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  • I know there were several bill floated with regard to healthcare so could someone tell me the specific name of the bill being discussed? Thank you

  • 38,ooo views??...this is the reson why ppl are lost, this is propagandA, but good overall

  • This is going to be a real problem when we see that no one is going to want to go through Medical school and then practice within this system. Doctor will be getting out of school with huge student loans and huge debt and will live life less comfortably than a union employee cleaning toilets at a local school. I am not saying there is anything wrong with being a janitor, I just think a Doctor is a more skilled profession and should be compensated as such and government should not get in the way

  • THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS THUMBS UP!!

  • Obama said on the campaign trail...."I have not said I was a single payer supporter". Look it up.

  • 1.39.20... yes u r sir....whether they like it or not...u r the president....

  • who created those debts 3 trillions (1980-1992) and 4 trillions (2000-2008)? the republicans talk nonsense...where were they when they took charge of congress and presidency during those years... hypocrite....

  • Obama lies about the facts again. The insurance companies president for sure. Not going to help anyone but his income and the insurance companies that make prices so high from the start. Dogs get better prices than we do because they dont have insurance. companies cant over price there care.

  • Republicans do not have a better plan, they're only wish is to be in the majority in November!!

  • Shouldn't health care be run like the school system? The ones who can afford the better treatment go to private establishments. The ones who can't afford the best, but want/need decent service, can go to public establishments. Also, it's the law that kids must attend school right? So why shouldn't it be law that one must have health care? They're both services, not businesses, right?

  • @th3gtr No, heathcare is a business because the Hospitals are privately owned. In your example of schools, the town or state government pay to build the school and pay all the teachers and administrators. In healthcare the Hospital are privately owned and the hospitals pay the employees not the government. That makes heathcare a business. 

  • @frankiegmh That doesn't sound too good. So the people who own hospitals are more interested in profits than the general health of people?

  • Yes that is unfortunate fact of life. Many people become doctor because they want to help people, but even more do it for financial reasons. If we start making it hard to earn a high salary as a Doctor we will start seeing less highly intelligent individuals go into that field. Who want to go through 8 years of college be deep in debt with 500K & up student loans to make less than mid level Manager in most companies? Why go through it, Doctors will be broke. The loans will be to high to pay back

  • The worst part about it is it wasn't always like that. There were a lot of charity run hospitals. Example: the Shiner's hospital were they treat child burn victims takes care of kids who families can not pay for treatment. Doctors use to make a house call and getting sick was not a reason to take out a loan. Now there are a lot of reasons for the fast increase but you can't deny that because we don't pay out pay pocket we are not motivated to shop around or ask why so expensive for one aspirin?

  • The money spent on a wars in the middle east= 3 trillion

    Money spent to help Americans = 1 trillion

    The amount it will take for the GOP to stop lying = Priceless.

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  • Obama slaps everyone's back twice with his left hand... lol i don't think he realized that he was doing that. ooopppsss he didn't do it to John McCain

  • People are forced right now to pay car insurance. freckin socialist!!

  • @crissy055 are you from tea parters?

  • No REALITY CHECK HUN. George Bush was.  His buddies got a bail out that was totally socialist.

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  • I have some "Christmas Ornaments" of obama...can someone tell me that Best way to hang them from a Tree ??

  • @GlockMod23 murder? seriously? why not just try and vote him out in a few years? you do realize that our country has had civil war before, right? do you think it would be good for the country to return to that kind of unrest? isn't the peaceful exchange of power part of the reason people like america?

  • @GlockMod23 why not murder babies and killing towns in "gods name" also?

  • my view on health care is it should be a service rather than a privilage.see a crime, call the police.see a fire, call the fire department.sick, call a doctor. now i do believe if i pay more than you i should get better coverage than you. if my tax money is going to help. you should first help yourself. i dont want my tax money to help pay for a bypass for a competative eater or a wanna be sumo wrestler

  • I hear what Democrats are fighting for in this bill. I like some of it and I don't care for some of it.

    What I cannot seem to find is what Republicans want in a healthcare bill other than tort reform.

