Comments on: Adventures in Health Care http://thathero.com/2009/07/14/adventures-in-health-care/ nobody wants to be a sidekick Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:13:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hart http://thathero.com/2009/07/14/adventures-in-health-care/#comment-39 hart Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:38:28 +0000 http://blog.thathero.com/?p=798#comment-39 carly - I certainly won't argue that our health insurance system is perfect, or that the GOP has offered a silver bullet for reform. However, allowing us to purchase insurance across state lines and allowing small businesses to purchase group plans are two ideas that make sense to me. These have been suggested by Congressman Boehner and others. One look at states' Medicare and Medicaid debts should tell us everything we need to know about an expanded federal plan that follows the standard leftist ideal of taxing "the rich" to pay for a new entitlement whose costs will trend in only one direction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFV5Tx4LxBM is short, sweet, and utterly devastating in this respect. carly – I certainly won’t argue that our health insurance system is perfect, or that the GOP has offered a silver bullet for reform. However, allowing us to purchase insurance across state lines and allowing small businesses to purchase group plans are two ideas that make sense to me. These have been suggested by Congressman Boehner and others. One look at states’ Medicare and Medicaid debts should tell us everything we need to know about an expanded federal plan that follows the standard leftist ideal of taxing “the rich” to pay for a new entitlement whose costs will trend in only one direction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFV5Tx4LxBM is short, sweet, and utterly devastating in this respect.

]]> By: carly http://thathero.com/2009/07/14/adventures-in-health-care/#comment-38 carly Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:53:07 +0000 http://blog.thathero.com/?p=798#comment-38 Republicans don't want a healthcare plan. Just playing obstructionists. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588 Republicans don’t want a healthcare plan. Just playing obstructionists. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588

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