More Americans Have Unfavorable View of Health Care Law

This poll shows the power of misinformation repeated influences those who don’t watch non-partisan news.
I’ve read most of the bill. It has so many good things for consumers and puts limits on the insurance companies greed.
That’s why insurance companies have been funding the lies, to get it repealed.
Read it yourself or at least read summaries on non-partisan sites. It is a good deal for the American people and businesses.

There are many reasons that the health insurance industry is fighting the health insurance bill, The Affordable Care Act. They want to continue banning people with pre-existing conditions, even babies! They want to be able to cancel people’s insurance when they are facing expensive life-threatening illnesses.
But the biggest reason takes place in 2014. Starting then, insurance companies will have to spend 80 to 85% of all premiums we pay on actual medical bills for patients. This will limit them to 15 to 20% for overhead and profit. Today there overhead and profit can run as high as 30 to 40% of premiums collected!
Compare that with Medicare with a 4% overhead.
This fight against the health care bill is all about greed, not about sick people getting proper care. So the insurance industry has spent a lot of money spreading lies and half-truths to try to kill the bill. Don’t be taken in, read it yourself or a good bi-partisan site.

Librarian53–”This poll shows the power of misinformation repeated influences those who don’t watch non-partisan news.
I’ve read most of the bill. It has so many good things for consumers and puts limits on the insurance companies greed.
That’s why insurance companies have been funding the lies, to get it repealed.”— No, what this poll shows is that Americans ARE reading and looking into what this bill does and they DON”T LIKE IT!! Okay, what are the good things that it has for consumers?? No pre-existing conditions? Great for those WITH preexisting conditions, TERRIBLE for everyone else… who do you thinnk will have to pay forthe bill that insurance companies have to pay out to people who have NEVER paid premiums before but now get to be covered? ANSWER– everyone else… Which is why most actuaries are now predicting that everyone who HAS coverage will see their rates DOUBLE.. How about the 85/15 rule? is that a good Idea to prevent “greed”? Here is what it will do, companies will have to GREATLY increase their rates to cover operating expenses under the 15% rule (its currently 35%).. Which means that customers pay DOUBLE for the same coverage and IF the company STILL fails to meet the bracket, then they have to close up shop.. what will be left is fly by night low overhead companies who have horrible track records, but can survive on 15% of the premiums through labor cuts and outsourcing.. Want to get paid?/ Simply follow the computer prompts untilyou finally get in touch with the reprsentative who lives in Sri Lanka and he will get right on processing your claim.. you should have your money in a few months..maybe…How about that whole budget NEUTRAL thing?? They just dropped the CLASS program because it was unsustainable to implement.. THAT program was supposed to provide 40% of the bill’s cost neutrality.. Which mean that the HEALTH CARE BILL will now ADD ove a have trillion a year to the deficit.. and by the way.. the presentage if uninsured people in this country.. has WENT UP since it’s passage.. how’s that for success?

A new wrinkle has surfaced in the implementation of the federal health care law that critics argue will impose a significant penalty on women and marriage.

My place of work is already telling us that when this program goes into effect
we will be dumped from healthcare coverage. Big corporate savings. Our union
tells us we can ask for higher wages at that point, but who is in the driver seat.
Go on Strike, been there, done that, lose to much money that you never make back.
And health care cost keep going up. This law is going to screw so many people
it is sickening.

Don’t believe the insurance company spokesmen in these comments. Prices will stabilize or even fall come 2014 when the 15% to 20% rule goes into effect. Insurance companies will only be able to keep 15 to 20% for overhead and profits and have to spend 80 to 85% of premiums on customers medical bills. They don’t like this and are fighting it tooth and nail by misinforming you about the bill. Today they are spending 30 to 40% of your premiums on their overhead and profit, including huge salaries and bonuses for ceos while they try to deny payments for sick people’s bills!

