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Chew on this and have at it. I am done with these so-called Liberal/Progressives who support this crap of a bill and are willing to sacrifice their principles for Obama.

Why I can’t support the HCR bill (Updated)

Arguably, healthcare reform has been the be-all and end-all of this website since June 2009. So we’re almost at a full calendar year now since the monumental moment when this teeny, tiny, little hope-shaped baby was given to Congress by the White House, and President Obama basically said, “Do something with this! Make me proud!”

Unfortunately, both Congress (both houses, with more blame being placed upon the Senate rather than the House) and the White House have managed to fuck it up beyond all recognition.

After months of debating, and rolling the facts over in my head, I simply cannot support this healthcare “reform” package. Essentially, I think it’s a crock of shit. Unless this bill can and will include a public option (or if Alan Grayson’s bill gains any traction), then please (PLEASE!) kill this motherfucking piece of crap!

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    • TMC on March 16, 2010 at 06:03
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    and the courage to tell the Democrats that if this were a Republican bill in a Republican Congress, Democrats would be having strokes. Kill this bill or do it right.

  1. he wanted to move forward.

    Now we have criminals, torturers and mass murderers on the air saying they’re proud of their criminality in ordering murder and torture.

    Now we have Wall street people selling millions into elderly poverty and indentured servitude, operating at the highest levels of our government to fix the damage they caused.  And thumbing their nose at the government while doing it.

    And now we have Murder by Spreadsheet executives who are going to get millions of new customers and billions of new dollars, but won’t be questioned on the massive fraud they’ve perpetrated on the American people for years.  And there’s nothing stopping them from doing it again, because there is no punishment, only reward, for continuing it.

    Because this is what it is to “move forward” without any acknowledgement of the past.

    What will happen when this bill is passed is that the Insurance Industry will take these new customers, these new laws, and then they will flaunt them, exploit every loophole, and just for shits and giggles, they will thumb their nose and stick out their collective tongues at President Obama while they are doing it.

    And the liberal blogosphere will say, how dare they disrespect our President this way, and use this disrespect and destruction of more American lives and health, to argue for the election of more Democrats.

  2. UPDATED: For those who believe that this HCR bill will impact their families, and/or help many other people, I would just like to say that I truthfully respect your opinion. Especially if that opinion was hard-fought and personal in nature. This is just my opinion, on a blog, and that’s pretty much all she wrote. Seriously. I get why folks feel that they have to support this bill, even if they don’t like it, and even if they don’t agree with me. That’s not only OK, but that’s respectable!

    The only reason I think this diary is on the rec list right now is because it resonated with a lot of people tonight, and the underlying tensions on Dkos probably caused it to be that way. No more, no less, and I’m definitely not convinced that my opinion will have any kind of impact, nor change anyone’s mind.

    I wish we could cut out the meta from this crap but, alas, it’s probably not to be.

    Oh, the nuance. That and the advocacy of activist deaf girls just create wrinkles upon wrinkles of it.

    • TMC on March 16, 2010 at 07:10
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    on Countdown. Paraphrasing what he said,

    The Pre-existing clause only covers children in the first 10 years of this bill. 10’s of thousands of people will still die

    The bill does not take care of the profit motive

    The fine to deny your pre-existing condition is only $100/day

    Quick math. If your operation or treatment costs $100,000 and the fine for a year is only $36,500…I think you get the picture which the insurance company will choose

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