Will Democrats Ever Wake Up?

The first honest article on the mess of health care and how elected representatives deserve to get kicked in their pompous, self righteous, lying kiesters!
“Throw the bums OUT!” should be the national cry.

This is a bunch of crap……the Insurance should go to help the Seniors and laid off workers and children who need it, not just anyone to dip in the medicare insurance. The big shots who have money can afford insurance….., the people out of a job and children need care……and the seniors need all the help they can get….thanks to you Obama we get no cost of living this year…….I’ve had bills to go up, how are we suppose to pay for those…..something definitely needs to be done, but don’t take it out on the insurance for people who need it…..make cuts elsewhere……you fat cats, try living on a thousand dollars a month and even less…….

If only you read the new Health care bill would you know what they are trying to pull over our eyes. It’s more than just a health care bill. It’s major invasive socialism. This health care bill is the most hideous socialistic piece of garbage I have ever seen. We needed help with our medical bills but believe me you do not want this bill. Why didn’t they do it right? It’s invasive Marxism to the nth degree. We live in a Democracy, a give and take democracy. I do not hate Democrats and I do not hate Republicans, we needed a good bi-partisan bill for health care that actually is good for us Americans (no other nationals), not what they have implemented.
I prayed that a Republican would win in Massachusetts. We need equality in
congress. Not totalitarianism.

The majority of those in Washington, are among the elitist wealthy in this country, and they associate with those like themselves……so they lose all concept of the common man and what the common man wants from Washington.
This is how the citizens get the attention of those who are supposed to be representing them.

Yesterday, I noticed that Wall Street was having a field day. Jim Cramer touted stocks in health insurance companies. FOX news got into the fray and encouraged its listeners to help Scott Brown get elected because they could increase the value of their 401K’s. Shahien Nasiripour on yesterday’s Huffington Post noted that the value of all health insurance stock jumped. I checked those companies today and discovered that some of the stock prices went down probably because of profit-taking, but the bottom line is that the real winner of yesterday’s election was Wall Street.
Wall Street of course will have to give all these new investors a handsome return on their investments. It will also have to pay the bills for their multi-million dollar advertising campaign. It will have to pay off lobbyists and give CEO’s generous bonuses. And since 2010 is an election year, health insurance and bigPharma will spend millions if not billions of dollars in political campaign contributions to Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats.
These expenses will come out of your pocket. If you pay for your own insurance, be prepared for steep increases (probably after the 2010 election when a GOP majority is assured.) If you get insurance from your employer, expect a steep increase in out-of-pocket expenses and high deductibles. If you get too sick to be profitable, expect to lose your insurance. If you are a woman, expect to pay more. And if you have a pre-existing condition, like asthma or a Caesarian, that’s just too bad. No insurance, no medical care.
We can expect more bankruptcies. As people have to pay more for insurance, they will have less money to spend elsewhere, so expect businesses, especially small businesses to close their doors. In addition, rising health insurance costs will cause a greater credit freeze for small business loans. Lest I forget, more people will die because of inadequate medical bills. More babies will die because of inadequate pre-natal care. And more desperate women will seek abortions because it’s the only way out of a hopeless situation.
Isn’t this a great victory?????
I remember a moment last fall when RNC Chairman Michael Steele spoke at Howard University. A student told Steele that her mother died because she could not afford the cancer treatments that would have saved her life. Michael Steel simply turned his back on her.
That best describes the GOP way of solving problems. Whether it’s our dysfunctional health care system, or global warming. The GOP simply insists the problem doesn’t exist.
Unfortunately, you can’t solve serious problems by turning your back on them. Our dysfunctional health care system is like a cancer. The more you delay treatments the worse it will get, until it destroys the whole economy.

BUNK! Since when has the Goverment done anything right.

Most people have overlooked that people under Medicare, Medicaid, Tri-Care, Tri-Care for Life, VA medicine and Public Health already face limited health care under the Stimulus Law (P.L. 111-5 dated 17 February 2009. All you have to go to is the Stealth Provisions written by former Senator Tom Dashle (from his book on health care and why we should adopt European Plans. The Commission, Under the direction of Secretary of H.E.W. shall establish the quality of health care which will be published in the Federal Register. Doctors must follow the quality of health care guidelines to be paid under the afore mention plans. People the DEATH COMMISSION is already law! Congress was rush to pass the stimulus plan with these provisions in the law. They did not know what they were voting for. Only a few knew! Shame on the Democrats, Senators Snowe, Collins and Spector for supporting this Law!

I wonder when we’ll find out who was responsible for killing or delaying healthcare. I think, primarily, the insurance companies have pumped millions into anti-reform efforts and got people out there to scream and yell about Obamacare. Back a year ago, 60% or more were for reform. Maybe it was hubris to think reform could be done in a horrible year for our economy. Maybe Democrats have to hue to different priorities when they rear their ugly heads. But, in the end, the forces of the status quo won out.

Too little, too late. Hey, I’m an independent guy who sees some value in the ideas both parties have to offer. Obama paid lip service to just this kind of constituent and he was elected. But where in God’s green earth was Obama last Summer when Americans all over the country were driven to screaming at their townhalls because no-one was listening? But worse yet, in the echos of a mad electorate, Obama and his Congressional leaders are participating in blattant bribery and corruption behind closed doors? I would go to jail for doing the same. So suddenly seeing the light seems a bit disengenuous. Integrity is a precious possession that is hard earned and equally hard recovered when compromised. Nope, this one is not your vanilla political mistake. And for those who voted for President Obama, it leaves one feeling a bit foolish.

William Joseph Miller,
Fair question. I think you will find a vast majority of Independents and some moderate Republicans actually believe Healthcare Reform is needed. But what started as a noble cause, turned into a total goat rope, with corrupt deals being cut for supposed leaders like Ben Nelson, the esteemed lady from Louisianna and the Unions. We should all be mad as hell at both parties. Democrats let greed and power mongering eclypse the need reasonable reform. Republicans were pure obstructionist, although with the corrupt backroom deals that were going on, they actually did us all a service. The whole healthcare reform discussion is now pure poison, trust is gone, and we have Congress and the President to thank for a major loss for the people. This one is ugly and it knows no party. We needed reform, but our leaders selfishness and self serving behavior let us down. And it should have been obvious when the exempted themselves from the final solution.

The American people have been sold a bill of goods. Most of those who oppose the president’s health care program are acting against their own best interests, and they’ll end up with the same lousy health care system they’ve suffered with for 100 years.
The “chorus of dissent” did not start at the grass roots. It started in the corporate board rooms. The anti-reform, anti-government, anti-Obama propaganda machine was funded and promoted by fat-cat Republican interests (mainly the health care and pharmaceutical industry) spread so many lies with such frequency that ordinary people were misled to believe that “there must be something to it.” It’s the “Big Lie” principle in action. It worked for Hitler; it worked for Lenin; and it works for the likes of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. If you tell a lie that’s big enough and outrageous enough, people will eventually think it must be true, at least some of it, because nobody would say such a thing if it weren’t true.