I guess you did not like my first comments so I will try again. The Affordable Health Care Bill is what this country needs. It should have never been held off to start like it has…people need it now and they also need a public option. However, that being said…it is preventing the insurance companies from controlling us by kicking us off when we are sick or refusing to cover anyone with a pre-existing condition. It may need a tweek or two but every new bill does but Fox News and others like Beck and Limbaugh have done a mumber confusing the people about its content. The figures were checked by the CBO and independent organization and they say that it will do as was said. However, the republicans who refuse to let this president win on anything and refused to work with him on it even after he went up to them twice and put them on t.v. so all could see their obstinance…he got it passed. The few republican who signed on were sanctioned and told if they ever go against the “party” they would not receive any money should they run again. That with the Norquest bill has put handcuffs on any republican who wants to work with this president. Not every congress and senate in the past loveed their president….however, they have in the past worked with him because it was what was right for this country. This republican/tea party do not feel this way. They put their wants and their party first and the country will just have to wait until they get exactly what they want. How totally unAmereican of them. How sad for this country so those out of work…will just have to wait…those who need this health care…they want to prevent from getting it and those who are unemployed are just lazy according to them. The 99ers are the result of this inactivity by this party and the banks who refuse to help are disgusting. At least our president is not waiting another year…he is getting some t hings done without the republicans.. Despite the fact that the income of the rich has risen 275% and the income of the middle class and the poor has stayed the same…the republicans still want more for the rich while the middle class who actually need this bill are suffering. I hope this country wakes up to actually who is out there for you and who is out there for their party. Election time is coming and in some states they are not waiting but are trying to overthrow those who lied to them like in Wisconsin and Ohio. We can only hope the rest of the country wakes up before they lose everything espcially the women who are being attacked daily and their rights slowly taken away. Wake up America before it is too late.

Posted by: newcountryman—Lots of people couldn’t. Without the government feeding them, sheltering them, paying for their existence, and an all you can eat buffet of healthcare. The truth is if we want to have as many people as we have, we cannot let people make their own choices, we have to plan just to see everyone’s needs are met, but after that there is no money for wants, so we stagnate.

The health care industry and their proxy tea party have done a good job convincing the American people that we ought to go back to the same idiotic heath system we had. The Affordable Health Care Bill is not perfect but it’s at least a start toward sanity. The Congressional budget office says, if we can at least get some people to pay something we will save a lot of money. The republicans are all for fiscal responsibility unless it applies to their main sponsor, the health care industry.

Posted by: tmferretti–The fiscal irresponsibility was letting people get free stuff paid for by others.

Hogwash Snewsom. Besides, I was talking about those saying government panels would deny them care.

They are just now beginning to learn what it REALLY does. Of course they are getting unhappy with it now.

Nancy Pelosi said “we have to pass it to see whats in it” . Now that we found out whats in it, we hate it! The law puts low income people on medicaid and offers an average $2,400 a year tax credit that you may claim on your 1040 for past tax year! So you must buy insurance and pay full price for your monthly insurance payments all year! I don’t think the credit is even a refundable tax credit, so if your tax due is say $1,500 that will also be the amount of your Obamacare tax credit! BIG DEAL! Not much help when your paying $12,000 a year for insurance!!! Obamacare is a cruel joke on people who can’t afford to buy insurance, they still can’t afford it!!! THANKS OBAMA! THANKS NANCY! FOR NOTHING!

