Healthcare Passes 219-212

• BCSbunk

  2kool4skool wrote: You guys are really jumping the gun with the doom and gloom stuff here. This thing is far from a reality, and the Republicans have an easy way to stop it.
  
  States can, and almost certainly will, sue over the bill. There will likely be differing opinions at the lower levels, meaning the case will eventually reach the supreme court, which will take about a year.
  
  A year from now is obviously after November. If the Supreme Court changes even one word of the bill, it will need to be re-voted on by the house and senate. By the time that happens, the Republicans may have taken control of congress or at the very least gained significant numbers. At that point, they could kill the bill entirely.
  
  I will be absolutely shocked if this bill ever becomes the law of the land.

  Prepare to be shocked. This is going to be the law of the land. You can put this in your private messages if you like and call me out later. It will not harm me if I am wrong.
• 2kool4skool

  

  gibby08 wrote: Umm...
  
  You do realize that President Obama will sign this by Thursday right?

  And it will be promptly taken to court by multiple states.
  
  The Republicans will base their entire midterm election campaign on overturning this bill.
  
  
  edit: and for clarification, by "becomes the law of the land" I mean permanently.
• gibby08

  

  Face it dude....it's not going to happen
• IggyPride00

  

  BCSbunk wrote:

  gibby08 wrote: How many of you read the bill from the front to the back??
  
  I know of one poster who did

  I did. There are no death squads etc and many of the other lies by the Repubicans.
  
  The people voted out the worthless Republicans and voted in a sweeping fashion the Democrats and President Obama who stated in his election speeches he would be getting healthcare reform passed.
  
  Well he did it.

  His political ascendancy is truly one of the most remarkable things this country has ever seen.
  
  In the span of 6 years he has gone from a total unknown state Senator (with the middle name of Hussein) in Illinois to the first Black President of the United States who took down the Clinton machine and managed to pass universal health care advocates had been trying for for over 100 years. It really is amazing what he has managed to accomplish in such a short period of time. Good or bad, America has never really seen anything like it.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  BCSbunk wrote:

  gibby08 wrote: How many of you read the bill from the front to the back??
  
  I know of one poster who did

  I did. There are no death squads etc and many of the other lies by the Repubicans.
  
  The people voted out the worthless Republicans and voted in a sweeping fashion the Democrats and President Obama who stated in his election speeches he would be getting healthcare reform passed.
  
  Well he did it.

  Yeah and from the campaign until now he lied about exactly what that was going to entail.
  
  Oh and just because you win an election doesn't mean you get to do anything and everything you want. It really doesn't work that way. Even the people who elected you are allowed to say "no" later to something you promised while running for the job.
  
  The evil trio got their way on this one, but the consequences aren't known yet. I don't know exactly what those consequences will be, but I do know there will be some.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  No- LJ
• IggyPride00

  

  2kool4skool wrote:

  gibby08 wrote: Umm...
  
  You do realize that President Obama will sign this by Thursday right?

  And it will be promptly taken to court by multiple states.
  
  The Republicans will base their entire midterm election campaign on overturning this bill.
  
  
  edit: and for clarification, by "becomes the law of the land" I mean permanently.

  It will continue to be the permanent law of the land, as the Supreme Court may take down certain parts but that does not eliminate the entire bill. Look at McCain-Feingold, they have struck down certain parts but the bill remains intact. That is the best conservatives can hope for at this point, although it is a long road as these cases almost always go the way of the Federal govt's laws superseding those of the states.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Obama will do away with the Supreme Court before they could make major changes to the bill.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Cleveland Buck wrote: Obama will do away with the Supreme Court before they could make major changes to the bill.

  Then he will use he secret military force and wipe out Congress, then proclaiming himself Emperor Palpatine lol.
• I Wear Pants

  Cleveland Buck wrote: Obama will do away with the Supreme Court before they could make major changes to the bill.

  Did you use Reynold's Wrap or a generic brand to make that hat?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Why would he wipe out Congress? They do his bidding.
• gibby08

  

  You cannot be serious can you Buck?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  I Wear Pants wrote:

  Cleveland Buck wrote: Obama will do away with the Supreme Court before they could make major changes to the bill.

  Did you use Reynold's Wrap or a generic brand to make that hat?

  Is your head in the sand on the beach or in the desert? Does it matter?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Relax Mike Clark, Obama has done an exemplary job. I will definitely vote for him in 2012.
• eersandbeers

  ptown_trojans_1 wrote:

  Cleveland Buck wrote: Obama will do away with the Supreme Court before they could make major changes to the bill.

  Then he will use he secret military force and wipe out Congress, then proclaiming himself Emperor Palpatine lol.

  While he will not wipe out the Supreme Court, he could easily use the same procedure FDR illegally used to get them to pass his unconstitutional policies.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Nonsense eers. This is good for the American people. Right Mike? Why is it good? I have yet to hear anything good about it. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
• Terry_Tate

  

  I need to go to bed, but I keep searching things about this bill and cant find anything truly good about it. How is this going to save money? How will more people be insured, but it be cheaper? As someone who pays their health insurance through work, how will this affect me? I know I can just use google to try and find this, but I'm guessing people on here can explain it much better and answer me directly rather than by a google search.
• tk421

  

  Terry_Tate wrote: I need to go to bed, but I keep searching things about this bill and cant find anything truly good about it. How is this going to save money? How will more people be insured, but it be cheaper? As someone who pays their health insurance through work, how will this affect me? I know I can just use google to try and find this, but I'm guessing people on here can explain it much better and answer me directly rather than by a google search.

