The Answer is a Question

[RippleInStillWater]

Does it seem to you that the wealthy get more distanced and oblivious to the plight of others daily -- as evidenced by the fight over the AFFORDABLE Care Act?

Top Wall Street executives get some of the best health coverage on the planet. Cruz's wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, is a regional head of a Goldman Sachs division.

According to a 2009 New York Times report, top executive officers and managing directors at the bank participate in a health care program that costs Goldman more than $40,000 in premiums for each participant’s family annually.

 

[Prism]

What makes them think that people who couldn't afford $450 a month for health insurance before can suddenly afford $450 a month now ?

 

[RippleInStillWater]

Do you believe the propaganda or do you do research for yourself?

The rigid anti-healthcare reform politics of the Koch brothers is also having a stimulative effect upon a small circle of Republican consultants. Americans for Prosperity, the largest Koch-owned front, pays the traditional 15 percent commission rate on all their television buys—the latest round going to Target Enterprises, a Sherman Oaks, California-based GOP media company. And with a seemingly endless appetite for anti-Obamacare paid media and anti-Obamacare grass-roots organizers, Koch makes good on its claim of being a stellar job-creator, at least for jobs in right-wing political advocacy.

 

[Prism]

DO you know that after doing my research, I have chosen for now to not buy into Obama care and will stay uninsured and pay the fine if it comes down to it because there is still stuff so very wrong with it?

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Isn't it wrong that getting sick is a leading cause of bankruptcy?

 

[Prism]

Can you believe that this is copied right off the Subsidy Calculator for our information?

you could enroll in a Bronze plan for about ------ per year (which is 46.9% of your household income). For most people, the Bronze plan represents the minimum level of coverage required under health reform. Although you would pay less in premiums by enrolling in a Bronze plan, you will face higher out-of-pocket costs than if you enrolled in a Silver plan.

46.9% ... ?

 

[loxmythe]

So basically give us all your money and we'll treat you for starvation or at least euthanize you in a warm room?

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Don't hospitals have a better pricing structure for people with plans, regardless of how much you pay out-of-pocket?

 

[Gr8Scott]

Why is all this talk suddenly reminding me of the final scenes of "Soylent Green" ?

 

[loxmythe]

Am I the only one reminded of Animal Farm?

"All animals are created equal......but some are more equal than others"

 

[bobsyeruncle]

What do you imagine happened when Napoleon and the other pigs realized they were bacon?

 

[Jemcases]

Is anyone else hungry?

 

[bobsyeruncle]

If the humans had gotten hungry, would Animal Farm have happened?

 

[RippleInStillWater]

Wouldn't the world be a better place for the flora and fauna with about 90% less humans?

 

[Gr8Scott]

Can you believe I never read Animal Farm? Is it true there's no pictures, not even a scratch and sniff?

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Isn't no "scratch 'n' sniff" edition sometimes a blessing?

 

[mmorris]

Wouldn't it be a blessing if we had scratch and sniff computers?

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Are you at all familiar with Goatse?

 

[RippleInStillWater]

Now why would you bring that up, Bob?

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Isn't "bringing up" the usual reaction to that picture?