Comments on: The US House has just voted to repeal the health care reform law https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/ Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Keith Harwood https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498275 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:45:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498275 Australia has had Job Killing Health Care for many years. Unmployment is (as of last month) 5.0% and, to make matters worse, it’s declining.

]]> By: bobh https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498274 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:19:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498274 @Captain Patriot (POE?)

When will the marxist governor of VA stop making me buy auto insurance? If I don’t buy something I don’t want I have to pay a fine. It communism pure and simple (i.e. for the simple minded)

]]> By: Franklin https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498273 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:33:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498273 Wait, Captain Patriot was being serious? I thought he was a bad troll because of all the communist dictator talk. I suddenly remembered that there are people who really think Obama has become a communist dictator. : (

]]> By: Mike https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498272 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:47:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498272 Hey Captain Idiot, what’s this about the health-care bill bankrupting America? Where were you the last 10 years? The republicans and the Bush white house already did that by serving their corporate buddies interests before yours. Wake up or deport yourself to Cuba.

]]> By: Brett Paul Dunbar https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498271 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:29:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498271 You aren’t paying for unwanted junk mail. Bulk mail is profitable the handling costs are a bit less than the the price charged. The profit from the bulk mail subsidises the non-bulk letter post, which costs substantially more to handle than the price charged. If it wasn’t for bulk mail you would have to pay more for the letters you want to send.

]]> By: itzac https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498270 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:39:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498270 “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act”

Unemployment rate in U.S.: 9.4%

Unemployment rate in Canada with Job-Killing universal healthcare: 7.6%

Both stats are less than a month old. And the U.S. statistic is jiggered to look lower than it is. Methinks it’s not healthcare that’s killing jobs.

]]> By: Captain Obvious https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498269 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:49:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498269 @Captain Patriot “I would be ok with keeping this unconstitutional marxist monstrosity if they would just delete the MANDATE part where they force me against my will to purchase something I may or may not wish to purchase, but we know that will never happen.”

I support Captain Patriot’s call for the disbanding of the US military, a marxist institution taxpayers are forced to pay for and which provides socialised death panel “medicine” to veterans.

However, I’m unsure about Captain Patriot’s call to deport anyone who disagrees to Cuba however, as I feel the suggestion of reinforcing the looming forces of communism lurking there to be bordering on the subversive.

I hope Captain Patriot does not hate Freedom.

]]> By: MacTurk https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498268 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:41:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498268 Captain Stupid is back, I see. And still churning out his semi-digested stew of other right wing loons’ opinions. He did not, obviously, read the CBO report, published on January 6, 2011, which baldly states that “…CBO and JCT estimated that the March 2010 health care legislation would reduce budget deficits over the 2010â??2019 period and in subsequent years; consequently, we expect that repealing that legislation would increase budget deficits”.

Re MANDATE, was it not Benjamin Franklin who wrote that “Taxes are the price you pay for a civilised society”?

Re moving out of the USA, if you have one Irish grandparent, you get an Irish passport. There is something similar for Italians.

]]> By: Clam https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498267 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:02:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498267 You could always come here to Cyprus. That’s the island in the Mediterranean, not some town in Takes-arse or wherever. It’s also a member of the E.U.
The health care here is slow and limited, but, if you’re an EU citizen, it’s free. If not, it’s bloody expensive and you have to buy insurance. Hey, why not send your Republicans here? They should enjoy that combination. By the way, our president is a Communist. I’m sure that proves something or other?

]]> By: Mark https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498266 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:25:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/19/the-us-house-has-just-voted-to/#comment-498266 #7. I too have recently come to the same conclusion only I can’t afford to go anywhere else (yet). Too bad we can’t just leave these crazy people to destroy themselves. I am seriously considering becoming an expat but I don’t know where I should go yet. I need a place that I can afford, acclimate to enough to survive, and respect enough to live in.

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