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  • I got sent here by a website on American English Dialects.

  • I'm a conservative. But I was given a pacemaker when I was 10. My job doesn't offer insurance and I literally can not even buy private insurance even though I'm only 28, a non-smoker, healthy young man. I've called dozens of insurance companies; but once they learn of my pacemaker that's almost two decades ago, they outright refuse to even accept me. Every day is living on the edge. And it pains me to see conservative pundits make false generalized statements that most Americans reject reform.

  • I am a republican and I i am pissed off about the republican party working for the insrance companies instead of representing our interests as the American people. Therefore, I am voting democrat this coming election. The republican part can go to hell. The American people are asked to sacrifice their kids to Iraq, but we do not deserve to have healthcare that helps us when we are sick??? What sick party is this? Dam them and the insurance companies. Dam the republican part.

  • The problem isn't the reform. Obama refuses to concentrate on whats actually wrong with the system. He's going to completely change it for the worse and we are still going to have the same problems.

  • Obama is trying to repackage himself now...the American people rejected the first package and marked it "RETURN TO SENDER" LOL LOL

  • Do NOT associate with those given to CHANGE!! Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil. where the Spirit of the Lord is there is LIberty - Proverbs

    FEAR NOT, PRAY FOR YOUR ENEMY - Jesus

  • @AwisemanisStrong That is an erroneous translation.

  • oh yes sir!!!

  • Extend Medicare to Everybody!

    Pass H.R. 676!

    Yes, people are going to LIKE it! That's the whole POINT. Stop ranting against "entitlements," because every time a conservative rants against "entitlements" they're really saying that Americans don't deserve rights.

    H.R. 3200 is just a give-away to the health insurance companies. H.R. 3200 is the Mitt Romney plan, which was vetted by the right-wing Heritage Foundation!

  • Peace of mind huh. Taxed more than what I'm paying for healthcare now and have to wait for a committee of 12, weeks to months to say if I can get life save treatment. Mean while you die waiting. Oh like that's going to help me save money or give me a peace of mind.

    Either one is a total government ran healthcare.

    HR3200 was drafted by a bunch of known communist that call themselves Democrat's.

    H.R. 676 is the Republican version of communist healthcare. Just with national ID cards.

  • You have no clue what universal coverage is really about. Those tales of wait times are either exaggerated or totally fabricated. Democrats aren't Communists.

    Have you done ANY research for yourself? You seem to lack the basic knowledge on the health care bills! HR 3200 is a give-away to the insurance companies & wall street. HR 3200 is a re-tooled Mitt Romney plan.

    HR 676 is NOT a Republican bill. It was proposed by Kucinich & Conyers. HR 676 is the only thing that reforms health care.

  • @MrSTANDFORAMERICA That was so stupid. Have you passed third grade dumbass? What country on Earth with free healthcare has to wait 12 weeks for necessary procedures? Even when Gaddafi was the leader of Libya there were not wait times like that, in one of the world's bummiest countries. In Germany, actually, most people do not wait more than a couple hours. In Canada, they pay less taxes than here. But they have free healthcare. So whats with this tax bullshit?

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  • Bottom line is, all those that want communism in America, can get the hell out of the United States of America.

    For all this government control and ran healthcare is all it is.

  • Hum insurance companies have begged the government to open state lines. The Rep's has tried to open state lines, yet the Dem's keeping blocking state lines.

  • Low i have a copy of HR3200 on hard drive as well as printed.

    Now with my healthcare I can cross state lines and use my insurance in all 50 states. I just can't buy it from another company in another state.

    The nation does not need any form of single payer government ran healthcare. The nation doesn't need the government running healthcare.

  • So then that means we should end medicare, right?

    If you don't want single payer, then let's get rid of medicare.

    Let the seniors fight it out in the "free-market." Survival of of the fittest! Only the richest & fittest will survive in the barbaric excuse of a health care system that America has!

