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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:42 PM Original message |
Why did Obama choose Health Care Reform as his first major battlefield? |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because its eating federal, state, local and personal budgets |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I'm guessing they still won't have jack shit at the end of all of this. |
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sundancekid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. surely you forgot your "snark" tag ... otherwise - get thee to a reality-based kiosk and transform |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's the one that has the smallest window of opportunity. AND... |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. Because citizens are suffering and dying needlessly? |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I thought we weren't talking about Iraq or Afghanistan here. |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. All those months campaigning, all those stories he heard, he |
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JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
8. Awkward question now, but one that will long be asked. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
9. Private insurers made it a major battlefield. Most of us want help. |
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Lucy Goosey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because he promised Teddy. n/t |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
11. Did you miss the entire election where it ranked right up there with War as a MAJOR issue? |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I know there are real people dying in Iraq and Afghanistan daily. |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. So it's one or the other with you? |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. well, I guess it's only one thing with Obama |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. There are a SHIT LOAD more Americans dying every day because |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 12:07 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Yeah, those Amercians die in bed usually surrounded by family |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
12. Health care costs are eating us alive. Plug that hole first, and the |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
13. Because we're not "doing" war this election cycle |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
14. I thought Afghanistan was his first chosen battlefield |
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Hansel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
15. Because they have to get health care costs under control in order to |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
17. I would say because health-care reform has been in the spotlight for decades now... |
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FLyellowdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
19. Because he wants to |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Sort of like fiddling while Rome burns? |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
23. Stimulus (Economy) came first.... Health Care second |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
25. Uh, he';s working on those, too. In fact, the economy, |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
26. More people are dying from lack of healthcare than any of those reason. More than 100k per year. |
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