They might pass something just to make Obama look better, but I doubt very much if it will be what the House passed. And even then they had to pass it at 11 at night on a weekend and barely managed to get it done.

Up Against a Wall of Debt, Part II
Newsweek ^ | 11/6/09
Are the United States, Japan, Great Britain, and other first-world nations in danger of defaulting on their debt? In my latest NEWSWEEK column, I suggested that the unthinkable had become thinkable: some advanced society—say, the United States, Spain, Italy, Japan, or Great Britain—might someday default on its government debt. It wouldn’t pay its creditors all they were owed or wouldn’t pay them on time. Just a few days later, and completely coincidentally, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a report that, without saying so, added credence to this unsettling hypothesis.

Heck, I could probably have enough put back to have a $100,000 deductible policy.

It just burns me up when I hear people who spend $300 a month on pot complain that they can’t afford health insurance. As far as I am concerned, this notion that the community is responsible for providing for someone’s health care is nuts. If we are going to have to ration access to health care, I am in favor of rationing it this way: Those who work all their lives and put money back for their old age get the care they can afford. Same with those who sit around whining and blow all their money on drugs. They won’t be able to afford any so they won’t get any leaving more available to those who busted their rear ends all their lives.

I am just sick of the ticks that socialism breeds.

I hope and pray it can’t make it through the Senate, but the liberals will probably use the nuclear option which only needs 50 votes. Who will stand up to oppose it to pass it? It’s obvious that the liberals in charge of the Senate, House and the Presidency don’t care what we want. They want complete control of our lives and they are so close they can taste it.

I never thought I’d live to be in a socialist country but I never believed that the people in America could be fooled so easily.

I’d also like to ask how the government deciding what meets an “approved plan” definition allows for any competition? It doesn’t.

I think the Dem grand scheme is to force private insurance to comply and all become identical…..then through price controls they will force them all into bancruptcy…..leaving only the government option.

I think it is time to dust off “The Road to Serfdom” from the bookcase and read it again.