  • medicare was put in place to help the elderly that no longer can work.

    Not 28 year olds that are just to dambn lazy to work.

  • Look, the health care system in America is inefficient & morally wrong!

    This isn't about people who are "too damn lazy to work," you sick stupid Social Darwinist fuck! This is about giving the American people the piece of mind of KNOWING that they won't be threatened with FINANCIAL DEVASTATION just for getting sick! Every time conservatives argue against universal coverage, the argument inevitably leads to the fact that people will actually LIKE it! There's nothing wrong with UNIVERSAL coverage

  • go kill urself buddy

  • take some time and go watch ZXFHXqrrJ6g at where it is stated that public option is not subsidised by the government.

    This is where all the lies come from, the White House. one is saying it is, and another from the White House is saying it isn't.

    What it is, a goverment funded healthcare plan that can cross state lines. Funded by a gov that will take in less money, and can print as much money as they need for the cost. Till all ins. companies go under. Total gov control of healthcare.

  • No one is really against healthcare reform. But government ran healthcare is not healthcare reform. it's socialism, and socialsm does not belong in the USA.

    all it takes to bring insurance rates down is to open the state line fro insurance companies.

    To bring healthcare cost down to United States of America would have to go communist. Where the government would have to force doctors and hospitals to charge less for their services.

  • yeah, i guess we can only hope so.... nice comment, retard

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  • go health reform!

  • hey laura ... IDIOT!

    YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! WE ALL ARE!

    get that through your head.

    on your way to death STOP making doctors, insurance companies and the government rich!

    die in peace and leave an inheritence to your stupid kids, you damn breeder. give them the chance to survive and quit spending it on your vein life.

    everyone is so afraid to die they think healthcare is a "right". what a bunch of BS! the REAL demon is POVERTY - which is what you've made your family, you fat, ugly retard

  • Heartless troll.

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  • Great Video!!! Pass the Public Option!!!!

  • My company and me pay over $12,000 a year for health insurance for my family. We don't come anywhere near using even a fraction of it. I also pay a couple thousand more in payroll and income taxes to provide other people with Medicare. Obama is proposing that everyone will buy health insurance, some may need help from the government but at least everyone is paying into the system instead of the current system where just a few of us pick up the whole tab for everyone else.

  • First off not "EVERYONE" will be paying into it. If Obama didn't lie when he said we'll all have the option to enroll or stay with what we have.

    I'll saty with what i have. but wait, last night Obama said anyone that doesn't enroll will be taxed an eaxtra 2.7% of their income. So now I'll have to pay payroll and income taxes to provide other people with Medicare plus Obamacare for all those that think it cheaper and or free(only to those that don't work) and it's still just a co-pay.

  • When you say " anyone that doesn't enroll will be taxed an extra 2.7%" - what are people suppose to be enrolling in? Second what is Obamacare?

    I would like to keep what I have too but at the rates premiums are going up it I can see my employer eventually dropping it for a cheaper (less coverage) plan.

  • The Republicans are 2 faced. Since they could never get elected or re-elected if they ran on getting rid of Medicare they already support govt run health care. So they're either hypocrites or secret socialists!

    If Obama could/would give everyone Single Payer or Medicare for All the Dems would be in power for 40 years again- as they were after FDR.

    That is what they're really against- permanent minority status.

  • Check out "No Obamanation" video pass it around.

  • 1930's: republicans opposed social security

    1965: republicans opposed medicare

    2009: they oppose healthcare.

    clearly, SSI amd Medicare have worked, that is why republicans are using scare tactics saying medicare is going to gone, and they're going to euthanize your grandparents. well, if it weren't for the democrats, we wouldn't have medicare at this moment.

  • First off you need a little help on your English and we are not opposing and ever do we are saying that the paths are wrong. We think that healthcare is messed up but a government controlled healthcare is bad. I was in the Marines boy I know what government healthcare is like, you don't want it. Since you are only 16, stay in school, go to college and get a good job and provide for yourself.

