It's Because Congress Didn't Read The Fucking Bill Before Voting On It!!!

[jacksmar]

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus didn't read it and he was one of the chief authors. Mitch McConnell and John Conyers didn't read it but more importantly boy Dumbo didn't read it.

The was the quintessential monkey at the end of the organ grinder example of rubber stamp legislation and NOBODY wanted it.

[Seshmeister]

Too bad your mom didn't abort you then we wouldn't have to read your shit posts.

Move aside Voltaire, step back in the shadows H.L. Mencken, there's a new kid in town. One can only wonder how many hours Nitro sat in the glow of his computer screen before his trembling fingers sprang to life and pecked out this chef d'oeuvre.

[FORD]

I'm not aware of that time, when was it?

I know speaking to a friend that in Virginia in the early 90s the main insurer cancelled all speech therapy even for stroke victims leaving his kids with untreated stutters for 5 years until a class action could be won against them.

Trust me I'm really not envious of that.

And now the 5 BCE fascists on the Supreme Court have ensured even that can't happen anymore, with their pro Wal-Mart/anti class action travesty of a decision this week.

[FORD]

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus didn't read it and he was one of the chief authors. Mitch McConnell and John Conyers didn't read it but more importantly boy Dumbo didn't read it.

The was the quintessential monkey at the end of the organ grinder example of rubber stamp legislation and NOBODY wanted it.

See, this is why you teabagging mutants should listen to Thom Hartmann instead of Limpdick and FAUX.

If you did, you would know that Max Baucus (who no true Democrat would claim as one of our own) not only wrote the bulk of this shit bill, not only killed the good parts of the Ted Kennedy bill that was eventually merged with his shit bill to provide the final product, but also hypocritically wrote something into the bill which actually did a good thing for SOME of his own constituents in Libby Montana......

Baucus’ problem was caused by a vermiculite mine that had spread deadly airborne asbestos killing hundreds and sickening thousands in Libby and northwest Montana. The W. R. Grace Company that owned the mine denied its connection to the massive levels of mesothelioma and asbestosis and dodged responsibility for this environmental and health disaster. When all law suits and legal avenues failed, Baucus turned to our country’s single payer plan, Medicare.

The single payer plan that Baucus kept off the table is now very much on the table in Libby. Unknown to most of the public, Baucus inserted a section into the health reform bill that covers the suffering people of Libby, Montana, not just the former miners but the whole community—all covered by Medicare.

They don’t have to be 65 years old or more.
They don’t have to wait until 2014 for the state exchanges.
No ten year roll out—it’s immediate.
They don’t have to purchase a plan—this is not a buy-in to Medicare—it’s free.
They don’t have to be disabled for two years before they apply.
They don’t have to go without care for three years until Medicaid expands.
They don’t have to meet income tests.
They don’t have to apply for a subsidy.
They don’t have to pay a fine for failure to buy insurance.
They don’t have to hope that the market will make a plan affordable.
They don’t have to hide their pre-existing conditions.
They don’t have to find a job that provides coverage.

Baucus inserted a clause in the Affordable Care Act to make special arrangements for them in Medicare, and he didn’t wait for any Congressional Budget Office scoring to do it.

Less than two months after the passage of the health reform bill on March 23, 2010, Nancy Berryhill of the Social Security Administration in Denver joined personally in setting up an office in Libby to sign up these newly eligible people. “This is a new thing,” Berryhill told the Missoulian. “No other group like this has ever been selected to receive Medicare.” Berryhill issued a nationwide alert to inform anyone who had lived or stayed in Lincoln County of their eligibility. She opened a storefront in Libby at the old downtown city hall where she signed up 60 people on the first day. She plastered the towns of Whitefish and Eureka with pamphlets explaining the program and added three new staffers to the office in Kalispell.

Link

Baucus actually did the right thing for the people of Libby, while doing the WRONG thing for the rest of us. Medicare for all. It really is that simple, and Max damn well knew it......