Comments on: Napoleon, Obama, and Health Care ‘Reform’

By: Tom M

Tom M — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:59:32 +0000

Having experienced socialized medicine in Europe, I’m all for it in America.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:08:15 +0000

It all comes down to what you believe, either you are your brother’s keeper or are not. The healthcare system is broken, even when you play by the rules, because even when you are working and come down with something serious the insurance company can deny your claim and you are stuck using you own funds and filing for bankruptcy when these same insurance companies are paying out bonuses to those employees that deny claims and on top of that the same companies show record profits. We are already paying for emergency room care anyway for those without healthcare, it makes sense to me to cover everyone and not pay 10-20 times more for emergency room care.

By: Montana

Montana — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:00:34 +0000

All we have here is one side to the story, like many other immature men he just used physical violence because he was not able to articulate his position or use his brain to avoid one, never had the misfortune to be in a brawl myself, I only pity this man who felt the need to bunch his hand into someone’s mouth, so now all of you can claim he is something of a innocent victim. Walking away takes maturity some men have it others do not. What a pity.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:36:57 +0000

Some seniors revert to children, its part of the aging process (I guess he forgot to “Keep your hands to yourself”). In the Neil Cavuto, interview he is a protestor but now they are trying to change the fact and say that he just innocent bystander. He makes two punches and (as usual) tries to shove something down someone’s throat and gets his pinkie bitten off, now they make him into a victim. Now the wingnuts have a new idol to worship, a new hero. Please, snore, snore.

By: Kevin S

Kevin S — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:46 +0000

On a personal level…I smoked for years (cue the hisses and boos) I then went into a rapid health decline when I was 56. An angiogram showed 90% blockage, and so they did a triple bypass the next day. Cost = $100K (paid by my company’s insurance). I suspect that if national healthcare were in place I would not have received the surgery no matter what health plan I had (cost benefit analysis and all, you know). The last thing I want is for my health to be governed by the same quality I’ve seen at the Post Office and at the DMV. The insurance companies aren’t great by any means, but good lord, just imagine when they’re replace by the equivalent of social workers. How effective have they been, other than in feathering their own beds?

By: Now and Then

Now and Then — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:32:53 +0000

46. Bohemond:
“. . . liberals are indeed smug, conceited snots with a boundless belief in their mental superiority . . . having done a double-major in philosophy and chemical engineering (summa cum).”

Poor Bohemond, can’t quite figure out if he wants to be smug or smart or snotty. You should have taken an English class along the way. If memory serves, and it does, you weren’t lecturing Cal Gordon on collective consciousness. You were berating him for his writing style.

As for your chemical philosophy, don’t you know that according to all the folks on this here board your hifalutin degrees prove only that you’re nothing more than unemployed, basement-dweling, Cheetos-eating socialist effluent spewed out of the Marxist indoctrination camps called the American university system. All you’re capable of is hiding behind the thighs of real American patriots as they defend your freedom. Is that your story, Bohemond? Or are you just cooking up some crank to meet the rent, cuz I don’t think selling Schopenhauer quotes on the corner pays too well.

Hey, don’t take it up with me. Take it up with them.

PS: How do you know? Really. Know. Really know. You know?

By: venividivici

venividivici — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:16:32 +0000

Health care reform will pass this fall. The only Congresspeople who need to be sweating are those that are opposing the bill. 2010 is going to be another devastating year for the GOP.

Hey, whatever gets you through the night, Baghdad Bob.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:35:46 +0000

47. venividivici: “But, you run with that “hypocrite” storyline, douchebag. I’m sure that will do wonders for you in the 2010 elections.”

Health care reform will pass this fall. The only Congresspeople who need to be sweating are those that are opposing the bill. 2010 is going to be another devastating year for the GOP.

By: venividivici

venividivici — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:22:35 +0000

Yes, he’s so hypocritical to first be forced into paying for Medicare without having a choice and then being forced to accept Medicare as his only insurance option for the over-65 crowd, since no private company can reach minimum efficient scale in that segment of the market because of the Medicare monopoly.

But, you run with that “hypocrite” storyline, douchebag. I’m sure that will do wonders for you in the 2010 elections.

By: Bohemond

Bohemond — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:38:20 +0000

Now and then:

I say again, “But thank you for, yet again, demonstrating that liberals are indeed smug, conceited snots with a boundless belief in their mental superiority- which is (as you so ingenuously prove) utterly without foundation. Balatro ipsa loquitur.”

I should point out that I have rather a good perspective on the topic, having done a double-major in philosophy and chemical engineering (summa cum). And, yes, I fully appreciate the difference between a classical liberal education as our intellectual forefathers understood it, and ‘liberal education’ as you lot mean it, and which unfortunately is what most American Unis dispense.