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  • Only a bat-shit crazy, stupid, retarded, angry, racist, homophobic, evil, corrupt, arrogant, self-centered, selfish, sleazy neocon hypocrite like Sarah Palin would come up with a horrible lie like "death panels". Naturally, only idiots like the Tea Party, Conservatives, Republicans, the GOP, all the talking heads at Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Congressman Joe Wilson, Karl Rove, etc will believe those evil distortions & lies.

  • Only a bat-shit crazy, racist, homophobic, retarded, corrupt, evil, criminal, stupid kook like Sarah Palin will invent a ridiculous lie like "death panels". Naturally, other racist, angry, evil, homophobic empty vessels like all the talking heads on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Congressman Joe Wilson, the Republicans, the GOP & the Tea Party would believe a stupid lie like that without checking the facts. WE NEED TO STOP THE TEA PARTY & THE CONSERVATIVES FROM RUINING AMERICA.!

  • all people have a price, and all people are looking out for themselves and thier family and friends. regardless of race. this is how it is, will allways be, and everyone having an opinion on an open spectrum, only make for a wider spectrum of critical thinking. noone has all the answers and your brain is a micro dot in the circle of all knowing. please, let the punks have thier drugs, and skaters thier stairs, the repubs thier land and demos thier community centers. or fuck it all, either or

  • I hate Obama because he is black. Most people agree with me, but are too ashamed to say it.

  • @N33DL3R No. I couldn't care less that he's black.

  • Obama has JUST PUT DEATH PANNELS BACK IN, and they will start up at the beginnig of next year, just a few days away. TAKE THAT DEMOCRATS. Palin was right the entire time.

  • obama does not have an honest bone in his body.

    b. hussein obama, barry soetoro, etc, etc, whatever the clowns real name is, he is illegally occupying the oval office.

  • November 14, 2010, Paul Krugman said the following on ABC's "This Week"...

    "Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now."

  • I'm actually glad this whole death panel thing happened

    Because I think it has made Americans more aware and cautious of missinformation. It also has weeded out the ones who spread the rumor.

    Damn LaRouche Group

  • BarackO... YOU LIE !!!

  • @Cordero787 _ All I said was that he was lying, and he was.

    I am being taxed by federal, state and local to an absurd degree. If you want to pay more taxes go ahead. YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO PAY MORE TAXES IF YOU WANT, but don't ask me to pay more taxes to support the most wasteful and one of the most corrupt organization in the world and illegal aliens - the United States Federal Government !!!!

  • @Cordero787 - hundreds of thousands of unborn babies die each year, I suppose that's OK with you, right ?

  • @DONGOE Like you sanctimonious republican trash care once those babies are born....Once they're here you could care less what happens to them so save it!

  • @Cordero787 - I am not Republican as you are ASSuming, but I am in favor of providing a good education and proper upbringing to help people to help themselves and not be a drain on the system. Some people need help, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that more and more people are raping the system, both legally and illegally.

    You are presenting yourself as a typical lib/dem/socialist - PAY MORE TAXES if you want; I am paying my fair share and do not want to pay more to a wasteful system.

  • @DONGOE fuck you

  • Another load of BarackO Bullshit !

    These people make me want to vomit.

  • no it is bullshit your just a gullable retard

  • How much can one man lie? This man lies every time he opens hiss mouth

  • tl;dr

  • stupppppppid!!!!!!!!!

    Shak you

  • Wasn't it Obama himself who suggested that elderly people should consider taking the "medicine" (another word for pain killers) over having procedures that may only extend a persons life for a short period of time?

    Yes it was

  • @inflateyourtires prove it numbnuts!!

    :/

  • @willem01 Obama said during the ABC Special on Wednesday June 24th 2009 that a way to save on healthcare costs is to abandon the sort of care that "evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve the patient's health"

  • @inflateyourtires Yeah so!? what's wrong that??

    you're just another American stuck on stupid and afraid of change!!

    What do you know about politics anyway??...like YOUR opinion is gonna make a difference!!

    Get a life!!

    : I

  • @willem01 It was not a statement of opinion you imbecile.

