Comments on: House expands children’s health insurance program.

By: m12

m12 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:37:15 +0000

Quick, Bush loyalists, bring out the â€œButâ€¦ but.. Clinton!â€ lame excuse book!

Is this the same Clinton that took 8 years to spend on SCHIP what Bush spends in 1 yera?

By: m12

m12 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:35:34 +0000

And the Minnesota bridge collapse? Another sign of what the Republicans

Idiot fool, Minnesota is a blue state and has one of the highest tax burdens in the nation!

By: m12

m12 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:34:43 +0000

If you get a paycheck, take a look at the stub. Even a minimum wage worker pays taxes. A self-employed person on minimum wage pays 15% into Social Security alone.

Back to your SS tax idea? Guess its not an insurance program anymore….

Plus, you ignore all the welfare those people get like EITC and food stamps….paid for on the backs of the rest of America.

By: Locked in the Bone

Locked in the Bone — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:40:51 +0000

Chubby people use more gas to transport themselves.
We could save some gas if Mikey and his chubby friends would do their part for global warming and health care by just taking care himself.
Lose it.

By: Locked in the Bone

Locked in the Bone — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:08:41 +0000

Michael Moore should read this article and lose the weight.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2007/08/02/obesity_is_not_only_epidemic;_its_contagious

He is part of the health problem in the USA.
Two third of Americans are overweight MM included.
This takes away resources that could be used for real health care.

Moore leaves one huge “carbon footprint” multiplied by millions of overweight people like him.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:27:25 +0000

“The country doesnâ€™t owe health care to anyone else.

Comment by Troll â€” August 3, 2007″

AGREED!

By: Troll

Troll — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:05:27 +0000

His numbers most likely do no include capital improvements or the retirement benefits. Public schools do not include these in their figures either. Those are some big cost. Add them in then compare the service of the public sector vs. the private. You’ll be singing a different tune. BTW I think the VA should be single payer it would serve our vets much better. The country doesn’t owe health care to anyone else.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:41:31 +0000

â€œMarie, currently Medicare runs with a 2.5 to 3% overhead. The VA runs at about 4 to 5%, and insurance-based runs with 15 to 35%.

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper â€” August 2, 2007â€³

Marie, first off, there is NO way a government organization can run at 5% overhead. It’s probably more like 40 – 50 %! If they run at 5%, can you imagine the service you will get considering the industry standard is 11%? The Col. has been smoking too much weed!

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:42:27 +0000

“Marie, currently Medicare runs with a 2.5 to 3% overhead. The VA runs at about 4 to 5%, and insurance-based runs with 15 to 35%.

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper â€” August 2, 2007″

Where on earth do you get your figures? Insurance companies run on 11% – 12% like most businesses (I have worked in the health care business for 20 years) I know this for a fact. So, explain to us how the VA runs at about 4% to 5% and Medicare runs at 3%?

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:38:20 +0000

“And I will gladly opt out of funding the illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country.

Comment by upside00 â€” August 2, 2007″

Illegal? How so?

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:37:17 +0000

“Both systems run with far less waste and overhead than insurance-based. All they need is better funding.

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper â€” August 2, 2007″

Ha, ha, ha, ha! I’m in the health care business and if you believe this loon, I have a bridge for sale!

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:29:40 +0000

Think about it.

Healthy children (no matter of what economic level) grow into healthy teenagers and adults, and it just seems logical that in Bushâ€™s â€œeternalâ€ War on Terror, having a whole lot of healthy citizens makes our chances of winning Bushâ€™s â€œeternalâ€ War on Terror much better.

Comment by The Oracle â€” August 2, 2007

That’s correct! So it’s time for the future mommies and daddies of this country to ask themselves a very important question before they decide to have unprotected sex, can we afford health care if I get pregnant or are we going to be leaches and let the hard working people in this country pick up my bills!

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:13:49 +0000

Why isn’t mommy and daddy paying for their kids health care?

By: The Oracle

The Oracle — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:08:57 +0000

A vote for the SCHIP legislation is a patriotic vote to help the United States win the War on Terror, while a vote against the SCHIP legislation is evidence of some traitorous person trying to undercut our efforts to win the War on Terror.

What?!?!?!?

Think about it.

Healthy children (no matter of what economic level) grow into healthy teenagers and adults, and it just seems logical that in Bush’s “eternal” War on Terror, having a whole lot of healthy citizens makes our chances of winning Bush’s “eternal” War on Terror much better.

I mean, we’ll need many, many healthy citizens to man (and woman) our nation’s defenses. And besides, healthy citizens tend to be more attentive and will be better capable of spotting anything suspicious, while sick citizens tend to be more consumed by health concerns.

Ergo, voting against something that enhances our nation’s health and the health of our citizens (no matter what age) is actually supporting the terrorists. Which means that those members of Congress who voted against SCHIP, in their vote, aided and abetted the enemies of our democracy. Traitors.

And it goes without saying that tax cuts for the wealthy have aided and abetted our enemies, since our nation needs every resource available to maintain our nation’s health and the health of our nation’s citizens if we are to win.

And the Minnesota bridge collapse? Another sign of what the Republicans (like the treasonous Grove Norquist) have done to decimate our nation’s infrastructure, thus weakening us as a nation, and endangering all of us.

By: upside00

upside00 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:07:23 +0000

m12 doesn’t have a job, so only his mom pays any taxes. Gotta keep his time free to man the KKKarl rover Keyboard talking point megaphone!

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:53:28 +0000

m12: “The 40% of this society who doesnâ€™t pay income taxes certainly doesnâ€™t!”

If you get a paycheck, take a look at the stub. Even a minimum wage worker pays taxes. A self-employed person on minimum wage pays 15% into Social Security alone.

m12: “Were you alive in the 30s? I donâ€™t recall ever agreeing or voting on this â€˜insuranceâ€™ plan.”

You weren’t alive when lots of laws were passed, but as a member of this society, you’re bound by those laws. That’s just basic civics. You really haven’t thought this “civil society” thing through have you?

By: m12

m12 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:31:33 +0000

If you live in a society, you must support systems for the good if its inhabitants. You arenâ€™t alone in this world.

Why? The 40% of this society who doesn’t pay income taxes certainly doesn’t!

By: m12

m12 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:30:26 +0000

Medicare actually functions pretty well considering the massive system that it is

That’s why its going bankrupt with trillions in unfunded liabilities?

By: m12

m12 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:29:43 +0000

No, the money is not taken by force. We as a society agree to put money into an insurance plan for Seniors.

Really? Were you alive in the 30s? I don’t recall ever agreeing or voting on this ‘insurance’ plan.

By: m12

m12 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:28:21 +0000

I only said you agreed with me on defunding the SS and Medicare Clusterf@ck. I happen to think Iraq, even though it needs some reworking, is still a viable program.

Corrected for you!