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June 28, 2012

I'd like to "kill" a word

The word is "access".

What a phony-baloney wiggle-word.

ACCESS is NOT the problem.

Most insurance companies will issue policies for most people who ask for a quote.

Every medical facility I have ever seen, has ample parking, driveways, customer service people. There are doctors & nurses too.

Hospitals are "accessible" also.

Unless you are comatose, and have no helpers, MOST people can "access" a care facility/hospital/doctor.

What most CANNOT do though, is figure out a way to PAY FOR IT.


I wish our legislators would stop pretending that "access" is the issue here.

It"s the MONEY..and the lack of it for most people

June 28, 2012

Dateline: July 11, 2012--House of Representatives




(for the uninformed, that's the date they will repeal Obamacare)

House Republicans schedule vote to repeal health care law
By Lisa Mascaro / Tribune Washington Bureau
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - Updated 40 minutes ago
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120628house_republicans_schedule_vote_to_repeal_health_care_law/
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders today set a vote in two weeks to repeal the nation’s health care law — a largely symbolic act that is not be expected to go anywhere in the Democratic-led Senate.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said the vote will be July 11.

“The House will once again vote to repeal ObamaCare,” the leader said in a tweet.

House Republicans already voted to get rid of the law in one of their first acts in taking the majority in 2011. They had promised another vote after the Supreme Court decision.

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June 28, 2012

Poor Mittens.. Someone needs to get him some scissors & a cop uniform

so he can go to SCOTUS to "cut some hair"..

June 28, 2012

How Obama now can win.

Ladies & Gentlemen, we MUST remove republicans from the House & Senate, so that health care mandate APPROVED by SCOTUS can now be implemented.

June 28, 2012

We are series..Hugh Fail

June 28, 2012

Who won? The INSURANCE companies

They couldn't care LESS where their money comes from.

Taxes? okay
Subsidies? okay
Fees? okay
Fines? okay
The aorta? okay
stones & turnips excluded of course

June 28, 2012

Touché ... Stand-your-ground Texan sentenced to 40 years..

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0627/Stand-your-ground-defense-falls-short-in-Texas-video



Houston

A man who claimed Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor after an argument about a noisy party was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years for murder.


Raul Rodriguez, 46, had faced up to life in prison for the 2010 killing of Kelly Danaher.

Rodriguez, a retired Houston-area firefighter, was angry about the noise coming from a birthday party at his neighbor's home. He went over and got into an argument with 36-year-old elementary school teacher Danaher and two other men at the party.

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