Okaaaaay.....

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Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:22pm

Crazy:


 


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/


 


September 19, 2008,  7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health


OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.


Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:



Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.


So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!>>>

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Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 6:37pm
I am merely responding to the continuing allegations that the democrats somehow stopped a bill that was never brought to the floor. If you aren't going to bring a bill to the floor when you have a healthy majority in congress I have to question the commitment the republican party had to this particular issue. Since that was the original allegation that is the allegation I am still waiting for an answer on.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 6:44pm
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 6:50pm
If you aren't going to bring a bill to the floor when you have a healthy majority in congress I have to question the commitment the republican party had to this particular issue. Again you have provided me with 3 names of democrats who opposed this legislation - 3 just 3. Are you really telling me that 3 people had the power to stop this legislation???? If that the purported strength of the republican party - that they can't pass a bill if 3 people oppose it?
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Registered: 08-31-2003
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:10pm

"Since that was the original allegation that is the allegation I am still waiting for an answer on. "


In other words, no democrat did squat to prevent the situation at hand so it is better to fillibuster than provide an honest answer.

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Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:15pm
And no republican made an honest effort to move the bill to a vote - which is the original post - again the question I have not received an answer to. So I am not seeing how the republicans did much more that squat on this issue. Still waiting - any info out there?
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Registered: 07-25-2006
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:17pm

I know alicia. (nice "seeing" you here BTW) I just find it funny, not funny haha, but never


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Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:19pm
And who pushed through the deregulation that allowed it to happen in the first case????
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Registered: 07-25-2006
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:21pm

There must have been Republicans that wouldn't support the bill either as it was considered "dead" and never left committee.


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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:22pm
That would be Jimmy Carter. Then Bill Clinton put it on steroids...
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Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:28pm
I was merely responding to a post that seemed to claim the total responsibility for this bill not passing was with the democrats. I did not make that assertion so it is not my responsibility to show which democrats might have supported it. In point of fact it was never brought to the floor for a vote or a debate so it would be difficult to know if any democrat would have supported it. Kind of like trying to prove you are innocent BEFORE a crime is committed.

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