    Why can't one person say "you have a few ideas that we like A, B, and C. we do not like E, and F and we would also like G and H, and if you do that we can pass a bill together."

    "Let's scrap this 2,700 page bill and go step by step" is politics not leadership and now we all pay the price.

  • @blkunity2 its called the republican agenda. they know that there ganna lose the debate and lost and they tired everything they could to stall it. its called being an ass. Ie donkey.... get it? republicans are asses and adding stupid things in the healthcare bill that they asked for and got but they still said no. they just thought about winning and didnt care for anybody but themselves. thats why the political cartoon portrayed them as an ass. donkey.

  • @blkunity2 If you want to see the true alternative look into Ron Paul.

  • Close to 1.5 million raised already on firenancypelosi(dot)com

  • I don't know about this Healthcare thing, all I know is that most people did not want this, so It's bullshit that it past. These guys are gonna start another American Revolution the way they are going. I hope we are wrong and it turns out to be a good bill.... I think forcing people to buy insurance and forcing smaller businesses to provide insurance(which will result in more lost jobs) is Communist........

  • actually, most people want it. the problem is that nutty tea partyers or conservatives don't consider the wishes of the majority to be relevant.

  • most people don't want to take from those who have it and give to themselves and others who don't.. that is called theft no matter which way you slice it..

  • when i say "most people want it," i'm referring to the health care bill, not physical goods.

  • Obamanation is here

  • To all those who pull out statistics and say how we all need to have health insurance and it's okay cause obamas right and it's not socialistic thank you, thank you for proving to me why are governments so fucked up. It's cause dumb ass's like you vote them in office. Here's something to think about next time you go to vote, will this man follow the constitution? Does he realize what he is doing? Does he have experience!

  • Hey forks of nair, until you actually learn what is going on and understand shut the hell up, and maybe just maybe you should learn to click that little thing called spell check or did education stop short for you?

    And euro-American, it is from my understanding that you believe your healthcare and your currency is stable and not corrupted?

  • lol nobama 2012

  • no g.o.p. 2012 OR EVER

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  • who will want to be a doctor with such low pay no one is that selfless so wake up cause if decide to accept health care for all we are going to start to need to accept the fact that one day we are gonna wake up and describe to our grandchildren how america used to be free. cause with each day obama buttfucks

    A) the middle class

    B) doctors

    C) the rest of america

    the more our government becomes unconsitutional! NO FREEDOM OBAMA NEEDS TO IMPEACHED

  • Im sorry to say but I must disagree. I'm a European-American and I tell you that your American health care facts are embarrassing.

    I pay around 90 Euro per month for health care and get complete cover no matter what or if I had a preexisting condition or whatsoever. Any sort of operation is included, home accidents, work accidents and so on. If Obama is talking about Reform he is referring to our working health care system and to your not working corrupt health care system.

  • probably J D Joshie, the ones who sworeto uphold the hippocratic not the hypocritical oath.THE G.O.P. NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED

  • government isnt suppose to be putting their hands in this like they are once this is comp passed doctors pay will be cut!

  • and when are you gonna realize cjonyx that its not about how obama is fuckin black he could be a damn chinese white with an afro, the fact is his healthcare "plan" is socialistic where is freedom of choice in his healthcare for all?

  • @JDJoshie

    Though I am not a fan of Obama. I find it hard to believe that alot of peoples dislike is because of his policies.

    I didn't see the hatefule speech when Bush was signing into laws with not approval of congress the North American Union. Which keeps the borders open.

    When he put into law that anyone can get taken off the streets with no trial or lawyer and be held for life. Wire taping phone calls.

    Don't blame this just on Obama. It is the Gov. as a whole. They all work together!!

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  • GOOD,GOOD,GOOD for america

  • your dumb obam is churning us into a communist country....i have the best governement teacher ever(alittle carzy and a dick) he knows is stuff and he has tought me well that obama sucks and this is bad....health care=no jobs, higher taxes, and a communistic country

  • Last night, Democrats passed ObamaCare by a vote of 219-to-212. The most bi-partisan aspect of the bill was the opposition to it. Republicans voted unanimously against it and they were joined by 34 Democrats. This bill raises taxes by more than $500 billion. It imposes new taxes on investments and new fines on businesses. It imposes unconstitutional mandates on Americans and funds abortion. And the Democrats own it entirely. This is what happens when liberals get power.

