The Note: Pulling Plugs — Public option on life support, as Obama tests loyalties on his left

Is the health Care bill “Mutating”? Mutation we can BELIEVE in. YES WE CAN! YES WE MUTATE!

The republicans warned them it was theirs to loose. Vote public health care straight up or down. We win either way. We either get public health care or a list of politicians to send packing. I will not vote for cowards. The republican will sweep both house coming the 2010 elections if you do not grow a spine! See the republicans laughing at you??

Democrat here. Who wants or needs a LEADER who FOLLOWS? I’m removing myself from the party who hired a man who is more concerned about looking good rather than doing good.

Bad day for Obama. The dems have staked their future on this public option and it never had a chance. Now we can get down to serious health care reform that will not bankrupt the country.

YES WE NEED HEALTHCARE/INSURANCE REFORM. TOTAL DISMANTLING AND REBUILDING THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS NOT THE ANSWER. TWO THINGS NEED TO BE DONE – ONE IS TORT REFORM AND SECOND IS GET THE LOBBYISTS OUT OF THE PICTURE. THIS PLAN WILL BANKRUPT THE COUNTRY – THE PROPONENTS OF THIS PLAN CANNOT EVEN GIVE US AN IDEA OF HOW IT WILL BE FUNDED. BUT MY GUESS IS THAT AS IS USUAL WITH GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS IT WILL BE THE MIDDLE CLASS TAX PAYER AND SMALL BUSINESS THAT BEAR THE BURDEN. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL THE TAXPAYER BASE GOES AWAY??

There are countless ways to actually lower healthcare costs without government taking over.
Why do liberal democrats want government to run it? Government can’t run anything well. Everything the government touches costs an enormous amount of money. All for services that are mediocre at best. The list goes on and on about what we actually get versus how much money has to be pumped in it when the government gets involved.
Maybe they should take the approach of actually lowering the costs to healthcare so people don’t need insurance to pay for it, we can afford it just by opening our wallets.

I will repeat my plan for healthcare reform so you govt option supporters can see what is needed in this country. 1. Tort Reform 2.Insurance regulation reform 3. Federal govt to assist people who cannot afford insurance, but not just a give away. 4. Fed govt to help pay for increased rates for pre-existing conditions. 5. Mandate that emergency rooms are for emergencys only.

NATILE FROM MASS
Its not the People are center Right the Democrat party has been Hijacked by the dirty dogs the Blue dogs who call themselves Democrats! They are DINO They might as well switch parties they are SO IN BED WITH THE LOBBYIST IT AINT FUNNY!

Then can go ahead and drop the Public Option the Republicans will still not vote they are at to Destroy him President Obama you are to smart to give into their Political games!

Where is Joe Biden in all of this? He has not said a word. Joe come on out and stand by your President. Let him know he has to fight man– for the real American people. People are counting on this bill to pass with a public option. You know Jessie Jackson if he was president would definitely not give up!! Obama and Biden need to step up!!

brian
The only thing the federal government is supposed to do per the Constitution is defend this country, ie military.
Don’t get your levels of government confused: local, state, federal.

If the democrats don’t vote public health care straight up or down they are done.

Hey How about Obama Admit this mess is not health care reform. Then go back to the Drawing Board and come up with a plan to control the cost of Medical Care, not Medical Payment. Something that doesn’t cost trillions or create some giant government HMO and see if that doesn’t pass quickly.

We need the public option. We need to get giant insurance profits and CEO pay out of the mix. The multi-million dollar sabotage efforts of these mega-corporations has succeeded in stopping the fundamental changes we need to make in healthcare. So long as the bottom-line matters more then the care of the sick, we aren’t going to cure our healthcare ills.

Well, well, well……. the media has gotten you guys all up in arms again! Remember a couple of weeks ago when they got you going on “taxing the middle class”?
You all need to get off the reactionary pills and don’t take everything you read as gospel!
Remember people- it ain’t over till it’s over!

Haven’t heard from ‘Nanny’ Pepolsi lately. The last time I heard her input was a month ago when she said it would push through regardless.

and the poster who said Pres. Obama should not give in is right. He is one of the only presidents to really try and do something and people are bashing him? This is a Republican joint venture out to destroy him. And the Dems who are joining in are just as bad. Pres. Obama cares about the average person, these nitwits do not…only greed and money.

stardate, you are what is wrong with this country. You don’t get your social secruity or medicare.

