Teabaggers = OWNED

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Yeah.. I hope it helps you.

We have MinnesotaCare here which is basically subsidized insurance for poor working people.  My sister gets it for her and my nephew because she can't insurance at her job.  

I loved it when Pawlenty went on the rounds on the news talking up our healthcare programs and then came back and eliminated the fully subsidized insurance program for single adults making less than about $5000/year (most of whom have physical or mental problems but aren't officially "disabled" and are thus not eligible for medicaid).

Now he wants to put them on MinnesotaCare which is already overly strained and expects the counties to cover the premiums and copays for them (another shift from state to local governments... gotta keep that "no new taxes" street cred with the right wingistas)

Do tax hikes have to be approved by referendum? In Colorado that is the case, which is why drastic cuts had to be made (though they legally couldn't cut most welfare and such here). If so you can't blame Pawlenty.

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BTW, I am happy about what the core of this bill does, it just wasn't well written (like not taxing union "cadillac plans", yuck!) Still, I am very happy about this (weird, I know )

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You should pay for everything... all the corporate, government, and corruption benefiting parts of it.

You should even pay everyone's fines.

Do you think I am some big defender of this bill? I know this is basically a corporate give away with a mandate for all with no public option. Hopefully that will be changed in the next few years. I just think this is better than the status quo, if only marginally.

It is massively better for the individual and for the health of the health insurance marketplace, but for the country as a whole, it is indeed only marginally superior.

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BTW, did anybody see Boehner's speech? Most of it was fluff or not true, but damn, that guy can give a good speech.