<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Don't fool yourselves into thinking this bill is going to do anything but force us to buy the same crappy insurance we have been enduring for the last two decades.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here is how the plan works;</DIV>
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<DIV>You keep buying your health insurance, but with a higher premium and lower benefits each year. If you fail to continue to pay the higher premiums with reduced benefits each year, the government will tax you twice as much.</DIV>
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<DIV>Also, you will pay a tax on your health insurance if it actually covers an illness or injury or something that could really happen to you.</DIV>
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<DIV>But the good news is, everyone will have health insurance maybe not health care, but certainly health insurance, and the insurance companies will be rich and buy off all your elected representatives to keep you paying all you have to them. </DIV>
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<DIV>Health insurance doesn't equal health care. </DIV>
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<DIV>Your Friend,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold <BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 12/22/09, Tom Hansen <I><thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What? Health Care<BR>To: "Andreas Schou" <ophite@gmail.com><BR>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com, "Kai <SPAN>Eiselein</SPAN>" <le-editor@moscow.com><BR>Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 11:45 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>And who could forget the infamous amendment proposed by Senator Orrin<BR>Hatch (R-UT) to "add transition relief for the excise tax on high cost<BR>insurance plans for any State with a name that begins with the letter 'U'"<BR><BR><A href="http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/health-care-amendments/" target=_blank>http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/health-care-amendments/</A><BR><BR>I wonder when this amendment will be up for debate.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>> Kai --<BR>><BR>> Actually, the Senate bill had an amendment -- I believe it was<BR>> sponsored by Coburn -- requiring that Senators receive their health<BR>> care through the same exchanges that private-market buyers will get<BR>> their health care through. It made it through into the final bill.<BR>><BR>> -- ACS<BR>><BR>><BR>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Kai Eiselein <<A
href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=le-editor@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:le-editor@moscow.com">le-editor@moscow.com</A>><BR>> wrote:<BR>>><BR>>> So . . . why can't we all get the same health care plan available to our<BR>>> congresspersons, senators, and BHO himself? Seriously. I really can't<BR>>> see<BR>>> why that is not THE option. Sounds like a sweet deal to me...<BR>>><BR>>> It's simple really, just read "Animal Farm".<BR>>> The pigs are in control.<BR>>> "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."<BR>>> =======================================================<BR>>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>>> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/"
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wind, the Optimist expects it to change<BR>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A> <BR> mailto:<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>=======================================================<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>