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Ben Nelsonnow supports the health-care bill?

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Goth VanHellsing asked: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/19/AR2009121900797_pf.html
One gem from the story is
Nelson secured full federal funding for his state to expand Medicaid coverage to all individuals below 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Other states must pay a small portion of the additional cost. He won concessions for qualifying nonprofit insurers and for Medigap providers from [...]

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Have you seen the proposed silly health care amendments?

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Average College Student asked: The republicans proposed the following outlandish amendments. Get over it. The debate is over and you don’t have the votes. Here is a short list of the most ridiculous:
No Viagra for Child Molesters
Cut ACORN
Rollback health secretary powers to 1990s
For each new bureacrat and old bureacrat be retired
Government garantees [...]

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What is the benefit of the health deform’s imposed annual cap of $2,500 for health savings accounts?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

?LCPL USMC (AH-1W death machine) asked: contributionsRaymundo Woodall

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Can a YA liberal answer this without insult?

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Bethy asked: H. Res. 615 - Urged anyone who voted for Health care reform to take the insurance plans offered
Defeated
H.R. 3200 - Any public plan would require that Congress enroll in it
Defeated in committee
Both were defeated only by democrat votes.
So 2 attempts by the Republicans over the last year to get Congress to take [...]

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What do you think of all these new taxes included in the health care reform bill?

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

What’s the point? asked: I have the best Congressman, John Campbell. He wrote an article today on just some of the taxes included in the bill (I’ll provide a link so you know I’m not making this up). It includes:
• A new 3.6% tax on all investment income including capital gains. That means that the [...]

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If the health care deform only allows for $5000 individual coverage a year and $10000 per family?

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Ashly asked: shouldn’t we all just open a savings account and keep our own money for health care instead of giving them more than that EVERY SINGLE YEAR?Noble Chaille

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Obama says that he has “pushed back” special interests? How does he figure?

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Costitutionalist asked: How is this “pushing back the undue influence of special interests” when this bill had RECORD LOBBYING by multiple special interests?
“Tonight,” President Obama intoned near midnight Sunday, after the House had passed two health care bills, “we pushed back on the undue influence of special interests. … We proved that this government — [...]

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Why does Indiana have to terminate Healthy Indiana Plan providing health insurance to 50,000 poor?

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Anthony asked: With its health savings account-style personal accounts, it has been enormously popular among its participants. The governor hopes those folks will do all right when they are pitched into MedicaidForest Adelizzi

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What do you use your Health Savings Account money for?

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

pdooma asked: Since it’s being phased out with the new Health Care bill… this is the money you can set aside tax free in an account to specifically pay for medical expenses.
I use mine for vision and dental bills. And to cover my copays at the doctor’s office and the pharmacy. And to [...]

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Congress just admitted that by accident Medicare savings got cut twice, which now in fact will raise ?

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

KitKat asked: The deficit by 65 Billion.? Remember Obama said that it would cut the deficit by 165 Billion in the first year?
Bogus, of course, they would have got away with it, had the Republicans not found the mistake, and called them on it?
They can not even do simple accounting, and they want to control [...]

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