    I was only pointing out what ObowMao had said.

    I'm sure that I know more about politics than you will ever know.

    Why don't you stick to filming yourself doing random things in your backyard and add some music.

    Idiot

  • @inflateyourtires shud up, and go sit back on your daddy's knob!!

    : /

  • @willem01 If you don't know this already, then you haven't been paying attention.

    Seems as though it is more than just your nutz that are numb.

  • Obama is an actor and a puppet for us white guys that still have the power to use any black man we want to ................ Get me a cup of coffee Barack!

  • and you white people are also puppet of stupidity when you all elected Bush who destroyed USA.

  • Obama is working for the same group as Bush and Obama will not help blacks but will cause racial divide in America like what is happening now and tell what has Obama really done for America except drive up debt and lie over and over and he will not have control after November that is for sure

  • its funny how you say Obama lie and yet Bush has been lieing for 8 years and you people elected him twice to be president.

    Isnt it ironical how you people continously say he lie but never say what kind of lies he told?

    Also Obama didnt drive up debt. The debt hike was left for him to clean up from the Bush administration. All the fiscal policy he is proposing is trying to suppress recession from getting worse.

  • Obama never said anything about being biased as to whether to help white or black people. Racial divide is caused by white extremist such as KKK and morons like you and Republic dems for accusing and cursing for whole wrong reasons.

    Just face it, you only accuse him because hes black and was elected as president. And you think Mccain would do any better along with the moron Palin?

  • Here we got with the race card. The majority of attacks against Obama is not because he is black

  • Certainly thats only what you think Collazo. However, many people in the US have the racism of Federal Reserve Man.

    Most republic democrats hated Obama because first he is the first black president and a lot of white republicans resent the idea of having a black president. Second they think Obama is bad and a liar, but TBH Bush lied for 8 years and yet people still say hes a hero???

    Now thats ironic.

  • @441meatloaf The cracker tax is biased.

    It is a tax on tanning salons.

    I haven't seen too many brown or black people going tanning

    Hater

  • @inflateyourtires

    calling me a hater?? wow, your ignorance knows no bounds. You are pretty much a fucking hater as well by calling "someone cracker jack tax is biased".

    If you dont know why he implement these policies go read a fucking econ book. If the congress passed his suggested policy, it means most of the govt agrees.

  • @441meatloaf So angry for someone who is not a Hater.

    & it's not the Cracker "Jack" Tax

    It's the "Cracker Tax"

    This tax still singles out white people.

    I would like to see what you would be saying if GWB implemented an additional 10% tax on hair weaves.

    Hypocrite

  • @inflateyourtires

    His tax is to control the business sector. It is because Bush lack the intiative to control the economy causing economic crises. All the policies Obama has implemented is to correct the problems Bush left behind.

    Your a typical moron who prefers to mouth off nonsense rather than finding out the truth and purpose why things are done the way they are.

  • @441meatloaf What are you like 7 years old?

    What "Nonsense" have I mentioned?

    The "Cracker Tax" has been created to control the economic crisis which Bush failed to do?

    Go back to playing your video games douchebag.

    You haven't got a clue

  • @inflateyourtires

    I have all the clues. You havnt got a clue what im saying because you are uneducated in economics.

  • @441meatloaf You still fail to point out the "nonsense" that you claim I stated.

    This tax is such an effective way of controlling the business sector eh?

    Maybe ObowMao can pay off the deficit that he has tripled (so far) with the cracker tax.

    They would make way more money by taxing people like you every time that you make a spelling or grammar error.

  • why do americans that dont want this healthcare have to pay for others lol

  • @rick

    Its a question of why. Obama is reforming healthcare so the govt can have control over it. Hes trying to have a similar healthcare system in Canada. Sure you maybe paying a bit for other people as well, but you are receiving more benefits.

    Currently US pharma are all private companies and obviously they will all deny to obamas healthcare reform which includes control to pharma companies since they will lose large profits.

  • look at the Illuminati thats what obama is and always will be ,,

  • @MrWeedluv  fuck ya

  • Those congressmen should sit down and shut up because they are approaching those "golden years" themselves!!

