Healthcare Reform Bill Passed

[Base]

Just passed today. Enjoy your new healthcare! Maybe? I don't really know how it's supposed to work, dunno what's gonna happen. Thoughts?

[Neelpos]

Republican approval ratings are gonna drop even further than the Bush administration achieved methinks once people realize that no, there are no death panels or any retarded shit like that

[Base]

Republican approval ratings are gonna drop even further than the Bush administration achieved methinks once people realize that no, there are no death panels or any retarded shit like that

Right but I don't know where they think they're gonna find all the new personnel for hospitals and the like to handle the sudden influx of patients, let alone all the supplies for it.

[Neelpos]

Republican approval ratings are gonna drop even further than the Bush administration achieved methinks once people realize that no, there are no death panels or any retarded shit like that

Right but I don't know where they think they're gonna find all the new personnel for hospitals and the like to handle the sudden influx of patients, let alone all the supplies for it.

I'm reminded of a Cracked article which outlined crazy things people have achieved with computers...
one of those was a man who had no credentials whatsoever, but applied to, and got the job of being a doctor at a local hospital
apparently he worked there for like, three years, performed 180 procedures, and none of them required medical expertise (apparently)

[jazzy]

my 15 year old brain cant comprehend politics, can someone post a dumby version for me small thinking capacity?

[Neelpos]

no

[ToteBag]

my 15 year old brain cant comprehend politics, can someone post a dumby version for me small thinking capacity?

Today, the socialist won, your life is forever changed for the worst...

[jazzy]

my 15 year old brain cant comprehend politics, can someone post a dumby version for me small thinking capacity?

Today, the socialist won, your life is forever changed for the worst...

oh :[

[Mad_Dugan]

This speech by Obama yesterday sums up why and what:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/politics-15749652/18725654

[Neelpos]

my 15 year old brain cant comprehend politics, can someone post a dumby version for me small thinking capacity?

Today, the socialist won, your life is forever changed for the worst...

oh :[

also Obama is a muslim and your life will be decided on by a death panel when you get older

[ToteBag]

my 15 year old brain cant comprehend politics, can someone post a dumby version for me small thinking capacity?

Today, the socialist won, your life is forever changed for the worst...

oh :[

also Obama is a muslim and your life will be decided on by a death panel when you get older

Not older, just sick.

[Base]

Republican approval ratings are gonna drop even further than the Bush administration achieved methinks once people realize that no, there are no death panels or any retarded shit like that

Right but I don't know where they think they're gonna find all the new personnel for hospitals and the like to handle the sudden influx of patients, let alone all the supplies for it.

I'm reminded of a Cracked article which outlined crazy things people have achieved with computers...
one of those was a man who had no credentials whatsoever, but applied to, and got the job of being a doctor at a local hospital
apparently he worked there for like, three years, performed 180 procedures, and none of them required medical expertise (apparently)

Wow lol... If that's true, then we need to be even more strict with who we let be our doctors. But that prolly isn't true since Cracked isn't exactly the most reliable source.

[Neelpos]

Republican approval ratings are gonna drop even further than the Bush administration achieved methinks once people realize that no, there are no death panels or any retarded shit like that

Right but I don't know where they think they're gonna find all the new personnel for hospitals and the like to handle the sudden influx of patients, let alone all the supplies for it.

I'm reminded of a Cracked article which outlined crazy things people have achieved with computers...
one of those was a man who had no credentials whatsoever, but applied to, and got the job of being a doctor at a local hospital
apparently he worked there for like, three years, performed 180 procedures, and none of them required medical expertise (apparently)

Wow lol... If that's true, then we need to be even more strict with who we let be our doctors. But that prolly isn't true since Cracked isn't exactly the most reliable source.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18451_th ... ssful.html
scroll down to #4, there's citations in the text

[joe]

giant missed opportunity.

we should have had single player. now we are stuck with this bullshit broken system for another 100 years

[OfLoathing]

We'll see what actually changes. My wife is applying for insurance now, to see if they deny her again based on her pre-existing condition which they may or may not (probably will). It may take up to a year before they create the high-risk pool that adults with pre-existing conditions can enroll in until the exchange opens up in 2014.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN191 ... 2096944:z0

So, all in all, not much will change for some time. Republicans will be able to maintain that the real government take over happens in 2014 while the Democrats will be able to point at few immediate benefits and many uninsured will feel cheated by the slow change.

I don't see good things happening in November for the Democrats, because I think it's the perfect Republican PR storm.