Bill Buckner Curse Haunts Health Care?

People do want a healthcare bill passed. They just don’t want the combination of mandatory coverage/health insurance giveaway/glaringly absent public option or expansion of medicare or universal healthcare bill that the democrats are passing.

Really good health care could be enacted if we were to can this monstrosity and take these problems one at a time, like first you make insurance companies insure anyone who wants it,subsidise the folks who are not able to afford it, then one at a time attack every problem in a cool calm and sensible way, without bribes and all the other chicago type corruption.

ObamaCare is arrogant, naive, corrupt, socialist.

Health care needs exactly one thing — tort reform, which the one thing totally missing from this bill.

Healthcare is not constitutional and this one was drafted by a felon and those trying to enact it are behaving like felons! What it will do to the national debt will trash the dollar and healthcare will be a moot point. The CBO warned the $12.4 trillion debt to be unsustainable, so they voted to extend the ceilinng to $12.4 trillion, with healthcare it will triple to $36+ trillion in just ten years, BEYOND ANY HOPE OF RECONCILIATION!
Before the 2008 election I said it would be better for the republican party to crash and burn than to elect a liberal republican.
The TEA Party movement is outside the republican camp so it is making waves. I am going to a GOOOH meeting on the 17th, its mission is well outside both camps. Its lofty goal for 2010 is to pull the flush handle on the House and refill the bowl with clean water. Also to change one third of the senate in 2010. It will be interesting to see how far the movement goes in 2010.
I have quite a few years of experience and i have never seen Americans riled up like this before and I feel good about it. We have known that politics and sausage are things you don’t want to see in the making, but this time it is too clear. Lies, bribes, threats, union activity, backroom deals, out of control spending . . . .The absolute worst president and congress the nation has ever experienced!

Jan.. Sorry about your Grandmother, but tort reform would not have prevented her from bringing suit against the doctor. If the Democrats weren’t so hell bent on not passing Tort reform, it would limit the amount of the judgements when an out of control jury awards some rediculus amount of money to get back at the man, which causes the doctors to pay much higher insurance premiums, therefore causing the cost of healthcare to go up even more. Those kinds of judgements enabled John Edwards and the other lawyers in congress to become multi-millionaires.

All the above comments largely explain why this country is where it is now with the worst health care system in the industrialized countries. We need to be less myopic, more inclusive, less dogmatic, less selfish, ….. that goes to the politicians whom these people elected to the office too. Unfortunately, maybe these politicians do reflect these people who are spewing nothing except selfishness and hate. But fortunately, they do not make up the majority.

wantingbalance … do you think that this “unpopular bill” (as you characterize it) is unpopular because people really know what is in it – or is it because they are just listening to lies, misinformation and distortions spread by the conservatives – whose sole purpose is to protect their rich contibuting corporations and their powerful lobbies. To me, this is the saddest part of all. People believing the very “scoundrels” who are ripping them off every day of their life. IF health care reform doesn’t pass and become more affordable, I can guarantee you that the “jobless rate” will never go down because there are too many of us baby boomers who cannot afford to retire from the workforce because of this very issue. Here we are, one of the most “civilized” nations in the world, have costs that rise anywhere from 10-15%per year, have 30 some million uninsured – and we cannot talk rationally about this subject and find a reasonable solution. Mainly because the “rich and powerful” have the “small minds” stirred up. How pathetic are we?

Dems..Please explain to us in layman’s terms WHAT the problems are that need fixed, and then list the proposed solutions for each issue. What you have done is hide behind legalease and back room deals. Pathetic!
Medical cost are absurd..I agree! And it seems insurance co’s are the easy target. And I am sure there are cost savings to be had there. But what I don’t hear are proposals to reign in costs at the service provider’s level..hospitals, doctors, therapists, medical centers, etc. I am quite sure we can find many savings if they are exposed for their outlandish fee structures! Most of which are never disclosed to the patient. Then there is the part of the legal profession I call ambulance chasers! In no uncertain terms…these thugs need to be relagated to the gutter! I’m not talking about the attorney recovering REASONABLE damages.

We want Health Care Reform but NOT this Obama train wreck of a bill that wont even insure everyone but will certainly cause alot of care to be rationed and taxes to go way way up. Tort reforms and other measures to cut waste are not even being considered because Obama is in a tizzy to pay back his benefactors who will profit handsomely from this socialist nightmare of a bill. Dont fall for it… Delay it and make them re do it the right way…no more rushes because of Obama’s hysteria !!!

People understand the the need for prudent and thoughtful health care reform however this congress view of reform is that of gaining more power over the people. Control energy (proposed cap and trade), food
(shutting off the water to the breadbasket of the world in the San Joaquin Valley) and water (proposed Clean water act) and health care and ability to provide for family through meaningful jobs (not union make work jobs) you control the people (modern day enslavement). Will we become the next Haiti?

Uh Jan………You do NOT want healthcare reform from this set of wide eyed goofy liberals! God willing, it will NEVER pass (and you will be glad that it doesn’t)!
Something from a conservative standpoint that lowers premiums and provides more coverage would be a horse of a totally different color.