or imprisonment to scare us into doing what they want us to do. This is not something America does to it's people & I for one find it sickening!


I can say this much. I will not pay any fine. I will not be forced into this & if they put me in jail, so be it. Maybe if this horrid government locks up enough hard-working Americans, stay at home mom's/dad's, unemployed people struggling to stay afloat, then maybe people will start to see what this really is. This is Obama & his henchwoman Pelosi saying "Welcome to Obamland. We own your a**, so just deal with it.."

I'm sorry, but it doesn't matter anymore what party they belong to, they are all crooks who need to get the heck out of office. This is our country, a government by the people, for the people & damn it, we need to show them we are still the bosses!

I'm done venting now


[edit on 8/11/2009 by lynn112]


reply posted on 8-11-2009 @ 12:19 AM by Bored To Tears
reply to post by whatukno



So you are happy at being forced to pay for something or risk being heavily fined and possibly jailed (don't know if that last bit is true)?


reply posted on 8-11-2009 @ 12:26 AM by whatukno
reply to post by Bored To Tears



I'm happy that the government DID something.

I'm also not buying into the scare tactics by the right.
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