Just what the republicans wanted. Hannity is frothing at the mouth with glee. How he and Beck can justify scaring these old people with falsehoods is beyond me. And they think that they are the only Americans. I hate the phrase they use “regular americans” or “ordinary americans” as if the rest of the world is not regular or ordinary. We are all equal under the constitution they often preach about. When they say “let’s go back to the way the constitution was meant” does that mean “slavery?” That is the way it was. What makes me angry with the republican party which I was member of for twenty three years, is that they think they are the only real Americans. No one else loves this country like they do. Well, they are wrong…my father fought in two wars and when I was a child we had McArthur’s picture in our living room along with a flag and my father was a democrat. I abhor their self importance.

Contrary to what many believe Congressmen do not have FREE health insurance. Their employer is the federal government and like many employers, it provides him with an insurance plan from a private insurance company (AETNA, Blue Cross, Health Net, Kaiser, etc). Congressmen have been required to get their health insurance in this manner since passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1983. In this case the federal government utilizes the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) plan to provide a choice of different private insurance plans to choose from, the federal government as the employer pays a portion (approximately 66%) of the monthly premium and the Congressman as the employee pays the remainder. The Congressman is responsible for any co-pays or deductable payments when service is provided by a healthcare provider. The Congressman is also susceptible to the limits within the plan he chooses, none of the plans cover 100% of the costs the insured eventually reaches a point where he has to dig into his own pockets. The governments only other involvement with the FEHB is to negotiate rates and benefits for each plan once a year. If you want to view the plans and their limits, deductibles, and co-pays just Google “FEHB” and go to the site and see what the different plans are.
The FEHB health plans are either nationwide (plan available anywhere within the country) or regional (plan available only in one state or a portion of a state) FEHB allows the Congressman to change between plans once a year during what is referred to as an open season and he can switch with no lapse in coverage due to pre-existing conditions and if he changes jobs within the Federal Government he can take his current plan with him if the plan is available (he moved from one region to another) at his new position, if not he can switch with no problems. If the government were to open these plans to the public the monthly premiums for a family plan would roughly be between $425.00 and $1300.00, for an individual the monthly premium would roughly be between $177.00 and $550.00 and then everyone could have the same health care as our Congressmen. One of the differences in the plan costs is the level of benefits provided and the amount the patient pays (co-pays or deductable) when receiving healthcare.
This would be the same as the co-ops they are now talking about and would give everyone access to the same health care coverage as the members of Congress which is exactly what Dear Leader Chairman Maobama hsa stated in the past is something that all should have the same coverage as members of Congress.

Can’t win a fight that they never showed up for. I find it hard to believe, who are they going to blame? Pathetic.
Obama never even raised the sails.

I like the idea of a non-profit, health care cooperative. The point isn’t for the government to have a primary role in health care. The critical point is to have quality, affordable health care, eliminate as many as the hassles as possible, and that all Americans be covered. I like that Obama is a pragmatist who is focused on what will work and get the job done. He is not the “decider”, but rather the “fixer”.

