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• Health-care vote may hinge on abortion issues

  Sun Mar 21, 2010
  • add each elective abortion includes at no charge, the removal of 1 ovary, and i'll second you on your plan lol

• Health-care vote may hinge on abortion issues

  Sun Mar 21, 2010
  • this bills passage shouldn't hinge on the abortion issue. it should be soundly defeated because it subsidizes with taxpayer money, insurance policies that cover elective procedures.

• Dems woo abortion foes in push for health bill

  Sat Mar 20, 2010
  • bottom line.......if they write into the bill that taxpayer subsidies cannot be used to purchase any...i said ANY....policy that covers any elective procedure(botox, lap band,fertility treatment, etc.) or non health related medication (viagra, rogain, ect),and, only the least expensive …

• White House, Democrats close in on health bill

  Thu Mar 11, 2010
  • AJ, i believe stupaks opposition is based on his understanding of how gov't. works. the bill doesn't allow direct funding of abortion, but in the case of the community health centers, it doe's allow, for lack of a better word , cost shifting.

• White House, Democrats close in on health bill

  Thu Mar 11, 2010
  • drive down to cost of insurance , not transfer who pays for it and they'll get votes. add one little line to the bill and let the CBO score it and see where it ends up..... that line you ask ???

• Ready to go it alone, Dems push on health care

  Fri Feb 26, 2010
  • this healthcare problem has a very easy bi-partisan fix. or, should i say what used to be a healthcare problem, which is now a health insurance problem.

• Getting back lost jobs could take 5 years

  Sat Feb 20, 2010
  • i don't know about sweeping floors, but a lady that walks around o'hare in chicago, checking toilets to make sure they flush(if they don't, she calls in the real plumber), makes 41.00/hr..

• Labor nominee vote tests GOP's new power

  Tue Feb 9, 2010
  • show of hands please ...... how many viners cheered when samsung, motorola, hitachi, and sony got fined 38 million dollars for colluding to fix the price of LCD's for TV's, raising the price and harming consumers ????

• Big Tobacco makes secret plea to avoid payout

  Sat Jan 16, 2010
  • p.s. right now, over 50% of the cost of a pack of cigarettes to the consumer is various federal, state, and local taxes. 150 million adults, 30% smoke = 45 million smokers 45 million packs per day(1 per each smoker) @ 2.50/pk tax = 112.5 million/day taxes

• Big Tobacco makes secret plea to avoid payout

  Sat Jan 16, 2010
  • if smokers and non-smokers were charged the same for a medical insurance policy, you'd have a valid point. as a smoker, i pay much higher premiums for both medical and life insurance.