Give it a rest.

“A couple years ago” = Lucille Ball and Ricky Ricardo.

You mean “a couple OF years ago”.

When you finally figure out that you’re backing the jackass end of the party you might want to tell Axelrod.

So, Rob. If Obama is the jackass end of the party, you mind telling us who the frontal lobe of the party is?

i said, in rebuttal—who exactly is going to be writing the standards? ahh, the government, you answer, as if that solved the problem. but it doesn’t. you know why? because the standards are left to HHS to write, and that means they will be written by people influenced by the medical-industrial complex.

i don’t know whether you have actually looked at the bill, but i have. the relevant portion gives that power to the administration, to wit:
(b) ESSENTIAL HEALTH BENEFITS.— 5 (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2),

6 the Secretary shall define the essential health bene-
7 fits, except that such benefits shall include at least
8 the following general categories and the items and
9 services covered within the categories:
10 (A) Ambulatory patient services.
11 (B) Emergency services.
12 (C) Hospitalization.
13 (D) Maternity and newborn care.
14 (E) Mental health and substance use dis-
15 order services, including behavioral health treat-
16 ment.
17 (F) Prescription drugs.
18 (G) Rehabilitative and habilitative services
19 and devices.
20 (H) Laboratory services.
21 (I) Preventive and wellness services and
22 chronic disease management.
23 (J) Pediatric services, including oral and
24 vision care.

now, what you should notice about this is actually rather straightforward—there’s no content. so HHS under, say a GOP administration can simply rewrite all the content and thus change the rules.

if you dig into this at all, you find this flim-flammery everywhere.

If the Media truly did their research, objectively reported the news and remain professional, President Obama’s accomplishments would not go unnotice by them. They are many. One would think after 8 years of failure of Bush administration the media would find ways to highlight the positives of this administration. TARP money is being paid back with a profit, economy is getting better due to ARRA, legislation was signed to ensure equal pay for women, and decline in jobs is decreasing a little over a year in office.

If you listen to pundits as they try to up ratings, you would think President Obama and his administration have not accomplished anything.

One of the most successful first years of any administration and all we hear from the left and the right (who at times there isn’t an inch worth of difference in their criticism) is that we didn’t accomplish anything last year. Sigh

Terrific comment, Kay.

But John, all that happened was that Johnsen got out of committee. She got out of committee last year, and couldn’t get a vote. Nor could the committee move her in time to get her rushed through before Scott Brown could take his seat, because they had enough, I think. That nomination was put off twice.

Stupid country, stupid party, both don’t deserve Barack Obama.

Anyone who refers to the bill as a “gift of billions to the insurance industry” hasn’t read it. Simple as that.

It’s worse than that, peeved. These people have been told over, and over, and over about how many lives the Senate bill will save.

They don’t give a shit.

They’d rather masturbate to hysterical blog posts about the public option than actually see millions of lives saved.

ahh, and what standards would those be? and who would be writing them?

You mean the specific standards that are in the bill that slightly_peeved detailed in the post directly above yours? Where s/he spelled out the specific provisions that are in the bill to cover exactly what you claim to be concerned about?

I realize that you don’t want to hear anything that doesn’t conform to your pre-fab beliefs, but slightly_peeved told you the exact details and you’re still claiming that there are no details because, uh, shut up, that’s why.