I dont claim to know how ALL Americans feel but I know how I feel, and judging by the outcry we see coming from people who have never protested before, who have always been the silent majority, and the sinking poll numbers of this fraud in the white house I have something to say that I feel NEEDS to be said because there is more than just the spending, and the bills at work here and Americans know it. Where there are thousands coming out to speak up there are thousands, maybe even millions more at home thinking the same thing! That is why I am going to get on a bus and ride for 20 hours to get to Washington DC on 9/12 and why millions of us need to be there!
THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS MINIONS GIVE AMERICANS THE CREEPS!
It is truly right and correct that the American people point out the similarities of this administration to Hitler and the national socialists he put together because Obama is attempting to do the same thing here! He was raised, and mentored by communists. He sought them out when he got older to continue his communist connections. He sympathizes with Bill Ayers and his ilk, and he got married to, and by black liberation communists!
Let’s quit kidding ourselves here!
He is giving comfort to our enemies. He is trying to add to the call for Isreal to commit national suicide by seeding lands that are theirs to the Palestinians. God GAVE that land to them, and he has told them to never give up even so much as an inch of it lest they incur his rath as a few of her leaders have found out the hard way when they fell ill and died, or became vegatables after making deals to give up land. He has said that whomever stands with Isreal shall receive his blessings like America enjoyed for so long and whomever goes against her shall have those blessings taken away, as America is starting to see as we fall further and further as we let our leaders backstab, and not back Isreal.
Obama is showing a fondness for the murderous dictators of this world in Iran, and Cuba, and with Chavez.
He in short gives most people who live outside of the marxist, left wing universities, and major cities of this country “THE CREEPS”. He makes the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up when he speaks or is near.
His little made up images and signs he feels he must have for every occasion give us the creeps. They look weird in their blue fields with red stripes and some sort of muslim/communist looking cresent on them. His health care sign with ghostly looking lines of people standing there and again his 3 stars and logo just like the nazi signs remind us of the jews lines up for the gas chambers.
The people he places close to him, Rahm, the Eugenists, the black liberationists he makes czars of, the out and out communists he is trying to go around congerss to stack our government with, gives us the creeps.
The fact that his AG Holder, when he FIRST comes to power calls all of us in the nation COWARDS ON RACE, and then proceeds to let off the black panthers who were intimidating voters gives us the creeps. The fact that they were even allowed to be outside a polling place and that one has been cleared to be a poll watcher next election is creepy.
His website for Americans to TURN IN other Americans because something they expressed in their rights as Americans to exercise freedom of speech because it was somehow “fishy” is Hitleresque and creepy.
His hoards of Americorp, and ACORN, and Organize for America people with their bling following and military style plans for our children to be indoctrinated in some sort of forced so called community service is creepy. The fact that our tax dollars are taken from us to fund these tax free entities who are investigated for voter fraud, and embezelment of those tax payer dollars, who try to win through intimidation is creepy.
The way his wife has this look of absolute hatred on her face when they catch her not knowing the camera is there is creepy.
The things they both say about this being a great country, and they are going to change that. That Barak will REQUIRE you to engage, and there will be sacrifice, and for the first time in her life she is proud of her country is creepy.
Telling people they need to do something (anything) so that all can be equal is something we have heard too many times in other countries as we watched or read in our history books about how millions have been tortured and killed to atain that utopian ideal of equal is creepy.
A sitting US Senator going to Kenya and campaigning for a family member who wants to install sharia law in all of it’s abhorant forms to women and then is later heard of hacking up Christians is creepy.
The fawning followers and media coverage bought and paid for makes us wonder if the whole of what we always considered principaled people were always fooling us. Most people just realized after his death that even Walter Cronkite the man they always looked to in their times of trouble in the country was one of THEM! One of those who thinks the best path for us is to give over all of our freedoms to some sort of world power to be led around from birth to death by a human concept of good and equal for all. That is creepy!
And most of all the powers in the dark behind him, the Rockafellers, Soros the country killer, the Kennedys, the Bilderbergs, the tri-lateral, the UN, and EU, all point to what we just feel is the untimate goal of them and that is domination and destruction of America, it’s constitution, and our way of life! That because of this country’s greatness we should somehow be ashamed and give it all up so that all in the world be they good or bad, if they want to kill us or not can have the same. We do not understand how they cannot see, that by making us weak they make the whole world weak because America and the wonderful people of this country will no longer be there to fight their wars against those who would conquer them, or rescue them from disasters and bring them food, and comfort. We will no longer be there for them, and believe me it would not take long for them to notice our absence.
Any president that stands before countries some allies, some not and declares to them that America is not a Christian nation is an abomination to us! We are a Christian nation, we were FOUNDED on God’s laws, our CONSTITUTION, was written by Godly men and patterened after the rules of morality and love for one’s neighbor. And whenever ANYONE we elect to represent us attempts to tell us, and other countries, that we no longer back Isreal, and we no longer believe in the principles installed in the constitution, and we do not want God to be a part of our government and country we say to that person: YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, AND YOU SIR HAVE NO RIGHT OR AUTHORITY TO REPRESENT US, OR SPEAK FOR US!
We feel it in our bones. Something is wrong with this man and what he is trying to do.
HE IS CREEPY!
So we will say it as much as we like! We will carry it on signes! We will scream it at our leaders! WE WILL NOT LET YOU MAKE US COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS/MARXISTS OR WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS YOU ARE TRYING TO DO! We have fought before over this, and we are willing to do it again!
We say grace, we say ma’am if you aint into that WE DONT GIVE A DAMN!

One of the arguments for healthcare reform is the profits which the insurance companies are making. Dr. Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan has ranked the profits of different industries within the country. When you find Hospitals they are ranked number 77 on the list with a profit margin of 3.6% and at number 86 we find health care plans with a profit margin of 3.3%. Number 1 on the list is beverage (beer/brewers) companies with a profit margin of 25.9% and number 3 is REIT-Healthcare Facilities (Health Care REITs are Real Estate Investment Trusts that own health care properties and lease them to operators. Health Care REITs are subject to legislation which prevents them from operating health care facilities.) and have a profit margin of 24.6%.
The list is interesting in that the profit margin in the healthcare industry is far smaller than the idiots in DC would have us believe.