Tmferrett: That is why the president put in that everyone should have insurance so that we don’t pay for those who show up at the hospitals and we pay. Unfortunately many have fought him on this. I dont know if 500 million has been chopped from the Medicare bill…I need to check into this as not everything reported is true as you may have guessed. For those who say we have too much govt. what about the republicans now trying to take rights away from women. This latest bill will not allow a hospital or dr. to treat a woman who is losing her baby through no fault of her own…many people abort because the fetus is not viable but now the republicans want to not allow them to be treated HR 358 I believe it is. So, if a woman is losing her baby, she cannot expect to be treated ..she may have to bleed to death? Also some other republicans are against contraceptives like Santorum who says they interrupt the nature of th ings…so no condems and some are going after the pill…this is real folks…no joke. These beliefs are of a religious nature and should not be allowed to be forced on anyone. People left England for that very reason..the Church of Enland would ot allow anyone to have religious freedom and if all these bills pass…we are losing our freedom to choose…something we fought for 20 years ago. People can believe what they want…just don’t force others to think like you do. By passing bills like these …you are doing just that….so to those who say too much government…it is the republicans who are doing it not anyone else. Government is necessary but they must have b oundries. When you are involved in a flood or fires or anything beyond our control and we are in danger of being killed or losing our homes…that is when we need government and that is when those very same people who cry too much government start yelkling for it. Like Perry…he wanted to do away with Fems…until he had his fires…all of a sudden he was yelling for govt to send Fema. Everything in moderation….is fine.

Thanks president Obama for ending the war and bringing our soldiers home. Especially since we were lied to about getting into it. Funny…there is no anger of th is lie where many have died or were maimed but Bush does not get any flack for it…to me that is one of the worst things he has done and why I left the republican party.

TALMAG

We spent 834 billion dollars to get rid of Saddamn Hussein. We spent 1.2 billion getting rid of Kaddafi. The republicans still have the nerve to even talk foreign policy and military issues. They should be embarrassed.

PLEASE AMERICA DONOT LISTEN TO THE LIES,WE ARE DROWNING IN THE EXCESSES OF THE INSURANCE CO.WE MUST SEE HOW THIS LAW PANS OUT! THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME TO REMOVE IT OR CHANGE IT WHAT IS THE HURRY?LETS JUST SEE WHETHER IT IS GOOD OR NOT
GIVE IT A CHANCE THE BIG HURRY SEEMS TO BE COMING FROM INSUANCE CO,& REPUBLICANS,WHY?DO NOT FALL FOR THIER LIES!!! INDEPENDENT.

Posted by: NEIL TOOMEY—And you can choose not to do business with them, you can choose to save you money and pay for your own healthcare, Oh wait, that’s right you want to spend other people money for your healthcare.

The subsidies for ObamaCare are not what you think! Please keep in mind that the subsidies/tax credits come as an offset against taxes paid when you file your 1040 return. In order to get the credit you must purchase the insurance, pay the premiums, then wait until the following year to get your credit. So if you couldn’t afford to make those monthly premium payments before, you still won’t be able to!!!! Obamacare really does NOTHING to make health insurance more affordable for those living pay check to pay check!!! This was not health care reform, it was a cruel joke played by Democrats to make you think it was!

Told you so. Just wait until you have to provide the IRS with an insurance company name and policy# on your 1040 form. That will be an intersting conversation. Especially with the OWS crowd.

Spike, your comment is blatantly false, as our debt couldn’t be due to the Affordable Care Act because most of its provisions aren’t in effect until 2014! Sheesh.

I can usually tell when a comment will have some lie about the insurance act when they refer to it as ‘Obamacare’. They know that calling it by its real name, the Affordable Care Act would tip off readers as to its reality, a consumer-friendly piece of legislation.

Posted by: Lydia—NO matter what the name is, it Obama’s baby and will hang around his neck like an anchor when it is overturned.

ZMAN (2:47 PM), How about….no, that didn’t work. Well, how about….umm I guess that didn’t work either…..I know! How about…..well, there’s always…….Congress?

