Question about the health care bill

[Snaploud]

The internal medical response assets listed in the HHS pandemic plan are the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the healthcare provision deals specifically with expanding the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps of which the Surgeon General is a member. I would therefore say that the healthcare reform provision is very much in line with the pandemic plan.

http://www.hhs.gov/pandemicflu/plan/pdf/AppA.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeon_General_of_the_United_States

Edit: The provision simply creates a Reserve for the Service force that already exists. The Reserve would be used in case of emergency as outlined by the HHS pandemic plan.

 

[Gertch]

Yeah, it couldn't be because Republican leaders, special interest groups, and teabaggers put pressure on her to toe the party line.

When has that worked with her before?

 

[Snaploud]

Yeah, it couldn't be because Republican leaders, special interest groups, and teabaggers put pressure on her to toe the party line.

When has that worked with her before?

Obviously, I'm not privy to the inner workings of her mind, but moderate Republican Senators have started criticizing their leaders for forcing them not to work with Democrats on the healthcare reform bill.

Edit: I just looked it up. Apparently, Corker was complaining about leadership forcing moderates not to engage with Democrats on bank reform, though I'm sure the same tactics were used in healthcare reform.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/bob-corker-republican-on_n_512600.html

 

[RJDiogenes]

This is why we need election reform: To reduce or eliminate the power of political parties.

 

[Gertch]

Yeah, it couldn't be because Republican leaders, special interest groups, and teabaggers put pressure on her to toe the party line.

When has that worked with her before?

Obviously, I'm not privy to the inner workings of her mind, but moderate Republican Senators have started criticizing their leaders for forcing them not to work with Democrats on the healthcare reform bill.

Edit: I just looked it up. Apparently, Corker was complaining about leadership forcing moderates not to engage with Democrats on bank reform, though I'm sure the same tactics were used in healthcare reform.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/bob-corker-republican-on_n_512600.html

Huffington Post?

We can't be sure of anything of the sort. The only tactics we can be sure of is the well reported ones of the Democrats. Louisiana purchase and Nebraska kickback was the most glaring examples.

RJD, I don't think we need much election reform. I think we need voter reform. We need smarter more involved voters. I'm happy to say we are making progress on that out here in central Mass.

 

[Amaris]

Huffington Post?

We can't be sure of anything of the sort. The only tactics we can be sure of is the well reported ones of the Democrats. Louisiana purchase and Nebraska kickback was the most glaring examples.

RJD, I don't think we need much election reform. I think we need voter reform. We need smarter more involved voters. I'm happy to say we are making progress on that out here in central Mass.

Smarter voters would mean drastically fewer supporters of Sarah Palin and the Tea Parties. There would be significant reductions in support of either the Democrats or Republicans. The Democrats would have to justify more spending, and the Republicans would actually have to represent smaller government. Neither party would want this to happen.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Smart voters for Gertch means this I guess. But then, Gertch seems to equate the recent health care reform bill in the US with Hitler's enabling bill also, so he probably agrees with these things.

 

[RJDiogenes]

RJD, I don't think we need much election reform. I think we need voter reform. We need smarter more involved voters. I'm happy to say we are making progress on that out here in central Mass.

I doubt if you really want that, since intellectuals and the well educated more often side with the Left. The Right gets its powerbase from the rich on one end of the spectrum and the religious on the other.

As long as we have a system that forces people to choose mainly from the clowns on the Left and the jokers on the Right, we'll have what we have now: Low Voter turnout and increasing extremism.

 

[sidious618]

I'd love it if we could get an actual liberal party as opposed to the watered down one we have now. I'm not getting my hopes up, though.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Exactly. Liberal as in the English definition, not the Political definition.

 

[John Picard]

Not *directly related* to the Health Care Bill, but rather evidence that many of our elected (so-called) leaders are complete nimrods.