What a fucking bonehead. How can someone be so intellectually dishonest? He knows that isn't true, or would if he cared to find out. I find myself wishing awful stuff on this guy, because he's directly responsible for so much human suffering.

MediCare is a government plan. It has saved my mother's several times over, and provided her with excellent cardiac care. The VA was unable to save my father from cancer because he was too far gone when they got involved, but having access to the VA hospital as a WWII vet, saved us from being financially wiped out during his illness. Count me as thrilled if a reform bill passes with the Public Option.

Does this guy think that we don't have access to information from around the world? People from around the globe post on this blog.And this moron's bullshit isn't going to get much traction around here. It's no wonder the Republicans become more irrelevant every day.

I have Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance. In the past month, I've had a prescription and physical therapy denied. Now what was that McConnell said about a public option?????

McConnell is simply parroting the Frank Luntz framing of health care reform as "government run healthcare." I'd take the British system over ours in a heartbeat. I hope this issue k1lls McConnell's political career.

I mean, besides the fact that this guy is fear-mongering... he doesn't even know the truth...

when he says "sort of British-style, single-payer, government-run system" he is missing the simple fact that Britain doesn't have a single-payer system. It is a single-provider. Germany has a single-payer system and it works quite well, and it gives everyone in the country for the same cost we pay just to provide Medicaid and Medicare... let alone the fact that those of us that are lucky enough get to also pay for health premiums and our employer picks up a part of the tab... AND 40M+ Americans are still without health care.

Ok, I rambled... short story... this guy is a dishonest ass-clown.

If he'd spend some time outside the DC bubble that he lives in, if he actually cared a fig about people who aren't part of his circle, he'd know that the system we have NOW involved delays, denials of care, and denials of unapproved medication.

But hey, even if I thought we'd only get the same outcome, if we could get it for a billion dollars a year less, it would still be worth it.

Being a Dual National and having spent 20+ years in the US Navy, I know who has the best health care system and it sure as hell isn't the United States... I immigrated to Tahiti in the mid 70's and have had both US Medicare through the VA Hospital and French CPS and even though the VA Medicare is good, French Socialized Medicine is second to none in the world today. I will gladly take French Medical Aid over anything the USA has today and will come out the healthier and it will cost me NOTHING.....

McConnell is another lying dog shit eating republican and should be taken out and horsewhipped every step of the way back to the hayseed state the effing pig comes from. Gawd Damn, I despise the Reich wing with every fiber in my body....

Just this old Chief's Opinion, I have been an American, and find being a Frenchman is better.......

I apologize for the double post guys, liars have this weird effect on me.

Medicaid, the program for the poor now, states can opt-out of that, but none of them have.

Why is that, Mitch? Maybe because the people you represent WANT IT! If we get a public option and none of the states opt out, why would that be? Because the people you represent WANT IT! Oh, the horror! Giving people what they want (and desperately need).

BTW, I'll take this as an admission by the Senate Minority Leader that the GOP's official position is that Medicaid should be canceled and the poor should be left to die. "Compassionate conservatism" at work.

I think if you have any kind of government insurance program you're going to be stuck with it and it will lead us in the direction of the European style, you know, sort of British-style, single-payer, government run system.

If I drive my car to work, I'm going to get stuck with having a drive an 18-wheeler hauling cargo for a living. Mitch, you're "logic" is a perfect case of "if A, then Z". BTW, if that's true, why didn't Medicare wipe out all private geriatric medical services, and make them all government run?

And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and you know, if your particular malady doesn't fit the government regulation you don't get the medication.

He's the leading Senator for the GOP, and he doesn't even know that these problems are common in the U.S.? Why is anybody listening to him on this topic? He's proven himself either ignorant or a liar. Either way, he gets no seat at the table.

It hurts to see the amount of stupid that the GOP contains today.

What else will the GOP tell us can kill -- eating your vegetables, drinking plenty of fluids, getting a good night's rest?

In other news, down is up, cold is hot, and gravity is upside down. Welcome to Opposite Land, where the GOP is actually popular and full of ideas on how to restore America!

Mitch's face may kill you. You could die laughing. (Not that its his fault and one shouldn't make fun of those less fortunate, of course.)

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