@ZMAN & NEWCOUNTRYMAN , when Obama got elected I found a way to get rid of my debt that accumulated because all the banks were raising my interest rate from 8% to 19% to 29% all FOR NO REASON. I got schooled in having credit card debt,. I saw $8000 debt turn to $15,000, to $30,000 in a blink of an eye, without me using the credit cards anymore. Obama got voted in , soon I found a program that widdled all this APRs to a realk low one. I have now gone from $29,000 in debt to about $12,000 in 3 years. It would of taken me 99 years to pay off thu the banks way. So Obama was a God send to me. I will be debt free in about 1.5 years. That is something I can really cheer about, ESPECAIALLY AFTER FEELING RAPED BY ALL THE BANKS IN 2006, 2007 & 2008. This is fact, but I bet you weren’t really asking if anyone has been helped by Obama. I have. & all I see is newwcountryman complain about obama like it was his hobby. Well people like newcountryman are nothing but old school thinkers. They don’t know how to work with the other side. All they do is complain & play power games. What a fool’s way to live. You guys complaining are really dim in my eyes. Especially newcountreyman, he’s a tune cd. over & over. wow.

@Librarian53: The projected Obamacare tax credit for a family of 4 is said to average about $2,400 for the year! So thats not much help if your paying $12,000 or more for insurance each year! And yes, I know all to well about medical bills for those without insurance, my rates nearly doubled over the last 2 years and I can no longer afford insurance that does not have huge deductibles that make it useless!

Gypsyeyes, congrats on paying down your credit card debt. I like the new banking regulations, too. The new Consumer Protection Agency should also do a lot of good.
Republicans don’t understand that when you let any industry rip people off, whether it is banking, or oil or electric companies, you bring the economy down and really hurt individuals and families. Somehow Enron, the Tyco Corporation and the recent banking crisis doesn’t make many Republicans see that their policy goal of deregulation hurts the economy for everyone but a few wealthy individuals.

Why not leave the private health care and insurance industries entirely alone? The government runs several very good health care programs–the VA, the miilitary services–that could be slowly and judiciously expanded and opeate independently of the private sector. Over perhaps a decade, first to include immediate families, then dependents, then parents, and finally anyone needing it, and purchas hospitals and hire nurses and medical staff as needed. (Retired physician)

News travels slow. You think after a year of the majority of the nation demanding NOT to pass this health care bill will get to theWhite House, Pelosi and Reid??? Took a year for abc to even put out a real report about the dislike for this bill. Guess it is time to credit abc for catching up with the nations will.

Would one of you republicans explain to me why we should continue to spend huge amounts of money treating our uninsured sick people, when we can save money by making them pay at least a little? If these people had insurance they could go to a doctor and avoid expensive procedures later.

I guarantee you, as a civilized society, unlike the tea party; we will not just let these people die. You republicans always complain you have to pay for the rest of us, why are you so against having those you think are taking your money, pay something.
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One thing that is being left out of the debate is the uninisured. Once they have insurance, the services they recieve will be covered by insurance instead of Medicaid, which basically covers health services. Hospitals wont pass the cost of the unisured to the insured, or write off huge amounts to avoid taxes. Insurance companies also don’t care about controling costs, the entire industry is based on a percent of the claims dollars. Brokers and insurance companies have not interest in controlling costs as that would impact the revenue stream for them.

You never, EVER make people get healthcare insurance! This is the reason that there are no jobs!! GET RID OF OBAMA!!!

gypsyeyes (3:33 PM); No debt at all. Paid off the mortgage 12 years ago without Obama’s help. Life is good.

The truth of the matter is that the majority of the wealthy did not support health care reform and the majority of the uninsured did! The part of the country I live in, like the new health care reforms, and understand that there is always room for adjustments! Before health care reform, cost were sky high and going higher! The rich did not care because they could pay! Polls can be easily structured for the desired effects for the right price!

Analogy: Bush did not win the majority vote initially, but he won the election allegedly!

Yeah, let’s repeal Obama care……and replace it with what. How does the GOP propose we curb the cost of health care? Also, what about the uninsured and people denied due to preexisting conditions. We have been hearing for a long time about repealing health care….it’s time we hear a plan for what comes next. The American people are not going to accept the crap about charities and churches picking up the tab because there are too many in need for them to handle.

Don’t have to worry about it being repealed. It’s going to be found unconstitutional. That will be the death blow to a dismal administration.

