2009/12/16
Howard Dean on the Senate health care bill: “This is an insurance company’s dream. This is the Washington scramble, and it’s a shame. … You will be forced to buy insurance. If you don’t, you’ll pay a fine.”
Jean-François Revel (Last Exit to Utopia): “Some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or — much more mysteriously — to submit to it.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “Can I sit up here or stand here with a straight face and say, ‘We have got strong cost-containment provisions in this legislation?’ That if you’re an ordinary person who has employer-based health care, that your premiums are not going to go up in the next eight years based on what’s in this bill?’ I can’t say that. It’s just not accurate.”
Marc Siegel, M.D. (USA Today): “How long will it be before a federal guideline emerges about the age when hearing aids are no longer beneficial? Or when knee replacements for the elderly aren’t worth the cost and effort?”
Is Howard Dean coming over to our side? Or is he just ranting?
Great quote by Bernie Sanders. What complete honesty.
I think Revel has it right. A lot of people are addicted to tyranny. And they are disproportionately located in Washington DC.
Dean was on Morning Joe this morning. He really does want to kill the Senate bill.
Neil is right. They are all over the place in Washington.