  • i think it's sad that most of the people commenting here actually get to vote.

  • @parfait

    whats more sad is all these people who complain about Obama lieing and stuff never complained once about Bush terrible lies and obvious coverups of his screw ups.

  • President Obama has to Deal with ATHEIST at their Finest hour with their Jealous Envious OBVIOUS lying stinky Asses!!

    ATHEISTS don't want OBAMA to have a life or they will try to Keep him unstable but they can't An ATHEIST will try anything to keep CONTROL!! Crazy Ass fuckers You ATHEIST are Retards!!

  • @pabankhead1 I BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION AND IM A CRAZY FUCKER. I WILL SHOVE THAT FUCKING NOVEL CALLED A BIBLE SO FAR UP YOUR ASS U WILL LITERALLY SPEAK THE FUCKING BIBLE.

    YOU BEING BIAS TOWARDS PEOPLE FOR NO REASON. ARE YOU TWELVE I MEAN CMON. WHY DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ALWAYS CHANGE ITS VIEWS ON THINGS SCIENCE PROVES.

    ex: THE EARTH IS FLAT, THE EARTH IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

    I MEAN HOW DO U THINK A MAN (POPE) TAKES DIRECT WORD FROM GOD. GIMME A FUCKING BREAK

  • @rick

    the POPE never opposed to evolution. THe POPE agreed with evolution. The people who disagreed with evolution are the mindless fucks in religion who still things there is a god.

  • An ATHEIST will say and do anything to CONTROL your thoughts without 1st. thinking themselves!!

    An ATHEIST is a Notorious LIAR with no Moral Guidance whatsoever!! An ATHEIST is also JEALOUS of Others achievements what a Shame!! Maybe try Getting a Personal Relationship with "GOD" 1st. before Criticizing Others Motives!!!

  • Posting such comments about another human who had worked so well to get to the top is a shame. What were you doing when OBAMA was developing his career? I would rather make intelligent comments here about another human so I could be as successful as him if not in whitehouse but a well respectable person in society.

  • OBAMA YOUR LIFE IS A LIE

  • OBAMA SUCKS!!!!

    go ahead thumbs down me!

  • Oh how Obama tries to sound sincere and honest. What he says and what does are contradictory.

    You're the one lying Mr. President.

  • Really is the bill written on paper? Is it a lie if I or someone else can find it and show it to the American taxpaying public? hmmmmmmm.......??

  • Why should the rich pay a larger percentage than the poor? Isn't that slightly unfair?

  • Because it's the OBVIOUS thing to do!!! Who paid for your success when YOU were coming through?

    The Poor has to have a Chance too!! Should they starve because they have no money? Only ATHEIST feels this way not CHRISTIANS....YOU have to Give not just Take!! Selfishness & Greed is destroying this Country!!

    So You must be an ATHEIST who havent practiced a RELIGION in a long time...Or YOU wouldnt be asking that QUESTION.

  • I am actually a Catholic and I don't just "TAKE," but rather I make do with what I already have. Life is the chance, let's make the best of it. I know it's not fair, but neither is poker.

  • @pabank

    And you think religion has given what?? I know, religion have given birth to scientology and mindless idiots who still thinks god can save people.

    Sure religion has done a lot of charity work, but its a coverup or mere manipulation god is still real.

    Just like how McDonalds each year gives children society some charity and yet poison the people with their fatty foods.

  • An ATHEIST will say and do anything to CONTROL your thoughts without 1st. thinking themselves!!

    An ATHEIST is a Notorious LIAR with no Moral Guidance whatsoever!! An ATHEIST is also JEALOUS of Others achievements what a Shame!! Maybe try Getting a Personal Relationship with "GOD" 1st. before Criticizing Others Motives!!!

