If healthcare is not about him, why is he making it about him?
Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama's bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes."Let's just lay everything on the table," Grassley said. "A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn't going to pass if there weren't some changes made ... and the president says, 'You're going to destroy my presidency.' "
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BTW, I was going to agree with Obama when he said that this healthcare debate shouldn't be about defeating him (whether that was what DeMint was saying or not), this debate is about defeating a bill that would ration our healthcare and paying more for the privileged to do so. This isn't about a fight for power or the need to crush your opponent. This is about making sure our grandmas get their pacemakers (thank the Lord my 91-year-old my grandma already got her pacemaker) and not put them on painkillers as they die. It's about keeping what we've got and helping others obtain it if they want. Not forcing them to buy insurance if they don't want it. That's what they debate should be about.
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So, you stupid LIBTARD, you nearly die of a blood clot and now you are whining about the little cost of keeping you alive! Better you had died than the Taco Bell Chihuahua! NEXT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Previous to the subprime mortgage crisis, medical bills was the number one reason individuals filed for bankruptcy.
For the umpteen time, Obama said if you like your health insurance you can keep it.
Julie said
For the umpteen time, Obama said if you like your health insurance you can keep it.
So what if we can keep it? We'll still have to pay the tax so that everyone else can get their free health care...making it harder to keep private insurance since their prices will most likely rise. I'm sorry I don't want to have to pay for everyone elses health insurance
I'm sorry I don't want to have to pay for everyone elses health insurance
I agree. Please get off your employer's health plan so the costs aren't passed on to me. Pay for your own darn health care, you layabout, and don't have it subsidized by me, your employer's customer.
Why should we assume that Sen. Grassley, who is clearly as much about being anti-anything-Obama as he is for anything, and who can't even get the name of the other party right, is telling the truth about what an unnamed Democrat (sic) Congressman confided to him?
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