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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (10067)	10/3/2009 4:47:26 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

And he hasn't given up on cap and trade, which is another looming problem. It's just another big tax. Another drain on the economy. Bottom line -- businesses would be writing checks to the government, and that is during hard economic times. I think they may hold off with global warming (excuse me, climate change) in favor of pushing through healthcare.

To: i-node who wrote (10067)	10/3/2009 6:34:19 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

but I'm having a very difficult time getting past the $800 Billion "stimulus" bill. I don't think you can count that. It's not like he ran for president so he could do that. It was a response to an emergency. Yes, I know that there were a lot of initiatives he wanted folded into that but it was the emergency that triggered it and it was supported across the board so it's not like it was his idea and his mission. You can fairly pin health care on him, fully, but not the majority of the stimulus. It's as if a hurricane or a war happened on his watch. You can't attribute the cost of those to the sitting president, seems to me. I think that Obama and health care and whatever environmental stuff he ends up championing are comparable LBJ's Great Society as intentional spending initiatives, program initiatives. They are similar in nature. The stimulus is a horse of a different color.