https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:54:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543354 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:54:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543354 That it is symbolic is all the more reason not to sign it. I am not alone in this (and I am not referring to Rush Limbo.)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543353 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543353 Organ donor trolling? Wow, you get all kinds here, Greg. I signed, btw. The more I hear about Sen. Kennedy, the more I wish I had known him.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543352 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:23:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543352 My understanding is that Ted was an organ donor.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543351 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:40:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543351 Ted Kennedy’s health care past allowed for transplant industry to become horridly powerful – now the industry can trump a patients advance directive! What I want to know – was he signed up to a an organ donor? Did he become an organ donor or was he used for research/education??? He pushed laws for everyone else to become organ donors. Let’s not make special and new rules for special people for special circumstances. A bill that becomes law that destroys peoples lives can not be made on an emotional moment.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543350 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:21:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543350 Sign it, then use the bill’s name to shame the politicians who don’t want effective change.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543349 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:14:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543349 I signed. Since I live in Massachusetts, I also signed to allow a temporary appointment to replace him.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543348 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:43:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543348 Oh, just go sign the petition, Mike…. (Jeesh…) It’s totally symbolic.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543347 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:38:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/27/name-the-health-care-bill-afte/#comment-543347 What I will sign is a petition to name it after him only if it is a bill he would approve of. If it is a bill that makes more money for the insurance companies by allowing them to cover less and less of our health care costs then I would rather they name it after Mike Enzi. If it is one that includes a public option with no means testing for availability, and one that scares the shit out of the insurance companies, then I will sign this petition.

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