Mental midget Joe S doesn't realize that when you lose jobs, you ALSO lose healthcare

Phoebe Loosinhouse

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:25 AM
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Mental midget Joe S doesn't realize that when you lose jobs, you ALSO lose healthcare

Edited on Wed Jul-08-09 07:26 AM by Phoebe Loosinhouse

In conversation this morning he said (paraphrase) Moderates in a state like Missouri care about JOBS, not about healthcare - trying to explain why someone like Claire MacAskill wasn't firmly on the healthcare bandwagon.

If anything, the nationwide loss of jobs makes healthcare reform MORE imperative, not less. It also highlights the need to disentangle access to healthcare from employment status.

It is very, very frustrating to have ignorant and overpaid media pundits explain day after day how and why average Americans cannot/will not get real healthcare reform.

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snappyturtle

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:30 AM
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1. I just want to grab him thru the teevee and shake some sense into him.

Edited on Wed Jul-08-09 07:30 AM by snappyturtle

He followed up with, I'm paraphrasing here, that if we were to ask people on the street if they like their healthcare that they say, "Yes"! Who are these fantasy people? He's such an idiot.

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madrchsod

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:31 AM
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2. back in the good old days when i was laid off from my union jobs

my employer would carry my insurance for 6 months. those days are but a faint memory today

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DainBramaged

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:35 AM
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4. Yup, I had one go 11 months (thankfully because I got sick)

These thin-lipped hugh morans they consider media bobbleheads have NEVER know a time in their lives when they weren't coddled or without basic health care.

Schmo is a parrot on the shoulder of the RNC propaganda machine.

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walkaway

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:34 AM
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3. Mika and Joe from "Ho & Jo" are anti-humans.

They don't know what it feels like to be an average American and they don't care. Their show is like a daily mocking fest for people who aren't living the "Dream" like they do.

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Atman

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:37 AM
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5. Joe is running for office.

His show has turned into one big campaign focus group for him. It's sickening.

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SoCalDem

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:51 AM
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6. I keep hoping that SOMEONE would dare to remind HIM

Edited on Wed Jul-08-09 07:51 AM by SoCalDem

that all the medical expenses of his preemie son would have bankrupted HIM, if he had not been Joe-the Dead-Aide Scarborough..and rememebr how he took weeks off at a time..and still drew a paycheck..

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AngryOldDem

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Wed Jul-08-09 07:56 AM
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7. Don't you know everyone can afford private health insurance, or COBRA?

I'm soon to be in that boat and I am dreading having to make the call to see how much private insurance will run me until I find another job. And with my luck, I'm fully anticipating my health to go to shit in the interim.

Furthermore, even employer-covered health care ain't what it used to be and I fully expect companies to back out of that over the coming years, citing the expense.

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jbnow

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Wed Jul-08-09 08:22 AM
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8. You'd only have to pay 35% of COBRA if laid off. Stimulus package

provides nine months of subsidy to defray COBRA costs if your income is 125,000 or less.

They reimburse the employer for the 65% they continue to pay (as opposed to the laid off employee having to pay it and wait for repay).

If the employer is shutting down or ending their insurance program that doesn't help though.

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TomClash

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Wed Jul-08-09 08:41 AM
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9. That's because Congressman S spent years

receiving free socialized medicine courtesy of the People of the United States.

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