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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-28-09 10:36 AM
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Why do Republicans think that
health care reform means getting everybody insured? Don't they understand that anybody with a brain sees that they are all about insurance company profits when they phrase it that way? Yet phrase it that way they do, over and over. "We can get every American insured without a public plan."
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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-28-09 10:49 AM
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1. I think its a red herring
If the GOP cared about health insurance they would've done something from 2001-2006 when they controlled the congress and white house. But to my knowledge they never tried to expand health insurance.

The whole 'we can cover everyone' ruse is just an attempt to derail the public plan. I'm sure many in the GOP would be happy to drop the whole healthcare issue and leave it as is with tens of million un and underinsured.

I think opinion polls show the public trusts the GOP the least with healthcare reform. The insurance companies are 2nd worst as far as trust goes. They are totally tone deaf which is great in some ways because an entire generation of voters are learning that this is what it means to be a conservative. You have to be hypocritical, tone deaf, anti-science, irrational, superstitious, plutocratic, militant, fearful, etc. No thanks. So see the silver lining. They are destroying their own movement.
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-28-09 02:52 PM
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2. Ah, I see your problem:
You used "think" as the predicate and "Republicans" as the subject.
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-28-09 02:57 PM
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3. Republicans don't give a shit about Health Care....
They only care about FORCING everyone to pay DEATH MERCHANTS.

It's never about looking out for the best interests of the People with Republicans... Republicans only care about how much more money they can force people to pay Corporate America.
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