Polls be damned! We are the only industrialized nation without universal healthcare and should take no pride in that distinction. If we can afford to spend $300 millions per day in Afghanistan, we can find a way to provide universal healthcare. The misinformation, labels and name calling used by the GOP influences polls. Our main problem is that we no longer have legislators who are guided by integrity; they lead from behind. They know it’s wrong to have millions of uninsured Americans who simply can’t afford the high cost ot care or insurance, but they are watching the polls.

1 in 5 democrats don’t support it because it doesn’t go far enough. Like all good compromises, no one is happy and the longer they think about it, the less they like it. Every other country has some form of organized health care delivery system but we insist on living in choas and disarray so a handful of healthy young conservatives can carry around cards in their wallets that they believe will get them care when they need it. NEWSFLASH: if you get seriously ill, the insurance company is DUMPING your butt!

what else can you expect from a population when 47% of them believe in ghosts, over 50% believe in creationism or “intelligent design,” one-third believe in a literal interpretation of the bible, and more than 2/3 of Republicans still don’t believe President Obama is a Christian, American citizen? talk about “when you wish upon a star” overcoming reason and rationality.

Lovebugs (12:40 AM); “1 in 5 democrats don’t support it because it doesn’t go far enough.” Ah, no. Only one in five “support it”. Also my congradulation to those who feel Obama is saving them from themselves like Gippy and Gypsyeyes.

John Locke: “We do not need the interference of worthless government bureaucrats between those that need their health cared for and those that are able to provide that care. It is bad enough that we have worthless insurance company personnel sticking their noses into the doctor/patient relationship.” – - – Evidence? Please cite the relevant passages from the law that will necessarily cause that to happen. And the way you are stereotyping all government employees as “worthless government bureaucrats” – that is pathetic and shameful and nothing but another example of ignorantly immoral thinking. Why do conservatives have that pathological need for so much judgmental hatefulness toward so many groups that are different from them?

(R) 2012 RICK PERRY White House: This Mitt Romney really is a Barack Obama’s mirror, especially Obama-Romney’s ObaMneyCare is UNACCEPTABLE to Republican Party. * NOW, Republicans have our 2012 Republican Nominee Hopeful RICK PERRY’s “Flat Tax” proposal, we welcome the Senior Citizens will speak out how much they like or dislike the RICK PERRY’s “NO TAX” on Social Security benefit; AARP and the Senior Citizens’ state of Florida are welcomed to input their thought HOW HELPFUL the RICK PERRY’s “Flat Tax” can effect them … Republicans DON’T need to know the fat cat and the Massachusetts’ Lobster can rebuild our American economy, but HOW the RICK PERRY settle the Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline construction project, the Republicans WILL ONLY contract to use Made-in-USA steel pipelines, “NO” Keystone XL contract built with “Made-in-China” (steel) materials.

newcountryman: “Also my congradulation to those who feel Obama is saving them from themselves like Gippy and Gypsyeyes.” – - – WRONG. We don’t feel like we need to have President Obama or the government save us from ourselves. We need the government to provide us with some protections from the immoral business people who would kill more of us at the drop of a hat and without blinking an eye if they could make a little MORE profit (often record profits) than the profit they are ALREADY making. And us = the authentic people who work for them, buy their products, live next to them, live downstream from them, and live downwind from them – you know, the 99%. We need the government to provide us with some protections from the immoral business people who would maim and injure more of us at the drop of a hat and without blinking an eye if they could make a little MORE profit (often record profits) than the profits they are already making. And us = the authentic people who work for them, buy their products, live next to them, live downstream from them, and live downwind from them – you know, the 99%. We need the government to provide us with some protections from the immoral business people who would give more of us cancer and other diseases at the drop of a hat and without blinking an eye if they could make a little MORE profit (often record profits) than the profits they are already making. And us = the authentic people who work for them, buy their products, live next to them, live downstream from them, and live downwind from them – you know, the 99%. We need the government to provide most of us with some protections from the other groups who are willing to cause the rest of us physical or financial harm because of their collective behavior that is immoral and/or irresponsible. Conservatives love to whine about individual responsibility. Well, what about collective responsibility? What about holding groups, say smokers for one example, collectively responsible as a group for the consequences of their behavior? How about holding irresponsible groups ACCOUNTABLE for the financial consequences of their collective group behavior? For example, slapping something like a $5 per pack tax on each pack of cigarettes would be a responsibility and accountability tax, not a sin tax.

