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  • It's a joke people. The only thing that will fix the problem is Universal, Single-Payer health care...like all normal, rational, sane, and CIVILIZED nations have had for years. Wake up.

  • I challenge any right-wing conservative who wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act this question....Do you believe that insurance companies should be permitted to cancel somebody's EXISTING coverage AFTER they become sick? Yes or No?

    If your answer is no, how do you expect insurance companies to stay in business and/or keep the cost of health insurance from skyrocketing to cost-prohibitive levels without all Americans taking personal responsibility and purchase their own insurance coverage?

  • democRATS SUCKS

  • WRONG THIS IS THE DAY WE ALL PAY MORE.. FOR A MAN WHO WE DONT KNOW WHO DOESNT EVEN WORK.. TO PAY FOR HIS HEALTH CARE.. IS THIS CANADA??? IS THIS A SOCIALIST COUNTRY????? WHAT HAVE WE COME TO!

  • @danomaha420118 i hope so

  • You are all idiots

  • What all those liberal fools do not realize is there is already a shortage of doctors, and now the libocrats will add some 32 million in the health care system! What does that mean? HEALTH CARE RATIONING! Good luck in making an appointment and getting to see a doctor in 6 months! If they dont think there will be rationing, they are fooling themselves.

  • Rich people bitch too much. I guess it's okay to pay for a senseless war though.

  • "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." - Thomas Jefferson

  • "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson

  • I am disturbed what I see with the Democrat Party in America, they are exactly like the communist leaders in my former country and have the same goals. It frightens me that Americans do not know they are going down a dangerous path." - From a Romanian defector in 1989 who came to America in the late 1960s. And that was in 1989! Look how more Soviet the liberal Democrats have become since then!

  • "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas

    "I no longer need to run as a Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform." - Norman Thomas

  • the left stomping for socialist health care think that it will control costs. Just how do you control costs? All over the developed world, the Left has done it in only two ways: Squeezing the providers and denying care to patients!

  • Obamacare is the crowning jewel in the libocrats quest to achieve national socialism in America. It does not matter to them that Obamacare is a disaster, their only goal is to take over the private sector in all areas, and Obamacare is a major notch in achieving socialism. The libocrats are even willing to sacrafice themselves on the alter of Karl Marx next Novembers elections to achieve that goal!

  • All "Real" Americans need to know, the leftist liberals in America are lighting the fuse for another American Revolution! Next November will show that! The American Colonists kicked out the British over much less! The Stamp Act? Hah! That is nothing! If the colonists saw the nanny government tyranny the leftist scum are imposing on us now, they would tar and feather Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Boxer and run them out of town!

  • "It is strange that liberals today, claim to be "liberal", but do not embrace the liberal ideas our countries finding fathers and their wisdom of the concept of liberty. Instead, they have fallen from that concept and blindly follow socialism which will eventually lead to the downfall of freedom in America."

  • I'll be glad to see an end to insurance companies' ability to deny coverage to sick people, and even to cancel plans when people become ill! Compassion is important in healthcare, something which insurance companies completely lack, as they only care about profiting. The stress of illness in the family will no longer be compounded by unaffordable medical bills.

  • texaspete,  ignorance and adopting socialism is not "compasionate"!

  • Great job progressives! It's been over a year and the Republicans still don't have a plan.

  • People in Massachusetts ... if they do not have insurance -- even if they lost their jobs and COBRA ran out, are fined $1,000 annually by the State. Does this ObamaCare bill mean Massachusetts residents will have to pay twice ... on both a federal and state level?

  • Welcome to the USSA ladies and gentleman

  • @Paintballguru92 Yeah like the redneck kingdom war any different.

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  • Nobody cares that these people do not have to folow the same laws? They can have private doctors! If it's so great, why don't they join there government healthcare??

  • if you're talking about the congressmen: they DO have government run healthcare!! and the LOVE it!!!

  • @yelnahfef2 thats a negative. My taxes pay for them to have the best healthcare. Now I also have to pay for everybody to have shitty health care. See ya in line!

  • I'm very happy for you Democrat Americans for not giving up for the sake of humanity. I don't see how anyone can be so hard-hearted and selfish to not want to take that murderous power away from insurance companies who did this HMO holocaust with impunity for so many decades. Truth is Americans were supposed to have universal health care long ago under Truman but again Republicans with their monstrous disregard for the common good got in the way but not anymore....I'm glad!

  • The good new is we have health care, Yeh!

    The bad new is we have no job. Our apology to those whose just about to lose their jobs due to Govt. healthcare mandates on your employers. Look at the bright side we have healthcare. Yes, Victory, Success.

    By the way college and high school students please pay your monthly healthcare bill on time so that we wont have to incarcerate your behinds.

  • @yesilike101

    I don't have to worry about that. For you see, the bill also mandates that insurance companies cover the children of those with plans until they are 26.

  • @yeslike101

    are u braindead? nobody will go to jail for not paying for insurance, not paying a debt is not a crime idiot.

    companies won't fire people because of it, simply will put some of their profits into the pockets of their employees instead of the rich boss only like mcdonalds. None of mcdonalds employees have insurance, now they will .

  • That's a good progress, hopefully it will work fine for everyone. the best thing in the bill is to stop the non-sense of pre-existing condition and the practice of terminating contracts when the insured becomes too costly ill.

  • ...I can not put into words how I'm feeling right now.

  • I'm thrilled.

    FINALLY all Americans who want insurance can have it. No more denying insurance for pre-existing conditions!

    I commend President Obama's leadership.

  • I am so glad  history in the making.

