Republicans Go Grassroots, Taking Health Care to “the People”

…an opportunity for them to go out and TELL US what is good for us. The Amercian people are not happy with this. August should be an interesting month.

The big money republicans do not want to help the AVERAGE American. They havev gotten us in this financial mess and the insurance companies are press
suring the repubs to do everything they can to stop this health care plan so they can continue to reap the big rewards they have been getting for years. I worked for one of the biggest insurance companies for over 16 years and believe me, they take in the big bucks. This has got to change and now. Go Obama

the minute that pres barky and congress say they will have exactly the same health insurance as the rest of us then and only then will i cheer loudly in support otherwise aux barricades.

“Gov’t should do something to lower the cost of health care.” ” I don’t believe that a gov’t run solution is the best option.”
These two statements contradict themselves. You think government should do something to lower costs, but you don’t trust government to offer a public insurance option? And that is what the Obama plan is suggesting, lowering costs, and offering a public option to compete with the insurance companies, not having a single payer, “government-run” health care system. You do know that, don’t you?

Hearing directly from the people — ha! The Republican Party propaganda machine turned out today in sufficient numbers to disrupt any and all civil discussion about the need for health care reform and Congressional plans to bring it about. This will probably continue right through August while Congress is in recess, health insurance companies sparing no expense or effort to protect their rice “pudding” bowls.

I was a Democrat until this corrupt administration came into office. I am now an independent, and a teaparty supporter and no insurance company pays me to go to the town hall meetings. I go because we have a run away government that is giving away the farm without making people be responsible and not expecting the government to give them everything. If you have a blackberry, a cell phone, a HD television, YOU CAN PAY FOR HEALTH CARE.

This Dems VS Repub’s on healthcare is such a crock. I want healthcare that is resonable, I’ve paid for my own HC policy for over 15 years. I’m not rich, but neither am I stupid. I don’t want a bigger goverment. Period! It seems like goverment is taking over all the big money companies…………Banking, auto companies, now healthcare. It makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Wouldn’t it be better to see the goverment FIX the existing fraud and problems with Medicare & Medicaid? Lets clean up the problems we ALREADY have and THEN take on HC reform. I’d have a lot more faith in our goverment if they did this first. Until then, I will not support this new reform. Give me a reason to have faith that this will better run then medicare & Medicaid.

All you lefties who keep complaining that the evil republicans are in bed with the insurance companies, please answer me one question. Why should I pay for your health insurance? I work hard to pay for my families health coverage. I am not even remotely wealthy but I manage to provide. Now Obama and his ilk want to tax my health coverage meaning I’ll have to struggle even harder to provide for my family because you can’t or won’t provide for yours.

So you think that by having a Democratic senator on your news program claiming that “none of this is really the grass roots action it is supposed to be,” that none of us feel the way these protestors do and that all the fuss is only imaginary! I for one am glad someone is speaking for me as I am unable to travel to where these meetings are held, and I definitley agree with the protestors. The government could not handle our medical needs any more than it could handle medicare and medicaide.

You’re wrong Amy, it does not lower costs I transfers costs fron those who want everything provided for them to those who actually work for what they have. It robs from the producers and gives to the slugs! It’s theaft on a massive scale!

Just so you know, no health insurance company ever paid me a dime for anything. I’d probably fall over dead if they even offered. This is about Americans speaking up. It doesn’t matter if you’re republican, democrat, independent, liberal, left wing, right wing. Who cares. A samller goverment means it’s better for ALL of us. The only ones who will really benefit from another humongous arm of goverment is the people who get the job to run it, which we will all again have to PAY for. Smaller goverment means we get to keep more of what we work for. How can that be wrong?

Those of you against health care reform don’t know squat about it. I’ve lived in a fully socialized health system (UK) and one which offered a strong public option (S. Korea) and both were much better than the US system (not to mention both also have thriving private insurers). This was particularly true because I couldn’t even get insurance in the states without forfeiting my food and rent. And don’t give me the you spent it on luxuries or didn’t work hard enough bs. I worked in a kitchen for 7 years at 60-80 hours a week depending on the season and demand for the catering we also provided. The small business I worked for didn’t offer any coverage and the insurance companies wanted over $500 a month (and I was a healthy 24 then)… with rent and other unavoidable expenses the numbers couldn’t be made to work. I lived in the cheapest housing available in my city, drove my old chevy beater only when I couldn’t walk, and didn’t even have a gd cell phone as the land line was cheaper. I grew up poor and have no problem making sacrifices to my comfort in order to survive. As for those so comfortable with the status quo, just wait till you lose your job or are dropped from your policy just when you need it most. Finally, this isn’t about free health care it’s about affordable care and everybody watching everyone else’s back… you know acting like a community, like we care about our people. Get over your selfish selfs already.

Facts the dems don’t talk about. Oh, and this came from a study done at that conservative bastion Stanford University
1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.
2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.
3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.
4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.
5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.
6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.
7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.

I was recently unemployed, PLEASE, and if something urgent occured, me or my wife and kids could walk into any emergency room and get treated, that’s the law. I don’t make a lot of money NOW but my wife and I manage. Sometimes with the help of willing friends and family. BUT I DON’T ROB MY NEIGHBORS TO PROVIDE FOR MY FAMILY! “I’m alright Jack, keep your hands off my stack!”

