I know a lot of discussions have been had here on health care, but I found this at Factcheck. It's pretty fair and balanced: Looks like both MSNBC and Fox are helping spread the manure, I've heard all of these on one or the other. Seven Falsehoods About Health Care | FactCheck.org False: Government Will Decide What Care I Get (a.k.a. they won’t give grandma a hip replacement): Hannity's favorite False: The Bill Is Paid For: Did anyone actually believe this one? False: Private Insurance Will Be Illegal False: The House Bill Requires Suicide Counseling: Palin was lying, imagine that. False: Families Will Save $2,500 False: Medicare Benefits Will Be Slashed False: Illegal Immigrants Will Be Covered I wouldn't mind a public option, if it's not allowed to run in the red. It could be non-profit but self sustaining, whatever it brought in, that's what it could spend. A little competiton for the insurance companies wouldn't be a bad thing.
Are you saying that in the richest country in the world, that everyone shouldn't have access to affordable health care? I think everyone should bear the burden of paying for health care, but the insurance and drug industries have stacked the deck, due to their influence in Washington. Let's see if you feel that way when your insurance preimum costs more than the mortage on a new house.
No sure we are and definitely won't be by the time this administration is done. Neither is jacking off in public. If Obama would simply get in front of the cameras and articulate exactly what he wants Congress to pass, it would be a lot easier to understand. A thousand page document written in Legislateze just leaves too much to interpretation. Like O'Reilley suggests, just give us a 2 or 3 page document with bullet points.
So quit squawking about it being a Constitutional issue. Well, that's what Bill and Hillary did and Congress shot it down because they were not involved enough. So this time Obama made sure to involve Congress and they added every little pet provision that they wanted. Now, Obama needs to push Congress to debate the issues, whittle down the bill, make meaningful compromises, and write a better bill.
I'm not and I haven't. I've said that increasing Governmental intrusion into these areas is unconstitutional.
