A 2000 page Health Care reform bill. What the fuck is in it?

[madinmaryland]

There is no:

- Single Payer Health Care plan
- A public option
- Medicare for everyone.
- Medicare for 55 and above.

What the fuck is in there?

- Abolishment of pre-existing conditions?
- Abolishment of the ability of Ins. Co's to drop coverages at will?
- Abolishment of the Ins. Co's anti-trust exemption.
- Government regulation of the Ins' Co's.

Or is this it:
- A blank check to the insurance companies.
- A blank chack to Big Pharma.
- A blank check to Wall Street.

Hmmm.

My guess is the third option.

:mad:

[Jamastiene]

1. It's Congre$$' stock portfolio.n/t

[Taverner]

2. No, they didn't even keep the pre-existing condition ban last I heard

[dflprincess]

20. I think they kept the requirement to cover preexisting conditions

but they didn't put a limit on how high the mandated premium will be for covering them.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Mandates! Mandates! Mandates as far as the eye can see!

It is 2000 pages with ONE WORD on each page: MANDATE!

O woe! O ignominious defeat! O would that it had never been born!

[madinmaryland]

10. A mandate that tells the insurance companies and big pharma to screw us

even more.

:mad:

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Woe unto the corporatists I say!

Woe!

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

14. Actually, I think the mandates are between

LIEberman mandating the Ins. CO's and Big Pharma.

:puke:

[liberalmuse]

4. Kill the fucker.

I agree with Kos. This thing has become a piece of shit. A few days ago I was willing to support it, but this is a side step, not a step forward. Fucking cowards. I wish we could just get rid of Congress in lieu of a Parlimentary system. They're relatively useless.

[hayu_lol]

5. 2000 pages of total...

obfuscation to protect the innocent(Reps and Senators). ;^)

Tripe by any other name is still just tripe.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. 5x Palins book size - and all empty fill-in-the-blank pages

[county worker]

7. Oh stop asking silly questions. Don't you know it has to be better than nothing?

:sarcasm:

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. It's nothing with a front and back cover. Just what I wanted for Christmas.

They suck, every damn one of them.

[ramapo]

8. Your third guess is correct!

I could've lived with guess #2 without a public option/medicare buy-in, etc.

Guess #3 is a travesty, a betrayal, a blank check to the powers that be.

[madinmaryland]

12. Silly me.

I thought #2 would be automatically be part of it.

But yes, we will get #3. (and the fucking teabaggers will be rejoicing that they have killed HCR). The irony abounds for those assholes.

[yourout]

13. I suspect the anti-trust exemption will never be abolished.

Way to much money fighting it.

[madinmaryland]

15. If they can't kill baseball's exemption, they will NEVER kill the Insurance Cartel's.

[MichiganVote]

16. Another bail out for anyone but the American people who foot the bill

[madinmaryland]

17. Yes. That is what is happening.

[tridim]

18. See this post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x61527

[grahamhgreen]

19. The Enronization of HC

[madinmaryland]

21. Yeap.