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Old 09-16-09, 02:35 PM   #11
SteamWake
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I don't think the reaction we're seeing is founded in racism. Instead, it's because of the right's irrational fear of any politics to the left of Ayn Rand. Thus, desperately needed health care reform becomes just another power grab by the government on the road to socialism. The fact that every other First World country has a health care system much more expansive than the system being proposed, and none of them have yet to descend into a Stalinist hell is irrelevant.
Nah I think its more along the lines of this

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., ripped into the health-care bill developed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mt., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

The Baucus proposal would impose, starting in 2013, a 35 percent excise tax on insurance companies for "high-cost plans" -- defined as those above $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family plans.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/200...ucus-bill.html

Now I do believe Mr. Rockefeller is slightly left of Ayn Rand.
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