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Caterpillar says health care bill would cost it 100M

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Acanthus said:
Err... because that is monstrous?

lol.

We aren't Somalia?
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How is it monstrous? If you can afford the care, you get it. If you can't afford it, you face fate naturally.

Remember, there are countries in the world who don't have access to this wonderful stuff. If they don't get care, is it monstrous? Should the US spend billions of dollars to ship doctors and equipment to these countries so they can get free health care? Same thing applies to people who can't afford it in the US.
 
Hacp said:
How is it monstrous? If you can afford the care, you get it. If you can't afford it, you face fate naturally.

Remember, there are countries in the world who don't have access to this wonderful stuff. If they don't get care, is it monstrous? Should the US spend billions of dollars to ship doctors and equipment to these countries so they can get free health care? Same thing applies to people who can't afford it in the US.
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We can afford to care for our population in a reasonable manner. We are already largely paying for it. This ensures that people that get cancer don't go bankrupt for surviving.

Feel free to join the rest of the first world anytime.
 
Aca said:
nthus;29556437]We can afford to care for our population in a reasonable manner. We are already largely paying for it. This ensures that people that get cancer don't go bankrupt for surviving.

Feel free to join the rest of the first world anytime.
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We can afford? We can't afford anything, our national debt is sky high.
 
Good. After paying employees and their insane executive pays, their profit should be 0.

Instead insurance can make 2.5 billion in profit like Wellpoint while increasing rates by 25-39 percent.

Health should not be a for profit business.
 
shadow9d9 said:
We were able to afford 3 trillion for 2 endless occupations while cutting taxes. This is cake in comparison!
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War is a tinker toy compared to the complexities of health care, but I suspect you know nothing about either.

BTW, show us where we paid 3 trillion? You have to use the same math as the Dems do for health care.
 
Hacp said:
We're finally going to bust the Unions?:awe:
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So the Unions are causing the deficit? More low paying jobs is the answer to raising the tax base and balancing the budget?

You and everyone who thinks like you are fucking idiots. 😛
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
War is a tinker toy compared to the complexities of health care, but I suspect you know nothing about either.

BTW, show us where we paid 3 trillion? You have to use the same math as the Dems do for health care.
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Killing 100,000 innocents and 20,000 americans is a tinker toy?

As for costs. We will be stuck in both countries for the next 20 years. Let's take a super conservative cost at 1 trillion dollars. That is if we left today. We are there indefinitely.

The conservative cost of 1 trillion if we left today is equal to the health bill over 10 years. Let's say the health bill was 2 trillion. It actually benefits 300 million americans who won't have pre-existing condition clauses, won't get kicked off their plan bogusly, keep their children on til 27, no lifetime limits, no annual limits, etc etc etc. Compare that to killing 100,000 more iraqis and 10,000 more americans at the cost of a second trillion dollars over the next 10 years of occupations.
 
Hacp said:
We're finally going to bust the Unions?:awe:
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Right after we bust the handful of executives that brought down their companies to make a handful of bucks while causing the US to lose millions of jobs and bring the entire world into a recession.

Close to what the evil unions did right?
 
shadow9d9 said:
Right after we bust the handful of executives that brought down their companies to make a handful of bucks while causing the US to lose millions of jobs and bring the entire world into a recession.

Close to what the evil unions did right?
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You're talking about the UAW bosses?
 
nobodyknows said:
Too many spoiled, overpaid assholes in this country who haven't been paying their fair share of taxes, but that will be changing soon. 😀
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Really? That's funny, because I thought Obama claimed our taxes would not go up. So either he is lying or you are full of shit. I'll take "All of the Above" for $1000, Alex.
 
Oh nos a multi-billion dollar a year company is out $100m for the betterment of its employees who make them that money. What ever shall they do. I mean 3.4b/year must suck compared to 3.5b/year. I really see no way for this company to survive.
 
soulcougher73 said:
Oh nos a multi-billion dollar a year company is out $100m for the betterment of its employees who make them that money. What ever shall they do. I mean 3.4b/year must suck compared to 3.5b/year. I really see no way for this company to survive.
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Where do you suppose they will make up that $100 million? They will get it back, believe me.
 
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