Insurance industry practices such as denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions would be banned, and insurers would no longer be able to charge higher premiums on the basis of gender or medical history. The industry would also lose its exemption from federal antitrust restrictions on price fixing and market allocation.
At its core, the measure would create a federally regulated marketplace where consumers could shop for coverage. In the bill's most controversial provision, the government would sell insurance, although the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that premiums for it would be more expensive than for policies sold by private companies. Oh great. So there's a public option, but it will cost more than I'm paying now? Where can I sign up?
"That was easy," the speaker said with a smile." Yes, easy to be in the majority and get one Republican vote.
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Really? You'd rather be waterboarded?
Sadly, people like her reproduce.
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Outrageous GOP Health Care Grandstanding Includes A Baby As A prop
"Mattie believes in freedom! She says, 'If you want health care, pay for it yourself!'" Sickening grandstanding from the GOP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9lWoI43Qo&feature=player_embedded
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Back in 2006, a wise man said this:
It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war.
And yet, three years and a rather precipitous political ascent later, that same person - now President Barack Obama - is contemplating just how many more troops to add to Afghanistan's roiling civil war - that would be on top of the 21,000 additional troops already deployed by Obama. Nader Mousavizadeh is right about the nature of the conflict in Afghanistan, and our ability to impose a solution through enduring military occupation.
Keep reading: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/11/you-understand-less-as-the-pages-turn.html
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Religious crazies
There's a bus driver in Atlanta who decided he wouldn't let passengers off his bus if they wouldn't pray with him, and a schoolteacher who thinks the Book of Revelation has warned her about fingerprints.
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Equine etiquette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIHwA7bwRzc&feature=player_embedded
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In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.
This includes the officially unemployed, who have looked for work in the last four weeks. It also includes discouraged workers, who have looked in the past year, as well as millions of part-time workers who want to be working full time.
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Every American should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm-tFt3Itoc
