The Mad Max goodwill tour kicked off Saturday with a community chat about health care. Avoiding the temptation to one-up B-Frank’s exchange about allegations that some the Obama administration’s plans are reminiscent of a certain failed nation-state, the calm, cool collected one did take a little time to refer to some opponents of the public health care option as “neanderthals”. Maxie really wants a public option, but she knows it’s going to cost something. One guess who is going to pay for this plan. The answer comes 3:35 in.
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If she loves her constituents so much, why doesn’t she take 20% of her personal salary home, and dispense the rest accordingly?
These people are fucking criminals.
Neanderthals? That’s a bit of the gorilla calling the kettle black.
That’s the saying, right?
Yeah fuck the rich American taxpayer…my money is safe in the Channel Islands.
guys guys guys! all we have to do is do things with the folders! the folders! we’ll pay for everything in no time!
@4 – I COULDN’T BELIEVE THEY STILL USE FOLDERS!!! WE WILL SAVE “A WHOLE BUNCH OF MONEY” ON THE FOLDERS!!! GOLDMANS SACH WILL PAY FOR THIS!!!
I was just wondering — Does Gasparino have any tatooes?
6,
Bulls eye. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MhRRZn0fCOQ/RvFJOTNC_OI/AAAAAAAAACc/mh0LilnNVk0/s400/tattoo.jpg.jpg
That she is surprised about how paper-based medical records continue to be shows how little she knows about the business. Yet people like her are going to run healthcare?!?
‘Tax the rich’ – I guess Maxine missed the Soviet Union and socialism collapsing. How this ‘pulic option’ will work is your paycheck or AGI will go into a black hole called Washington DC!!
@1, yeah while everyone was losing their jobs in the recession, congress still gave themselves a pay increase and 6 new jets. Not to mention none of congress will use the “public option” they will still use their government subsidies to get private health care.
@gherkin: tsk, tsk.
Why do I get the feeling that her district takes in far more government largesse than it remits in tax dollars.
@11 i’ve missed you.
This is all just a warm-up act for when they have to “do something” about social security.
I have an idea. Announce that it won’t work. Admit that that statement you get every year that shows the hundreds of thousands of dollars you have put into SS is just a reminder of how much of your money went to other people. As a direct handout. That you will never, ever see a penny of it.
Have the Republicrats and Demicans admit that they have simply taken your earned money and handed it to other people on the pretense that some day there would be money around for you.
Instead of building up your own account, your new money has been used to make payments to older contributors – in many cases in excess of what they put in. If anyone but the government did that, it would be called a Ponzi scheme.
Anyone under 50 who counts on ever seeing a dime of “social security” is delusional.
Dear God, wtf is AD wearing today? She looks like a Lichtenstein, but for the lack of cleave.
@12
Because you’re a racist.
@15 – I agree. What in the workd was she thinking?
Maybe she and MelFry can do an on-camera dress swap so she can see how it looks on someone else.
@14 so whats your point?
Everyone except the folks that read Yahoo! Finance know exactly how the Social Security program has worked.
How about thinking of a solution rather than belaboring the point of how we got here?
Let me get her logic straight:
When someone gets in an accident and they go to the emergency room and they don’t have insurance THEN everyone has to pay for that person’s medical care … SO the answer is to mandate h/c insurance for everyone via the “public option” BUT pay for it by shrinking the group that pays for it from “everyone” to “the rich” … even though the rich are probably already paying for most of it.
Waters is such a db
@16
because he’s a realist?
We has to raise up our inner-city youth through after-school programs, but we can’t cause of Goldmen
NS – I did propose a solution. Admit that it doesn’t work and abandon the program. In other words, DON’T fix it.
Let the money run out, tell everyone it’s going to run out, and give them plenty of time to figure out what they’re going to do when it does.
-14
I agree with Rep. Waters. What we need to do is tax these rich people like the bankers and CEO’s that are driving up medical costs with bigger and bigger tit jobs for their wives.
@23
I’m guessing by the tone of your post (and the fact you didn’t bring up your divorce for no apparent reason) you’re not THE Mark Klein MD, in which case your handle is pretty fucking funny.
hmm, if congress agrees to get rid of their plan and join the public option, I’d gladly sign up. until, then they are just as bad as those “bankers and ceo’s”…
Cluz,
They’re above us. We must bow down to our superiors. Didn’t you get the arm band/schedule when you voted?
-Fellow Plebeian
@Cluzo – You ville stop vit ze kvestions! You ville do vaht vee tell you to do because it is for your own good! Vee know vaht is right.
Your next shipment of Victory Gin is on its way.
The public option will cost the insurance companies about $32 billion. That’s why they are willing to spend $1.4 million a day trying to get rid of it. So far, it looks like they will succeed. So buy, buy, buy!
As a show of good faith, and congressman who votes for the public option should be forced to use it for the length of their term.
ps- anyone seen my secretary?
@29 and their families
Great inshgit. Relieved I’m on the same side as you.
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