  • When I graduate from a University, I don't plan on being in a government controlled healthcare system. But as of right now, I will lose my healthcare before I graduate college. I prefer to have some type of healthcare rather than none.

  • Well first off get a job and most companies have coverage, second with this option by the time you graduate you won't have a private option. Dispite what the President says it will kill private insurance.

  • how so?

  • FBH0.

    Game over Zero. We Win.

  • If this healthcare reform will help people like me then I am all for it. God forbid I really get sick and need more medical treatment right now because where I am sitting and so many other people are it's not a comfortable position.

  • Obama said there going to use the money that already being spent on healthcare and basically tweak it. That as of right now it's not beig spent correctly. A year ago I had insurance then the company I worked for went out of business. Since then I have became ill and instead of being able to go to the docter I was given medincine from my family. they had extra refills on antibiotics from there previous dr's visits. This is not the way it should be done but sometimes there are no other options.

  • Don't always believe what Obama or anyone says it is what they do that matters. Originally yes that is the plan but in the same plan is option for healthcare by the government and businesses and individuals will eventually migrate and become another trillion dollar plan it is the snowball effect, private insurance will die and we will have no option, that is not freedom.

  • it will die if the insurance companies use the money they get from raising premiums and increasing co-pays on an individual and using that to give bonuses to top executives instead of making health costs more affordable.

  • I do believe that the health care system is corrupt but I don't feel that their should be a government option, it is not the responsibility of the American people to provide coverage for the uninsured when we pay for ours. If people would pay attention in school and make something of themselves rather than focus on legalizing marijuana then they would have good coverage, don't penalize successful people because you are pathetic and lazy. Some people work hard and the others hardly work.

  • some people have rich parents that can get them into ivy league schools, can afford to live in expensive neighbor hoods with good opportunities...some families can't...its a vicious cycle man.  Not everyone on food stamps is lazy or pathetic, and not everyone who is "successful" got there from being hard working.

  • That is so typical uneducated of a response, if you actually look at some of the current wealthiest people were not "old money" they went to public schools like Bill Gates did and paid attention and acheived something. Everyone has the same opportunities watch Pursuit of Happyness, I went to public school and just passed by and am paying to go to Devry and get my degree and makes something of myself at 25. Some people strive to succeed and others whine that they aren't from rich families like...

  • Yes, there are "self made" millionaires...and I love Bill Gates...he gives millions to charities around the world. Without his money people would literally be dying and starving to death. But the people who are on welfare are not people like Bill Gates who grew up in suburban Seattle, but people in the ghettos, whose parents can't afford to go anywhere else or to send them to a nice school to get a good education. Reality check, most of us went to public school, but they are not all the same

  • being as young as i am..im thinking that i want to marry someone from cananda..and get the free health they have! ha..jokes.

  • Thank you. You're very brave. I hope they find a cure for your cancer and you live a long full life. I agree with you that health care reform is needed now.

  • REFORM is an absolute MUST for this healthcare "scare"... at least Pres Obama is looking & evaluating OTHER options for AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE for EVERYONE. I agree - private healthcare insurance companies will continue to monopolize the market if NOTHING is done. We see how well that is working on our behalfs. Most people cannot afford it.

  • Please pass HR 676!

    Take the health insurance companies out of the picture. That's one of the BEST ways to cut down on costs. HR 3200 is just a re-tooled Mitt Romney plan which was vetted by the right wing Heritage Foundation! The current plan Obama & the Democrats are pushing is a give-away to the insurance companies!

    Why do you think the stock market has been rallying for over a week now?! If the insurance companies are involved, the people are STILL getting screwed over!

  • It's not. Obama won't sign anything that will add to our deficit.

    Base your opinions on facts... do research... reform is a good thing.