  • obama is not even a legal citison he shoul b impeached

  • What makes you say he is not a legal citizen?

  • @jimmyz45t this is highly ignorant of you to say...go back and study ur civics and economics. you have to be a citZEn of the united states to be president. and again, Obama won the election by a landslide running a campaign on Universal Health Care Reform...i dont see why everyones mad

  • If I have pre-exist medical condition, My choise is:

    A) the best healthcare the world can offer?

    B) Govt. DMV like-treatment healthcare.

    C) Bill that subsidized my insurance so that I can select A or B.

    D) Stimulus plan will creating 4 millions Govt. jobs from healthcare bill so that 10% unemployment will be 7% . Thus, job creations. People with paychecks (big or small) pay for their salaries.

    E) jail people for not paying tax and why not healthcare?

    F) Fart constipation,lol

  • In Europe, France, Germany, Spain, etc. have a medical system that covers every citizen, why not in the US? it's a whealthy country. This strengh the economy, nobody wants employees and customers concentrated in most basic needs. Regards from Peru.

  • I swear to god, when are u idoits are gonna wake up and realize that your right-wing racist bullshit does not represent what REAL AMERICANS think. Yes i'll say it your still pissed of that a BLACKMAN was elected president and you fell that you're losing your soposebly country. Well this isn't just "your" country", and all those fear-tactic codewords you use isn't gonna work. Let's remember, it is poeple like "YOU" that have brought this country to ruin becuse u wanted it all yourselves F U !!!

  • On utube:

    ObamaCare Yay Or Nay? The Truth About Canada!

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  • Another Utube video on Health Care:

    Health Care Reform Bill is Eugenics and will rid the USA of poor people

  • These piece of shit Democrats need to go down!! The majority of Americans dont want socialized medicine, yet these idiots keep trying to push it.I think its time to start barracading our homes, and buy as many weapons as possible.

  • Didn't Obama run on this? If the majority of Americans don't want socialized medicine why did they vote for him?

  • i voted for him. actually, national health care was one of the reasons why i supported the man. i am VERY pleased with my decision and extremely happy today!

  • @abovefilms thank you! a supporter...so much hate going around, its good to see someone stick by their president!

  • @peapodsss

    it's not socialized medicine...

    and also, people voted for Obama because the alternative was McCain...

  • New: The Bismarck Bribe

    Dealmaking for Obambicare votes can involve matters either inside or outside the bill. The unveiling of the reconciliation bill today closes the window on the former, but not before one last outrage was performed:

    A new element, included in the plan issued on Thursday, would give a specific right to the Bank of N Dakota to issue federally subsidized student loans, meaning, it would be the only lender remaining outside of the Education Depts direct-lending system.

  • How about clunker for college tuition? Too many speeches. Empty promises. We got it.

  • Who I am is not important, but I can tell you where to search for more death panel cases. Look at the hospice program. Follow the trails of how people got on the lists. The journey they took. The stress and frustration of dealing with bureaucracy. The delay of services month after months. IF you have cancer the last thing you want to hear is Im sorry; Ill call you when I get to your case, in 6 months? Time vs Cancer, cancer wins. Bureaucracy = No accountability! Your health. Your choice!

  • Death panel?

    Too old to marry, too young to bury. This statement was made by a dying grandmother. She applied for govt. healthcare in Feb 09. Her case got delayed until Dec 09. She received hospice care in Dec 09 and suddenly her govt. healthcare got approved. You see, its cheaper to pay for hospice care than to pay for treatments of cancer. Furthermore once she received hospice care, all other treatment halted.

    Govt. rationing + delay service = silence killer

  • Yes to health care for all. No to run by the Government!! Government treats people like animals. Check the D M V!!