Very disappointing. So what’s left in this bill(s)? What happens to the millions who are uninsured or who have lost their insurance? First the surrender because of the “death committee” quote of that narcissist from Alaska. Now this. President Obama, it’s better to admit defeat and try again later than to sign into law a worthless piece of paper that meets the approval of insurance companies (big business, Republicans (politics), fear mongers, and, unfortunately, the large number of people who have been scared by the distortions and fearmongering of those three groups.

gjkotw01 – You said ” All the greedy, mismanaged, poorly operated companies and institutions have been bailed out and I guess the only one left out of tax payer infusion so far was the ultimate shark, the healthcare industry and now even that is going to get the bailout and license to kill by omission, leading to the most gigantic deficit ever and which will most likely lead to the collapse of the USA as we know it.”
You are wrong, in his first 170 days in office Obama has increased the debt of the government by 901.25 Billion dollars. At this rate he will increase the debt of the Government by 1.82 Trillion dollars in his first year alone and 7.74 Trillion dollars by the end of his 4 year term in office. If he is elected for a second term with the same rate of spending then the government debt will increase by 15.48 Trillion dollars. Since the debt owed by the Government was 10.6 Trillion dollars when he took office an additional 7.74 Trillion will almost double the debt in just 4 years to 18.34 Trillion dollars and at the end of his second term it will have increased to an unthought of 26.08 Trillion dollars. The interest alone on this amount of debt will consume more than half of the entire federal budget. This does not even include what Obama wants to put into healthcare which has been estimated may actually cost upwards of 1 Trillion dollars in its first decade and even more after that by the Congressional Budget Office. This is money that the Government does not have and cannot conceivably have without raising taxes to the point where everyone in the country will be paying a much higher tax rate than they are currently paying. No matter how you want to put it any healthcare reform will require government involvement which will lead to required government spending so the money is an important issue, if it’s not there then healthcare will have to wait until such time as it is available. Obama promised change but this is ridiculous he makes all who came before him look minor on their spending while in office. Time to stop spending and do what should have been done long ago, cut spending which is not specifically authorized in article 1 of the constitution.

It’s 1994 all over again. When will the left wing ever learn?

I don’t no people. I think this was a ploy to change some minds and get the votes with everything still in the bill. You must read the first 20 pages. It says it all and will prove to you how they (Obama and party)are lying about the take over

Bad day in deed for Democrats, and it will be bad in a year and a half when Republicans get back control of the House and then in 4 years the White House too. Bad days indeed. You squandered opportunities to work with Republicans on the Stimulus Bill, the Healthcare Bill, and the Cap and Trade. You pushed through the Stimulus and Cap and Trade. Now you will lose all those independent votes. Haha, the laughs on you.

I don’t think the public option will be dropped. And I’m so tired of hearing Palin and republicans talking about a government death panel. They need to speak more about the death panel of ghouls hired by insurance companies to find so called pre existing comditions so they can reject a claim. It seems they NEVER want to bring that subject up.

If they drop the Public Option what is the Point of Healthcare reform President Obama you were Elected put your foot Down Lead stand up to the Dirty Blue dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by: Angie in PA
Spoken like pure lapdog! It also shows the real liberal agenda, not healthcare reform, but healthcare Reconstruction wether the people want it or not!
Tort Reform is still out there and needs to be done no matter what else in or is not included. Obama should use that as starting point now!
Since the HR3200 and other bills based on it where looking at 18 months to create an initial set of benefits, lets take some of that time over the next few months and breakdown common costs in the system and determine exactly what elements are out of control and look at effective ways to limit their growth and hopefully even cut some costs.
Do this in the open, where the American People can see it. No BS legal language that anyone can intrepret anyway they want. Just Straight forward work for the people!
Angie – You want a pubic option, then create it and then present it in DETAIL (not vague over-written guidelines) to the people. The American People are telling you that this current kind of reform and they way it has been assembled is UNACCEPTABLE!

We the people would have to contribute to the national reserve fund and after a period of time the fund would be financially sound.
That was the idea with Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. That they would fund themselves.

OMG, this is the current state of the Republican Party in a nutshell. The Republican Party has been acquired by the entertainment division of the MSM.
Amy,
Catch up, DeLay is NOT in Congress anymore! Nice to know your now dumping on what former Republican congressmen are doing. It is indeed fascinating the level of obsession that liberals have with Republicans not holding office!