    Vote Yes :)

  • FunnyR,

    Todays newspaper says that If Obama gets his health plan pass it will cost $900 Billion over 10 years. If the government says it will cost $900 billion? Then you can bet it will actually cost three or four times that amount. Guess who will pay for this massive tax scam???

  • ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN FIVE YEARS???? Wow, I've never seen those kinds of prices over here in the Netherlands, and I work at a health insurance company so I can know...American health care is indeed MUCH too expensive!!

  • Reason being is doctors are charged a huge amount for medical malpractice cause americans will Sue for just about any reason. At least in your court system the losing party has to pay the winning parties legal expenses. That cuts down on pointless law suits and lowers malpractice insurance

  • Fight these right wing nuts stopping healthcare. We have a right to healthcare and we will not be denied. Cut the Department of Offense 50 to 60% and pay for single payer for all! The giant military we have will be used by our sold out government. War is the greatest tool to take money from all Americansd and give it to a few rich people that own most of the defense companies. We are being lied to every day!

  • Its not the right wings stopping it!!! Its the democrats holding their selves back. They have a fillabuster proof vote to pass this bill. meaning with full democratic support in Congress, Senate and White house this bill would pass even if the republicans all voted against it!

    The media leaves out that point to continue the blame game

  • THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE PUBLIC OPTION. No compromise...

  • This is no way to live in a developed nation. We need this reform and have needed it for 50 years.

  • music ,I agree with you..

    If I had to take prescription medication for my conition..I'd go broke

  • the govt would not spend a mill. on you.....

  • You think health care is expensive now? Wait till it's free!

  • I rather take my tax dollars to help this family vs a war with such an uncertain outcome.

  • I am a 31 yr old Breast Cancer patient, who was diagnosed in December 2007 at the age of 29. I underwent a Mastectomy with Abdominal TRAM flap and had several lymph nodes removed in February 2008. I immediately began dose-dense chemotherapy, which has kept me extremely ill throughout treatment and therefore on forced medical leave to this day. I am beyond overwhelmed with medical bills, even though insured at the time of diagnosis. I will have no future if healthcare is not reformed immediately!

  • You OBVIOUSLY have never had to deal with devastating illness in your own family. God forbid you do! I'd like to be there to see you choke on your words as you watch a child or companion die a slow death becuase the insurance companies are too busy making profits for them to get treatment.

  • Watch

    "Two women" on youtube w/national healthcare from Canada. I am truly sorry that you are going through what you are going through. It is devastating. My sister was diagnosed in 2000; and my mother in 2005. The very best to you.

  • It's not about the government declining me now...it's about making healthcare AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYONE! Why should the insurance companies be able to profit from illness and death???

  • Really......to really think the people with out health insurance are going untreated......walk into any emergency room at a community Hospital......they are getting treated and stiffing the Doctors and the Hospitals......and its not costing the uninsured a dime.....so were is all this money going to come from to pay all these claims for the AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE!

  • so essentially what your are saying is we are already paying for it? So what's the problem here? lol

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  • National Healthcare in the UK has 300,000 less breast cancer survivors than the nasty

    United States.

    No govt. healthcare.

  • right on

  • you are a liar. The WHO rates the UK system 18th in the world. USA 37th. Time for a change, and you can't lie enough to stop it.

  • It seems my post with the link from the UK - tried twice - will not post here. I would wonder why that is, but last year before election, NO negative post about you-know-who was permitted.

    Now that's American, isn't it? As are the "misinformation" website. Want to say that is a lie, too? You hateful, uneducated, and thoroughly altogether unpleasant individual.

    I will, however, try to post the link again, champ......'scuse me, chump.

  • So you are too fucking stupid to figure out your key board so thats Obamas fault? Hey if you mother and father divorced would they still be siblings?

  • Blame?

    If you removed the f-word from your thoroughly unpleasant vocabulary, you'd have very little to say, wouldn't you?