wact1: “As a previous poster pointed out. The truth hurts.” – - – ROFL. Learn to read. I was judgmental about the stereotyping behavior, not the person. I am always judgmental about bigotry and rabid intollerance that is the result of ignorant stereotyping. I am also judgmental about hypocrisy. And lying. And intellectual dishonesty. And fallacious/poor thinking – REGARDLESS of whether I catch a liberal or conservative doing any of the above. I just happen to catch far more conservatives doing those things.

B-K Knightrider; Anyone fawning over Obama reducing your monthly credit card payment when you carry a $12,000 balance month after month is irresponsible.

NEWCOUNTRYMAN: “B-K Knightrider; Anyone fawning over Obama reducing your monthly credit card payment when you carry a $12,000 balance month after month is irresponsible.” – - – ROFL. And yet another example of intellectual dishonesty. When and where have I done anything of the kind? Where have I fawned over President Obama about ANYTHING in this thread? The only thing I have done in this thread is counter incorrect, false, and fallacious comments people have made. Please provide a relevant quote that necessarily supports what you are implying about me. Since I have NEVER made any comment of any kind about that particular topic you must have accidentally confused me with someone else because surely you would not intentionally make a false statement about anyone.

B-KKnightrider (11:41 am); I was not refering to you. I was refering to another poster you appeared to be defending in your 11:03 am comment.

NEWCOUNTRYMAN: “B-KKnightrider (11:41 am); I was not refering to you. I was refering to another poster you appeared to be defending in your 11:03 am comment.” – - – Ah ha. I see. That makes sense. I apologize for implying you were intentionally being dishonest about the meaning of my comments. I was not defening anyone’s comments. I was criticizing/refuting someone’s comment.

JACSKSON: “So from that article you surmised that all those opposing the healthcare law are repubs? LOL.. Reading comprehension is not one of your strong points is it? Why don’t you ask the independents and the democrats?” – - – Reading comprehension is not your strong point either. TMFERRETTI did not state or imply that Republicans are the only ones opposing the healthcare law, nor that all of the people who appose it are necessarliy Republican. Since Republicans have been the MOST VOCAL opponents, and statistically MOST opponents are in fact Republican, TMFERRETTI was merely challenging them to provide an effective alternative that is BETTER than what we have now AND is also better than the healthcare law.

Jackson: I marched in Georgia for the affordable health care act. and I am an Independent. The alternative to this bill is insurance companies control our lives once again. With this bill you will not be thrown off when you get sick and if you have a lifelong disease like diabetes…you will be able to get coverage..unlike what has been going on. The alternative to not having it is a bad one cost wise and in any other area. Yes, we will have to make some adjustments as all new bills do but without it our medical lives are no longer in our control. I watched my daughter fight cancer and her insurance company and I never want to see another person go through this. I met a woman whose 8 yr old daughter when she developed childhood diabetes was thrown off her husband’s insurance immediately. She had a tough time finding someone to cover her and when she did it costs hundreds of dollars per month. This will be no more and it is too bad it is taking so long to go into effect but that was another concession made to the republicans so they now have more time to defeat it. Unless you have experienced the tricks and trials of watching someone you love go through what I did…you will never understand. But take it from me…this health care plan is certainly better than what I watched.

Republicans

Mitt Romney is going to be your candidate. What’s he going to do when he has to face President Obama and 50,000,000 older Americans who already think he’s an idiot for referring to Medicare and Social Security as an entitlement? He can’t use his Massachusetts plan for ideas, he’s already repudiated it. Like the republicans on this blog, he has no ideas.
plan for ideas, he’s already repudiated it. Like the republicans on this blog, he has no ideas..

