Comments on: Healthcare reform to cost almost a trillion dollars (and that’s all you need to know) http://toastie.st/2009/11/18/healthcare-reform-to-cost-almost-a-trillion-dollars-and-thats-all-you-need-to-know/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Toastie http://toastie.st/2009/11/18/healthcare-reform-to-cost-almost-a-trillion-dollars-and-thats-all-you-need-to-know/#comment-10070 Toastie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:37:27 +0000 http://toastie.st/?p=3521#comment-10070 Funny, there's an anti-reform ad here. "Don't Destory What Works". I'd click on it to cost this lobby money, except G isn't going to count a click from my own computer. Yeah, it works so well, that <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/19/insurance-denies-little-girl/" rel="nofollow">a little girl is going to go deaf because CIGNA wants their profits</a>. Funny, there’s an anti-reform ad here. “Don’t Destory What Works”. I’d click on it to cost this lobby money, except G isn’t going to count a click from my own computer.

Yeah, it works so well, that a little girl is going to go deaf because CIGNA wants their profits.

]]> By: Toastie http://toastie.st/2009/11/18/healthcare-reform-to-cost-almost-a-trillion-dollars-and-thats-all-you-need-to-know/#comment-10069 Toastie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:33:43 +0000 http://toastie.st/?p=3521#comment-10069 I was annoyed to hear NPR's hourly headlines refer to the bill first by its cost, too. ACW, but then you deprive the health insurance industry of their right to make a profit! America! Capitalism! F*yeah! I was annoyed to hear NPR’s hourly headlines refer to the bill first by its cost, too.

ACW, but then you deprive the health insurance industry of their right to make a profit! America! Capitalism! F*yeah!

]]> By: ACW http://toastie.st/2009/11/18/healthcare-reform-to-cost-almost-a-trillion-dollars-and-thats-all-you-need-to-know/#comment-10068 ACW Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:29:21 +0000 http://toastie.st/?p=3521#comment-10068 My biggest arguing point is: We're going to insure everyone once they reach the age of Medicare, so why not insure everyone *beforehand* so they can get the preventative care they need?! Oh - that's right - because it makes more sense for folks to limp along and endure with lowered productivity and quality of life until they reach 65 and have done serious damage to their bodies that will require much more invasive and expensive procedures. My bad. My biggest arguing point is: We’re going to insure everyone once they reach the age of Medicare, so why not insure everyone *beforehand* so they can get the preventative care they need?!
Oh – that’s right – because it makes more sense for folks to limp along and endure with lowered productivity and quality of life until they reach 65 and have done serious damage to their bodies that will require much more invasive and expensive procedures. My bad.

]]> By: Valerie http://toastie.st/2009/11/18/healthcare-reform-to-cost-almost-a-trillion-dollars-and-thats-all-you-need-to-know/#comment-10051 Valerie Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:45:11 +0000 http://toastie.st/?p=3521#comment-10051 msnbc.com is a vessel, alright. not of journalistic integrity. msnbc.com is a vessel, alright. not of journalistic integrity.

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