Comments on: GOP’s New Attack on Health Care Reform Bill: It Promotes Walking! http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/16/gops-new-attack-on-health-care-reform-bill-it-promotes-walking/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: marcos http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/16/gops-new-attack-on-health-care-reform-bill-it-promotes-walking/comment-page-1/#comment-6338 marcos Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:25 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2435#comment-6338 Limbaugh is also making the case that the healthy put more of a drain on the health care system than the HFCS obsed couch potatoes, as we tend to seek more care for wear and tear issues. Of course, vital system failure, such as circulatory, respiratory or nervous brought on by unhealthy life choices dwarfs any amount of joint MRIs we might consume. The GOP is all about choice, so long as you get to choose between corporate offerings for all of your "needs," real and fabricated. -marc Limbaugh is also making the case that the healthy put more of a drain on the health care system than the HFCS obsed couch potatoes, as we tend to seek more care for wear and tear issues. Of course, vital system failure, such as circulatory, respiratory or nervous brought on by unhealthy life choices dwarfs any amount of joint MRIs we might consume.

The GOP is all about choice, so long as you get to choose between corporate offerings for all of your “needs,” real and fabricated.

-marc

]]> By: geoff http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/16/gops-new-attack-on-health-care-reform-bill-it-promotes-walking/comment-page-1/#comment-6336 geoff Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:12:09 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2435#comment-6336 McConnell sounds like the ambulance driver at the bottom of the cliff who was too busy picking up the injured at the bottom to go up and fix the missing guard rail that people kept driving through. McConnell sounds like the ambulance driver at the bottom of the cliff who was too busy picking up the injured at the bottom to go up and fix the missing guard rail that people kept driving through.

]]> By: Jamison Wieser http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/16/gops-new-attack-on-health-care-reform-bill-it-promotes-walking/comment-page-1/#comment-6324 Jamison Wieser Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:44:33 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2435#comment-6324 Reforms that are good for Americans and "the reforms they have in mind" don't have to be the same, and given the fact "Americans are buried under medical bills and frightened about losing the coverage they have" I'm not very impressed with our track record. So Senator McConnell agrees the goal is to use tax dollars to encourage Americans to be healthier, and we've got a government program which has already proven to support that goal, the only government boogeymen I see is are a couple of Republican senators trying to confuse the facts to scare Americans out of doing what's in their own best interest. I think I've found some waste, fraud, and abuse. Reforms that are good for Americans and “the reforms they have in mind” don’t have to be the same, and given the fact “Americans are buried under medical bills and frightened about losing the coverage they have” I’m not very impressed with our track record.

So Senator McConnell agrees the goal is to use tax dollars to encourage Americans to be healthier, and we’ve got a government program which has already proven to support that goal, the only government boogeymen I see is are a couple of Republican senators trying to confuse the facts to scare Americans out of doing what’s in their own best interest. I think I’ve found some waste, fraud, and abuse.

]]> By: mikesonn http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/16/gops-new-attack-on-health-care-reform-bill-it-promotes-walking/comment-page-1/#comment-6323 mikesonn Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:51:18 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2435#comment-6323 Why aren't "farmers markets and sidewalks" the reforms they had in mind? I know my republican parents would love to live in a more walkable community. My mom talks about how she use to grow up in the same Midwest town and was able to run to the corner store to get milk and eggs. Now she has to drive everywhere to get anything, how is that good for the country (or their health) Mr. GOP? Why aren’t “farmers markets and sidewalks” the reforms they had in mind? I know my republican parents would love to live in a more walkable community. My mom talks about how she use to grow up in the same Midwest town and was able to run to the corner store to get milk and eggs. Now she has to drive everywhere to get anything, how is that good for the country (or their health) Mr. GOP?

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