  • Ha ha, all you naive idealistic young people who voted for Nobama will have to buy health care Ins or pay an annual 750.00 fine, there goes a good chunk of your disposable income to buy your xbox games, party money on the weekends, a better car, better Nikes, downloading lady gaga songs, extras for you ride, and money for your honey, hahaha

  • Human nature has a scale: left/right. Place on the scale is proportional to insecurity and denial one has for Nature. With more anxiety a person will delude himself that Nature is controllable. Anxiety is reduced by a belief in a hierarchical grid that governs Nature. God on top/Niggers and Jews on the bottom. Sex and death cannot be controlled, there is no purpose to our existence. If conservatives would unclench their assh@le they would see that hierarchy reduces anxiety, but ruins their soul.

  • Human intellagence has a scale; honest/stupid. Head-in-the-sand is proportional to insecurity and denial one has for reality. With more stupidity a person will delude himself of a possitive American future. Stupidity is reduced by considering the unrealistic 'idealism' grid the governs. Honesty on top/idealistic idiots on the bottom. Sex and death cannot be controlled?? there IS no purpose to your existence. If liberals would unclench their minds they would see reality regardless of ideals.

  • healthcare needs to be left alone.

  • If all of this really were "bogus", than he wouldn't give a darn about it. He probably wouldn't even mention it in this speech if it were not true.

  • I hate u obama, u do lie, and i dont wana here your shit, get the fuck outa our white house, the people dont want ya anymore, and dont call me racist

  • You cant all way believe stuff on CNN.

  • You can't always believe stuff on CNBC either.

  • you know, im an obama supporter, but if he really wants to make people believe what hes saying, when someone yells lie he needs to look straight at them and start a debate, idc if its the state of the union or a press confrence or anything else, this is a serious issue that needs to be discussed and heard nationally and he should have debated the guy who yelled "lie" right then and there for us all to see.

  • want to make a difference??? impeach obama!!! go to my chanel and sign the petetion!!! God bless america!!!

  • Capitalism is where it's at. Gov't is here (was put here) to protect us, not take care of. IT's quite simple...

  • what kinda damn country are we running here when the president is called a liar durning a speech, let alone in front of the whole damn congress. what happen to respect? mnay people oppose this man being in office and you have even worst poeple out there bc they disliek him for whatever reason and they hold a place on the congress, i ve never seem so much disrespect in all of the WHITE presidents that has come through the white house. America needs to wake the fuck up!

  • Bush was disrespected just as much as Obama!

  • Mr Puppet on a string...on MANY strings.

    YOU are the LIE, Obama. YOU!

  • Wow, this is crazy!

  • lmfao at how they always stand up and cheer >_>

  • It sickens me.

  • This is the biggest liar in our history. Time and time again, on any number of "his" policies, Obama has been proven a liar. Yet the blind continue to follow this fool.

  • shut the fuck up wit your ugly ass obama bitch

  • Well look. Another Obama fluffer.

  • I think the only ones that are blind are republicans.

  • i love america but so many americans are ignorant now opposing the health reform im canadian and it works great in canada some people think that we wait in line if we want a operation in canada yes we do but it doesnt mean that we dont have private clinics and hospitals if we want to pay money for an operation we can do as we please but the free health care is there for those that dont have that extra money to spend

  • The same clinics that are mostly closed on the weekends? The same system where Canada has admitted it can't substain? How long does it take to get a family physician? Most people do not want to wait. You can keep your lines and waiting periods.

  • yeah but look at people with no money so basically your sayin that people with no money should just die is that it and that only people with a good income should survive if people with money dont want to wait we have private clinics were there is no waiting line

  • I am Canadian and have never waited in massive lines to see my own doctor, one at a hospital or at a local health clinic. I am sure you dont believe me as you have swallowed every single bullshit tale you have ever heard about our system. Apparently death panels exist in Canada, i guess i better tell both of my retired parents or better yet my 94 year old grandmother who is still going pretty good with that hip she got way back in the day. If you believe what you read about us you are truly lost

  • thank you very much for showing those americans that our system is good

  • Trust me, it is my pleasure to try to set the record straight about the lies people tell about us.

    Profiteering off of the suffering of others is something that thankfully does not go over very well in Canada as it is far more of an American trait.

    Peace, from Burlington Ontario. :)

  • I sure hope you mean, "profiteering off of providing a good or service to people" and not "profiteering off of the suffering of others." Do you even know how insurance companies work? Sounds like you could use a little education.

