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Mocking the GOP Health Care Plan
Here's Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the education and labor committee, mocking the Republican health care plan in a very effective 90-second speech on the House floor on Saturday:
When he talks about the Republican plan "leaving people behind," Miller is referring to the Congressional Budget Office's scoring of the plan. The CBO found that the GOP plan would save money because it doesn't actually extend insurance coverage to any of the 17 percent of legal, non-elderly Americans who the CBO thinks will be without health insurance in 2010. In fact, most of the Republican plan centers around reforms that would make the health insurance industry work more like the credit card industry by allowing insurers to base themselves in the state with the weakest regulations and then sell their health plans nationwide (as credit card companies already do from South Dakota).
I think this is not about
I think this is not about health care for the people . This is about controlling the people!!! Obama has do nonthing except screwup so far. This is the Dems way of trying to save his name because he hasnt succeeded at ANYTHING yet. OH, Exept for making things worse of course.
yeah, Obama's made things worse....
Obama hasn't made things better, but there was very little worse we could have gotten. Last I checked the economy went in the toilet after 8 years of President Bush and 6 years of Republican Congress, so cut the crap, stop whining, and just suck it up. Republicans made this colossal mess through their complete and utter stupidity and ineptitude. As others have said, Republicans believe government is the problem because whenever they take over government they run it so incompetently that it literally becomes the problem and then Democrats have to clean up the mess, the way Roosevelt did in the 30s and Clinton did in the 90s. Republicans might counter with Reagan, but of course that's only if you ignore the TWO Reagan recessions, 83 and 87. In other words Republicans back their language about government ineptitude by being utterly inept themselves and in their handling of basic government affairs. I mean, damn, John Boehner doesn't even know the difference between the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence and he's a Republican leader. You can't get any more inept than that.