TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Work in Progress

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: White House Budget Director Peter Orszag and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius say that the major health care reform proposal congress is working on is making progress, but Republicans remain entrenched in opposition to the President's big push as the previously proposed August congressional recess deadline approaches. We examine the standoff in today's Sunday Show Roundup.

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[marniespeaks]

Cancel Congressional Heath Care until ever American is covered

[tsuboimachi]

Fact: "the high cost" is 1/2 percent of GDP. Come on, isn't health care for all worth it?

[Smartassawhip]

I have posted a link to the actual health care bill in the comment section on my profile for those of you who would like to read it for themselves in order to find out the truth.

[SquallCloud]

I'm so tired of people crying about bipartisanship. It's just a code word that means "watered down".

[mgband]

Bless you for trying, mate. But youtube is not the place for high level discussion. Sad but true.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

I also offered current anecdotal evidence of why I said what I said so you would know the real kind of issues Canadians face with our health care system. Too often Americans think ours is the way without acknowledging the weak points of our system. I wish you well moving forward, cheers!

[tsuboimachi]

Let's see... by simply asking questions and telling of my Canadian friend's satisfaction with his health care, you have insinuated that I am, inaccurately, bourgeoise and questioned my compassion for others. I was trying to rise above the fray here on Youtube and have a discussion but you, evidently, don't care to. Good-bye.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

now I'm not saying Ontario Health care is the worst thing in the world, but its no better than your current system and that is the problem. your poor die waiting for care they can never afford, our sick die waiting for care they will never live long enough to receive, so what is the difference in these two unequal failing systems ?

[LeGioNoFZioN]

.... little Hailey has been waiting since April, and will have to continue to wait till November to see that specialist and begin treatment. I don't know how cold and uncaring you are, but in my world that kind of wait for vital care central to the life expectancy of your child should never have to wait. Waiting for a broken bone is one thing, when its cancer or hip replacement, or auto-immune like AIDS every day you wait brings you unnecessarily closer to death.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

he must live in one of our cities. Access isn't bad in cities, for the most part. Still problems but not so much life threatening ones. Still your reply sounds very bourgeoise because in order to have care that works you need timely access to it. A good friend of mine has a 4 yr old daughter with health problems for over the last year and a half. Her family doctor thinks she has Cystic Fibrosis, but in order to start treatment the girl has to see a specialist ....

[dkkght46]

The Senate's health care legislation will give the Health and Human Services secretary the authority to develop standards of measuring gender -- as opposed to using the traditional "male" and "female" categories -- in a database of all who apply or participate in government-run or government-supported health care plans.

WTF!

[bonkata55]

Fix government first, then take on health care. Who believes the idiots in Washington can fix anything?