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Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House
theodp writes "A hastily-crafted amendment imposing tough new restrictions on abortion coverage in insurance policies helped pave the way for the House to approve the Democrats' bill to overhaul the nation's health insurance system. 'It provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans,' said Rep. John Dingell. Rep. Candice Miller disagreed, calling the legislation 'a jobs-killing, tax-hiking, deficit-exploding' bill. The 1,990-page, $1.2 trillion legislation passed by a vote of 220-215 and moves on for Senate debate, which is expected to begin in several days."
Update — 11/08 at 13:45 GMT by SS: Changed vote totals above to reflect the actual bill vote. The 240-194 number was for the abortion restrictions amendment.
Glad I dont live in the land of the free. Article from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8345341.stm
Try this one: Why should someone who doesn't have a job, and hence can't produce anything for society, not be given a job that will lead to them being a productive member of society?
Ummm...a syntactically correct question doesn't constitute a useful argument, no matter how well intentioned it may be. Instead of just floating the question, try to answer it, critically, in the context of a world with limited resources and many other important competing needs.
There's one big pie to be divided into pieces here, and it's not big enough to cover all our needs. So unless you're willing to cut somewhere to fund your aspirations, I'll consider you to be just one more voice from the MORE!-MORE!-MORE! crowd.
I regret how quickly we are moving toward the day when we will find that it really isn't as simple as printing more money. And you wonder where bubbles come from?