    Insurance companies are being demonized to discredit them and advance a political agenda. Yet profit margin for insurance companies is about 6% (+/-) 2%. that is substantially less than nearly every other industry and certainly not obscene.

  • Funny thing is i work for an insurance company (pet insurance if you can believe that), i have a RIBO (brokerage) licence and my position is in HR so yets i have an idea of how these things work.

    We have a denial rate here, meaning that a % MUST be denied in order to stay competitive regardless if the claim should be paid. Also, medical advances have been happening for 1000s of years without insurance companies being involved so your point is moot.

  • What many people do not understand is that these profits go twoards research and bettering hospital facilities not the pocket of CEOs. Without said profit many of the medical advances extending our lives from the grip of cancer and heart disease would not be available. This is why American men have a 20% higher rate of survival beyond 5 years when compared to British men. The same is true for women and breast cancer.

  • As for your stats about the brits, I am quite sure there are some areas where the US may be better off however across the board both the Brits and us Canadians outlive our US counterparts. How is that so? Please dont use homicide rates as a reason or else we will turn this into a gun control debate as well.

  • Medical advances continually drive up the cost of health care which also means that they drive up the cost of insurance.

    The funny thing is that those rates aren't homicide rates, they are actual rates. How can you deny facts? I, at least, provide evidence that support my claims while you do not. Who is right? I believe I am.

  • Epidemics like Polio were solved without the help of insurance or drug companies but by doctors that wish to cure patients....this is an attitude that has slipped from the mindset of your demi gods...i mean doctors.

    In Canada we spend less on medications and medical care yet our healthcare system is rated higher than yours and we live longer...all this without health insurance companies. I think i know who is right here as when i outlive an american my age the proof is in my living breath.

  • Your health care system is rated higher than ours only because the WHO only takes into account the average life expectancy for each country. If they actually based it on quality of health care, we would be number 1. The reason why our average life expectancy is so low is because we have the highest number of deaths due to transportation accidents, obesity, alcoholism, and drug overdose.

    If you have a certain medical problem, you have more of a chance surviving in the US compared to Canada.

  • Leave it up to the liberals (yes, that includes you) to name call and stereotype. This just goes to show that you base your opinions off of emotions rather than facts. Also, it lowers your credibility.

    By the way, how are our doctors less caring than yours?

  • I read recently that many US doctors are refusing to do immunizations on children as it is not profitable enough...is that a good example.

    So you think that Obesity, achoholism and drug overdoses are what has caused your healthcare system to slip for an imaginary #1 spot to the upper thirties? That comment only goes to prove you have an educational issue as well.

  • How many are refusing?

    Are you serious? Why don't you actually read my comment. We have the best QUALITY of health care. This is because of our capitalistic nature and also the reason why you are more likely to be treated effectively in our hospitals than in your hospitals. As a country, our citizens are practicing negative form of behavioral risk factors. This has nothing to do with our health care, but solely the choices of our citizens.

  • If our citizens didn't practice thos negative behavioral risk factors, then our average life expectancy might be the highest in the world, but it isn't. That is why the WHO ranks us as #37 for our health care SYSTEM, not QUALITY.

  • Do you actually belive that crap? Do you not think that places like Canada, the UK or France do not have just as many alchoholics and drug addicts per capita?

    "negative behavriol risk factors"? So because your people have freedom of choice they should be punished when they require healthcare? Again, it seems that you have an educational issue as well.

  • I believe the facts and the facts support what I say. Unfortunately, the US does have more alcoholics than the UK and France per capita. Don't believe me, then look it up!

    How are they punished? They made a choice that requires additional health care. Who's responsibility is it to see that they get that health care? It's their responsibility, not the government's!

    "With freedom comes great responsibility."

  • How about this one. When you go skiing next if you were to break your leg then you should NOT be helped as this would be considered a "negative behavriol risk" as you were quite aware that it is dangerous to go skiing.

    When put like that your bahavriol comment sounds absurd as it truely is.

  • No, I should not be helped free of charge! If I am injured, I will pay for whatever care is necessary. That's the point of capitalism!