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  • yesilike101

    Amen. 10% is not the real number. Construction is around 23%. Industrial work around 17%.But, obuma has created several thousand government and state jobs, those of us in the buisness world call this overhead, you know, meaning you create jobs that bring in $0.00 revenue, and in this case the "overhead" is paid for by...you got it, tax payers. obuma if you quit now and take,biden,poolushi, and reid with you, we may have a chance.

  • Wake up people!! This is not about healthcare but it is about control. Obuma and his radicals are just pawns in the hands of the few people that actually steer this world. It's over folks

  • Man Obama needs to stop. Why cant he just start over? He wants to use my money to buy abortions, he's going to make business owners buy there employees healthcare even if they go bankrupt and if they don't they will get a fee, illegals still can get healthcare without showing there green card, the government will make a healthcare market place that will bankrupt the insurance Co. cause Obama can drop his prices to ZERO, Obama will also tax us for the first even the bill isn't even in affect.

  • How about Job care reform?

    Healthcare does not pay the rent, put food on the table, pay utilities. Americans need jobs, jobs, jobs. When unemployment rate is at 10%, your propose a bill that will jail us for non payment.!!! Democrats, are you on board with this? We are living from paycheck to paycheck during this recession, and you focus on healthcare? Hello, nobody home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

  • Pelosi just stated we need to pass the bill to see what's in it. The very heart of the Republic is now in jeopardy. A singular,specific,proposed bill has very specific requirements for compliance/passage with the recording of members votes in both houses. No policies have ever been enacted without the passage of specific statutes. This is the greatest Constitutional crisis in our nations history, no laws, just tyrannical rule.

  • The unconstitutional implementation of this process is effectively imposing Marshall Law. We are looking at collusion between separate branches of government to conspire to circumvent the law. This is lawlessness of the highest order! Patriots be prepared!

  • @bigdogphoto Washington corruption is frightening to the nth degree. So many seemingly intelligent people are oblivious to all that is going on and are delusional in believing all the "change" campaign lies.

  • Obama was a Senator the whole time he was a parent. Elected in 1996, became a parent in 1998. How can he say that he knows what the average parent feels with a sick child (when he was younger, lol)? @ 8:00.

  • Lets not under estimate the American People, and their ability to write to their Commander and Chief to let him know how they feel. =)

  • If someone I care about writes to me and tells me how they feel, guess what, I'm going to know how they feel....lol...politics..

  • Not to mention the fact that it is his own staffers that select the 10 letters. The staffers that he appointed, which have the same points of view. I'm sure they just randomly selected the 10 most approving or heartwarming letters (definately not any letters of disapproval)... lol...politics eh?

  • he said "as i sat there i thought to myself what if i did not have health care"

  • @wiley086 The average parent does have healthcare for their children. His point is that had he NOT had it at that time, his kids could have died. He may have been making more $ than average at that time but any parent can relate to that situation. What's your point? The average parent has healthcare for their kids, and so did Obama at that time, and his kids got sick...so he knows how they feel. What he wants you to do is to imagine those who don't have it. How does THAT feel?

  • @steveey251 The lead up to that comment was "do you remember what it was like starting off." He was trying to put himself in the shoes of the average person, when he had to backtrack because he was never a parent without outstanding benefits. His lack of any significant experience will always leave him wondering about what would happen in "this or that" situation.

  • Make no mistake, when given the choice between God or Country, God is still the winner! Ever wonder why Mr. Obama has insisted that America is no longer a Christian nation? Is it because by making a positive theological statement, he aligns himself with the religious communities and thereby the agenda of National Health-care would be stymied.

  • Many orthodox zealots from all faiths possess a firm belief that any form of manmade medical practice is blasphemy. While others believe, scripture condemns certain practices such as blood transfusions.

    At this point, the government run health-care scheme begins to crush the religious rights of those U.S. Citizens who hold true to their core beliefs.

    Who will stand up for the Amish, who due to their religious beliefs, lack the voice to object?

  • There are some in society who cling to a belief system that does not trust manmade medicine or government run health-care!

    Do you agree with me Godly people have the right to believe in their God the way they see fit? It is the responsibility of all U.S. Citizens to protect each others religious rights.

    I am going to stand with those who have no voice, those religious folk who will never obey the government mandates, who have pledged their souls to a higher power. What about you?