    Actually, there's not much meat there now.

  • Uck you!

  • Brilliant!!!!

    Thank you for being you - and bashing Republicans. It's really an honor for you to be on the opposing side - any opposing side.

  • If I can outrage or at least annoy people here at home it's a good feeling, if I know I'm doing so globally - then that's "chuff"

  • Why compare with the worst? In the rest of Europe health care is affordable and by far superior than the US 'system'. My mother in the Netherlands had breast cancer and was treated excellently and the yearly routine checks are fully paid for as well by her $120 a month insurance w/o any co-payments and restrictions. This on top of unlimited dental care. All covered.

  • Why wasn't something like this done earlier to show a human face. I mean if you have to use money to buy air time to prove your point then so be it.

  • President Obama if you're reading this use some of the tarp money to pay off Congress! If it takes money to help those Congressman and Senators to help pay for their campaigns then use it! YOU are the President! George Bush didn't think twice about funding Halliburton, Big Oil or fund the Iraq War! Geez I thought you are the President! Why are you acting like a freshman congressman?

  • It's getting to the point I don't really care any more. I have health insurance and I pay a lot for it. Yeah I would like to pay less and I would like there to be a public option but where are the 47 million people who need it?! You would think they'd be in Washington coming in by bus, train, plane, car and wheelchair to fight for a public option! It didn't take the insurance companies too long to get a couple hundred million dollars to pay off Congress.

  • Why ia everyone so scared about socialist healthcare? if its free, its good

    think about it our libraries, post office, and police/fire deparments are socialized and doing just fine....cause they're free...why not helathcare???

  • i think because socialized health care would make everyone status equal..meaning the wealthy people would have to take a step down

  • sounds like you're jealous of the wealthy

  • sounds like u dont know what ur talking about

  • who cares if the wealthy people step down...and its not how socialism works...look at china theres rich and poor people there too and its a socialist country...socialism is dead its just bullcrap to scare people about the government...if you thin about it we have socialized medicine now called Medical Medicade, and its working out fine...i bet your grandmother or mother uses this...if she doesnt she would be paying alot for her healthcare

  • It's about time for the United States to have health access for everyone, just like all the other industrialized nations. We're not talking socialist countries, we're talking about Japan, Germany, France, everywhere but the U.S. The reform proposals would add an option for people to select the government's insurance plan - even those that can't be insured by commercial insurance. It's the quickest and best way to cover everyone!

  • this is horribly disgusting.

    guilt tripping the people.

    wow.

    i'm not in the least surprised though.

  • ha. ya. guilt tripping people by telling the truth.

  • i can taste it..health care reform is near people******

  • Punish everyone. The insurance companies, the doctors, the patients..oh wait, they're missing the lawyers. They don't want to punish the lawyers...now that would be just wrong (but socialism is okay).

  • truth is insurance companies are going to aim for profit, theres no room for morality in that and their limited funds means they will slip away like a bar of soap.  the government is far from perfect but unlike the insurance companies they have enough funds to afford to take care of everyone, also their best interests are to keep you alive so you can pay your taxes. bluntly put insurance companies deem you expendable, this isn't about parties or socialism, its about human life.

  • Really? They have the funds? NO. They don't THE GOVERNMENT is paid by OUR taxes. I dont want to pay for someone else's lazy ass. The gov't needs to get outta here

  • Test....seems the govt keeps deleting my post's.....

  • You're beyond foolish if you think profit seeking corporations care about people.

  • Yeah people...it's too expensive to be healthy. So just keep your money so you can keep eating junk food, laying around on the couch watching "Idol, Dancing" with the Stars", and reality shows. Oh, and don't forget to keep smoking. Yeah, I'd rather have cancer, heart disease, diabetes than pay one cent to that "expensive" universal health care system. Idiot moronic backwards myopic people...wake up. Insurance companies don't give a crap about you. Unless you are a share holder of course.