  • LOL i rather like how you seem to think that drinking has caused the problems the US has with its healthcare. This all being posted on a youtube channel designed to have people talk about death panels that we all know is not true.

    PS - What happens if you cannot afford that care? What if you can no longer work because of your injury or worse yet you die and your family is left with your funeral and medical costs?

    Also, the point of capitalism is for some to have but most to not.

  • No, the point of capitalism is to pay for goods and services that you receive. Health care falls into that category. If I cannot afford health care, then that means that I won't receive it. I own my own business that is doing quite well, so I don't think that I will be out of a job any time soon. If I die, then my life insurance policy will cover all of the costs.

    Drinking, in the US, doesn't affect the quality of health care.

  • If you think for a second that is the point of capitalism then you are far more naive in your 20 years than i thought.

    Let's pose another question for you: If the same skiing accident that i used as an example were to happen to a 10 year old what is to be done if the parents do not have health insurance for the child? I would like to hear you explain to me that due to the nature of capitalism this CHILD should be made to suffer from a lack of access to healthcare.

  • Well, he requires the goods or services from other people. This means that there needs to be the transfer of money or a doctor and hospital to work pro bono.

    What do you think that main point of capitalism is?

  • Pro bono then becomes the only way doctors will immunize children? That is disgusting.

    Unlike your uneducated guesses as to what capitalism is i will enlighten you. Capitalism is an economic system concerned with the redistribution of wealth (sounds familiar?), this wealth is distributed pyramidically with three distinct classes (high,mid,low) made up of subclasses (upper-middle,etc). Wealth in then distrubited unevenly from the top of said pyramid down.

  • Where did you get that definition of capitalism? It's wrong on so many levels! Here, I'll let the dictionary do the talking, "Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state." Your definition actually describes a big part of socialism-->distribution of money.

    If you want your child immunized, be responsible in paying for it because it's not free.

  • It is nice to see that you can read a dictionary but cannot interprit it. Capitalism as an economic system is a redistribution of money based on those that own either the means of production and those that profit from selling their labour. ALL economic systems are concerned with the distribution of wealth. Again, read a book and learn not memorize what you think it says.

  • As for the children being immunized bit. Are you fucking serious? So what happens if a child is abandoned? Should the state pay for their shots? Of course it should! Know why? Because its a fucking child!!! Do you think a 3 month old is going to come up with the cash!!! This is nothing but an example of the immorality of your healthcare system slipping into the minds of your demi gods, excuse me, doctors. Look up the hippocratic oath that MDs take and ask yourself the immunization question agian

  • Immunizations aren't free! They are a good that one can purchase if one so chooses. Regarding the abandoned child, that child would then become a ward of the state. Therefore, the state is responsible for that child until he/she reaches the age of 18.

    Doctors work their butts off to provide a valuable service to the community. It just so happens that that service is quite expensive. Who is supposed to pay for it, then?

  • As for immunization, to say that, if a parenet cannot afford it then the child doesnt get it is fucking lunatic. You do understand you are talking about a CHILD right? Who pays? We all pay so that child can grow up to at least be healthy. I dont expect you to possibly understand as you are only 20 and probably live at home with your folks and do not have kids.

  • Now about capitalism, yeah it is a distribution of money. Those who provide services to the community are expected to be paid. It just so happens that insurance companies pay the hospitals and doctors a lot more than Obama is planning on paying them. As a business owner, who would you prefer or support?

    Here let me put it into perspective, what if I was diagnosed with kidney cancer and I couldn't pay for any of the treatments. Do you think that I should be allowed to use your money?

  • Now this is kind of getting fun. Your kidney cancer bit especially. My father had cancer about 15 years ago, then about 9 years ago he had kidney failure. Ever since he has been on dialysis 3 times a week till the day he dies. The cost to my parents ZERO. During his life my father worked hard and payed his taxes so he will be helped using his money,my money, our neighbors and our countrymen the same as if it happened to somebody 1000 miles away. You call it socialism i say compassion

  • Yeah, I am 20 years old, but I don't live with my parents. I own my own electrical contracting business and am doing quite well.

