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blackballed · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:30 pm Post subject:

Who is the WE ONDI ? The last i checked around 65% of the WE want to start over. BB

OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject:

BB---the polls have also found that many of those people that say that they want Congress to start over, believe that the current bill doesn't go far enough to reform healthcare & do want a public option.
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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

There are a lot of polls that show the public does not want the current bill, just like there are polls that show support for the public option as high as 70%. I am aware of no poll that even asked if congress should start from scratch, but I could be mistaken about that. Post a link to the poll you are talking about.
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blackballed · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:46 pm Post subject:

I like the idea of the public option but its not part of the current bill is it? I also think the current bill as it stands is really weak, and insures what 30 million more which is not everyone.BB

blackballed · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject:

Im wrong C there is no poll i was thinking of the poll the states around 65% dont like the current bill..BB

OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:55 pm Post subject:

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SSSS · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject:

I am going to conduct a poll to see how many people want to do away with polls!
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:39 pm Post subject:

Brant · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:30 am Post subject:

Very clever, Phony, but a bit "blue" for the forum. Wink

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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:11 am Post subject:

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This is a dead issue. It's been dead for at least the past 6-months. Thursday's Healthcare Summit is now the "new page" upon which Congress can build.

Both parties have deeply divided policies and approaches to solve the nations problems. Both parties defended their prescriptions well. Americans benefited from witnessing this democratic healthcare debate. All attendees were civil and constructive. The only divisive moments came when President Obama ridiculed Virgina’s Eric Cantor, cut Senator McCain off after the Senator described the President’s “promised change” as “unsavory deal-making and Mitch McConnel’s winning about which party spoke the longest.

There were some areas of agreement, including
• barring insurers from dropping policyholders who become sick, or run up heavy bills,
• ending annual and lifetime monetary limits on health insurance benefits,
• permitting young adults stay on their parents' health policies until they turn 26,
• making changes in medical malpractice,
• the need for more regulation of insurers,
• the federal government should help individuals and small businesses pool their purchasing power to buy insurance,

Thanks C-Span. More Americans now know that there are irreconcilable differences and there is little hope for compromise on the Democratic Senate bill. The Republicans are deficit hawks and will not agree on any new “entitlement” programs until Medicare and Social Security are reformed. Will both parties now start crafting legislation to tame the beast.
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