40 Billionaires to Donate Half Their Money

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

but w/Obama's new plan I will as you and many more have a pre-existing condition and I don't. Imagine the pigs smoking cigs and eating McMuffins at the local Mc.D's while I jog (bye.) Get it now?

This is what I don't understand about many people's objections to the health care plan that was passed. I think there are legitimate objections to the plan that passed, but this just isn't one of them.
Under the health care system that existed in the United States before the plan passed, people who had insurance paid for medical treatments for those who did not. I repeat....that is how it already was. If you (or others) don't like that....okay. But why act like the new health care bill invented that system or will implement it for the first time when you know it doesn't?

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by miraja2

This is what I don't understand about many people's objections to the health care plan that was passed. I think there are legitimate objections to the plan that passed, but this just isn't one of them.
Under the health care system that existed in the United States before the plan passed, people who had insurance paid for medical treatments for those who did not. I repeat....that is how it already was. If you (or others) don't like that....okay. But why act like the new health care bill invented that system or will implement it for the first time when you know it doesn't?

Tomorrow morning go try and make an appointment and say you have no insurance or money. See how that goes. We need to save people in life or death situations with ER rooms no doubt IMO but otherwise plead your case or face your fate.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Tomorrow morning go try and make an appointment and say you have no insurance or money. See how that goes. We need to save people in life or death situations with ER rooms no doubt IMO but otherwise plead your case or face your fate.

How wonderful healthcare reform has changed that.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Riot

How wonderful healthcare reform has changed that.

LOL -- yeah, we're all going to have "equal access". It will be equal access to nothing, unless you're one of the self-proclaimed "elites" who handed down this socialist mess with no intention of participating in it.

You didn't see Ted Kennedy waiting in line at the local clinic, and you won't see any other of his ilk doing it either. Socialism is for the people, not for the socialist.

America better wake up and repeal this as soon as is practical -- at the latest on January 20, 2013.

[notyep59]

Originally Posted by joeydb

LOL -- yeah, we're all going to have "equal access". It will be equal access to nothing, unless you're one of the self-proclaimed "elites" who handed down this socialist mess with no intention of participating in it.

You didn't see Ted Kennedy waiting in line at the local clinic, and you won't see any other of his ilk doing it either. Socialism is for the people, not for the socialist.

America better wake up and repeal this as soon as is practical -- at the latest on January 20, 2013.

I think I saw Ted Kennedy in line at KFC last night!!

[GPK]

Originally Posted by notyep59

I think I saw Ted Kennedy in line at KFC last night!!

Broad St.?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by joeydb

LOL -- yeah, we're all going to have "equal access". It will be equal access to nothing, unless you're one of the self-proclaimed "elites" who handed down this socialist mess with no intention of participating in it.

You didn't see Ted Kennedy waiting in line at the local clinic, and you won't see any other of his ilk doing it either. Socialism is for the people, not for the socialist.

America better wake up and repeal this as soon as is practical -- at the latest on January 20, 2013.

Or not:

The new health care law has significantly improved the prognosis for Medicare, extending the life of its trust fund by 12 years until 2029, and thereby delaying any need for dramatic changes in benefits or revenues, according to a new report.

The annual check-up from government actuaries overseeing the nation's two central safety-net programs also found that Social Security continues to be much less of a problem than Medicare, and will remain in strong financial shape at least through 2037.

"The financial outlook for the Medicare program is substantially improved as a result of the far-reaching changes in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," concludes the Medicare report -- although the trustees warned that the improvements depend on the successful implementation of the law.

Where is the source for that?

thinair.com?

[Riot]

That piece was all over the place on internet news sites in the last couple of days. Yahoonews, for example.