MarcM Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100321/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1288 Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 All the cool people (i.e. the ones who believe what I believe) are overjoyed therefore I approve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 :happybanana: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 I couldn't be more thrilled. It doesn't quite do everything I hoped for, but it's still, finally, the kind of action I've been waiting for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcM Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 I will reserve my reaction until I find out how it effects me personally. I am in favor of health care for people who can not afford their own insurance, but I cant take having to pay even more in taxes. I am barely afloat as it is. It is getting more and more difficult living in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 I'm glad it's been passed. Now we can focus on the more important things. Like building robots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkstones Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 I'm very happy this passed. Getting laid off and then struggling to find work is painful enough -- worrying about whether my family will be on the streets if God forbid I get sick just compounded my misery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 http://didtheypasshealthcarereform.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Baloni Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Well, if http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1914020220100319 is to be trusted, it sounds pretty good to me ...but idk, Glenn Beck did say that they're a bunch of communists that are going to execute the elderly. And he's a pretty trustworthy guy too. So I guess I'm still undecided... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Glenn Beck needs desperately to take full advantage of his own healthcare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Mental healthcare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Congrats, America!! I'm very happy about this. And don't worry, you won't be paying for other people's health and medicines, no... but you'll feel good to know that if you or any of your relatives or friends is jobless for awhile -hey, it can happen... life has strange turns...- and cannot afford their medicine, now you have this plan. It works in Europe and nobody feels like they're paying for what they souldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 This is good and all. But like I said. Robots. Big, mother effin robots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Dude, have you not seen The Terminator or The Matrix or 2001 or any sci-fi movie? Big mother effin' robots sound great... until they become self aware! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 I love you dorks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Dude, have you not seen The Terminator or The Matrix or 2001 or any sci-fi movie? Big mother effin' robots sound great... until they become self aware! Point taken. Scratch that then. Lasers. Shooting things with lasers. Big, mother effin lasers. That's what we need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 At this early stage, this bill could be a very big boon to the general welfare of all Americans; or one can speculate, hoping that it doesn't do to medical care and medicine what lowering the income standrds by which individuals could purchase a mortgage did to the mortgage banking industry with its subsequent domino effects, 15 years after that executive order was put into practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Rocky, I'll put Michael Bay in charge of this right away. S2V, the main difference between healthcare reform and mortgage reform is healthcare is a regulatory measure and mortgage was deregulation. It was the mortgage banking industry that sunk the mortgage banks, just like the healthcare industry was about to do to, well, healthcare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Tim, good idea. Anyways, I think one of the biggest things that I've heard people talk about is whether forcing people to have insurance is constitutional. I don't exactly know if it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 ..It was the mortgage banking industry that sunk the mortgage banks, .... Not entirely accurate, Tim. It was an overwhelming tidal wave of low income mortgage default and lack of secured capital that precipitated the tumbling exposure of poor banking practices. Those worthless mortgages were being traded institution to institution as if liquid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Exactly, the mortgage banks gave out credit to people with no means to pay it back and the entire thing collapsed in on itself due to the banks' greed and shortsightedness. This (theoretically) could have been avoided with more regulation and oversight. As for a legal requirement for insurance, it's been in the rulebooks for automobiles for years. Surely human health is a much more important thing to insure than cars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 What I want to know is: How can someone who is not able to pay for health insurance be able to PAY A FINE for not paying for health insurance?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 By the time this rule is enacted, the insurance exchange will be up and running. At this point, anybody under 400% of the poverty rate will be given a healthcare tax credit to buy into the exchange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 I know it's been in the rulebooks for a long time. Doesn't mean it's constitutional... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Well there's precedent for it at least. They either both exist or both don't, you can't say one is ok and one isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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