  It won't. It's basic math. The insurance companies can not insure 30 million more people no questions asked without raising premiums, unless the government expects the insurance companies and ultimately their stockholders to not make any profit whatsoever. Which is I'm sure the idea, so the government can get into the insurance business next.
• LJ

  

  IggyPride00 wrote: Will the stock market open up down big tomorrow as a protest against Obamacare?

  http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/futures.html
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Stock futures are down a little bit. It doesn't really matter to them. The market needs to figure out who the government will choose as the winners and losers. The stocks of the biggest companies in the medical industry will go up because they will be getting all of the government work when they take over health care.
• BCSbunk

  Terry_Tate wrote: I need to go to bed, but I keep searching things about this bill and cant find anything truly good about it. How is this going to save money? How will more people be insured, but it be cheaper? As someone who pays their health insurance through work, how will this affect me? I know I can just use google to try and find this, but I'm guessing people on here can explain it much better and answer me directly rather than by a google search.

  Companies will be closing down, they will not be able to afford the premiums. Your taxes are going up by 75% to pay for it and you will not get care. Oh yeah I forgot when you get to be 65 the death squads come and kill you...... oh oh one more thing..... abortion contests will be starting soon. Signed Chicken Little......... Republican.
• dwccrew

  

  Bigdogg wrote: So lets think about this for a while. A majority of politicians are ready to sacrifice there careers to vote for major health care reform. Why would they do such a thing if they did not truly believe it was the right thing to do? Don't bother to respond if you are going to say they are stupid or foolish. I have never met one that was not smart enough to keep there job for a long time.

  Uhhh, they are about to lose their jobs over this bill, so I guess they aren't that smart. I, for one, will vote against every incumbant regarless of political party. Even if some voted against this bill, that is collateral damage in my personal war. Every politician has been ineffective in doing their job over the past decade.
  

  ccrunner609 wrote: Nancy Pelosi just said that this bill would create 4 million jobs? WTF?
  
  
  How does taxing everyone and passing it around in a form of free medicine gonna generate jobs?
  
  unemployment will stay double digits, shit I might just quit my job. No need to work. Welfare and free insurance. Sounds good.

  I agree. Why am I out there working hard to make a living when I can just let the government take care of me? I see it on a weekly basis; people on welfare in the mid afternoon drinking on their porches. Not out looking for a job, not contributing to society. It's fucking disgusting!!!
  

  tk421 wrote: I can't wait for the 37 states to sue the federal government.

  I can't either. Let's give the states the power they are supposed to have and take away the power from the fed that they aren't supposed to have.
  

  gibby08 wrote: How many of you read the bill from the front to the back??
  
  I know of one poster who did

  The real question is, how many congressmen did? They are the ones voting on it and I can say with near certainty that none of them read through the entire bill.
• Swamp Fox

  Go right ahead. Give up your job, which is probably a nice income that supports your family well and provides a certain level of creature comforts that are the rewards of good employment, so that you can live on welfare. I doubt you really want to do that, but it is one of the responses of people who really wouldn't even begin to entertain thoughts of doing it. The bill does provide some form of medical insurance for many who had none before, but people who have never faced that evidently can't fathom the good being done for millions of Americans who were nearing or already in desperate circumstances regarding this issue. I have always had pretty decent health coverage and as I enter the "Senior years", I hope to God that nothing happens to take mine away, because I have no idea what I would do. Now, people who once feared illnesses wiping everything they had saved during their lifetimes, won't have that persistent feeling of terror. To me, even though I personally have never had that fear, that is a good thing and I can't understand why other Americans can't decide that it is good that people no longer have that staring them directly in the eye. And finally, if your defense is that the Republicans have programs that will do it more cheaply and cover just as much, then I guess I would have to ask why we've never seen any of these programs enacted during the rather long stretch when the Republicans controlled the White House as well as both Houses of Congress. I can only think of one primary answer.
• Swamp Fox

  Incidently, I just read about Obama's plan to do away with the Supreme Court and I think that may be a slight exaggeration. If FDR at the height of his popularity could not push through his "court packing" scheme, I doubt that the President will be able to do it now. And, for the record, I doubt that President Obama wants to do away with the Supreme Court, although he has shown that he isn't afraid to let them know that he disagrees with them from time to time. It is, afterall, still a free country. This Health Care Bill is the result of the President fulfilling his campaign pledge to the people who supported him. Now, there may be folks who disagree with how he did it, but it was the center part of his 2008 Campaign. At least now the Republicans will have to be serious about health care reform and do more than just talk about it.
• visionquest

  I'm dumb, so, will someone smarter than I please explain why this bill is bad for me? Or, rather, why it's good for me? Either one is fine...I just want to be in the know.