Displaying 3,511 To 3,540 Of 3,698 Comments Update #3: HEALTHCARE REFORM BILL PASSES HOUSE 220-215 IN HISTORIC VOTE!!! I think we’re all waiting to see what this bill will really do. I look at it as another Medicare or Social Security type legislation. Social Security was VERY problematic when it started. But now, it’s a system we all rely on and are happy to have. I can’t put a negative spin on the House passing this bill. It’s taken us a century to take this small step. I’m going to celebrate it. And hope that the Senate follows suit. » Posted By nellie On November 8, 2009 @ 5:46 am Well, thanks for calling the issues I care about “pet features.” My preference is to do something that helps rather than nothing that keeps the problems we have in place. If this bill keeps people from being thrown off their insurance, if it preserves coverage for people who have been identified with “pre existing conditions” (a phrase that doesn’t even make any sense), if it delivers care, it’s better than what we have now. It’s a step in the right direction. Our major legislation always starts off less than what it should be. It takes iterations and iterations to get it right. We JUST NOW got hate crimes legislation for the LGBT community. Does that mean we shouldn’t have passed the Civil Rights Act in the 60s? No — you do what you can, and you keep working on the “issues” until the legislation catches up with the people. » Posted By nellie On November 8, 2009 @ 5:02 am Let them step onto an Indian Reservation for five minutes. Maybe that would wake people up. I do get a little emotional when it comes to that issue. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 9:29 pm Well, I’m wiped. I need a little recharge so I’m going to sign off and say goodnight. Hope to chat with you all tomorrow. I feel good about the House right now. Let’s see if the Senate can keep up. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 9:24 pm I find that no vote extremely annoying. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 9:23 pm There are a lot of important and helpful provisions in this bill. I get a little weary of all the focus on the public option, as if that’s the only meaningful aspect of this reform. The main goals of the bill are to prevent people from losing coverage, being dropped, being denied care, being driven to bankruptcy. And there are many preventative care provisions, provisions for mental health coverage — don’t get me started on that one — training, community health centers, rural health centers, reservation health measures that are direly needed. You really need to read the bill to understand how comprehensive and helpful it is. We all got sidetracked by the public option being a gateway to single payer. Well, we’re not going to get single payer right now. Look at this vote — how close it was. The public option is not the centerpiece of this bill. It is one of many aspects that provide protections and cost controls for health consumers. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 9:19 pm I’m wrecked! What a process! » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 8:18 pm Final vote: 220 2o 215. The bill is passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 39 Dems vote against. 1 Repub votes for. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 8:16 pm Links to Executive Branch news I like that idea as well — a reference page, or a series of pages where we can go to keep up with things. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 4:53 pm Thanks, javaz. And good morning! » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 8:04 am Thanks to this site for providing a constructive and fun place to go for discussion and camaraderie. I really appreciate it. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 8:47 am HuffNo Friday Trivia Challenges That’s a great movie. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:41 pm And speaking of dogs, what 1950s tv star said of the new puppy in the house, “He’s living my life, and I’m living a dog’s life”? » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:32 pm I cheated, too. My curiosity got the better of me. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:10 pm HuffNo Friday Music Night: The Realm of Possibilities Kalima, you said just what I was thinking! » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 10:33 pm There’s a series I watched call the Atheism Tapes (it was on instant play at Netflix) that talked mostly about why people didn’t believe in God. But there was one episode with a minister who said of science, it answers how things are, but not why things are. Why is there anything at all? was his big question. It was fascinating. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:27 pm The entire album is awesome. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:14 pm Thank you! » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:11 pm I’m a big fan of Brazilian music. CeU has done some really good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-9C9E2YVz8 P.S. How do I embed? » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:06 pm As a matter of fact, I have a little CeU I can post. If I can figure out how… » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:04 pm I’m with you, Kalima! » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 9:03 pm Great song. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 8:06 pm Cool post. I have to let it bounce around in my brain for a while. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 8:02 pm THE TRUE FACE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY Name calling is not discourse. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 5:18 am I have to admit, I have trouble understanding people who are sticking with the GOP. My father was a republican, and he had the sense to recant during Reagan’s administration. He could see where the policies were taking the country. And my father was not a man who admitted mistakes easily. But facts are facts, and truth is truth. It takes a lot of work to ignore where the GOP has brought this country and to overlook the crass and dishonest rhetoric they have been using since Mr. Obama’s election. And good morning! » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 5:17 am How it is that the Teabagger Movement is bogus Oh for crying out loud. No one insulted YOU. We’re perfectly free to critique in any way that’s appropriate people who throw themselves out into the public sphere as a political movement. You’re conflating. » Posted By nellie On November 7, 2009 @ 7:14 am Hey dndobson. Good to see you here! » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 7:48 pm The “Tea Party” movement is a great example of the right wing robbing the language and our history of their meanings — like they always do. They know that marginally educated people don’t really know why all that tea was thrown overboard, so they distort the history to mean something else entirely. They know that people are all too ready to be jingoistic, so they throw in a few historic slogans — that people don’t really understand either — get everyone all riled up, and send them off to Washington. Then they conflate what is supposed to be a “limited government” movement with racist posters, offensive and inappropriate parallels to the Holocaust, bad spelling and pictures of our president doctored up as insults that have no relationship to anything about his presidency. It’s ridiculous political theater. And the country is having none of it. » Posted By nellie On November 6, 2009 @ 7:33 pm Twelve Shot Dead and Thirty One Wounded at Fort Hood. Hearing on the radio: Shooters — two soldiers in custody and one dead. » Posted By nellie On November 5, 2009 @ 3:28 pm I’m wondering, who would shoot up a military base? What is this about? We need more information. Whatever the facts turn out to be, this kind of incident is always unjustifiable. And terribly, terribly tragic. » Posted By nellie On November 5, 2009 @ 1:34 pmComments Posted By nellie
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