  • @TheHonestPolitics

    So get rid of your healthcare then. And everyone whom opposes it, do the same.

    It really isn't rocket science is it?

  • Who will say NO to the Washington beast as it plans to crush Religious disciples, forcing them into unscriptural medical practices, which will damn their souls and destroy their belief system?

    Who has the gumption to stand up to the machine and say:

    Our rights are greater than your demands upon us!

    Who shall speak for those who quietly believe in humble practice?

    Who shall face down the Washington tyrants as they promote themselves to God-Hood?

  • white rivh fools who wants the poor to die because they are rich.folls now you have to know that america doesnt belong to whites rather to the red indians if you doubt me check the history.whites are the problems we have in this world i mean stupid whites they cause wars and greeds .shame

  • Blummercare BLOWS..It blows...It always blew,,it blows now and it will always blow...

    & that is the good part about it....

    I can't even mention the bad stuff in it...

  • I just heard a promotional piece encouraging New Yorker's to support the soda tax, that's right...the soda tax! So, if you support a soda tax, you will make fat people skinny, ailing people healthy because you empowered the

    government to take more money out of your pocket! I thought doctors encourage healthy choices not the IRS?

    Tell BO to stop smoking and the obese Surgeon General to drop 50 pounds and then come talk to me about a soda tax!

  • How sick in the head are these people? Do you see how many useful idiots buy this shit?

    The utility company wants to put a "smart meter" on my house, the Feds bought my mortgage, what's next? I need government to tell me what light bulb I can use, what toilet I can use, what temp to set my thermostat, what car I can drive?

    This is about centralized power and control, not health care. Read the Constitution to your children and vote out all progressives before all liberty is eroded.

  • can you say assited suicide ?, if you are to old to trat or to expnecive you might be encoraged to , "pass on"

  • No generic meds due to back room deal with big pharma,,

    No Insurance competition across state lines..

    No TORT REFORM ..

    Also, hypocratic oathe is ignored by physicians LEAVING profession due to denial of treatment to patients with multiple conditions that are too expensive to treat..

    Back room Union cadillac 40% fee Exemption is passed onto the SUPER-HIGH Premium Rates set by gov't that will create expand to 118 NEW beaurocratic agencies that come between YOU and YOUR DOCTOR..

    It BLOWS!!

  • A bunch of rich white pricks deciding what is going to happen to millions of poor and middle class people. I wish they were just like regular people, then, maybe, they would be able to have a proper perspective. All it is, is shit talk. Trying to one-up the opposite party. Its immature bullshit, and I know plenty of "regular" people that show a lot more maturity than any of these fat cat pricks. Figure it out, or people get sick and die. That would certainly be a fail for the nation.

  • The President shot his ego down and made this old fool look pretty bad !

    McCain needs to became Joe the plumbers part time helper that's about all he's good for at this point and he truly knows it!

  • Public OPTION NOW!!

    Get all MODERATE DEMS out of the SENATE in 2010!!!

    Bill Halter for Senate- 2010! Real Change for REAL PEOPLE!! He will stand up for the middle class!! Finally, WE MIGHT have an advocate in the SENATE!! Go to my page for more info. and SUBSCRIBE!! You can also follow me on Twitter @ Halter2010... THAT"S RIGHT.... Halter2010!! SUBSCRIBE today

  • man this is very long .when i have time i will watch this

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  • 1/20/2013

  • BO's health care bill is in such demand by the American people that he may be selling Judgeships for votes. BO invited ten senators to meet him at the White House including Jim Matheson of Utah who formerly voted against the bill .President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit at the same time he is meeting to do some good old fashioned Chicago thug style arm twisting.

    The party of big government marches forward!

  • THE SLEEPING GIANT has INSOMNIA....

    REGRESSIVES will be pushed back into the LAST CENTURY and will never show their faces again.....

  • Hey,

    I really don't think there are 51 stupid komacazzi senators left--after that SCOTT BROWN SCATTER they keep doing-- to vote for any TAX & JAIL TROJAN HORSE MANDATE to buy garbage Insurance or GO TO JAIL...that will haunt them as they are forced to live in EXILE hidden away in their gated homes away from the faces of the 300 million people that NEVER WANTED IT...

