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Posted by: edg176 Original: 7/28/2009 1:53 PM Views: 29 Comments: 5 eProps: 8 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Big news today is that the Senate Finance Committee has allegedly removed the public option from the healthcare reform bill. The public option would create a government backed insurance plan that people could choose as an alternative to the private insurance companies. Doctors would still have private practices, only the insurance plan would be government managed. Many people think that the public option would force insurance companies to actually compete to offer plans that are more affordable. However, what we actually know is that a public plan would be the beginning of socialism, since it would threaten the prerogatives of insurance companies, and we can't have that.

The Chairman of the Committee is Max Baucus, a Democratic Senator from Montana. As Chairman he has a lot of power to shape the bill in his committee. Let's see who his top donors are, shall we?

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I was utterly shocked to see that 8 of the 20 top contributors to Senator Baucus were healthcare related companies such as Aetna and Schering-Plough Corp. It really makes me feel good to know that Senator Baucus is looking out for the best interests of big drug companies and the insurers! These are clearly publicly spirited companies that make up about 25 percent of Sen. Baucus fundraising efforts.

If you'd like to let Sen. Baucus know how much you appreciate his public spirited defense of our-most-vulnerable private enterprise entities, please let him know! You can contact him here:
511 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2651(Office)
(202) 224-9412 (Fax)

Or email him at:
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Posted 7/28/2009 1:53 PM - 29 Views - 8 eProps - 5 comments

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It will be watered down. They are all too far bought and the pressure is not enough. People only react when they feel absolute terror, crisis and emergency. I am truly at the point where I think it could be wise to have a Hobbesian figure literally destroy congress and all the federal powers and then start back up from scratch again. This will come back up once 150 million people are without insurance. Of course the insurance you have now is only holding value until you get a long term illness. Then you get turfed out...

Posted 7/28/2009 2:23 PM by Leonidas

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@Leonidas -

I really hope that it doesn't come to that kind of chaotic situation. Unfortunately, some people are so stupid that they don't realize the consequences of 150 million people broke and without healthcare.

Posted 7/29/2009 12:57 AM by edg176

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i guess i can say that i'm lucky living in australia.

medical insurance is only still a luxury, it's not compulsory... and only the rich get penalized if they don't have it.. (they just get taxed heavily).

we have a medicare system, where anyone and everyone can access free doctors and hospitals and u dont have to work to get it. it's for everyone..

but i guess its probably why we're taxed so heavily because we have a system to support.

Posted 7/29/2009 4:37 AM by funky_ass

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I will call. As an action of Hope not of expectation. This life, and politics is one of the avenues, has taught me to have expectations of yourself and hope for others and let disspointment only reside in the heart of unmet expectations.

Perhaps it is Human nature, perhaps, but it seems whenever we get into groups, when bureaucracies hide our native identities a stream of action arises, that is perhaps our more 'pure' natures (pure in the sense of it being unhindered by our Human morality. Not pure in the sense of it being more true), and it is an undying wish to obliterate itself. To kill and rend all that we have created. I think this is more evidence of a death wish innate to Man.

Be well
G

Posted 7/29/2009 9:11 AM by fallenguru