Mapping Health Care Reform

I dont want to be represented by politicians who consider themselves more important than myself. I want to be represented by normal people who are working for everyone together including themselves. Not exempting themselves from the programs and policies that they impose on the rest of us. Career politicians are screwing up this country and i will vote against anyone who is a part of a “stealth bill” written behind closed doors and not given enough time to be examined before voted on. If it wont go into effect for years after new taxes have been stacked to begin paying for it, then let it be open to the taxpayers to see. Nothing less than this president PROMISED during his campaign. This man lied to us. Nothing new for us, but I refuse to get used to it and accept it.

“many of the districts that benefit most from the federal subsidies to expand access to coverage will be those represented by members who voted against the bill.”
This is not a surprise. It is well documented that most of the ‘self reliant’ deep red states are dependent on hand outs from the Federal Government financed by the ‘socialist’ Democratically controlled states that tend to pay for infrastructure, education, libraries, and a local safety net that yield very profitable modern industries – and massive tax proceeds for the Feds to give to Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, West Virgina, etc. (See the Tax Foundation – a lower-case c conservative group for the research.)

“And by golly we Democrats are not going to rest until we make every citizen dependents of the Government.”
david | Oct 22, 2009 10:54:18 AM
If you do not think you owe your luxurious life to ‘The Government’ already, then your education on basic human society is woefully lacking.

Insurance companies do not provide medical care, they profit from managing money pools built from premiums paid from the hard earned after tax dollars of people who hope to be protected from financial ruin. We have all heard the horror stories of how often this protection fails or gets denied. I personally think it is utterly foolish to pay a profit motivated third party in advance of a crisis, and even more foolish to be put in the position where that third party has even the slightest input in decision making about my medical care. I take personal responsibility for my medical bills and so far I have been able to afford them but I definitely cannot afford insurance that may or may not cover the bills when I need it to. High health care prices benefit the insurance companies because they generate fear and fear is what sells policies. The way to lower health care costs is to eliminate this middleman leech industry by replacing it with community and private charity and personal responsibility, but it appears that our politicians are so owned by the lobbyists for these companies that I will be forced to participate in this fraud or be penalized, and I appreciate that about as much as I like paying NC another penny sales tax to keep state employees working while I’m among the 10% unemployed in the private sector. I’m glad that at least I’m old enough to remember the real America, but I hate that it no longer exists for my grandchildren. Let’s get it back.

We are not trying to make people dependent on the government. We are merely trying to provide people affordable access to health care coverage. Doctors and hospitals would still be private. It would not be a free handout – people would still have to buy into the program. A public option would merely give people that – the option to buy into the system.