Republican outrage over the healthcare issue is fake? Come on now, don't get too dilluted in liberal propaganda. Yes there are mindless nuts on both sides, but don't generalize and be one of them. Some republicans are probably concerned that Obama has already blown our collective financial wad all over the bankers. Was this good judgement? Put two plus two together here. We're massively in debt. How long will it take to pay it off? Ten or twenty years? And now Obama wants to the government to take over health care? I'm scared but it does sound really fucking awesome. Howabout we stop our foreign zionist wars to pay for it. Ohh wait that's too much change for Obama.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/177745/detail/

Ain't that the stuff?

(Watch the US dollar closely, by the way ... and pay close attention to the US trying to spook Iran, but the US is on its knees.)

Yes! It was a headline last week right here: http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/177745/detail/

But you may have missed it if you, like me, were blinded by the boneriffic light that is Tom Delay's tight, Right, and outtasite buttocks (and cupping of an "air flute....")

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/178530/detail/

I know it's just the wee-est self-serving...

That was the reaction I was indeed looking for.

I wonder if Grayson's crusade against the Fed is motivated by something sinister, such as a desire to obtain complete congressional control over America's money supply. This view is shared by many collectivist critics of the Fed such as Ralph Nader.

I wonder what his thoughts are on this because I've never heard him say what his end goal is.

I find myself totally with you on this one.

If the decision to give me care comes down to be made by either *my employees* (public servants) at what is a not-for-profit versus some CEO's employees who are all looking at their bonuses?

No question.

And while tax dollars are of course a finite resource, We The People have more transparency and more control over their allocation than we do over a private corporation's spending.

So we can always vote to spend more on healthcare and less on military. But as we've found out, we have absolutely zero control over Healthcare CEO bonuses and profit margins...

The "death panel" thing is a right-wing scare lie. It's not designed to stand up to scrutiny. It's designed to frighten and confuse.

I agree about the real death panels though. Insurance companies contribute nothing to the system. They don't make anything. They don't do anything. They don't dispense practical expertise. They provide nothing. All they are is a profit-sucking layer built on top of vapors. They push money from one pile to another using sticky fingers, and they find ways not to hold up their end and they answer to no-one. We don't need them to continue dragging down health outcomes at an exorbitant cost.

Too bad the proposal on the table is to force healthy people to buy private insurance whether they want to or not, to use tax money to subsidize poor people's private for-profit insurance, and to give sick people a public insurance option, so insurers don't have to cover them. The legislation looks as if it were written by the insurance industry. (Just *exactly* as if it were written by the insurance industry.) The only decent aspect of the legislation is the limits on what insurers can get away with, so they won't deny people for pre-existing conditions any more. The main effect of that will be fewer uninsured people and higher insurance rates and taxes for everyone.

Cha-ching for insurers!

Plus the "public option" filled with the sickest people will fail within a few years so private insurance can say public medical financing is a bad idea.

We still won't get our money's worth in health care, but since we'll all be paying more taxes AND more insurance, we'll have fewer patients dumped into alleys. I suppose that's an improvement.