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Engage your brain. It much easier to pay for something for 30 million people who have the highest taxes in the world then it is to pay for 300 million people with one of the lowest taxes in the free world.

Sure, until 2037. Then the whole thing is scheduled to go belly up and collapse under its own debt.

Sadly, I believe LoF's first paragraph is dead on. Maybe we can spend ANOTHER TRILLION dollars trying to figure it out, cause, you know, our decendants will be the chumps that pay the price.

My god you're magnificent.

My (rapidly waning) freedoms. I dont think you have any concept of what its like to live in a non-Western country.

Um, no. The ones most in need of this bill probably do not make enough to pay Federal taxes.

See Amentep's response, hes much more eloquent than I.

Well, I happen to love my country and its statements like that that make me wish there was a little button on my side that, when depressed, would send a fist out on your side.

Waaaaa...............

Yeah, Im not sure why I clicked your post. Just collateral damage in my "quote" button clicking frenzy.

Yes, but no other bill has had this large a scope, that FORCES every single citizen into a program nobody voted for. Not all pigs are created equally. While your busy giggling and high five-ing that this "burden" of raising yourself has been lifted from your shoulders you should be weeping for your country.

Not for long, soon we'll all be paying for your shrink.

I don't think the Republicans "hide it better"; I seem to recall (although specifics escape my hazy memory at this time) a number of instances where Republican backed bills that was unpopular enough with the other side resulted in a dissection of the "backroom deals" and "riders" on a bill. I think its mostly about how angry passage of a bill makes the other side (can we get a viable third party now? Or do away with the party system entirely? kplsthnxbai). Yes, of course there are always backroom deals. The Republicans had a real stinker of one during the Bush administration regarding Medicare/Medicaid. Thats not the point. The point is: 1) Poking holes in KK ridiculous pie-in-the-sky idea that this was passed for mom and country. 2) The bill only passed by 7 votes. Without these deals not even enough Democrats would have voted to pass it! And that makes the whole think stink to hell. If a bill cant pass on its own merits, its ok to buy the votes? Are you people insane?

A very small organization that you may recall has been credited with swinging Massachusetts out of a 40+ year stranglehold held by the Democrats. While its too late to put this genie back in the bottle, it will be delicious to see how badly the Dems get gutted in the midterms.

Well see, he left out one minor detail of having to have surgery and having a titanium rod placed in his leg from knee to ankle.

WooHoo:

This TRILLION dollar taxation has to be paying for something. What is it? Standards and exchanges dont cost a TRILLION dollars. So, what it will do it completely subsidize those that cant pay. Where will these people go for heathcare? To the clinics/hospitals that have been strong-armed into accepting whatever amount the goverment deems it will pay. Hell yeah, sounds dreamy. Hopefully they also understand that charity shouldnt be forced.

Heh, I am. I expect people to live within their means and not become a burden to me due to them being lazy/getting a bum hand in life/being stupid. Lifes a b1tch, deal with it and stop coming to me with your hand out. The only glimmer of hope I see is reigning in runaway medical costs. Of course, my government will screw the pooch on this and the entire thing will blow up in our faces and cost us 2x/3x/4x the projected cost while at the same time driving our world leading medical research out of the country. IMO, we need to be ready for a significant drop in our standards of medical care now that we will have to cater to the lowest common denominator, namely whoever is offering the cheapest deal to the government.

Lol. One more TRILLION dollar program isnt going to break us? Ok, if you say so. Psst, we just spent a TRILLION dollars last year bailing everyone out. Maybe we can cool our jets until we can, you know, afford it? Um, thats a bummer? How, exactly, should it be my problem to pay off your broke leg? Stupid people do stupid things? I once read a story about a guy who liked to live with Grizzly bears. They ate him.

Huge step forward...to socialism.

Nope. Born and raised here to a lower middle class single working mother with no healthcare. Unbelieveably, I didnt wither and die in the street.

Trotting out your examples of people dying in the ER again? Yes, sometimes stuff happens, but thats the exception not the norm. Whoa whoa, hold up, so you will not if fact wither and die in the street? So it seems we've finally narrowed this down to the point. People dont want to pay for their own elective medical services and that should somehow become societies burden.