Comments on: A Note to Tea Partiers: Before You Judge a Totalitarian Regime, You Should Walk a Mile in One http://www.liberadio.com/2010/02/05/a-note-to-tea-partiers-before-you-judge-a-totalitarian-regime-you-should-walk-a-mile-in-one/ with Mary Mancini & Freddie O'Connell Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mary Mancini http://www.liberadio.com/2010/02/05/a-note-to-tea-partiers-before-you-judge-a-totalitarian-regime-you-should-walk-a-mile-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-181471 Mary Mancini Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:14:30 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/2010/02/05/a-note-to-tea-partiers-before-you-judge-a-totalitarian-regime-you-should-walk-a-mile-in-one/#comment-181471 Not to mention that we allowed the market to come up with solutions for many years and those solutions are simply not working for everyone - esp. those, as Dean mentions, who lost their homes, savings, and access to the American Dream because of the cost of health care. Not to mention that we allowed the market to come up with solutions for many years and those solutions are simply not working for everyone – esp. those, as Dean mentions, who lost their homes, savings, and access to the American Dream because of the cost of health care.

]]> By: Dean http://www.liberadio.com/2010/02/05/a-note-to-tea-partiers-before-you-judge-a-totalitarian-regime-you-should-walk-a-mile-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-181442 Dean Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:01:26 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/2010/02/05/a-note-to-tea-partiers-before-you-judge-a-totalitarian-regime-you-should-walk-a-mile-in-one/#comment-181442 But the public option wouldn't take away any decision-making from the individual. Opponents of the public option would love for people to think it would take away individual choices, but it simply isn't true. When you ask these opponents for specifics on how individual decision-making would be adversely affected, they can't come up with a single example. Non-specific calls for innovation and "market-based solutions" have no relevance to people who face bankruptcy because of a major illness. The greatest myth going out there is that Republicans agree health reform is needed. They had their chance to reform the system, and they ignored it. They chose to persue a "market-based solution." And it hasn't come close to working. P.S. I went to high school with someone named "Alan Self." Did you go to a small HS in Nashville? But the public option wouldn’t take away any decision-making from the individual. Opponents of the public option would love for people to think it would take away individual choices, but it simply isn’t true. When you ask these opponents for specifics on how individual decision-making would be adversely affected, they can’t come up with a single example.

Non-specific calls for innovation and “market-based solutions” have no relevance to people who face bankruptcy because of a major illness.

The greatest myth going out there is that Republicans agree health reform is needed. They had their chance to reform the system, and they ignored it. They chose to persue a “market-based solution.” And it hasn’t come close to working.

P.S. I went to high school with someone named “Alan Self.” Did you go to a small HS in Nashville?

]]> By: Alan Self http://www.liberadio.com/2010/02/05/a-note-to-tea-partiers-before-you-judge-a-totalitarian-regime-you-should-walk-a-mile-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-181409 Alan Self Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:05:00 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/2010/02/05/a-note-to-tea-partiers-before-you-judge-a-totalitarian-regime-you-should-walk-a-mile-in-one/#comment-181409 No one disputes health reform is needed. It is simply a matter of wanting control, decision-making, and liberty and freedom in the hands of the people, not Washington and the burueacrats. Let the people be free to innovate and produce and our market-based solutions will take care of these problems. No one disputes health reform is needed. It is simply a matter of wanting control, decision-making, and liberty and freedom in the hands of the people, not Washington and the burueacrats. Let the people be free to innovate and produce and our market-based solutions will take care of these problems.

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