  • FINALLY!! Boy those fundies who don't give a shit about their fellow americans really tried to kill this health bill. look out though, they're trying to pull an Orwellian by re-writing history in Texas. Soon the confederacy will be along side Abraham Lincoln.  Go theocratic barbarism.

  • Wow...America...you're so very screwed. Anybody that can put two braincells together can see through the scam. I'm not even American nor do I live in the US, but I am highly envious of your constitution and bill of rights. You poor souls...

  • Congratulations you Americans, you're not TOTALLY hopeless of a country now.

    To think there was actually someone who believed in something else than private companies and sheepishly giving easy dollar bills to 70-year-old men with Yachts and Villas.

    Of course the trailer park dwellers will be utterly raged but hey...

  • This is a bunch of BS. Democrats are so stupid. Now we are all gonna have to pay for the fat overweight people out there who dont take care of themseleves. You could never use the health care but you are still paying for everybody else who dosent care.....and less people will because they now have health insurance. I cant belive that america is becoming so stupid and letting the freedom that we fight so hard to keep slip away. Obama biden and pelosi are a bunch of idoits.

  • @country

    by the way cancer is not there because people does not "take care of themselves"" as you said it. Obesity is mostly genetics as last studies have been shown. Oh and schezophrenia, alzemeirhs and many other diseases are not becuase the person is ""an idiot"" or "didn't take care of himself/herself""

    how stupi can u get? i am wondering....

  • Never try to explain intelligence to an idiot. That is like telling a man to duck in war when the bullets are flying. If someone is that dumb. That is their problem.

  • How stupid can i get....your the one who likes watching our freedom slide away...I dont care if obesity is genetics you can still eat right and excersise. America is the fatest country in the world...we also have the most fast food places...genetics is just a bullshit excuse. People are just way to lazy these days, and im not gonna work my but off so they can be lazy and countine having health problems when they can be prevented......

  • The only people against this bill have never been denied by their insurance company for an illness, have never been inflicted with a life long illness or no one in their family has been inflicted with a serious illness! Proud day to be a Democrat and fuck the TeaBaggers!

  • Huzzah!

    Another victory for human health and civil rights! If only Paine and Jefferson were alive to see this!

    No insurance company has the right to deny someone of their right to live.

    This is the largest victory for American human rights in 50 years!

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  • BRAVO DEMOCRATS!!!!!

  • House passes historic health care reform

  • Seriously people freedom slips away a little at a time. When you start being forced to do things and choice is taken away, you are losing freedom. Ex. a man and his family rarely get sick so they see no need to pay almost $6K in premiums a year for something they don't use. Coincidentally he has had 4 children w/out health insurance, he arranges with a doctor who will take a cash payment prior to delivery (at lower cost) $1800-$2000, now he will pay how much a year? You call that freedom?

  • @speck2552 and if one of those children gets hit by a car or falls and breaks a leg? will he pay the 20-30thousand out of pocket? or maybe the insurance will come in handy? or if they get struck by an ailment that costs hundreds of thousands? self-insurance and hsas don't work for people who aren't rich unless they're lucky and don't get sick

  • @Flirmy

    Don't bother trying to speak common sense to some of these people. The concept of personally paying a million dollars to treat your cancer (a complete and total impossibility unless you're filthy rich) was OK with them.

  • @speck2552

    Is it MY choice when my insurance company decides to drop me because of their half-assed description of a pre-existing condition?

  • You folks should pay attention to the fine print, abortion is a serious matter.

  • GO DEMOCRATS!

  • Go democrats if you like to pay more taxes and watch your freedom slip away...soo ya go democrats, a bunch of idoits

  • @countryboy4391 wait...so having universal health care = slavery, but needing to pay thousands of dollars a year to private companies who just make profit off you and will most likely refuse any coverage they can justify?

  • @countryboy

    he is a tea bagger republikkkan, what else can you expect from some uneducated redneckkks who think that by siding with the rich, then they are better.

  • Yes i am a republican, im not siding with the rich im siding with commen sense. Im not rich and i probally never will be. I work hard for what i have and i hate giving it away to people who are to lazy to get off there asses and make a living. I already have to pay for there welfare. You are so closed minded all hear is the good and not the bad....your just a stupid democrat who has no commen sense

  • Great Day to be an American & a Democrat.

    This Day will go down in History as the Day that Stopped Insurance Company's from Abusing their Customers & gave their Power to the people.

    As a Democrat I'm Looking Forward to Debating this Bill in the Fall & I welcome Conservatives & Republicans to Defend Insurance Company's why we Defend their Customers & let the Chips fall where they may.

  • What is every one complaining about, ..."we lost our freedom"??? Government can't obligate us to buy health insurance??? U People are DUMB!! If you own a car you Must have Insurance and you know it, and yes by LAW...So Isn't your health more important than your car. And really learn the truth and stop watching so much FOX news. Its dumber to believe everything Republicans tells just because they cause fear. They wan't you to be afraid so they can enlarge their pockets.

  • The government, or any other form of power, has a predicable habbit of slowly gaining power once it has found an opportunity. Just look at the bailout of the car companies. Because our government bought out these companies, they hold the upperhand over many of these companies and now control them more than the owners do. Its just human nature and the same thing will happen to the health care bill. I'm not trying to start anything, but its bound to happen at some point...

  • Obamageddon bailed out the insurance company's and the government now owns 80% of AIG also.

  • But you don't have to buy a car. See you still have a choice in that matter. You can choose to either pay the insurance on the car and the car payments, or you cannot buy one and not have to pay. This is forcing you to spend money on you and saying "It's for your own good cuz we know better."

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  • Great day in history.

  • "So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause"

  • @elizjones2888 its sad

  • What freedom have you lost?

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