    What could be worth that?

    Kill it...

    .....Nobody wants it..

    .....It DIED and it stinks...BURY IT!!.....

  • DC must be nuked.

  • A string of electoral defeats and the great unpopularity of ObamaCare can't stop Democrats from their self-appointed rendezvous with liberal destiny—ramming a bill through Congress on a narrow partisan vote. What we are about to witness is an extraordinary abuse of traditional Senate rules to pass a bill merely because they think it's good for the rest of us, and because they fear their chance to build a European welfare state may never come again.

  • Why doesn't someone shove the health care bill straight up Obama's skinny ass. If it doesn't fit ~ try shoving up Pelosi's fat ass or Harry Reid's sorry ass. Corrupt bastards.

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  • Hey harry....i would like to know more about jesus' cleft pallet

  • i dont understand why the majority of republicans are opposing this legislation. I'm a republican myself and this healthcare bill is very much just trying to give consumers more leverage in their negotiations with the insurance companies.

    There really is no reason to oppose this. This is the farthest thing from socialism i can imagine. Why exactly are my fellow republican's so set against this bill?

  • the Leftist Democrat definition of Bi-Partisan means Conservatives give up on principle, while Marxist Democrats pontificate meaningless slogans and steal our Liberties.

  • Yeah right. You all believe in scare tactics tooo much.

  • I'd like to highlight the fact that most of the preceding conservative posts have defined collectivist (adj) as "of the government" in order to equate the democratic health care plan to that of communist regimes.

    They should realize that their uncritical thinking strategies (Obama = COMMUNIST) are precisely what communist regimes prey (&pray) on.

    I'd advise the unbiased viewer not to read the rest of these posts, in order to avoid confusion the conservative rabble insist on perpetuating.

    Best

  • The Democrats clumsily use the tactic of championing for the individual, talking about a personal story of one individual resorting to wearing dead siblings dentures while at the same time pushing the collective agenda. Vote out all progressive politicians who do not respect individual rights protected by our Constitution.

  • That's a great point! Well done!

  • I think Dems assume "I" = "we". They assume there is no difference between self interest and collective interest. I think they're trying to address real inefficiencies in how that primal assumption manifests itself in our daily life.

  • Instead of implying the very thing you are arguing for, you might want to spend more time developing your argument by providing examples of the violation of individual rights that this plan outlines.

    And I'm an just going to ignore your premise that collective agenda can not benefit the individual. Unless, of course, you can provide a substantive example of how Health Care hurts people (wow, what a thought). I'm consistently reminded of how glad I am of choosing to remain impartial in my youth.

  • The GOP Assholes are on the way out They have been caught in soo many lies about reform. I've personally called people in Kentucky, and parts of Ohio, randomly, and most tells me they want reform. In NV., most people want it, especially the Public Option. 56% of Nevadans wants reform, and 62% of us Independents, wants the Public Option also. So that the GOP says how the american people don't want this is a lie. Some may not, but a super majority does. The Dems keep it real. The GOP does not.

  • @WilliamHCarney I doubt that very much.  A poll done by CNN, the Communist News Network, usually a BIG Obama supporter, shows that 76% of the american people either don't want the bill, or want to start the bill over. The Dems don't keep it real, they are lieing to you.

  • This is another disastrous component of the psychosis of collective thinking, when the individual is lost in the collective. Humans have an ability to show tremendous compassion for the individual, yet look the other way while thousands are slaughtered. Just look at outpouring of emotions for the kid down the well stories versus indifference shown to mass killing around the globe and tell me I am wrong.

  • Overcome this UNCONSTITUTIONALl Health Care Reform.

    Do what God requires, Fear Not; trust God, not man. Your family and neighbors will save mega dollars not buying insurance, and have money to help if needed. Insurance companies have become rich because we feared catastrophic disease.Defeat various insurance plans. Most things only require diet, herbs, rest, home care or limited doctors office. Fear is enemy of faith. We are saved by faith. Insurance disconnects our faith.