That is why this president tried to put a time frame on this, he said if he doens’t nothing gets done.
He put a time frame on it because he KNEW if the American People got time to really dig into it they would see it was NOT a healthcare plan at all. It is a guideline and poor one at the that!
Why all the talk now about listening and these senators and the administratino talking more 7 more about the firming up of the legislation?
If it was SOOOO good and was SOOOOO ready to be passed a few weeks ago, why should it need any more work?
ANSWER : Because it was no where near ready!

Fact #1: the USA cannot continue to bear the burden of paying 2x as much for health care as the rest of the industrialized world.
Fact #2: the for-profit insurance companies, since entering health care a little over a generation ago, have helped raise the cost of health from 10% of GDP to 17.5% now, projected to reach 25% in several years.
Fact #3: The for-profit insurance companies’ CEO’s would be fired if they tried to reduce – or even keep steady – America’s health care costs, because the insurance company profits would be significantly reduced. The same can be said for Big Pharma and other aspects of the health industry.
Fact #4: The insurance companies have apparently bought and sold Congress ($212,000 to Sen. Demint alone since 2005). Same for Big Pharma ($270,000 to Sen. Kerry through 2006). The head of Johns Hopkins Hospital on PBS recently predicted on PBS that little would happen with health because Congress is bought.
If a Public Plan is dead, we’ve finally truly reached a government of, by, and for the special interests.

What I have noticed on various news programs is WHo is arguing against government run health care – people over 65 and or disabled. Many already get Medicare – a very successful GOVERNMENT RUN program with over 90% approval rating. This just shows how disinformation and lying by the special interest groups – insurance, etc – can hijack a good bill and distort it to a point where people protest something because of what it IMAGINED and NOT REAL. What a shame. Obama may want to change government, but until they get rid of the lobbyists, special interests and the Congressional members [right and left] who are bought and owned by these interests, NOTHING WILL CHANGE!!!

Libs, now is not the time to bail out
on your fearless leader. Stay behind
him in his march to the cliff. He
needs you now more than ever. Your
Jan. 20 ecstasy will sustain you for
that last step over the edge. The
hope-a-dope is still operational.

Many already get Medicare – a very successful GOVERNMENT RUN program with over 90% approval rating.
It is basically bankrupt too ! None of the promises on cost control and being able ot pay for itself worked out. Along with the huge problem of fraud! So WHY should anyone beleive yet another gov’t attempt to do the same thing will work?

So, we’re going to pass something just so Team Oblablah can say they got health care reform done? Whether or not it’s good for the country (just like the $787B spending bill); hey, we got it done! Yippee! Unless we have unprecedented period of economic growth, Obama’s reckless spending (just six months into his only term) will cause real pain for millions of Americans for decades to come.

Obama never makes mistakes
According to the Dems he’s too brilliant to make stupid errors, he’s just biding his time and playing chess.
Even as Obama uses them, pushes their limits, and tests their loyalty by sending up many trial baloons–they are still too delusional to believe he is an empty suit.

Before you think the single payer system is the answer-check this out.You may see the patterm-doctors underpaid, hospitals losing money.
from pbs.org
German Health Care-What are the concerns? The single-payment system leaves some German doctors feeling underpaid. A family doctor in Germany makes about two-thirds as much as he or she would in America. (Then again, German doctors pay much less for malpractice insurance, and many attend medical school for free.) Germany also lets the richest 10 percent opt out of the sickness funds in favor of U.S.-style for-profit insurance. These patients are generally seen more quickly by doctors, because the for-profit insurers pay doctors more than the sickness funds
Japan Health Care- What are the concerns? In fact, Japan has been so successful at keeping costs down that Japan now spends too little on health care; half of the hospitals in Japan are operating in the red. Having no gatekeepers means there’s no check on how often the Japanese use health care, and patients may lack a medical home.
Taiwan Health Care-What are the concerns? Like Japan, Taiwan’s system is not taking in enough money to cover the medical care it provides. The problem is compounded by politics, because it is up to Taiwan’s parliament to approve an increase in insurance premiums, which it has only done once since the program was enacted.
Swiss Healthcare-What are the concerns? The Swiss system is the second most expensive in the world — but it’s still far cheaper than U.S. health care. Drug prices are still slightly higher than in other European nations, and even then the discounts may be subsidized by the more expensive U.S. market, where some Swiss drug companies make one-third of their profits. In general, the Swiss do not have gatekeeper doctors, although some insurance plans require them or give a discount to consumers who use them.
UK HealthCare- What are the concerns? The stereotype of socialized medicine — long waits and limited choice — still has some truth. In response, the British government has instituted reforms to help make care more competitive and give patients more choice. Hospitals now compete for NHS funds distributed by local Primary Care Trusts, and starting in April 2008 patients are able to choose where they want to be treated for many procedures.
and how do you suppose our current system which has trouble handling the current level of patients, ie: hospital losing money, will cope with 40 million more insured without beefing up the number of doctors and giving hospitals more money to expand. The current proposals call for cutting medicare payments to hospitals.

