Health Care: The Cost of Inaction

U.S. Senator Mark Udall joined U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-CO, and eight other Democratic freshman Senators on the Senate floor to give a series of speeches urging their colleagues to act on health insurance reform. Delivering a bloc of speeches on the Senate floor is an unusual move, but the freshman Senators wanted to show that they are united in their call to action and make their position clear the status quo is not sustainable.

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[ZizooMoDaI]

@reddgoat You might as well argue that Andrew Carnegie should've been allowed to go on forcing employees to sign contracts stating they wouldn't join workers' unions. Oh wait, he was allowed, because the government stayed out of business back then. If you wanna leave the government out of it all, we're just gonna go back to soundrel-run monopolies. I'm sure you'd love that.

[ZizooMoDaI]

@reddgoat Idiot, requiring health insurance for all Americans protects everyone else from paying their medical bills, and everything else you mentioned is a restriction on the insurance companies, not the individuals.

[reddgoat]

Lack of freedom is your concern, Senator Udall?! Really?

Yet the senate bill mandates that all American's purchase health insurance, mandates the policies regarding pre-existing conditions, mandates removing lifetime limits and mandates deductible levels.

Is that really increasing freedom in your eyes? How about stop your mandates and let me decide how I will insure myself. I'm a big boy... I'd like the FREEDOM to make that decision for myself. Don't need your mandates.

[JediCaptian]

Why does anyone believe that Congress cares about Americans having healthcare? They only care about getting re-elected and staying in power.

Healthcare reform is another government ruse to justify more taxes.

Like the Europeans, Congress will eventually make government healthcare mandatory, charge us for Rolls Royce coverage, give us a Yugo and pocket the difference.

Healthcare, bail-outs, cap and trade, they're all just government scams to squeeze more money out of US taxpayers.

[warrenroche]

The idea that we need a public option to keep the insurance companies in line is LUDICROUS! Who is going to keep the GOVERNMENT in line? Washington intends to set the rules for themselves as well as the insurance companies they are supposedly "competing" with. Government is not a competitor. Government is a PREDATOR! Senator Udall, you may think the recently released CBO scoring of The Baucus Bill gives you political cover. Well, not with this registered Democrat from Boulder County!

[wavoconqueso]

Republicans are shrill and hysterical in shouting such things as death panels, taxes and socialism. It's laughable. Death panels? What do you think there are in the cubicles of the insurance companies denying coverage to the dying? And our fire, police, military, Nasa and many other organizations are single payer public programs that work well. If after voting for Bush, not once but twice, you probably need to shut the F up because your party is on the wrong side of history. Again.

[GeneticHuman]

Thanks, Senator Udall, for supporting this. I was pleased to hear you mention how the current health care system strangles small business and innovation. Say you work for a large company, see an unaddressed need, and want to start a business to fill it. You, and your potential employees, are discouraged because you'll have to give up your health insurance. In fact, if any potential employee has anyone in their family with a pre-existing condition, they won't leave. Bye-bye new business.

[cmarmor]

What a load of crap!! This guy is part of the problem. If he is so concerned about health care reform (which IS needed), why not do some things that all Americans can agree on such as:

1. Improve competition by allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines.

2. Kick the trial lawyers in the ass and reform the medical malpractice nightmare. Democrats will NEVER do it because they are in the pocket of trial lawyers.

[lorinitzel]

That's exactly right: our nation's health care problem is our deficit problem. And a public option is essential to a successful health care reform package. Keep up the great work!

[ricksplaceVlaslow]

Why not let us read the bill?

Just more rhetoric.

All we need is

1. to buy insurance over state lines

2. No pre existing waver(acceptance of everybody even with pre existing illness)

3. Importation of Canadian Drugs (no behind the door deals with the drug companies to keep the prices high)