On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's damn amusing. You start by baselessly accusing Democrats of > trying to ruin healthcare device manufacturers by imposing an unfair > $20 billion excise tax on them. When I point out that those very > companies were involved in the negotiations and agreed to that $20 > billion you are now saying that it should have been $40 billion?
Not should have been, it was $40billion dollars starting this year. The deal was they cut it in half. The results: Big Pharma won't be phased, little pharma: bye-bye. Buy your way to play. Like a typical socialist you think they should be glad they're allowed to stay in business at all, that is if they survive. > Personally, I think that Pharma and the Medical Device manufacturers > got a pretty sweet deal out of the whole thing. I've long said that > Obama is a corpratist Democrat. He sought to bring them in early, > negotiate and lock their support in early. I'm glad that he is the > sort that does bring people to the table and negotiate, corporations > included, though I would have appreciated him driving a harder > bargain. I was right. > Obama is a centrist. A lot of the ideas in this bill came from > Republicans originally and the result is quite corporation friendly. BS and BS > That's the reality of Washington DC, they don't tend to do giant > reform in big chunks and especially without the help of their > corporate friends. If this bill had really been written by the left, > you would have seen debate about a Single Payer system and getting rid > of the Fee for Service model in healthcare. Instead, you got the > weakened left pushing for a weakened "public option" that they didn't > even achieve, an individual mandate that was proposed by Chuck > Grassley and excise tax deals done with Pharma and AMTA. Yet we're still bankrupt and for what? > It is a major victory that anything got done at all. The actual > contents of the deal? Meh, pretty middle of the road and very > incrementalist. Still, I'm quite happy that it got done. It is a > starting point. To you mediocre is a major victory and that's what this country will be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313793 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
