Yelling YOU LIE during a presidential address is CHILDISH.......

Lots of government stuff is handled by outsourced businesses.......

Tricare, MAPD (Medicare Advantage Part D), Some Veterans Stuff (this is NEW..), and a few others.

Now, UNDERSTAND only the Insurance components of this..........NOT facilities.

BUT the gubment plans on creating a public option, which will not COMPETE, but will DRIVE private insurance out of business.

Another statistic most people don't know...........80% of all people are covered by NON profit insurance plans......the gubment talking about GREEDY, poorly run insurance companies is a LIE.

Later,

Geo

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;382261]Lots of government stuff is handled by outsourced businesses.......

Tricare, MAPD (Medicare Advantage Part D), Some Veterans Stuff (this is NEW..), and a few others.

Now, UNDERSTAND only the Insurance components of this..........NOT facilities.

BUT the gubment plans on creating a public option, which will not COMPETE, but will DRIVE private insurance out of business.

Another statistic most people don't know...........80% of all people are covered by NON profit insurance plans......the gubment talking about GREEDY, poorly run insurance companies is a LIE.

Later,

Geo[/QUOTE]

I don't see how it will drive private insurance companies out of business if it is suppossed to be as crappy as the picture being painted, such as long waits to get care, quality of care, death panels :) red tape.............. Who in their right mind would buy it even if it was cheap? See what I did there? Nice right? :)

Also if 80% of all people are covered by non profit plans then how exactacly would a goverment run plan put them out of business since it is non profit?

I don't think greed or believing insurance companies are poorly run is the problem most people have with them. It's more that they pick and choose who, when and how they cover you.

Guess we'll have to pick this up next Saturday (atleast I will since I agreed to mhall's no political talk for 5 days post) and I'm off to bed.

[QUOTE=Grumpy;382215]I feel that I have earned every bit of the Health Care that I can get from my Uncle Sam.
Grumpy[/QUOTE]


Sir,

You have earned ever bit of it. And from a fellow D-Vet, Thanks! Those who have never gone in harms way for this country will never understand why. They just don't get it that when you are willing to give all, that's precisely what you earn.

V/R
HB

I got an email with the following text. Been looking for info to confirm this but have not been able to. Can someone verify the event and what was said?

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IN GOD WE TRUST
Original dated April 30th.

Republican dinner last night. This is from Mary Richcreek McKee, who is
very involved in conservative politics. "Just thought I would share with you
a little bit of what we heard at last night's Republican dinner here in
Crawford County Ohio. John Kasich (running for Gov. of Ohio) was the keynote
speaker. Also present were many politicians, most notably, Bob Latta, our
U.S. Congressman. Mike and I (Mary) walked up to Bob and thanked him for his
conservative voting record and voiced our concern about what is going on
in Washington.

He made some funny Botox remarks about Pelosi and then agreed with us that
we have every reason to be concerned. As there were others waiting to talk
to him, our time was brief. However, what took place later that evening
should make chills run up and down everyone's spine to hear. He had asked to
speak a few words at the end of the night and went up on stage.
;
He proceeded to tell the crowd how bad things really are in Washington. He
said he only had a few minutes to speak, but if he could tell us even half
of what the agenda is and what this administration plans to do to our
country we couldn't sleep at night. He said he only gets about 4- 4 1/2 hours
of sleep a night and worries constantly about what they want to do to this
country.

He said that Pelosi, Reid and Obama have to be stopped. He said, "You
know, you always hear this is the most important election blah, blah, blah. But
I am telling you people...whatever you have to do to wake people up you
need to do! We have got to vote them out in 2010 or with the things they have
planned for this country we won't even be a country by 2020! Ten years."

You could see the look of almost desperation on his face. He talked about
the huge debt. He talked about how the CBO gets their "figures". He sits
on the finance committee of some sort and listens to the ramblings of
Geitner and Bernanke.

He said "If you think that the Chinese won't hold this over us with all
our debt you have another thing coming. Our children will have nothing. I
don't care if you have to go out door to door, tell at least 10 people who
will then tell 10 people. We have to do this. This is the single most
important election ever in the history of this country. "

"The change that Obama promised us is NOT the change people thought they
were voting for.”