    Since when is someone elses kid my responsibility?

    The difference between education and health care is that education benefits everyone in the general population. You cannot advance in life without education, you can without health care.

  • Do read what you type before you post it? You cannot advance in life without education. True. You can without healthcare? I dont suppose you can do very well if your dead can you?

  • Is health care necessary for someone to live? No, but it can help your longevity. Just think, how did the cavemen do it? They didn't have any doctors or fancy hospitals.

  • With a public option, the government will successfully eliminate private insurance. Just think, who is paying for the subsidized costs of the public option? Those with private insurance pay an additional 40% tax on their health care premiums. With this many, if not all, will switch to the public option. The hospitals then will not be bringing in as much revenue. Therefore, quality goes down and there are even more job cuts.

  • LOL Do you think i pay much more tax than you if any? Having a higher rated healthcare system you would think i hand over my pay cheque to the govt would you not? As for the hospitals, pharma companies and insurance companies not bringing in as much revenue, you might be right, they may end up having to charge you a decent amount rather than gouge you for the sake of profit. Again, i will outlive an american my age, really, where is the quality difference?

  • Trust me, if McCain was proposing this sort of plan, I would still be against it. I'm trying to preserve the values that this country was built upon and if it's worked for 233 years, then it can work for a little while longer. Now, I am not saying that we shouldn't try to fix the current system because we should, but the answer is not an entire new system.

  • Bringing up your founding fathers has NOTHING to do with heatlhcare. Besides if you really want to be upset at the liberties that those men got for you maybe you should have been marching in the streets about the Patriot act! That was way worse than the US govt making health insurance companies play fair. All i am saying is that every first world country except the US and S Africa has a universal healthcare system. Are we all wrong?

  • No, you are not all wrong, just different.

  • The fact is the very people that profit off of your healthcare dollars are the ones that poison your mind to a national healthcare system.

    Try asking a German, an Italian, Frenchman or a Canadian (hello im right here) what their experiences are before you shut your mind and start chanting USA-USA-USA.

    Not just recently your country has been dead wrong in MANY of your decisions, going against this is just another stupid decision in the very long list.

  • I'll ask the prime minister of France about his opinion. Oh, you know what? He warned Obama about the repercussions about this health care plan and told us not do it because the it's pretty much an irreversible change. Is Obama listening? No.

  • LOL Yeah i have told americans of the ramifications of Obamas plan. A government option is not a good thing, a complete overhaul so that there is no longer a private insurance industry is the only way to go.

    France is by far the most socialist country in the world (maybe Sweden), do you think they would even dream the nightmare that is your when theirs is cheaper AND better.

  • No one is better since we have the best quality of care in the world. As I have previously said, cancer patients in the US have a 20% better chance of survival than in Canada and the UK.

  • I'll even ask a citizen of the UK what their feelings are. Here's Margaret Thatcher, "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money." Oh, she doesn't agree with Universal Health Care either! Your argument is sinking quick.

  • Using Thatcher as a UK opinion on this issue is about as unbiased as using the pope to take a side on abortion. Also, where did she mention universal healthcare? She mentions socialism but not healthcare. One day you americans may understand that you dont have to be a socialist nation to have such a healthcare system. It is just too bad they have convinced you if you were to adopt this system that suddenly every decision you make is going to be made for you by the govt which is a lie.

  • Again, you can quote whoever you want or use whatever trumped up statistic you want but the fact remains the same. Under our system we live longer, healthier lives and pay less to do so.

    Again, if you want to keep reverting to the old song of socialism taking your choices away from you, where were you when your govt passed the Patriot Act? Again, i have every single civil liberty that you do plus we live longer lives. You can have all your liberty rhetoric but it wont help you when your dead.

  • Ummm...yeah, you do live healthier and longer due to the behavioral risk factors you guys participate in. Americans partake in much riskier ones. It makes sense that we live shorter lives. But, we have the best health care in the world. That's why cancer patients have a 20% better chance of survival here than in the UK, Canada, or France.

    Also, universal health care is socialized health care.

