Comments on: Feingold blasts White House on public option http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/ Blogging Liberally in the Badger State Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:42:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16646 Greg Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:46:15 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16646 I, like many many people in this country, lost my job last year. While searching for another, I've gotten by on unemployment, food stamps, and Medicaid, and all three programs work great. Conservatives forget that we've already tried things their way, and it was really miserable. Would you prefer to go back to the way things were in 1900? or 1930? I, like many many people in this country, lost my job last year. While searching for another, I’ve gotten by on unemployment, food stamps, and Medicaid, and all three programs work great.

Conservatives forget that we’ve already tried things their way, and it was really miserable. Would you prefer to go back to the way things were in 1900? or 1930?

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]]> By: forgotmyscreenname http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16641 forgotmyscreenname Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:55:45 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16641 When did I say I was defending the current system? Just because I don't like your solution? There's more than one way to make it better than just put it all on the government tab and make every single health care decision a political issue. If you watched the link I posted, the government is all to willing to write the check no questions asked and barely bother to investigate later. You honestly think that would change when it takes on MORE responsibility? Look, I guess this all boils down to a difference in philosophy. You seem to think government is the great and powerful Oz (granting wishes and creating rainbows) and I think it is more often than not inefficent, unresponsive, and illogical when up against basic human nature. But instead you pose the argument that if I disagree with your one and only solution, somehow I'm laughing all the way to the bank while people die in the streets. Please. When did I say I was defending the current system? Just because I don’t like your solution? There’s more than one way to make it better than just put it all on the government tab and make every single health care decision a political issue.

If you watched the link I posted, the government is all to willing to write the check no questions asked and barely bother to investigate later. You honestly think that would change when it takes on MORE responsibility?

Look, I guess this all boils down to a difference in philosophy. You seem to think government is the great and powerful Oz (granting wishes and creating rainbows) and I think it is more often than not inefficent, unresponsive, and illogical when up against basic human nature. But instead you pose the argument that if I disagree with your one and only solution, somehow I’m laughing all the way to the bank while people die in the streets. Please.

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]]> By: Zach W http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16638 Zach W Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:16:12 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16638 Yeah, and no one gets sick and dies without insurance, right? The fact that you're defending a system in which tens of millions of Americans don't have health insurance speaks volumes. Yeah, and no one gets sick and dies without insurance, right?

The fact that you’re defending a system in which tens of millions of Americans don’t have health insurance speaks volumes.

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]]> By: Jim http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16637 Jim Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:15:17 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16637 So whats your suggestion to prevent thousands of elderly people from being sick and dying in the streets? Let them be sick and die in the streets? So whats your suggestion to prevent thousands of elderly people from being sick and dying in the streets? Let them be sick and die in the streets?

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]]> By: forgotmyscreenname http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16631 forgotmyscreenname Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:09:06 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16631 Don't suppose you saw the report on 60 Minutes showing Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are beating U.S. taxpayers out of an stimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam that is urprisingly easy to execute. You can watch it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5419844n Then tell me it is a great program and the government should get even more involved in running health care. Don’t suppose you saw the report on 60 Minutes showing Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are beating U.S. taxpayers out of an stimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam that is urprisingly easy to execute. You can watch it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5419844n

Then tell me it is a great program and the government should get even more involved in running health care.

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]]> By: Jim http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16630 Jim Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:21:01 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16630 Medicare...you mean the people that are overwhelmingly happy with their government run insurance? Medicare…you mean the people that are overwhelmingly happy with their government run insurance?

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]]> By: forgotmyscreenname http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16629 forgotmyscreenname Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:18:04 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16629 No one will ever get sick and die again with the government in charge! Just ask anyone on Medicare. No one will ever get sick and die again with the government in charge! Just ask anyone on Medicare.

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]]> By: Jim http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16626 Jim Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:25:18 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16626 Yeah, people get sick and die because they're too lazy to get a job and get insurance. Yeah, people get sick and die because they’re too lazy to get a job and get insurance.

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]]> By: forgotmyscreenname http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16620 forgotmyscreenname Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:17:02 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16620 Spoken like a true liberal... daydreaming about what government benefits your unborn grandchildren will be 'entitled' to instead of desiring that they make something of themselves. I suppose someone else's unborn grandkids will have to pay for it. Spoken like a true liberal… daydreaming about what government benefits your unborn grandchildren will be ‘entitled’ to instead of desiring that they make something of themselves. I suppose someone else’s unborn grandkids will have to pay for it.

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]]> By: Greg http://bloggingblue.com/2009/12/21/feingold-blasts-white-house-on-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-16618 Greg Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:00:17 +0000 http://bloggingblue.com/?p=7766#comment-16618 It's not as if he thinks it would be a good idea, but it just won't work. He's against it in principle. He doesn't think reconciliation should be used that way. Preserving a Senate procedure is more important to him than the public option. It’s not as if he thinks it would be a good idea, but it just won’t work. He’s against it in principle. He doesn’t think reconciliation should be used that way. Preserving a Senate procedure is more important to him than the public option.

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