State's Health Policies

Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

The sooner everyone gets past thinking we have the best healthcare in the world the better. It's a broken mess by any standard for what we pay.
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CHUQ · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:43 am Post subject:

Well you be right and they have got to stop calling it socialized, it is not socialized on so many levels.
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CHUQ · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:35 am Post subject:

Which way will they go? Their approval rating is so low, I say what have they got to lose?

WASHINGTON -- Faced with the likelihood that they will fall short in their effort to overturn President Bush's veto of a popular health insurance program for children, congressional Democrats are confronting a difficult choice about what to do next.

Should they come up with a cheaper, scaled-back version that Bush might accept? Or should they continue to press for the full $60-billion plan Congress has passed, hoping to pressure more Republicans into breaking from the White House?

The answer could determine whether a rare bipartisan collaboration around a healthcare issue in Congress breaks down into the kind of party-line stalemate that has dominated the congressional scene in recent years.

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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

I say the Democrats should go for their original proposal. Put the ball in the Republicans court.
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CHUQ · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:54 am Post subject:

I say the same--the Bill stands as is. Let those against it explain to the people in their district why they would not sign on.
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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

The Republicams want to spend $5 billion a year, the Democrats $7 billion a year, and neither price tag is what it will take to address the problem. It's like throwing water on a grease fire. Rolling Eyes

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CHUQ · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:36 am Post subject:

They argue over this but thye Dems gave him $150 billion for a war that 74% of the people want stopped. Where am I getting my money's worth out of the Dems.
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CHUQ · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:34 am Post subject:

They are GUTLESS!

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — The House today upheld President Bush’s veto of a bill to provide health insurance to 10 million children, but Democrats vowed to send it back to him next month, with minor changes, in the belief that they could ultimately prevail.
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Despite a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign and intense lobbying by children’s advocates, supporters of the bill were unable to convert a single House Republican who voted against passage of the bill last month.

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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

No big surprise. I expected it to turn out this way. Just one more nail in the Republicans coffin.
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CHUQ · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:15 am Post subject:

I agree, no surprise, but you would just like to see those idiots do something, anything.
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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

Well, the Republicans have shown they ciould care less about folks who desperatly need healthcare. They had no reserves about spending money when they had the purse strings.

The whole damn bill being defeated was over a lousy $2 billion a year. Rolling Eyes

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CHUQ · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:21 am Post subject:

Tennessee Comgressman tries to explain the vote.

n September, legislation to reauthorize the State Children�s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) passed the Senate with bipartisan support by a vote of 67-29. SCHIP, begun ten years ago, offers coverage for children in low-income families who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid but can�t afford private insurance.

I voted to reauthorize SCHIP in order to boost Tennessee�s efforts to provide coverage for the state�s neediest children and help compensate Tennessee hospitals that treat a large number of patients who are unable to pay their bills. And, unlike reforms to other healthcare programs, this bill actually pays for the increased coverage without increasing our nation�s debt.

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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

Well, I'm thinking there is going to be a whole lot of explaining but lawmakers why they voted against this bill.
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CHUQ · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:41 am Post subject:

I woulkd hope so, but since the American voter has a limited memory, the Dems had better keep it in the news.
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CHUQ · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:07 am Post subject:

SCHIP will strike back, at least that is what they are promising.

The first major bill that will reach the president’s desk after the SCHIP veto is most likely going to be ... SCHIP.

Call it the sequel. Democrats are already working on minor tweaks to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program legislation and plan to consider it again in the House by the end of this week.

And if the next SCHIP bill is vetoed, Democrats plan to send President Bush the largest domestic spending measure — the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill, which also faces a veto. And after that, another domestic spending bill may find its way to the White House, perhaps generating another veto threat.

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