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How to pay for universal health care? Put a tax on the churches. If God thought health was so important then he wouldn't allow people to get sick. If it is God's will for you to get sick then why should the government pay to cure you?

I tell ya what with GuBBERMINT being the largest employer in Ark looks like something could be done about insurance premiums IF so many legies were not such honest politicians.**

Kicking some dust on saywhut, if Christians, esp Southern ones, are opposed to gubbermint assististed health care for all then when they get ill just place a Bible over your tumor, bad knee, heart, etc and pray. Hat tip to DBI for that.

** An honest politician is one who when bought, stays bought.

Lincoln and Pryor are hopeless. The heat needs to be put on Obama; he still has a popular mandate and I can't think of a better cause on which to expend political capital than Health Care. The Dems need to shove single payer down the throats of the Republicans, even if the Dems lose this round. With the un-employment rate continuing to rise, I predict a big swing the public opinion over the next two years. Medicare and Medicade were multi-years fights. If the POS "reform" that is in Congress now is passed, real UHC will be dead for at least another decade. It was very discouraging for me when Sec. Sebelius said that the President wants the legislation written so that it can never evolve into single payer.

Good insight HenryS. Medicare took almost 10 years to pass. Republicans fought it viciously.
Now Rs get up and defend it, say they will protect it while they secretly attempt to undermine and weaken it.

Good insight HenryS. Medicare took almost 10 years to pass. Republicans fought it viciously.
Now Rs get up and defend it, say they will protect it while they secretly attempt to undermine and weaken it.
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The Dems and especially Obama need to get over the bi-partisan BS. Put up a reform plan that has a clear path over the next decade that leads to single payer UHC. Force the Republicans and Blue dogs to oppose it, "We don't want no Gubmint Socialized Medicine..blah..blah..." When unemployment hit 12% and the out of work 50+ year olds can't get health "insurance" at any price, the tide will turn. As Bernie Sanders(?) pointed out, with Health Care reform, something IS Worse than nothing.

(In looking at the legislative history of Medicare/Medicade, I learned that Wilbur Mills was the primary force in getting it done. He wrote the bill, with modifications, that became the law.)

"The greatest waste of talent in all this, however, is that of Mr Obama himself. He has everything it takes to be a strong president. He is choosing to be a weak one."

That's Clive Crook in the Financial Times.

Joyce Hardy would probably appreciate someone pointing out that she is an ordained Episcopal deacon. The mission of Episcopal deacons is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

"The greatest waste of talent in all this, however, is that of Mr Obama himself
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It's no surprise, he is continuing the same behavior that he showed as a Illinois State Senator and then US Senator. He like the job title but not the job itself. The only ray of hope is that I think he and especially the people around might respond to political pressure from the left. IMO, Dems need to stop drinking the Kool_Aid and start raising Hell. The political course of the Obama admin. is pretty obvious after five months but it can be changed. Making excuses that he is playing "11th dimensional political chess" or he is getting bad advice isn't going to give the country UHC. Right now I am in the mental state of WTF do we do now?

Thank goodness for some good AR news today. Does anyone have a link to the audio or video of the ad which will run?

"The Dems and especially Obama need to get over the bi-partisan BS."

By Henry

Henry, There is no need for bipartisanship. Dems have the majority and we know the final senate vote won't need but 51 actual Dems to pass it. Bipartisanship calls from Obama or D Senators is pure kabuki. They want to screw us and call for bipartisanship in order to avoid owning up to their own sick fecklessness. They are all bipartisan when it comes to feeding from and protecting big pharma and insurance... against 75 percent of American public opinion and millions who are totally trapped in an out of control careless system.

All of our AR politicians would rather kill their own people than kill big insurance... especially if we let them get away with it.

if you would like a Christian viewpoint on healthcare, the following from Beliefnet gives a great perspective:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/06/christianizing-the-health-care.html