Labor Cracks on Public Option

Health Care reform should be focussed on two things:
1.returning medical treatment decisions to the doctors, and 2. making it possible for people to get medical coverage (maybe private insurance companies are not the best approach, guys)

SINGLE PAYER NOW!
I worked as an advertising top pro for 23 years, my company was bought, fired everyone with top skills and high pay. Cobra was too expensive to get at 450 a month for a single guy. Many companies in my field did the same, fire then rehire with no commitment, no benefits.
3 years after my last staff job, at 41, I have NO health care for 3 yrs, NO unemployment, my 401k I had to cash in after it lost half of its worth during the bush bank bailout in 2008. I’ve worked less than 3 months up to sept, my savings are gone.
What would you blue dogs and obstrutionist republicans have people like me do? Should we just wait until we collapse to call an ambulance?
I paid a whopping 35% and more on my income for 23 years. All the jobs are being sent to asia. WHERE will people get their health care when all the jobs are being lost or marginalized?

unfortunately, what stubotnyc said is the current reality to many people. a public health care option is not a government handout, but an universal health care plan that everyone can buy into without paying huge insurance priemum, and that’s what many people, like stubotnyc, need. how sad that US as a rich country in the world still cannot provide all its citizens an affordable universal care? people who’s currently employed and have a good benefit package really have no idea about how unemployed people face on the health care insurance options. you would understand such reform need when you’re out of job and have some serious health issues.

I’ve had no health insurance since the early 90′s, and I’m not expecting the Gov’t to provide me any, either. How dare they dump this proposed huge debt on our kids? We ought to be ashamed. Make the Gov’t live with its means, or remove enough of it until it can live on a balanced budget like the rest of us do in ‘REAL LIFE’. We can’t just print money when we need more, why does the Gov’t get to? We don’t need higher taxes OR deficit. Keep the current tax rates, and REMOVE politician’s salaries, benefits, retirements until the national debt is paid off and they show us they can run this country in the black. POLITICIANS made this mess,national debt and craziness, and they need to take responsibility and fix it, instead of expecting taxpayers to keep financing their insanity. Give us our money back. If politicians want more Gov’t, then let them use THEIR personal money to pay for it, and leave ours alone, and let them live by the same laws the rest of us do. They’ve stolen our money so many years now, let THEM pay off the national debt. After all, their votes created it in the first place.

Labor didn’t bring down the American Car Manufacturers. It was the internationalists that allowed our manufacturing base to be shipped overseas and the stupidity of the car company management that learned nothing from the the 80′s gas crisis. Don’t blame the poor guy on the shop floor who is trying to feed and educate his family. Blame those that allowed our manufacturing base to be gutted, blame the bloody republicans for the mismanagement of our country! By the way, I am no union man, and have been a businessman for 40 years.