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Published March 19, 2010

Democrats sweeten health overhaul bill; vote likely over weekend chat

By David Espo, West Central Tribune

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Randy O.
Hoffman, MN     03/19/2010 8:35 AM

Lynn, do you know how big of a bite bankruptcy cases take out of a hospital's bottom line? You must enjoy paying for poor people's health care after all. I thought Republicans hated that. Jennifer, an unemployed person (no income) would get the tax credits for health insurance. Read the story.

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Scott G.
03/19/2010 8:32 AM

We are the ONLY industrialized nation without universal health care. We already spend MORE than any other country on the planet and yet we rank 33rd in life expectancy and 31st in infant mortality. My health insurance has gone up 350% since 2001 and I now have less coverage. To all you who are against this I have to ask-what is your solution? Under the conservitive plan we now have-a child born in 30 other countries has a better chance of living than they do in the USA. How can making sure everyone has access to health care be a bad thing? BTW-where did palin get her health care growing up? Canada!

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Jennifer S.
03/19/2010 8:30 AM

Randy, are you stupid? If someone looses their job, how will they "pay" for the health insurance? Under this new bill they will be fined if they do not pay for health inusrance. This bill is just plain outrageous and a total waste of our tax monies. If it passes, it is guarenteed that Obama will not be reelected, which is a very good thing!

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Brian W.
Olivia, MN     03/19/2010 8:30 AM

You are right but the difference is the GOVT isnt forcing you to buy and drive a car which then you would be required to have auto insurance. It was an analogy. Of course the Constitution doesn't say anything directly about HC...come on

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Terrance P.
West Chester, PA     03/19/2010 8:23 AM

Brian: I don't think the writers of the Constitution were aware of a concept called health insurance. I'm pretty sure you are required by law to have adequate auto insurance if you want to drive a car, and the Constitution doesn't have anything to say about that, either, even though it's actually a state issue, and not federal law. What does the Constitution say about TV and radio content, or internet rights? What does the Constitution say about corporations being able to buy senate seats or House seats with unlimited funding? I don't remember that being in the Constitution, either.

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Randy O.
Hoffman, MN     03/19/2010 8:22 AM

Lynn has no advice for unemployed who don't have a job that provides health care... or for that matter, the employed who don't have health care. I just thought of a bright idea, though... we need a poor tax. Tax the daylights out of poor people and teach them a lesson for not working harder.

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Terrance P.
West Chester, PA     03/19/2010 8:11 AM

Lynn: How's everything going in your paranoid world of GlennBeckistan? All you care about is YOU. If your needs are being met, then why change anything- right Lynn?

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Brian W.
Olivia, MN     03/19/2010 8:04 AM

I am trying to think of where in the constitution it says that one MUST buy health care? Pretty sure it stands for the exact opposite of this.

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Randy O.
Hoffman, MN     03/19/2010 7:29 AM

Lynn, what's your advice for people who lose their jobs and thus their health insurance? Got any bright ideas in that all-powerful brain of yours?

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Luke J.
03/19/2010 6:17 AM

God bless the nuns who support health care reform! Thank you nuns for your courage. Hope you don't get in too much trouble with the bishops.

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