After passing health care legislation to make health care more affordable, deficit hawk Democrats have let COBRA subsidies lapse for millions of Americans, who will lose their health insurance as a result.
Some conservative Democrats, however, say they don't understand why the government should subsidize workers who lose jobs with employer coverage and not others who are equally deserving — for example self-employed people priced out of the private market.Those folks aren't exactly going to be inclined to think the Dems are any better than the Republicans come November. They're going to not vote at all, or worse, vote for the Republicans just to make a point of firebagging the Dems.
"You're paying 65 percent of (one) family's health care costs, but the neighbor next door, there's no help for," said Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif. "So we're picking and choosing. There's an inequality there between our constituents." Not to mention that Congress has treated the program as emergency spending, adding its cost to the deficit.
In Marietta, Ohio, boiler operator Neil Davis is facing the loss of his job as the coal-burning power plant he works at prepares to shut down for good. Davis, 33, has marketable skills but he's unsure how quickly he'll be able to find comparable work. His wife is a stay-at-home mom raising two elementary-age children.
"Being able to have coverage at an affordable rate, we wouldn't be afraid to take the kids to the doctor if they get sick," said Davis. "The economy might be getting better some place, but I don't know where at."
I'm sure the Republicans have the best interests of the Democrats in Congress when they advise conservative Dems to vote against health insurance subsidies, too. The problem is plenty of Democrats believe it...or are believing in it as a way to justify being deficit hawks when doing so now will knock the blocks out from what little recovery there is going on.
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"Those folks aren't exactly going to be inclined to think the Dems are any better than the Republicans come November. They're going to not vote at all, or worse, vote for the Republicans just to make a point of firebagging the Dems."
Yes, heaven forbid anyone would want to not vote for a Democrat!
You are such a complete hack.
lousy as the democrats may be, they are most certainly preferable to the republicans.
why people insist on visiting a supposedly hack-y blog to start the same dull arguments (ooh, both parties suck! looka me, i'm so cool i have NO party affiliation!) is beyond me. do you honestly think anybody's going to read your comment and re-think their position? EVERYTHING's been said already and that includes your stupid/hack comment as well. fuckin' boor.
lousy as the democrats may be, they are most certainly preferable to the republicans.
No, that's your problem. You can't see the forest for the trees.....
You blindly support someone because they are a D instead of an R. That is why you are clueless about the issues because your ideology blinds you from seeing both sides of an argument.
your problem is that you are a fucking idiot. really.
t-man can't rebut anything I've said? Thought not.
Thx for playing
and how much time exactly do you spend on conservative blogs making the "both parties suck-think outside the box" argument? you really are an idiot.
Time spent is roughly equal :-)
So its ok if I tell conservatives they're wrong when they are being blindly biased without thinking for themselves but it's not ok when I do it to liberals?
Cause you gaiz has all the answers rite?
DailyKOS and Media Matters are all you need huh?
"you really are an idiot."
The notion that one party is better than the other is complete fiction. IF you believe different you are truly a fool. They have their moments but politics is a game of chess to these people, nothing more. Both parties do suck
Fail harder tman...fail harder
Your solution to this problem, Booger? Inquiring minds want to know.
Shoot em all and let God sort em out of course :-)
Treason fail.
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