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[vovat]

• 12:20 @Clamanity Is anyone NOT mad at NBC at this point? Aside from Leno, of course. #
• 12:22 @Clamanity Is she the one with the dyed-red hair? I could never remember her name, so I just called her "Rockabilly." #
• 15:36 Why is it that, when you have to work, everything else suddenly seems more fun? #
• 16:08 New Jersey news in a nutshell: Governor Christie is cutting funding for everything. Except his own salary. #
• 17:35 Ah, apparently the mandate for everyone to buy health care is still in the bill. Just what unemployed people need! #
• 17:40 How does this lady know "The Lion King" transcends the ages? It's only 15 years old, and that's hardly an age. #
• 17:42 Looks like Selena Gomez isn't going to the prom with some kid who made a YouTube video. Maybe he should try for Lindsay Lohan instead. #
• 17:45 @ziggafoss @3x1minus1 Billy is the Jesus of infomercials. And the ShamWow guy is Judas Iscariot. #
• 17:46 I still think @therealtavie needs to make her Jesus costume party a reality. #
• 17:50 @ziggafoss What? You're listening to a window clean
  er? #
• 17:54 @ohhijordan In my own experience, either Final Fantasy or Famous Forty. #
• 17:59 @amandapalmer twitpic.com/1afruu - They have hipsters in England too? Maybe I don't want to go there after all. #
• 18:04 @poisonyoulove Hey, you're not supposed to remember that! This is the Nation of the Short Attention Span. #
• 19:53 @TheRealTavie Ugly and comfy? Are they like Rain Crocs? #
• <
  em>19:57 @colleenanne Do you want another cat as a present? #
• 21:10 I wish I could read and drive at the same time. (Don't worry. I'm not actually going to try it.) #
• 22:23 @NowIsStrange @therealtavie I'll be Raptor Jesus! cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/19196/original/raptor-jesus.jpg #
• 22:26 @JaredofMo I thought the American Dream was where you had a term paper due today and hadn't started it. #
• 22:53 Did President Truman come up with a health care bill? If so, d
  id people call it "Harry Care"? #

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Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I think there's a subsidy in the health care bill to help out people who are without jobs in paying for their insurance. At least, I hope so .... a lot of stuff got taken out of and put into that bill at the last minute.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

There might well be, but I've been in situations before where I was employed but not provided with health insurance, and it was much cheaper for me not to have it.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I suspect Obama will lose some support when healthy young people realize the law now requires them to be insured or face federal charges ...

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Especially when he said he wouldn't during his campaign, and as far as I know has yet to explain what's changed.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I suspect what changed is that his numbers people told him he couldn't fund the program without an influx of money from people who wouldn't actually be using it.

In his defense, I've heard for years that every new President is hit hard by the realities of governing when he gets those first few briefings -- things the average American has no idea about.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why I can't blame Obama too much for not making good on all the change he promised. He was only elected President, after all, not Absolute Monarch. And I think he's good at being the public face of the nation, which is a large part of what the President actually DOES do.

That said, I don't know that anyone outside the insurance industry supports the mandate. Then again, the insurance industry has a lot of power in the government. Maybe Obama could only get them to make another concession if he threw in the mandate.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Politics is the art of compromise ...