Comments on: Congress exempts itself from government-run socialized medicine!

By: joe wittreicfh

joe wittreicfh — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:09:35 +0000

We don’t want this health plan:
too expensive
puts gov inbetween
I have to pay for my benifits and aliens,and bums.

By: Janet Kraus

Janet Kraus — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:34:02 +0000

How in the world can the “powers that be” in our great land ofAmerica take this approach to medical care? Why won’t they answer the questions about going over to this plan, if they pass it? Because they are taken care of in all matters of health care and as some of the other coments are made, we are paying for it. I do not want to be on a socialized medicine plan. I will write my senators and reps of that feeling., I wish they would all taking a flying leap. The best thing they could pass is eliminate the electorial college and let our votes cound as we intended them to.

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By: John H Dossey

John H Dossey — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:47:51 +0000

Oh my God!!!
Have most of my fellow Americans Been brain washed but those right wing republican zombies on FOX(totally Biased)News. Universal health care is not a ploy by the devil or the Antichrist to take over the world nor is it the dreaded “C” word. Universal health care is a basic human right that most citizens of the top 50 countries in the world enjoys.
I have lived in the UK for the past 12 years but still consider America my one and only home and hope to return someday but the only thing that stops me is that fact that I wont get good health care in the states because I’m neither poor or wealthy just a hard working Joe who pays his taxes.
Let my dispel some myths about universal health care.
1.) You have to wait months or years to get treated
Not true very rarely it can take months but non urgent ops are normally dealt with in weeks and if you don’t want to wait you can always go private which is still cheaper that any health care in the states.
2.) The government chooses your doctor
Not true I drive 5 miles(in the UK 5miles is a long way away) to see my Doc because I chose him and he is very good even though I have a Doctors surgery round the corner from my house.
3.) Health care is rationed: Not true it is against the law in the UK for the health care system to discriminant against anyone and refuse them care. Many of my family members have received health care while visiting me from the states and were not charged a penny(oh sorry they had to pay a £10 subscription fee for their medication which you don’t pay if you are over 60.

4.) The government will gain more control over its citizen it it will be Gorge Orwell’s 1984 come to life.
Not True: The French who have one of the best health care systems in the world are definitely not controlled by their government hell they strike at the drop of a hat and generally get what they want and one of the things they fought hardest for was better health care.

And just one last thought one of my friends in the states had to make a horrific choice sell their house or let their son die from leukaemia. That’s a choice that unfortunately many Americans have to make where as my Mother in law is getting excellent treatment for her cancer in the UK and she dose not have the extra worry of cost.

Stop falling for all the crap about Communism and Socialism its not true its just a smoke screen so that insurance company can continue to profit from the misery of the American people.
And if congress refuses to have the same health care as the people they represent then vote their fat asses out that is why its called democracy.

By: Diane Keen

Diane Keen — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:29:15 +0000

I do not wish to have government run socialized medicine. Please to something else because this IS NOT the solution.

By: jhweath

jhweath — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:45:35 +0000

jacksmith, how in the hell do you know whether the health care bill is good or not. Have you seen it? Have you read it? No and neither has congress. This is another Obama-Pelosi bulldozing. I for one sure as hell do not want to pay the bills for illegals and people that will not work and that is what we all will be doing. The government is broke. They can’t pay for it. How many people make over a million a year- not enough taxing them to pay for it. The working people will pay for it. And they are going to take money from Medicare which is already broke. The only reason that so many people are on Medicare is because companies will not continue coverage for retired employees because there is Medicare. What do you think will happen with ObamaCare? The same damned thing. What are you going to do if you need heart surgery and you are told that it is too expensive or you are put on a one year waiting list? Or like Obama wants it, if you are old you don’t need medical care- just die and get out of the way. Obama is an idiot and his ideas are worse and congressional Democrats have blinders on and dine on his fodder. Thank God some of them have gotten some backbone and are finally bucking the chosen one.

By: Psychologist

Psychologist — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:41:12 +0000

If the government can do this, your have to wonder what’s next? The things the government can do is way beyond a tax on tea. All of our state legislatures must stop the feds.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:39:54 +0000

CSPAN last night — I watched the elite democrats vote against the govt plan for themselves, but each of them seems to think it’s ok to force it upon the American taxpayers. Those elite democrats need to be voted out of office in the next election. We need a news station to run that segment of the Congressional vote showing their reponses, so we replace these individuals in Congress. It’s obvious they have forgotten they work for the taxpayers…I think Obama has forgotten this also. As a registered democrat, I plan to change my votes in 2010 and 2012. I want to remind the Congress, you work for the taxpayers!

By: jacksmith

jacksmith — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:22:02 +0000

THIS IS IT!

The healthcare reform bill released by the House Of Representatives is an excellent bill as I understand it. It’s a bill with a strong, robust, government-run public option, and an intelligent, reasonable initial funding plan to cover almost all of the American people. It is carefully written, and thoughtfully constructed, informed, prudent and wise. This bill will save trillions of dollars, and millions of your lives.

This is the type of bill that all Americans can feel good about. And this is the type of bill that has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Rich, middle class and poor a like. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all other party affiliations. This bill has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of every American.

The house healthcare bill should be viewed as the minimum GOLD STANDARD by which all other proposed healthcare legislation should be judged. All supporters of true high quality healthcare reform should now place all your support behind this healthcare reform bill released by the United States House Of Representatives, as the minimum Gold standard for healthcare reform in America.

You should all now support this bill with all your might, and all of your unrelenting tenacity. This healthcare bill is a VERY, VERY GOOD! bill for all of the American people. Fight tooth, and nail for every bit of this bill if you have too. Be aggressive, creative, and relentless for this bill.

From this time forward, go BIGGER and DEEPER with the American people every day until passage of healthcare reform with a robust, government-run public option.

FIGHT!! like your life and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. BECAUSE IT DOES!

SPREAD THE WORD

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSM8t_cLZgk&feature=player_embedded)

God Bless You

Jack Smith — Working Class

By: Scott Greene

Scott Greene — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:41:19 +0000

The product of health insurance is to provide you with medical coverage when you need it.
Unlike other businesses that need to provide you with their product in order to make any money, health insurance companies actually make more money for themselves when they restrict and do not pay claims.
In other words, they make more money when they do NOT provide the product that you have paid them for.

Read the 50 to 70 pages of your health insurance contract.
Pay particular attention to the section entitled “limitations and exclusions”.
People’s health is not a product that needs to be left to the whims of money motivated CEO’s and stockholders.
If that is your thinking, you might as well have your police and fire department protection based on insurance premiums you pay.
Then you can go to the police and fire protection insurance page for ‘limitations and exclusions’ on whether or not the police or fire department would come out to your house in the event of an emergency.

The point is, you would never think of discriminating against another citizen if he was the victim of a fire or crime.
So why would you be ok with health insurance companies discriminating against fellow citizens who have pre-existing medical conditions?