Health Care Reform: Do or Die day.

And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is that.

Final Vote 220-211

Nearly Universal Health Insurance!

Boooya!

Ten immediate benefits:

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/what-you-get-when-hcr-passes

That doesn't include the benefits that will be phased in over the next 3-4 years.

Agreed, and I also don't want your bloody corpse flying through my windshield if we get in a head on collision.

It doesn't work like that in the real world, where most people who get in car accidents while unbelted suffer considerably more severe injuries due to that choice. If those injured people lack health insurance as well either the taxpayers or the other insured patients get stuck with the bill in the end.

You cannot be turned away from the emergency room and others will make the choice to treat you if you are incapacitated in an accident.

Hey ma!

um. ok.

I do.. mostly-ish.. it's just.. Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do!!

Dammit. Im an adult child WAY older than that.

The chance of him making it through his windshield and through yours is pretty slim.

I would imagine you would have to hose a tiny bit of gray matter off your hood though.

Seriously, thats what bitching about seatbelt laws sounds like to me: the whinging of a small spoiled child.

So, two questions are burning in my mind:

1. What are poll numbers going to look like from now until November?

2. How much different would things be right now if McCain and Palin were in the White House?

Shit, well why didn't you say so in the first place! (Slowly backs away).

Aww, it still lives
http://www.palinaspresident.us/

Health care wouldn't even have been brought up.

We'd be in a Depression.

More people would make the mistake in thinking of Palin as relevant.

Maybe we should try not to sour the mood by going too far on that tangent about the proper role of government.

Today is a good day. Millions of Americans will get health care coverage and enjoy a higher quality of life.

and Glen Beck is already writing his new conspiracy theories! Ohh! Maybe we can have a 3-20 project!

What exactly does this cover:
4. Free preventative care for all
Flu shots? mammograms? yearly physicals?

http://twitter.com/maddow/status/10854286983

I bet twenty years from now, republicans aren't going to be happy that democrats can point out that when the first step towards universal health care was introduced was finally taken in America, not a single republican voted for it.

Who knows for sure, I'm certain there's a fair amount of disgust towards congress in general but it's difficult to know which portion of it makes them wretch the least.

As for numero dos, Jesus... No, seriously.

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I shudder to think of someone like Palin so close to the presidency, but then again, I shudder to think about someone like McCain as the president. *SHUDDER*SHUDDER*SHUDDER*