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    01:08 AM

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    It passed 220-215 with a huge democratic majority in the house. Good luck getting this thing through the Senate. Then good luck again getting the reconciled bill passed by either legislative body.

    This thing is dead in its current form. Mark my words. #healthcare
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    01:17 AM

    @badasscat: C’mon, have some optimism. The abortion amendment is regressive, but the general spirit of the bill is progressive. I see all of this as true foundation laying for something that will last, and not something that will be reversed the second a new administration comes into play.

    I have hope for this. #healthcare
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    01:06 AM

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    Flexible fabric indeed. #healthcare
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    01:18 AM

    @Mount_Prion: I hate those band aids. They never stick right. Give me plastic for my bleed-holes! #healthcare
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    12:54 AM

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    Sadly, no amount of compromise will satisfy the irrational fringe that the Republican leadership courts. The Freepers are already making plans.

    [www.freerepublic.com] #healthcare
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    12:34 AM

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    According to CNN: "The prohibition would exclude cases of rape, incest or if the woman's life is in danger."

    So, basically we're going to see a spike in abortion-seekers claiming they were raped, or in sympathetic doctors claiming that the abortion-seeker's life is in danger. #healthcare
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    12:43 AM

    @skt.smth: I was dangered! And my life is in rape. #healthcare
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    12:45 AM

    @Dot: I see what you did there. #healthcare
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    12:22 AM

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    I tend to think that, abortions or no, this bill is going to do far more good for women than bad. For instance -- I'm poor. If this bill doesn't pass and I need an abortion, I have to pay for it out of my own pocket. If this bill DOES pass, I also have to pay for it. However, the bill DOES subsidize plans that cover contraception. As a result, more women will be able to afford the pill in this country than ever before. #healthcare
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    12:41 AM

    @eatsshootsleaves: That's interesting.
    I'm Canadian... and while we pay quite a bit for contraception (I pay about $30-$40 a month for the Patch) getting an abortion is free*
    (* = Up until a certain point. If you're 8 months pregnant and want one, you have to pay.) #healthcare
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    12:47 AM

    @DeadliestSin: Getting contraception in the U.S. will cost money, too, because of co-pays. But it's not like this money is out of reach for most people. With my old insurance I only had to pay 10 bucks a month for the pill. #healthcare
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    12:57 AM

    @eatsshootsleaves: I can send in my recipts to my insurance company and get a refund, so I'll only end up paying around $10 too. We also have birth control clinics for people who do not have health insurance or cannot afford birth control. I used it for a while while I was in college, birth control there was $5-$10 a month depending on what form you used. I also got the Depo Provera shot for several hundred dollars cheaper than it would have normally cost me. In Canada we still have expensive medications, but it's easier to get coverage to lower the costs of those medications. #healthcare
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    01:06 AM

    @DeadliestSin: But -- but -- socialism!

    Seriously, this sort of information really puts this vote and its dissenters in perspective. If health reform actually becomes law, it will be one of the largest (if not THE largest) overhauls of U.S. health care in our history. And yet the resulting system will still be behind most other developed countries in terms of breadth and quality. #healthcare
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    12:15 AM

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    Waiting for this thing to pass the House has been like watching a homeopath prepare his medicine. #healthcare
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12:03 AM

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    I will sleep well tonight knowing that my bunions are in good hands. #healthcare
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    12:42 AM

    @Mike Jahn: Jesus, are you hinting for a foot rub? Subsidized by the taxpayers? You swine. #healthcare
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11/07/09

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    Of course, this is just the House vote. It still has to pass in the Senate before it becomes law ... #healthcare
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    Image of dippitydoo dippitydoo
    11/07/09

    @MisterHippity: and then years of implementation...

    but best not implantation ladies! because no one has your back. #healthcare
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    12:00 AM

    @MisterHippity: And another round of approvals after the conference committee works out any differences between the House and Senate versions. So several more chances to water the thing down. Aaargh! #healthcare
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    12:12 AM

    @dippitydoo: It's not really my back that I'm worried about. #healthcare
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/07/09

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    The Republicans started the long overdue drive toward socialism by buying banks. The Democrats continued the quest by starting to nationalize health care. Now THAT's bipartisanship! #healthcare
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    11/07/09

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    The Democrats didn't make the abortion compromise for the Republican moral majority -- they made it for other Democrats. Otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten the votes and healthcare would be dead.

    Not that it doesn't suck. #healthcare
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    12:06 AM

    @eatsshootsleaves: More compromises to come, just to get the Democratic votes needed. Sometimes I envy the Republicans their ability to march in lockstep on complicated issues. But only sometimes. #healthcare
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    12:10 AM

    @eatsshootsleaves: So, abortions aren't going to be mandatory. Is that about the crux of the bill? #healthcare
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    12:15 AM

    @phlox✔: No, silly, the Democrats were elected on a platform of mandatory abortions and mandatory abortions are what the people will receive! Only you need to pay for your abortion yourself, otherwise it's socialist. #healthcare
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    12:21 AM

    @Glib and Bitchy: Key term, "lockstep." #healthcare
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    12:30 AM

    @eatsshootsleaves: So in other words, Democrats who side with the Republican moral majority. Same thing. #healthcare
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    12:31 AM

    @Glib and Bitchy: I'll say this about George Bush - he kept the Repubs in line. None of that Blue (or Red, as it were) Dogs Republicans shit. Sigh. #healthcare
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    Image of Eh-ron Eh-ron
    12:41 AM

    @Glib and Bitchy: The lockstep is not hard when your party is a monolithic unit made up of white evangelicals. Anyone else who speaks up is a RINO. #healthcare
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/07/09

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    I'm getting in my application for a job on the death panel. #healthcare
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    11/07/09

    @Mike Jahn: I want to be assigned to a red state. #healthcare
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/07/09

    @Mike Jahn: LOL, forever, and ever. #healthcare
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    12:08 AM

    @Mike Jahn: Do a TV montage of the departed every morning on a Smuckers label backdground, like Willard Scott. #healthcare
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    11/07/09

    In reply to Democratic Health Care Package: Passed
    I'm really bummed about that abortion amendment. But at least it passed? Baby steps? Or something. #healthcare
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    11/07/09

    @katekate is squared: Yeah. I don't really understand how that amendment is supposed to work, though I know it can't be good. Still, I'm ready to give up a lot just to get a bill passed and to have something to build on in the future.
    Can't help but smile when opponents charge any bill is a foot in the door leading to single-payer, and "responsible" Dems pooh-pooh it, because the GOP is --for once -- right.
    Patience . . . #healthcare
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    11/07/09

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    11/07/09

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    11/07/09

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    These CGI-fests have a habit of celebrating the technology over the story that grows very old 40 minutes in.

    A-effing-men. #themenwhostareatgoats
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