    Where was I when that was passed? A 7th grade classroom.

  • Honestly man, there is no reaching you at all as your mind is already made up. Do you honestly think that people in Canada or other countries smoke, drink or do drugs any more or less than your people? I find it funny that you use a this as an excuse at it only solidifies the depth of the disgusting nature of american culture. Also, do you think the WHO should ignore every other positive to having socialized medicine because you can make up a round number in relation to cancer recovery?

  • Also, what type of cancer? There are many and not all of them are effected by either system so i want your proof with sources. I want your unbiased sources, i want figures, i want you to explain to me why the French and the Swedes have the best heatlhcare in the world yet it costs so much less than yours. Anything less than that is not acceptable as you are arguing over peoples lives. Remember you are the same person that said a child shouldnt be helped if their parents cant afford the help.

  • To end this futile conversation, i want you to pick up a fucking book and educate yourself. Do so without having a predetermined outcome if you can as that is why you will not listen to another side of an important issue. Finally for the last time, we all live longer up here yet we all take as poor care of ourselves as you do so explain to me why without this nonsense that car accidents and chain smoking causes this as it does not and neither does your homicide rate.

  • Calling me sick and twisted because your using the "you think more people should die" just goes to show how desperate you are to win a losing arguement. (That is an american trait by the way).

    On the topic of sick and twisted and the healthcare system you live under, how is that fantastic infant mortality rate in your country? Keep going on about some mythical 20% and i will keep pulling facts that outweigh yours.

  • Well, if you want people to die, then wouldn't you consider yourself sick and twisted? Who wants people to die? Terrrorists and murderers. Which one are you?

  • Nice question with the double negative answer choice. Here is one for you,what is worse, letting people die because you dont have the ability to help them or letting people die because you won't help them. That is the underlying difference between our two systems if people get left behind. In our case we try but dont always suceed. In your case you dont try and then tell everybody that does theyre socialists and not real americans.

    Question: Have you even traveled outside of the US?

  • You never answered it. I am curious to hear your answer.

    Why should I go bankrupt for helping all those in need? Are they going to repay me? Since when is it my responsibility?

    Why would we try something that incorporates even more problems? Why don't we fix the problems with the current system instead of incorporating a brand new one?

    Yes, I have traveled outside of the US (Canada, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, England, France, Mexico, Bahamas). What does that have to do with anything?

  • First, as if you are going to go bankrupt. Second, you get repaid when in a time of need you need treatment. Third, repay? Is that all you americans think about? You get repaid if you ever get sick. Fourth, in Canada it is everyones responsibility as a citizen to help one another. Fifth, the system you are trying to copy creates less issues in other countries than your current system causes. Moot question. Lastly, travel has to do with it because you have a narrow amercocentric point of view

  • Health care isn't a right in the US. It might be in Canada, but not in the US. Therefore, it should be dealt with in a capitalistic way. Also, Obama's plan will lower health care quality. How can you be oblivious to this? Also, many European countries have advised Obama not to follow through with his plan because of all the problems it causes. I think they know a little bit more about it than you.

  • There is the real problem. For you healthcare is a priviliage while for us it is a right just like freedom of speech or womens sufferage.

    As i stated earleir EU leaders have advised you this because your two tier govt option is only half way to what you should do. As for your knowledge, i live under this system and you dont so i might know better. Also myself and my parents have had to use our system extensively with, uh oh, guess what? No waiting for months like your told.

  • here is one for you.

    Do you think that econoicly every citizen is going to go broke because of this? Even better question. Do you think that, since medical bills are the #1 reason your countrymen go broke, that economicly your healthcare system can get any worse?

    LOL I love how you have been convinced that the very thing you should fear out of a socialized medical system is exactly what you currently have.

  • Remember what Margaret Thatcher said, "Socialism eventually fails because you run out of spending other people's money."  It is very possible that everyone could go broke because of this.

    Oh, our health care system can get worse. The fact of the matter is, only 3.7% of our population actually NEEDS this reform.

    Also, the government will take away some freedoms. If I don't want health insurance, too bad I need it or I go to jail. Why should I be told what to buy?