Comments on: Obama Wants a Health Care Bill This Week

Presiden To Pressure Senate Finance Chairman to Move a Bill Out of Committee Quickly

[skyk-2009]

How long should we debate this thing? We've BEEN debating it now for over 60 YEARS! How do we KNOW if it will work or not UNTIL we put it in place that give it a spin. It may need work but even at that it's GOT to be better than the WORST on the PLANET!! I mean come on!! We pay TWICE more than anyone else on Earth and cover LESS people with those dollars. Just how much longer would you suggest we debate that issue?

[skyk-2009]

AND YOU think it's just going to fix itself and will NOT cost our Grandkids? That's pretty LAME isn't it? We made this mess, we ignore it time after time, when Republican's told us at Election Time they would deliver "affordable" Health Care... for THREE Decades we have been HEARING that. Guess what! RIGHT NOW as we sit at our computers it's costing us MORE, TWICE MORE, than any nation on this Planet. What do you think it will look like in 8 more years?? Now crawl back under that rock and lets get this DONE!! At LONG LAST it is TIME!!

[skyk-2009]

rhs648, you are joking right? You do know that goes on RIGHT now as we speak and if NOT for "Socialized" Medicare, you have to wonder how many MORE we'd have. Trying to SCARE people, given the history of this subject, is really not something that's going to work. The Internet kinda wiped all that out... you see NOW we can actually TALK to people who have such things!

[skyk-2009]

LOL Let me guess! YOU were one of those who INSISTED on putting "Trickle Down" in place when we had a Balanced Budget and Surplus? I'm right aren't I? Now I ask you who is MORE likely to get this mess straightened out? Someone who INSIST that a totally failed system is going to work, when it never has. We have NO choice to to ride this out... WE put ourselves IN this position and are asking this President to deal with a LOT of problems that have been around for THREE DECADES!!

[skyk-2009]

I don't get you people. No matter how hard some people work YOU few always have ONE issue you have to harp on. It's time you started looking at the WHOLE picture here because there's a LOT of people out here who can't get NORMAL Care and a lot more of us PAYING through the nose for a failed system. How about we let the negotiations move forward on all these issues and decide on the plan as a whole.

[skyk-2009]

You're one of those "Get the Government off the back of Big Business" folks I take it. Look I'd suppose you have your axe to grind and the BIG BUSINESS types have been telling us for THREE DECADES that a Public Plan would not work, private plans can do it so much better and so much cheaper they said. I say the time has come to let the AMERICAN PEOPLE decided which plan they like better. Put them out there and let the better plan win. LOL

[whymayiask]

Did Obama learn nothing about finances through the forclosure fiasco? We cannot AFFORD this house RIGHT NOW Mr. President...

[GiveMeFreedom]

Hey Obama, I want $10 million this week too. And no more wars. And no more poverty. And no more hunger. And no more cancer. And no more ........ it could go on forever. Time to grow up and stop acting like a teenager wanting everything!

And oh one more thing Santa Obama, I want no more ultra liberal democrats in my life stealing my hard earned money. Yeah I bet that will happen too Santa.

[skyk-2009]

Now since WE THE PEOPLE Elected this fine YOUNG Leader and since WE the PEOPLE voted specifically for what he's INSISTING Congress deliever, maybe you should look for someplace else to rip off people!? We are in the situation we are in because of ONE thing... BLIND STINKING GREED! We are there because ONE PARTY has favored BLIND STINKING GREED to the point that we are nearly bankrupt. Now really do you want to keep up with the Greed Argument, taken what your kind has gotten in compensation over the last 8 years compared to someone say like me? Maybe it's time to find a rock and hope for the best. When you have failed as badly as the Republican's have thats your best option.

[CitizenMikeM]

I gotta say something! I'm a moderate conservative at heart, but don't pigeon-hole me, being progressive is certainly not a bad thing. Iran is a conservative country, Turkey, Spain, the list goes on and on. This Country has to have people from Conervatives to Liberals to keep moving. Change is not always good, but it's not always bad either. I am more than willing to pay higher taxes (I'm also a realist) if it means this country will prosper. The most important political agenda in my 50+ years of life is at at right now--Healthcare Reform, We needed it 40 years ago, but we are desperate for it NOW! This "moderate/conservative" will side with any "liberal" idealist anytime to get that done.

[skyk-2009]

It's OUR turn people... the time has come for the Politician's to FEEL the heat! We MUST have a National Health Care System that allows US, the US WORKER, a chance to compete in the world we have to compete in. To continue to ask AMERICAN Workers to pay for the whole load while other workers face no such burden, makes our Work Force so far behind at the beginning there IS no catching up.

[Joe_NY_15]

It's YOUR turn to what, steal from your fellow Americans to pay for services you can't afford and fund your liberal idea of a free ride to the doctors ?? many healthcare costs are shared by the employer, so your notion that we are "continuing to ask American worker to pay for the whole load" is just that....a load of ______.

[skyk-2009]

Joe I've been a Liberal for as long as I can remember and not only did you TOTALLY distort the ISSUE, you Totally distorted my position. How does someone debate with that? Let's start with small letters here so you'll understand better. WE, the PEOPLE, debated this ISSUE for TWO YEARS before the Election. ONE fact came from that debate.. this NATION wants our FAILED Health Care System REFORMED. With me so far? Now NO ONE that I'm aware of in this debate is suggesting ANY free ride for ANYONE. What is being talked about is trying to fix a system that cost us MORE by twice than any other on the Planet. IF you don't like the "Liberal" position, let's here YOURS. If you have NONE and wish to leave it for the Kids... then why bother with the childish banter?

[Joe_NY_15]

So there is no stimulus checks ? No middle class tax cuts that were promised ?? the only thing we get is more taxes (cap/trade, healthcare, etc.)

If you are tired of the Tax and Spending of the Democrat party, look to the fiscally conservative republicans in 2010 !!!

[skyk-2009]

Oh YEAH Joe! I remember those guys... how can we EVER forget the Republican Lie! Hey I got an idea all you folks out there who are suffering through the worse economic meltdown since the great depression, let's say it together! "We will cut taxes to the Rich, that will TRICKLE DOWN to you working stiffs". "Then we're going to "Cut Spending" which will make up the MASSIVE DEFICITS the Wealth Shift Caused"! ROFLMAO You've got to be kidding?? ROFLMAO You'd HONESTLY buy THAT lie again?? ROFLMAO!! Hey Joe! I got some LAND to sell... it's a little wet but it will do just fine for you!! ROFLMAO