Keep your chin up libs.
Obama hasn’t lost faith in himself.
He’s still smug and arrogant.
He thinks he is the best president ever, the smartest guy on earth, that knows what is best for every human being.
Keep your chin up high.
Strike a pose like your leader.

Michael
Your post resonated with me. That is how I am feeling, as well.
And, I feel as if we are being manipulated by the media to drive up TV ratings. The News department is under the entertainment division now. Why does a failed V.P. candidate and former governor warrant so much publicity over every twit? The base loves her, mainstream people hate her, the media wins big in hits whenever they mention her.
The corporations are setting policy. I don’t know what the solution is. Focus on the local? I do love my state.

Why does a failed V.P. candidate and former governor warrant so much publicity over every twit?
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LOL, Liberals who are so totally obsessed with her, now wonder why she did not just melt under their constant hate speech. That bewilderment alone is hiliarious!
Amy, people like you empowered her and the media to keep her in the limelight. As with just about everything else, liberals misread it yet again!
Wether you believe her points or not really is not the important thing to note here. What is important is that the President of United States along with a Congress totally under control of the President’s party have so badly handled this entire situation that she was able to garner this kind of attention.

“she did not just melt under their constant hate speech.”
She resigned her post half way through her term. If thats not “melting” I don’t know what you call it.
What you call Obama’s “mishandling” of healthcare reform, I call “handling it as if we lived in a democracy.” It’s not his fault there are so many gullible, ignorant and ill-informed Americans in this country they listened to the lies spun by the right. Jon Stewart hit the nail on the head when he suggested there are more reasons for America’s approval ratings to go down in Obama’s eyes, than vice a versa. Are we a nation of ignorant fools? Appears so.

I hear the republicans saying the want health care reform too! Where was this sentiment over the last eight years? Why was nothing done during those eight years? Why, because they’re all about big business and their buddies in big insurance fund their campaigns! Why do the American people trust health care to the likes of AIG? AIG and their buddies almost bankrupted this country and the world!

Its funny that everyone hated the health care system till the right started paying lobbyists to make it all seem great.
The Truth behind the Health Care Fight

All of you against a public option…good for you, can’t wait till healthcare is taking 50-60% of your paycheck…cause right now healthcar4e costs are going up 3 times faster than your earinings….then when you or someone in your family gets a horrible illness like cancer they drop your arse and stick you with thousands. Or hey maybe if you loose your job, you and your family can become one of those “uninsured”…you’ll deserve what you get idiots. Keep up the good fight for the GREED FOR PROFIT INSURANCE COMPANIES..idiots.Fighting for insurance companies against yourselves…unbelievable. BECAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR INDEED.

My “Hat’s Off to Shifty!” He’s to be commended for the astute work he’s done to nail-down the culprits who formulated the strategy for these “sensitive” Town Hall Meeting fiascos. The “High Powered Lobbyist – DCI Group” is the responsible party. DCI has been frequently contracted by clients to perform somewhat devious political and other consultative tasks for the likes of; R. J. Reynolds, Anti-Regulatory efforts and other hard-line conservative biased positions on government policy. They’ve been involved in politics from local community, up to National and International political policy. They publicly boast some of the following high profile clients; AG Spanos Companies, American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier, Applied Digital, Catholic Healthcare West, Central Wyoming College, City of Cheyenne, WY, Colorado State University, Coral Bay Community Council, Council of Amer Survey Research Orgs, Denver Children’s Hospital, EchoStar Communications, ELLIS, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Bank, Freddie Mac, GTECH Holdings (Lottery Management), etc…. For those seriously interested in the doings of this highly political organization, do go online and search them out.

Why can’t just those why pay taxes get health benefits…how b’out that Obama and the rest of the health care reform starters??? NO seriously, this I could be in favor of, but not just letting any old person that comes to America, even the illegal’s to get healthcare and our taxes go up the roof???? No, sure, I will cont. to fight this…