Fox's Cameron: Amended Baucus bill "will be" physically "huge, and because of that, so too could the price be huge"
September 22, 2009 12:06 pm ET
From the September 22 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
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The Bush Administration's draft legislative proposal for $700 billion to buy banks' "troubled assets" is three pages long.
Instead of all these journalists fanning through the pages saying how big it is, why don't they open it up and read it, and not just a single section, but the entire bill? They seem to be using its size to intimidate average Americans, whom I know many probably would prefer a Cliffs Notes, but instead get Fox Notes, which is much worse.
I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
Now they're saying that the bill size is due to ammendments, which are only proposed and are in the 100s because of frivulous GOP ammendments.
Hmmm ... gee, makes me wonder if FNC and the GOP are in cahoots??
I see now how these guys are "helping" with trying to reform health care now.
Do you have any idea what it would cost to put in the "tah" in that amendmendment. We would probably have to go around and start pulling the plug on everyone's grandmother, in order to pay for it.
Just once would you liberal, fascists, Nazi, communist people, think before blowing your mouth off.
I always cringe when I hear Betsy McGauey (or whatever her last name is) talk about how health care reform should be written on 20 pages in PLAIN English (even though, it's already written in plain English to start with) so that everyone can understand it, which is an admission that she doesn't fully understand what is in said bill already, which also makes sense considering the amount of BS she's been spouting about the proposal that was in the House.
Anyway... It does take a lot of pages to make up a bill sometimes.
"It's every man for himself!"
Still, once again Fox is "fair and balanced"...
Then all this arguing would not be taking place. Then again it will because of greed and selfishness.
Again other countries are laughing at us over healthcare!
Inside Note: British pays nothing for health care! Only 18-64 yr olds pay 10.00 dollars for medications! Everyone under or over theose ages is free! WTF!
France: Pays nothing for education or healthcare! Plus has a 24hr on call doctor! WTF!
Cuba: This is a country we have shut-off since the 1950's! They have medication that cost as much as 0.05! WTF!
We need a reality check!
I already pay a lot of money per month for the coverage I get now, why not turn that money into a single payer system? I'd love it if we had that, that would mean, health care for all, and I'm definitely for that.
Although, somehow that would be "SOCIALISM!!!" and it would destroy us as a country to try and let everyone have accessible health care and all. Sort of like how gays getting married in Massachusetts was going to DESTROY the entire sanctity of marriage within the US. Well, that hasn't happened yet, and I'm pretty sure if we had single payer coverage, we'd not turn into some socialist utopia.
We may not see it in our lifetimes, but it's inevitable.
We keep hearing about how Canada's and the UK's system "doesn't work" or is just horrible. Funny, the folks almost always saying that are Americans speaking for those folks. Last time I checked, both Canadian and British citizens were both pretty well satisfied with their health care systems.
If you look at the examples most often cited (UK, Canada, and France) as universal health care systems that are not functioning well, or operating well, we see that the following is true:
1. UK rate of approval for national healthcare: 73%
2. Canadian rate of approval: 73%
3. France rate of approval: 83%
Gallup poll
And in the linked poll above, we see that with countries that have universal health care, the only ones that rank below 50% in approval ratings are Ireland and Greece, and that's it. Most of the other countries with national health care systems love it, or highly approve of it (like the many countries on this polling list having approval ratings over 80%, and Luxembourg even has a 90% approval rating).
So, don't believe the "hype" that these mouth breathers tell you about people who have single payer systems that they don't like them, because that just isn't true.
I've got an idea for some Dem messaging on health care:
"If we don't reform health care, the terrorists win."
Hey, it worked before.
I also pay group insurance through my employer to cover/assist with dental, optical and medication costs.
I get my car insured by a government agency, at less than half the cost of private insurance.
My electricity, telephone and natural gas are provided by provincially owned corporations. At least one city in the province has its own electrical company.
Socialism? Probably. Evil? No.
Something as varied as health care should have many, many pages.
Shocking
This reminds me of the Peanuts cartoon where Lucy was showing Linus all the the different types of trees in the neighborhood when they came upon a slender tree and she says with all authority she could muster, "Linus, this is a palm tree. It is called that because you can put the palm of your hand completely around it."
Linus said his stomach hurt and he had to go home . . .
my stomach hurts
-Thomas Jefferson
Man, Thomas was a smart man. If he could have only seen this future.