Sorry about the typos.

Apparently our Senators can't be bothered to write a new bill -- they merely borrowed provisions from completely unrelated legislation that they think will tempt the holdouts to vote in favor.

Heck, it's only $700,000,000,000 of our money, right? And probably they had fund-raisers on their calendars loooooooong before this pesky financial crisis arose.

Will John McCain apply for this?

Doubtful JoeLabey. You have to ACKNOWLEDGE that You have a problem before You can seek a cure for it or some help. John McCain is too arrogant for that to happen.

Larry

Just what in hell does a financial bail out have to do with mental health?

adding such riders has been something that we the people have been trying to eliminate since forever. The biggest and most important bill (for sooo many reasons) to come along in years has a totally unassociated add on. (one or?) This is back to politics at it's worst. At a time when politicians(sorry) are under close scrutiny, they come out with a blatant example of what the people of this country want eliminated.

If this bill is right, then no such riders should be needed to "help" it pass. Which of course brings to mind a question, "What is so wrong with this second "quicky" bill that it requires the add ons to make it pass?

We as voting citizens need to examine very carefully what they pass because it is our asses on the line. Our economic future for untold years may ride on a bill that was written nearly overnight. Can we trust such a quick cure or be suspicious as hell? Is there something that has been over looked that will prove to be a serious detriment to us?

Has anyone seen any kind of a copy or anything before our future us sold?

It does, however, require health insurance companies to cover mental illness at parity with physical illness.

Do these people realize how expensive it will be to have them all commited??????

All You gotta do is place them on some deserted Island and fence the whole thing off.

Larry

LARRYMOHR-If you have time before leaving for the island, give a mailing address were some thoughtful person might send basket weaving material. OK then, maybe a card or two. No computers for you there so it will be face to ____ with you wit and reparte'.

All for a lack of health insurance. Pity!

"What is so wrong with this second "quicky" bill that it requires the add ons to make it pass?

#4 | Posted by keith204

There isn't a second quickie bill. This is the same bill, with add-ons they think will be enough to get the 12 Repub holdouts on board.

PHOENIX-If it sucked then, it still sucks. Passing such a huge bill just because a few bones were thrown to some Legislatures is very wrong. This frigging this is bigger than the military bill. All to save a system screwed up by the very people that will profit from this save.

How about a salary cap on all banking or securities type people. No more 100 million dollar pay outs to one man. For that matter, employees under the CEO and others, should have their stipend reviewed.

Mental health parity is not the rider. 700 Bn is the rider. Joke is on us and our Constitution that requires all revenue based bills to pass the House first. Senatorial lawyers determined that they can get around this Constitutional requirement by revising a previously passed House Resolution (H.R. 1424) that dealt primarily with mental health parity. We elected creative crooks rather than leaders.