Comments on: Senators Tackle $1T Health Care Challenge

Democrats Expected To Scale Back Plans As Health, Finance Committees Wrestle With Overhaul Cost Estimates

[fedup12]

That is funny that you say that. With Obama it is health care.

The last 8 years (and as with most hypocritical republican regimes)it is huge military buildups, BS wars and the subsidy of other worthless governments and the need to be the worlds police)

I say 6 of one half a dozen of the other.

[venkata4--2008]

"'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan"

Interesting, why big corporations and banks went to government with a huge begging bowl then? AIG got 150 billions of the bail out right? If government is not there to help, they could have gone where ?

[ubrew12]

We went 'free market' on health care 30 years ago. This catastrophe is the result. It charges twice as much as any other country pays, and delivers nothing to 20-30% of the population. Make no mistake about it: we are IN this mess because of the free health insurance market. And one of out every three healthcare dollars we are charged goes into administrative costs, as insurance agents try to figure out how to deny us coverage for insurance we thought we'd been paying for.

[venkata4--2008]

This plan costs $ 1 trillion over next 10 years. Unjust, totally unwarranted Iraq war is cost us more than that per year. And that war funded totally by borrowing. Thanks to Bush administration and also his tax cuts of $135 billions to richest.

Now for funding for this health insurance, roll back tax cuts to richest and also introduce national sales tax of 2% which everybody has to pay. I know it is a very bitter pill to swallow but I am against republican way of barrow and spend.

Republican president Bush vetoed SCHIP 2 times & singed Iraq war spending bill in a swish. And guess who benefited from the war? Big energy companies, defense suppliers.

[sjc_1]

"..ruse to refinance Medicare/Medicaid"

After years of optional National Health Insurance, you may have millions of people in the program under the age of 50 paying premiums and not filing claims. If the profits from all of that can pay for some Medicare, that is a good thing. It means lower taxes and lower costs.

[ubrew12]

All_pols_need_2_go said: "How is it measured as well? Better because you pay nothing for it or actually better health care?"

9 million children in America have no health insurance. While that doesn't mean much to us, to the rest of the world is a SCANDAL of monumental proportions. Any country that would be comfortable placing its children at risk of death just to kiss some corporate **s is no ones idea of a 'beacon of freedom'. Trust me, the rest of the world looks at our system of health insurance and says 'thank God, we didnt go there'.

[ubrew12]

It isn't just the GOP. The reason the Dems aren't promoting single payer is because they are just as much in the pocket of the insurance executives as the GOP. So, while they try to figure out a way to insure the millions who are left behind in our 'for profit' health system, the two words you'll never hear them utter is 'single payer', which is Canada's system, and the system used in Europe, and just about everywhere ELSE in the world, and which saves billions of dollars a year in administrative costs (i.e. CEO salaries).

[ubrew12]

This could be so easy:
Go to single payer and save $400 billion in administrative costs immediately, so the switch MORE than pays for itself.

Canada has single payer: they get BETTER healthcare than we do (according to the World Health Organization) and pay HALF what we do to get it.

That's why just about EVERY trading partner we have has gone to single payer. While we're still trying to figure out how to make a private insurance scheme reasonably priced, and it overcharges for healthcare to the tune of trillions of dollars, and leaves 50 million Americans uninsured.

The rightwingers on this board suggesting that this is the best of all possible systems should be ashamed of themselves. This system KILLS people, and they are helping.

[woeisme1]

The rightwingers on this board suggesting that this is the best of all possible systems should be ashamed of themselves. This system KILLS people, and they are helping.
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And the neo-con party continues to crumble....LMAO!!

[gravyboat3000]

by dg441-2009 June 17, 2009 8:20 AM PDT
Quit giving free health care services to prisoners. They get three meals a day, a place to live and free health care thanks to us hard working taxpayers.
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Yes, we've already tortured prisoners, why not refuse basic healthcare to ALL inmates?

Then, they'll spread all kinds of diseases, that Americans will be exposed to. Wait, we could just throw 'em in a big pit! NO! Death penalty for parking tickets!

Kill 'em all, let the great spirit in the sky sort 'em out...

[dg441-2009]

Quit giving free health care services to prisoners. They get three meals a day, a place to live and free health care thanks to us hard working taxpayers.