Another thing please. Iam not the selfish one. I do what’s necessary to take care of myself and my family. I DON’T TURN TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AND SAY “GIMME GIMME GIMME”! Like so many entitlement minded children in this country do. Lets break down the word community to commune to hmm lets see communist. OH now I get it.

The Democrats are trying to sell American on the notion that all of these Tea Party Groups and other grassroots groups are right wing nut cases and are being set up by the Republican party to disrupt the townhall meetings—nothing could be further from the truth—-I am an Rn in an innercity hospital—I probably see more waste than those not in the healthcare system–Yes we need reform—with all of the so called “intelligent ones” in our country no one can come up with anything other than “gut it” and start with a government program—I am proudly a member of Cincinnati 912 and the Cincinnati Tea Party—-these are sincere, well informed individuals who are standing watch over the “slick” antics of our so called” unrepresenting representatives”—-Are they that disconnected from reality to fool themselves into thinking the country just loves what they are doing—-COME DOWN FROM YOUR IVORY TOWER!!!!!!!!We the People have something to say to you—-

This is not an grass root effort to take health care to the people… It is an organized effort by insurance lobbyist with the praise of the GOP to disrupt town hall meetings.
Just as these inconsiderate people have a right to free speech, we also have the same right to be able to listen and have a mature dialog with our representatives.
These tactics demonstrate the extreme desperation of the insurance giants that are dumping millions of dollars a day to delay and kill health care reform… It is disgusting.
And for the GOP to praise this kind of immature bullying is to clearly see that they are in bed with the insurance giants just as some bluedogs who also benefit greatly from large contributions from the insurance industry… Bluedogs have learned to “heel” on command…

You don’t get it Gary, I don’t care about right v left, rep v dem, lib v con. I DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR ANYBODY TO HAVE HEALTH CARE BUT ME AND MY FAMILY! I am sick and tired of politicians of all stripes sticking their thieving hands in my pockets so they can keep their own power hungry ### in office in perpetuity! I don’t care if it’s Bush, Obama or Jesus, “keep your hands off my stack!”

Hold it. Enough with the insults. We’re all on this Titanic together, and it’s time to bail out. No more handouts, no more unfettered spending by the biggest bunch of spenders in history. We don’t need to ‘fix’ anything in this country. We need term limits! And America, we need to get it: we’re all in need of prayer, amen?

BALONEY. THE US ECONOMY PAYS 16.9 PERCENT OUT IN TOTAL MEDICAL EVERY YEAR. IN TAIWAN THEY PAY 6 PERCENT TOTAL. PLUS, THEY CAN USE ANY DOCTOR, ANY INSURANCE, AND GET IMMEDIATE CARE FOR ANY AILMENT WHATSOEVER UP TO 50 DOCTOR VISITS PER MONTH PER AILMENT, PER CITIZEN. ALL WITH THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY. THEY’VE HAD IT FOR 10 YEARS NOW AND THE DOCTORS GET PAID AS WELL OR BETTER THAN THEY WERE IN THE OLD DAYS. WHY? THEY CARE FOR THEIR CITIZENS AND HEALTH CARE IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE. LOOK UP TAIWAN’S SYSTEM, YOU’LL BE AMAZED. DON’T CALL IT SOCIALIST, TAIWAN IS WAY MORE ANTI-COMMUNIST THAN THE GOP ARE… LIKE 100X MORE.

Msnbc just aired three videos that conclusively prove that Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Newt Gingrich, are nothing but lying scum determined to go to any lengths to defeat health care reform. What did each of the videos show? They showed Palin, Limbaugh, and Gingrich, specifically supporting, on television and radio, end-of-life or advance care directives (living wills) identical to those mentioned in the health care reform bills, which these scum balls now describe as calling for “death panels”, the “killing of the elderly and disabled”, etc. In fact, Sarah Palin went so far as Governor of Alaska as to sign a declaration setting aside a day to spread the message to Alaskans that end-of-life or advance care directives are beneficial and that every person should have one. People, do yourself a favor. Get the facts for yourself. For God’s sake don’t rely on pathological liars such as the aforementioned persons to tell you what is in the health care bills. These patently unpatriotic morons have one agenda, which is to see that President Barack Obama, and therefore the United States of America, fails in an attempt to reform a health care system that is seriously broken and causing 1 million Americans to go bankrupt every year and 2,000 Americans to lose their health care coverage every day. On this and every other important issue facing our country, we must not succumb to those who use fear, ignorance, and misinformation to defeat proposals that are good for the American people.

you republican anti goverment program types are a hoot!!!you really are!!you seem to ignore the fact that the private insurance companies are greedy and wholly profit motivated!!that means they take in monthly premium payments from people that think they are 100%percent covered ,only to find out later how wrong they were to believe that, all the way to the bankruptcy courts!! any chance these insurance companies get to deny coverage or claims or procedures they look for vigorously and jump on! some of the money they take in premiums is spent on lobbying efforts to kill any kind of needed reforms.i would never stand in support of these robber barron profiteers!!i believe we need a goverment option for healthcare i would trust a goverment option more than i would ever trust any greedy profit motivated corporate bloodsucker private insurance company!!