  • and your an idiot if you think the govt. cares about you......

  • The government is "supposed" to be you, therefore logically it supposed to care about you more than a private insurance company Einstein.

  • they care if u can afford to pay it lol

  • YEA RIGHT........but that is not how it works...I have been a Insurance Broker for over 15 years and have helped get my clients claims paid...and if I have to go up against the govt or a private insurance company to get your claims paid I will choose the insurance company.....but what it all boils down to is paying the doctors to treat you....have you asked your doctor what he thinks about getting paid from the govt....hell they are siffing car dealerships on the cash for clunkers fiasco....

  • Stibroker, U are the problem. Instead of participating in our government, u choose to separate urself and create this view of "us vs. them". U reject that which is supposed to be a part of u and embrace that which seeks to exploit u. U are the problem. Not Obama, not the government, not America. U can keep thinking this way, but don't expect to be respected for ur laziness to fulfill ur duties as an American to participate in a Gov. by the people for the people, of the people.

  • Wow, why am I not surprised an Insurance Broker is against health care reform. Gaaaaawdamit.

  • Yea.and I also have to buy my insurance just like everyone else.I had twin's the ran up over a $250,000 bill main point that seems to be missed in this whole health care reform quagmire is that its not only getting everyone affordable health care but rather making sure the hospitals and doctors receive payment for their services..so I think if the govt. wants to throw money at some thing it should be the public's medical bills because that is the factor that determines Health Insurance premiums

  • you also have to understand even if you cut insurance premiums there will still be snapper heads that will not buy it ...and if you still can not afford it after the slashing of premiums then you are a medicaid candidate....

  • A insurance even commenting on this debate is like Boeing commenting on the Iraq war. No matter what you say your opinion will be tossed out.

  • Stibroker: I have one question for you...

    Do you have a health insurance plan?

    I have a reocuring Condition ( Moderate Hypoglycemia) ... If I had health insurance ,do you that they ( company) would drop me for that reason ?

  • Yes I do,,,,,,,and no Insurance company's do not drop you when you get sick....they will cxl your policy for not paying the prem......

  • These greedy fucks should you rounded up and shot through the head and turned into dog food.  Fuck the right.

  • whoever is here saying how horrible this is and how its gonna ruin America, you obviously have been listening to all the crap people have spread about it. The government health care is only another option on the list Americans can choose from. You ARE allowed to keep your private insurance, and you ARE NOT required to get it if you don't want it.

  • If The democratic process is killed off to hike profits for the HMO - it will make 9-11 less of a crime.

  • oops. typo... make that 1/2 the money from the stimulus... Don't hide stuff from us obama. we didnt elect you to lie to us and for you to take our money and give it to useless things

  • don't waste our money on universal health care... its too much money, be cheaper to get all the companies in the area and get cheap health care for all their employs, and Tort reform. also, obama could have spent 1/4 the money from the stimulus on buying healthcare for all the people who dont have it and want it. dont shove things down people's throats on what they have to have.

    From Kittanning, PA

  • oh shut up

  • what do you mean?

    you mean you have to wait for a long time?

  • no to health care reform

  • May you watch your children die a slow agonizing cancer filled death interrupted by process servers and lawyers looking for money.

  • doesnt even make sense, but ok

  • the private healthcare industry is not capitalists dont kid your self. the senators and the house get payed thousands and millions all the time from these industries this is not capitalism. most of these senators are not there for us they are there for them self and there retirement. lobbyist are not supporters of the American people. we should have had green cars long ago but big oil has payed government to keep them around I want progress not the dark ages we see the same from private health

  • Obama and his reform would not have approved your treatment to began with because you would be considered prolonging the inevitable....but you having insurance got the treatment you needed to keep you alive to make this video....if a majority of the bill is paid the hospitals will work with you on the rest...under the reform bill you would have not been approved for treatment to began with....

