Millionaire Jim Bunning is filibusting an extension of unemployment benefits and COBRA at a time when jobs are so hard to find. He has halted 40 highway projects and forced 2,000 government workers in to unpaid leaves. He, along with the rest of the Republican Party, are against health care reform. Could it be because among the bankers and defense contractors, the health care industry contributes to his campaign?
American Interventional Pain Physicians
AFLAC Inc.
Kindered Healthcare
Rehabcare Group
U.S. Oncology
Conservatives in general are in the pockets of the health care industy and other corporate sponsers.
The people who complain about having to pay for health care for the working poor, don’t seem to have a problem with their tax dollars going the wealthiest people in the country. Our tax dollars are given to corporations in the form of subsidies and other types of corporate welfare. 60% of corporations do not even pay income taxes. The tax cuts for the rich means the middle and working class citizens have to make up the difference.
The CATO institute:
Congress should
● end programs that provide direct grants to businesses;
● end spending that indirectly subsidizes businesses, such as
preferential loans and assistance for exporting;
● eliminate trade and regulatory barriers that favor some businesses
at the expense of other businesses and consumers;
● eliminate earmarking in spending bills and subject all spending
projects—assuming that they are legitimate federal activities—
to expert review and competitive bidding;
● expand financial transparency with further Internet disclosures
of spending details for proposed and enacted bills; and
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/angry-ky-sen-jim-342019.html
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00003437&type=I
http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-26.pdf
Unfortunately as you can see from the answers here, loads more needs to be done. People quite rightly point out when Democrats get contributions, but refuse to see the irony in those who vote against reforms taking money from those who make money from denying Americans so many aspects of healthcare.
I do not understand why so many Americans have fallen for lies about healthcare in the USA, abroad and also the planned reforms [1]. I mean, if the healthcare system in the USA is so good, why have no other nations taken it up? Could it be due to the following facts?
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [2].
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [3].
Or if the US healthcare system is run so well, why not run the fire service like the healthcare system? [4]
Maybe that is because in the USA, insurance companies push up costs, buy politicians and refuse to pay claims that people pay for [5]. (Look up Wendell Potter on YouTube to hear more if the link below is too long.)
Obama wants to make insurance cheaper, stop insurance companies from refusing health coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and make sure they pay out when they are meant to [6], a system similar to that which works in Taiwan [7]. He debated this before he was elected [8].
Is it right that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, Cuba, Germany and so many other industrialised nations with universal healthcare?
If you think my arguments are wrong, e-mail me with proof. But if you can not, let Obama try to help America. If he fails, vote him out in 2012.
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Businesses who have laid off workers and who can barely afford the people they have left on the payroll are the ones that foot the bill for unemployment benefits.
Do you not understand that this will lead to further unemployment and more businesses will close down?
Do you not understand that this is not actually a solution to the problem? In fact, it will make things even worse????
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Accountant for a small business with laid off workers barely hanging on.
Don’t stat facts! It will freak them out and make them call you names.
ROTFL!!!
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whether they do or not … is their business. Not yours and not governments. I would encourage the rich to be charitable.
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You conveniently left off a lot of blue collar supporters from his list. Dishonest?
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Dems said they wanted to pay as they go. He is helping them keep a promise for a change.
How could a few days shut everything down? Were Dems trying to force spending down everyones throats at the last second?
Plus you forgot the fact that for the last few years it is the Dems that were the largest recipients of contributions from Health care and Wall Street.
In fact Obama was numero uno recipient from Wall St. before he even ran for president. That was as a junior senator.
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democrats are in the same pockets youre just to blind to see
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Nah…..I think it has to do with HOW IN THE LIVING CHIT ARE WE GOING TO PAY FOR IT……NO MONEY HONEY!!!! Ok…thought you’d understand. Thanks for listening.
<<<——- Oh yea, ya like to swim?
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Americans don’t believe in class warfare though…
We all know that the rich and the poor have the same interests. The poor should want the rich to get richer, so that the rich will continue employing them at the same low wages…
Doesn’t that sound ridiculous?
If you are rich, your interests are exactly opposed to that of the working class. If you are middle class your interests are opposed to both the working and the upper class. Everyone wants to squeeze the most money out of the others, the working class just don’t have the power to do anything about it.
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Your Democratic buddies have their share of deals as well how about the UAW for one? How do you explain their sweet deal on not being taxed on their Cadillac plans. And if you don’t think they haven’t taken their fair share of contributions from health care interests your living in a dream world.
It’s all about control of the US economy, Health Care is just a slick way of getting government control of 20 to 25% of our G N P in one fell swoop. It’ll be a big mistake if we let them get away with it, and one there will be no coming back from !
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Typical marxo-socilaist rhetoric… 10% of my barely above poverty level income goes to TAXES but I am WHITE so I suppose this "redistribution" is apparently OK in your ignorant dystopic. Harry Reid is worth $8 million and built a by-pass over the Bolder Dam into his desert property which correspondingly raised it’s market value so does this make him a "benefactor of the poor" or one of the ELITE? And the same "elite" that pays 90% of our taxes and provides yours and others jobs? Stop reading Marx; he was a sexual pervert who claimed 25% of the population must be killed after the revolution and join civilized society! Those "uninsured" are the same people you step over and laugh at on the way to the Gap to buy some new jeans to make Johnny Rottencrotch like you… the use of revolutionary axioms are wasted on you. Rich is rich and poor is poor and power over the other will always occur; politics have little to do with it until you can look past Party Line and see the TRUTH and not what "they" tell you.
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Okay, you Obama disciples need to get your story straight. Is Obama a genius or a moron? Because Bunning is standing on two principles: First, that Obama HIMSELF pushed for and supported the Pay As You Go legislation that says Congress has to save a dollar before it can spend a dollar. In fact, Obama has praised this. Second, there is money left over in the stimulus bill (that thing that was going to keep unemployment under 8%), and Bunning is simply asking that the money for extending unemployment benefits come from that. In other words, use what we’ve got and stop borrowing from our grandkids. Now you tell us, was this legislation Obama wanted a great idea, in which case he should abide by it, or was it a stupid idea that we should just ditch whenever we don’t like it, in which case Obama’s a moron?
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Unfortunately as you can see from the answers here, loads more needs to be done. People quite rightly point out when Democrats get contributions, but refuse to see the irony in those who vote against reforms taking money from those who make money from denying Americans so many aspects of healthcare.
I do not understand why so many Americans have fallen for lies about healthcare in the USA, abroad and also the planned reforms [1]. I mean, if the healthcare system in the USA is so good, why have no other nations taken it up? Could it be due to the following facts?
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [2].
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [3].
Or if the US healthcare system is run so well, why not run the fire service like the healthcare system? [4]
Maybe that is because in the USA, insurance companies push up costs, buy politicians and refuse to pay claims that people pay for [5]. (Look up Wendell Potter on YouTube to hear more if the link below is too long.)
Obama wants to make insurance cheaper, stop insurance companies from refusing health coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and make sure they pay out when they are meant to [6], a system similar to that which works in Taiwan [7]. He debated this before he was elected [8].
Is it right that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, Cuba, Germany and so many other industrialised nations with universal healthcare?
If you think my arguments are wrong, e-mail me with proof. But if you can not, let Obama try to help America. If he fails, vote him out in 2012.
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[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/subjects/health/
[2] http://allcountries.org/health/usa_health_care_2009_economist.html
[3] http://www.unicef.org/sowc08/docs/sowc08_table_U5MR.pdf
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpUG4apgrE
[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QwX_soZ1GI
[6] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/health-reform-made-simple/
[7] http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/148/4/313.pdf
[8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdTalCKyW-g