    TRUST GOD

  • Oh yes, an appeal to God's will. That's never been heard before. You are preaching to the choir, Marie.

  • You mean power like the patriot act, or social security, medicare? Oh...maybe it's time we compare america to something. Arrogance doesn't fix problems ask Rome.

  • @amenrah7 That's right. Powers like that were NEVER meant to be the responsibility of the federal government.

  • Eric Cantor "...We can't afford this" where was this talk before they went to Iraq? Was that even a valid war to engage? NO!! Repubs do not care about the people. Only making money for the 2% of the world who benefit from wars and bylaws like dropping people with pre-existing conditions.

  • All Republicans? LOL If that's true then I guess all Democrats don't care about jobs or the economy. LOL

  • You're so witty. Let me guess, Donovan Bush?

  • Even if you don't drive yourself, someone else may drive you on that very road, whether it be a personal vehicle, a work vehicle, a bus or taxi. Chances are, if you're going somewhere in America, it's on a road or sidewalk or from a port of some kind. Access is key.

  • Everyone should have access to health care if they desire. You can say when you are healthy that you don't need health insurance... you may not be healthy tomorrow! Access is key!

  • Health care is not insurance, Health care is a right that every American citizen is entitled to. Insurance is for cars, homes, mortgage in case of accidents then the insurance pays because they took a gamble that nothing would happen. Health is not a gamble things happen you live and then die, health happens... or goes bad, it is the nature of human-beings. You don't buy a car and have an accident, you don't buy a house and it then burns down. Americans deserve health as part of their life.

  • No...It isn't a right. It is unconstitutional to force people to pay for other peoples' Health Care. And it is a choice whether or not a person should want health care or not. Giving the government control of health care is like giving one huge giant health care company control over everything.

  • You have the right whether or not to accept treatment for whatever, but you should have the opportunity to receive treatment if you so desire. If you don't drive a car should you pay for roads to be built?? Not one giant company with control but a provider if one is in need.

  • So I guess medicare and medicaid is unconstitutional, and by the way how much do you pay in social security tax.... I have been paying that my whole working life.

  • Yes, medicare and medicaid is unconstitutional, especially since the government is involved. Government's job is to protect and defend, not to provide health care.

  • Social security is also unconstitutional as well. The government uses that system to buy votes.

  • @Donovan448 Ok how do people who work hard, and cant afford it get health care then? I work 2 jobs and started my own trading card business to keep a roof over my head. I cant afford health care at all. What are people like me supposed to do? Cause with your attitude the answer would be "Fuck off and die"

  • Simple, have small businesses the ability to pull together their funds to have a health care plan. The government is preventing people from doing this, and it needs to change.

  • @Donovan448 Ummmm your wrong again, this is what is in the current bill that the Republicans are blocking. Go read the damn thing or watch this entire video (both parts).

  • The Republicans don't have a problem with this. They have a problem with government handling it.

  • @Donovan448 Then instead of insisting that they start over (and taking another year or more to hammer it out) work with them on what they agree on and start from there. In the end someone has to step in to keep Health insurance companies in check.

  • Do you plan a wedding all at once or step by step. Law by law. Problem by problem. Do you build a house all at once or little at a time.

  • @Donovan448 You cant compare this situation to a wedding, In a wedding peoples lives aren't jeopardized, and at the rate this is going nothing will come of that.

  • Anime, I hate to bring this to your attention but people die every day, whether they have health care or not. Now, what is your solution to that?

  • I'm sure if we invest enough taxpayer dollars, we could solve this growing threat to our daily lives!

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  • Funny, didn't the Democrats block that during Bush's term? LOL Yes, they did. Now they are trying to pass something else with it included. Hmmm...The health care prescription drug do-nut hole...yep the Dems voted for that too.

  • Finally found video of the summit!!

    been looking everywhere for it

    thanks for posting

  • Frankly speaking,, this is the way of leeding people..

  • Well hell,if the goverment is going to handing out"frre" health care,I wat coverage for my house,life,car,malpractice and roll over min.and Sky Miles.and at the same time ruin the best medical care in the country,hell,sign me up!