I just dont get it

Revel, Do you know what this administration stands for? And where did you get that information from? Their are many people, and corporations in this country that want public health care because insurance companies are monopolies in many areas. Do you have the choice as to what health care you get? The majority of people in this country do not, they either have government health care, or employer provided health care, so you really don't have a choice. And, in many states there is only two health care companies to choose from; Do you think they are competitive? And, they don't allow companies to go out of state to get health care because they have certain procedures that they want covered. This isn't as simple as the right wing talking points make it sound, and if all of this sounds fine to you then I don't know what to tell you. But, the current system isn't a capitalist system, it is a corrupt system, and it needs to be changed.

I am not too sure about this new healthcare thing. I think that to be honest I would rather just keep things the way they are. I know if you really need healthcare you can get it but will have to pay later. I know this will be discussed for awhile now that this is a public issue. I hope for the best but I am on an goverment healthcare plan and to be honest I hate it! I can only go certain places and I cannot find a dentist that will accept my insurance either. So from my standpoint let us choose just place a cap on it is my thoughts. Some people like to take advantage of what they have for free and to me that is not right. But hey when someone else is fronting the bill why not right? Take care and happy mylotting to you.

My argument against the health care bill is simply this. The Government Lies. Simple as that.

We have a Canadian member here whose husband may have been misdiagnosed. He can't have the tests he needs until December and she said he may die by then. That is a CRIME!! It's murder! Do we really wand this?! The government does!! A nation of healthy worker bees, unthinking and healthy drones so stupid and lulled into complacency that they won't fight anything! Those people on Capitol Hill have never lived like us. Those few that have, have forgotten or think they are better than us. We need to VOTE THEM OUT!!! I can't wait to see what will happen on 9/12 when people march on DC from all over the country. I hope they don't call out the Guard. I'm encouraged by parents keeping their kids home from school on the day the Prez plans to lecture them. People are waking up!

I am another who has insurance but still can't pay the difference, and the system here scares me. I just found out that my prescriptions are doubling in price next year because of my insurance company and I HAVE to order them through their mail order system, or pay the full amount with no insurance paying. I currently get one of these from Walmart for $4, it is now going to cost me $20. At first I kept quiet with all this because it is not my country. I am English and moved here to marry an American. But I live here, I am getting sicker under this system because I can't afford to have the treatment I need, I work and pay taxes here and every time I have this conversation I have to listen to people talking absolute rubbish about the system in my own country. The lies that are believed over here are incredible, I think we are being fed a load of rubbish on BOTH sides actually. I'm not some great political debator intellectual. All I can tell you is that I cannot afford to be sick here, I have no choice of Doctors because of which ones will take my insurance in my town, I have collection letters and calls when previously I never paid a bill late in my life, and I now recognize the British NHS for the great thing it is. No, its not perfect, but its also not a system where you can only be sick if you have money. How can that not be wrong? I don't think we should turn it into England or Canada - the USA is a very different country and needs its own appropriate solution. But I have lived under both and the fear of socialized healthcare here is something I do not understand, because we are so much more controlled all the time by the insurance/work etc situaion here than I ever was in England. I think it is based on the assumption that I hear over and over again here that over there we treat people in some medieval dungoen and kill them all automatically when they hit 60. But then, people here have also asked me 'if we have Christmas' in England, so whatever....lol

I agree with you! They just don't understand it's like "borrowing from Peter to pay Paul" is the phrase that comes to my mind. I have had to do this before when it came to paying some of my bills. The result was that Peter(bill) came due and there was less money to pay it; so the bill had to be put aside until the next month when I had to pay Peter - something else then had to also be put off until again the NEXT month. If there is no reform for the lawsuits; then there will be no money to pay for this monstrosity of a bill. Another facet is the number of healthcare providers versus the number of people needing the care; that is, according to the stats - there are NOT NEAR ENOUGH drs to see the number of patients that will be thrown into a public option system. So let me see, if you have a facility that hires 12 general drs to so many - will there be enough hours that they can work to see everybody who needs to be seen is my question?

i can kinda understand but as far as the medicare goes they don't really pay anything i have it and have to pay for everything all my hospital bills because medicare is not paying for any of them at all and as far as thats where the money is comming from i am not sure about that , i believe everyone needs health care but no one really knows all the facts because it keeps getting changed all the time.

These people in congress will never go under this plan. This plan is for the peasants like us,not the elites.

Healthcare is not a right, it is a privilege. No one is entitled to healthcare, they must earn it. This healthcare reform is really going to push us towards socialism and possibly even communism. Marx might have been right all along. As far as I am concerned, the only one who should take care of me is me, not we. I have an I mentality and not a we mentality. If you can't tell I am libertarian and this is so wrong to me.