  • So true. Agree with you 100%

  • Funny how we all critisize the Government yet we want them to control our health .... amazing!

  • How thick can your head get? "Change" is imminent and health care reform will happen whether you like it or not. Brains like yours bring this country backwards instead of forward.

  • You have got to be kidding me that people would actually support this bill. And to those that say Fox News distorts the facts obviously are very unaware of what the facts even are.

  • im her son

  • dont feel any urgency to get screwed around with more b.s. killer health care reform....its killer now,,with urgency it will be worse......get those insurence guys...and the pharma companies....we need to take our time..........walk down the hill and do them all...not just run down and do us just one! said the ole bull to the young one...........above all dont listen to theses silly political heffers

  • Rush Limbaugh is available. Just roll him in doe and look for the wet spot.

  • FREE HEALTH CARE!!

    OBAMA

  • Your say that, just wait til something happens to you.

  • eh die wut evea

  • PLEASE OBAMA HELP US THE PEOPLE

    make health care free

  • sad

  • This is very sad... I really hope they get through...

  • 2 -10 years what a bomb shell

    X(

  • You think healthcare is expensive now? What till its free.

  • THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE!

    sigh.

  • "what till its free" fucking douche bag.

  • Blame, wait until you you develope a reoccuring illness( Ie cancer), and have to pay through the nose for Health insurance,,only to be dropped because of your cancer... then you can complain about health care...until then shut up!

  • ur an idiot.

  • I feel for you sweet heart...you're a very brave little girl !

  • would this be much like the urgency of the stimulus, of which only 6% has been spent?

    we were in such a big rush to give them the money and they didn't even use it

    and now your very health you want to rush, you want them to just slap together some hodgepodge of ideas and call it reform?

    i think undertaking the insurance of 300 MILLION people should take far more time than it has and it's certainly NOT something you want to rush

    use your heads

  • 300 million? I might be reading incorrectly in your statement, but you seem to be under the (wrong) impression that every American would be using this NHS. It's called a PUBLIC option for a reason.

  • Exactly. You should never try to rush into something that could last several years, possibly screwing us over more than we ever thought possible. There is a reason why debate over what we should do for the health care system has been taking so long. I agree that we should move a little faster on the topic but to go at full speed for something so delicate? Hell no.

  • >There is a reason why debate over what we should do for the health care system has been taking so long

    And it's not why you think.

    The republicans in the house and senate don't want to compromise. They don't honestly believe 'Hey we should make this like really really good rather than rushing.'

    They want to delay and delay and delay until it dies. They demand holes be punched into it, and then they STILL refuse to vote for it. They do NOT WANT healthcare reform. They are in the pocket.

  • Woodgrainwheels.... Wow. Just wow.

  • Karma will come back to you. How can you even be so evil?

  • It's made by the government, so.....

  • OF COURSE CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE! But opting to create a government insurance company to compete with the other insurance companies isn't a viable option! What we need is to get in our heads that HEALTHCARE is not an industry! It's a human right, that all people have to right to be healthy. I don't understand why the hell everyone is so scared if socializing healthcare. Do what is right, America!

  • JibblesTaint: Apparently, you are your brother's keeper, but not all of us are. Some of us find it morally evil to force others to act against their will (i.e. tax them to support socialization).

    Rights are rights to action, not entitlements -- you are speaking of an entitlement to healthcare, it is not a right. Entitlements infringe on the rights of others -- it is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

    A change is needed -- get the government completely out of healthcare.

  • MsWanderer1: for that to happen, the white house would need to have an audience, that audience being the American people. Seems these days a small minority is only interesting in screaming and preventing any intelligent dialogue from happening. That needs to stop.

  • They have been honest, it's agencies like Fox News that distort the facts. actually watch the full press briefings yourself, read the sections of the bill or the whole bill if you are confused or want to double check what those psychos Limbaugh or Glenn Beck are saying. also, it is not "tiered", it's &quo