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- (YOUR CO-OPS ARE LAME): Hey Doug Elmendorf of the CBO, how are those proposed co-ops — the non-profit alternative to Pubic Options — in the Baucus Bill going to work? Oh you just want to tell us in a parenthetical aside within your official scoring report? “(The proposed co-ops had very little effect on the estimates of total enrollment in the exchanges or federal costs because, as they are described in the specifications, they seem unlikely to establish a significant market presence in many areas of the country or to noticeably affect federal subsidy payments.)” In all seriousness, it’s pretty great that both Democrats and Republicans are pooping on this bill (these few shitsacks aside.) [Ben Smith]
Single-payer or bust, so bust.
Sure, everyone would like them if they were called “Super-Ops”.
Today, we are all poopers.
Health industry scores another win and we lose. As usual.
Snowe: if consensus is to be found, it will be here.
OK. Next please…
This just in: To protect his leadership status, Max Baucus has denounced his reform bill as unworkable poopycock.
Suds McKenzie: People would like them even more if they called them “Megan Fox nude!”
Reminds me of when we formed an electric co-op. Now we get to pay higher prices for our electricity than before. Going out on a limb here, but I kinda don’t think co-ops are such a good idea if saving money is your goal.
Cut-rate education, cut-rate health care, cut-rate infrastructure— we are truly the Wal-Mart of nations.
Not a significant presence in the market? Color me shocked that Masturbating Max jizzed on the common man’s face at the end of health care bukkake.
Suds McKenzie: And instead of “co-payments” people can make “super-payments!”
Here’s the argument: you gotta have the mandate if you require them to insure for pre-existing conditions, or else everybody’ll wait til they’re sick to buy health insurance.
How long before they remove that pesky pre-existing clause and leave the mandate — two years?
Once again it is necessary to rail against the flagrant false advertising that is inherent in the name “Olympia Snowe.” Sounds like an ice goddess, all right, but looks like what she is: a Greek.
And if she supports this grab-bag of subsidies for Aetna, Anthem, and Big Pharma, fuck her. And all the rest of them.
Back, off, people. The teevees have said that this bill is good because the health insurance dickwads who shit on Clinton’s bill aren’t going all Harry-and-Louise on this one. Right. Because we all have to buy overpriced health insurance and no one but hobos can get a subsidy. Oh, and employers can blow off their plans.
All the Republics oppose any change, no matter what. Baucus is simply using his Republic friends as cover. And as for those friendly health insurance companies: they have their surrogate, Armey of Dick to do just enough to make sure we have neither single payer nor a public option.
David Francis in the Monitor says that by the year 2050, with no change in the system, health care costs will equall 100% of GNP. This should fix that, right?
SWEET WITH ALL THE NOT-HEALTH CARE WE’ll GETTING WE WILL SURELY HAVE DEATH PANELS NOW. HOORAY!!! It’s gonna get RAW.
Oh sweet baby weeping Jeebus. If LIEberman likes the Maxi-bill, it has to be a steaming pile of goat shit.
It’s a very nice plan, but Beyonce had the best health care plan of all time.
I just can’t stop saying, “Keep fucking the chicken.” It’s oddly appropriate as a response to this bill.
DustBowlBlues: This works out though, because by 2050 everyone will either be employed in health care or be a patient. So instead of wasting tax dollars on insurance, we should just pay everyone who’s sick and raise the taxes on health care workers to pay for them.
It’s the perfect solution.
Nationalize all insurance companies. As simple as that. Same as for student loans. Get the private sector out of this business.
Johnny Zhivago: Brilliant! And since we’ll mostly be hospitalized, even our food will be covered by insurance/taxes. Sign me up!
Has Bill Kristol come out in favor of this yet? It is, after all, a terrible idea.
Johnny Zhivago: That’s a terrifying thought. Will everyone in the U.S. be wearing Crocs?
Also, and without wishing to belabor this point, mutual and coop insurance companies have been in existence forever, but the problem is that they tend to become gradually less “mutual” and “cooperative” and more “corporate” and investor-owned. Baucus should study the history of insurance a little more closely before offering solutions that were tried in the early nineteenth century and have long ago proved ineffective.
That “move to Canada” healthcare plan is looking better and better.
I for one welcome our Visigoth overlords…sorry wanted to beat the rush before the conservtards, baggers and birthers start the sacking of DC
Jim89048: Yep, and the olds who have the time to get elected to the boards of the co-ops? Actual slogan on sign ” Jim has the time”
I swear on Einsteins grave.
My Senator, Wyden, really ought to take Baucus’ bill and shit on it, in front of cameras.
They weren’t booing Baucus, they were yelling, “Baucus is a TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL”
ragepotato: I’d start getting used to them.
Claire McCaskill used to be cool (maybe?) but she has turned into suuuuuuuuch a douche as of late. Right when I moved to her sorry ass white trash state, too.
queeraselvis v 2.0: I was half way down the page, thinking I was gonna get to point that one out.
It is the scrawny old winkled a-hole from Ct. Q.E.D. on this p.o.s.
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The Other Sarah T: They were saying “Booooo-aucus.”
Seriously, every time I hear his name now I think of R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket:
“I bet you’re the kind of guy who would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!”
Johnny Zhivago: You know what would actually be cool? If the entire bill, thousand pages yada yada, came out of committee and
said nothing but, “crocs are mandatory.” Grassley might even vote for it.