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Started by AFK, October 13, 2009, 06:28:27 PM

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LMNO

#15
October 13, 2009, 08:45:32 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 13, 2009, 08:41:56 PM
Only 5% of Americans will qualify for the subsidy to my understanding.  Given that much more than 5% have no income at all...

Where did you get that stat?  It's an interesting one.

LMNO

#16
October 13, 2009, 08:47:22 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 13, 2009, 08:44:05 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 13, 2009, 08:40:52 PM
Not that I'm defending the bill, but there are subsidies for certain income levels, with that in mind.


Not the point.

Agreed.  Like I said, I'm not defending it.

Requia ☣

#17
October 13, 2009, 08:53:06 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 13, 2009, 08:45:32 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 13, 2009, 08:41:56 PM
Only 5% of Americans will qualify for the subsidy to my understanding.  Given that much more than 5% have no income at all...

Where did you get that stat?  It's an interesting one.

NPR.  (This may also have changed, Whenever I really dig in and follow a bill I always see people ranting about problems with early versions).
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LMNO

#18
October 13, 2009, 08:59:37 PM
Hmm.  I wonder if there's a way to get my hands on the bill that just passed.

The Good Reverend Roger

#19
October 13, 2009, 09:04:14 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 13, 2009, 08:53:06 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 13, 2009, 08:45:32 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 13, 2009, 08:41:56 PM
Only 5% of Americans will qualify for the subsidy to my understanding.  Given that much more than 5% have no income at all...

Where did you get that stat?  It's an interesting one.

NPR.  (This may also have changed, Whenever I really dig in and follow a bill I always see people ranting about problems with early versions).

Look here.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf

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Kai

#20
October 13, 2009, 09:24:10 PM
This health care bill is shit.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#21
October 13, 2009, 09:31:53 PM
Quote from: Kai on October 13, 2009, 09:24:10 PM
This health care bill is shit.

:lulz:

Grab yer ankles, America.

:lulz:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Requia ☣

#22
October 13, 2009, 10:09:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 13, 2009, 08:59:37 PM
Hmm.  I wonder if there's a way to get my hands on the bill that just passed.

Every bill goes up on Thomas: http://thomas.loc.gov/
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Cramulus

#23
October 14, 2009, 04:31:38 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 13, 2009, 08:45:32 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 13, 2009, 08:41:56 PM
Only 5% of Americans will qualify for the subsidy to my understanding.  Given that much more than 5% have no income at all...

Where did you get that stat?  It's an interesting one.

I heard it from Obama's mouth.. can't remember which speech, but it was about a month ago.

AFK

#24
October 14, 2009, 05:22:44 PM
Now Susan Collins is signaling, though with more caveats, that she might be able to support the bill:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33308113/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

There must be some polling here in Maine that is making these two open to the bills.  Or, they really hate the rest of their party and want to fuck with them.  I would like to think it's a little of both but who knows. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

The Good Reverend Roger

#25
October 14, 2009, 05:28:29 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on October 14, 2009, 05:22:44 PM
Now Susan Collins is signaling, though with more caveats, that she might be able to support the bill:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33308113/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

There must be some polling here in Maine that is making these two open to the bills.  Or, they really hate the rest of their party and want to fuck with them.  I would like to think it's a little of both but who knows. 

Olympia Snowe is a towering colossus that brooks no shit, particularly from republican swine that think she isn't ideologically "pure" enough.

Good on her.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#26
October 15, 2009, 02:13:19 AM
YES.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#27
October 15, 2009, 02:25:02 AM
Too bad the bill is such a piece of shit.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#28
October 15, 2009, 03:36:39 AM
Yet another way the dems can be attacked. "We didn't let you pass what you wanted, and now that it's imperfect, we're going to complain about it."

Jenne

#29
October 15, 2009, 07:37:09 PM
Not only that, but they didn't need Snowe's vote to get it through--she just made the odds look better--14 to 9 vs 13 to 10.  :|
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