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  1. #21
    Originally posted by aldra you know what the funniest thing about this whole ordeal is? Obamacare is almost exactly the same as the HEART bill, which was a healthcare reform bill proposed by the Republicans around 20 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Reform_Today_Act_of_1993

    Yep, a bill Romney, the 2012 Republican candidate had a large part in drafting IIRC

    Edit: No, I had that wrong. He had passed the bill in Massachusetts that was almost exactly the same system as Obamacare but found himself opposing it in the 2012 race
  2. #22
    Technologist victim of incest
    Originally posted by aldra you know what the funniest thing about this whole ordeal is? Obamacare is almost exactly the same as the HEART bill, which was a healthcare reform bill proposed by the Republicans around 20 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Reform_Today_Act_of_1993


    Just goes to show that most believe there should be insurance for all. That’s why he can’t just get rid of Obamacare without a replacement, there would be a major uproar.
  3. #23
    The fact that we don't have socialized health care at this point in time is insane to me
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  4. #24
    Technologist victim of incest
    Too many are worried it will lead us into all out socialism. I’m sure there’s about a million other reasons, but that sticks out in my mind.
  5. #25
    Most of what I see in SC are either people toeing the party line (SOCIALISM BAD) or people afraid of "waiting in line for healthcare"
  6. #26
    Technologist victim of incest
    If the far left have their way, we will be headed for socialism. Don’t know how I feel about that. Bernie seems to be raking in the campaign contributions, maybe more people want socialism than I thought.
  7. #27
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by Technologist Just goes to show that most believe there should be insurance for all. That’s why he can’t just get rid of Obamacare without a replacement, there would be a major uproar.

    I mostly just meant it was amusing that the republicans all claim to be against it when it's more or less the same as what they put forward in the first place.

    as I understand it, it basically just forces everyone to buy healthcare (as well as subsidizing it) so that a bulk discount can be negotiated with the major insurance providers - several of the providers have already pulled out of the program because they're not seeing the profits they were promised.

    to me it's always seemed to be about maximising revenue for the major providers more than actually helping anyone.
  8. #28
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    The thing about socialism is you can vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out, but most people are far too stupid, uneducated and ignorant of history to realize this fact.
  9. #29
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by -SpectraL The thing about socialism is you can vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out, but most people are far too stupid, uneducated and ignorant of history to realize this fact.

    the two most functional 'socialist' societies at the moment, China and Iran, are probably more democratic (ie. state policy follows the will of the majority) than any western country. The difference is that they don't respond well to outliers; there's no real recourse for you to effect change (outside of convincing the majority) if you don't agree with them.
  10. #30
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Originally posted by aldra the two most functional 'socialist' societies at the moment, China and Iran, are probably more democratic (ie. state policy follows the will of the majority) than any western country. The difference is that they don't respond well to outliers; there's no real recourse for you to effect change (outside of convincing the majority) if you don't agree with them.

    Yeah, one drives around in mobile execution chamber vans dragging people out of their homes at 3am to be tried and executed on the bus and then chopped up for their organs to be sold on the open market, and the other one chops your head off for kissing a man. Sounds real democratic to me.
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  11. #31
    Technologist victim of incest
    Originally posted by aldra I mostly just meant it was amusing that the republicans all claim to be against it when it's more or less the same as what they put forward in the first place.

    as I understand it, it basically just forces everyone to buy healthcare (as well as subsidizing it) so that a bulk discount can be negotiated with the major insurance providers - several of the providers have already pulled out of the program because they're not seeing the profits they were promised.

    to me it's always seemed to be about maximising revenue for the major providers more than actually helping anyone.

    I almost changed the way I worded that, because I knew it came out wrong. I knew what your point was. :-)
  12. #32
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by -SpectraL Yeah, one drives around in mobile execution chamber vans dragging people out of their homes at 3am to be tried and executed on the bus and then chopped up for their organs to be sold on the open market, and the other one chops your head off for kissing a man. Sounds real democratic to me.

    as opposed to imprisoning people without oversight or due process and ramming feeding tubes up their asses?
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  13. #33
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Originally posted by aldra as opposed to imprisoning people without oversight or due process and ramming feeding tubes up their asses?

    Never said the US government wasn't a tyrannical entity. I said you can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it. Then you said China and Iran had great societal structures, and I pointed out how false that idea is.
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  14. #34
    Octavian motherfucker
    Originally posted by aldra as opposed to imprisoning people without oversight or due process and ramming feeding tubes up their asses?

    In the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a detainee who has confessed to being the architect of 9/11, the CIA’s chief interrogator ordered rectal feeding “without a determination of medical need”

    Fuck-ing LOL!.

    "But sir he's not on hunger strike?"

    "GET THAT TUBE UP HIS ASS SOLDIER!"
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  15. #35
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by -SpectraL Never said the US government wasn't a tyrannical entity. I said you can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it. Then you said China and Iran had great societal structures, and I pointed out how false that idea is.

    no you didn't. even if your examples were true (China's largely unsubstantiated and while Iran's penal code can call for the execution of gays, very few, if any, have been executed solely for that reason), they don't prove anything relating to democracy or the will of the people.

    typically (statistically) the Chinese value an ordered society over most else and don't really care what happens to serious criminals. Iran's an Islamic country; gayness is explicitly forbidden in the Quran and so there's little public concern for bumsexuals. The Ayatollahs have actually gone to bizarre lengths to fold them into society; homosexuals are encouraged to get sex change operations in order to serve the social feminine role if they cannot serve the masculine.
  16. #36
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by Octavian Fuck-ing LOL!.

    "But sir he's not on hunger strike?"

    "GET THAT TUBE UP HIS ASS SOLDIER!"

  17. #37
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Yeah, like political dissidents with an opinion they don't like are "serious criminals".
  18. #38
    Octavian motherfucker
    I don't see what's wrong in harvesting executed crim's organs? It's the least they can do considering the severity of the crimes committed.
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  19. #39
    I love how screaming at family members evolved into organ harvesting.
  20. #40
    Octavian motherfucker
    I might start bribing morticians for John & Jane doe organs then find a Chinese connect via darknet.

    I maybe onto something.

    Actually no they have to be secured and frozen within an hour or 2 of death. FUCK!

    There goes that venture...
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