“The alternative to this bill is insurance companies control our lives once again.”
I don’t know what the profit margins are for Insurance companies, I hear that it is 6 0r 7% which is considered low in comparison to Google, Apple and others but to some that they make any money is evil.

The company I am employed by is self insured but an insurance company handles the claims. For years our rates remained steady when others were being charged more and now they have actually dropped the past few years and the coverage is better. We are encouraged to eat well and exercise [there are wellness programs] and we are encouraged to always keep our coverage which means one may have to chose between a new Iphone or their insurance policy.

When people need help we all should be willing to help but taking the bitter pill of a Government fix should concern all of us.

The confederacy of dunces (tea party) is controlled and funded by the health insurance industry, Koch brothers and Grover Norquist. That’s why they have 5,000 separate groups. They don’t want anyone to know where their funding comes from. They will never do anything against the interests of the health insurance industry. I’ll bet if someone would question the organizers of these tea party rallies, they’d find out they are PR men who work for the insurance companies.

Reading these anti-Obama comments is like reading scripts from right wing talk shows; no actual logic or facts, just misinformation with a foregoned conclusion that whatever Obama does or says is to be rejected. These are the traits of bigotry, complete with double standards. Note that they NEVER respond to the fact that the GOP is rejecting proposals that they once supported all for the sake of making Obama appear to be incompetent. They refer to his work as a Community Organizer but never the fact that he is an expert on constitutional law i.e. a former Harvard professor and head of the Harvard Law Review. These are deliberate acts of misinformation and proof the GOP’s priority is not the welfare of our nation. McConnell said it best when he stated that their number one goal is making Obama a one-term president. You can’t have two priorities. Decent Republicans of good conscience need to take a stand and stop acting like high school kids whose main concern is being popular or what people think about them. Millionaire legislators can protect the future of their relatives and their kids. What about the rest of us who are now being stretched to the limit just trying to afford the basic needs of life? They simply don’t care. To them, it’s all about making the black man in the WH appear to be a failure. WAKE UP AMERICA ! !

Of course many Americans are disappointed with the current Health Care Reform. It is the 1990′s Republican plan. Half-measures diluted with other half-measures.

POSTED BY: MIKE | OCTOBER 30, 2011, 8:37 AM=====This piece of crap law is the Democrats baby. No Repubs voted for this law. Nice try at the spin.

Cloteasboy; Snap out of it! The notion that Repubs should support any proposals that the co-opted leadership supported is a red herring. The TEA Party, indeed the vast majority of Americans have awakened to the reality of the RINO leadership contingent (McConnell, etc) as simply commie puke gradualists when compared to Obama. Obamacare would not be an issue if traitorous lib hack and war(drobe) horse Olympia Snowe (R-ME) had not voted it out of congressional committee. Obama wouldn’t be president today had co-opted traitorous lib hack John McCain (R-AZ) presented a clear conservative Repub message. There are cemetaries all over the world filled with true Americans who refused to bargain or strike deals limiting freedom with commie pukes (like Obama) after we were attacked in WW2. I, FOR ONE, WILL NOT LET THEIR SACRIFICE BE IN VAIN

If you voted for Obama, Next time think before you vote.

Google “Capps Law” its a Ticking Time Bomb Inside Obamacare. Anyone who voted for Obamacare should be voted out of office.

This tax-paying & voting American is a strong supporter of the Affordable Health Car Act POSTED BY: ED WIDDER | OCTOBER 30, 2011, 3:28 PM++++LOL….not according to all the polls..

@Ed Widder….Obama wasted 18 months on this HC bill when he should of put JOBS first! He wanted so bad to be the ONLY President to pass a HC bill that he forgot that AMERICANS have to have a JOB to pay for it. The polls were against this bill when it was passed and there is more against it now, and that is Democrats losing faith in it. It was bad enough he spent all that time on this bill, but then the bill DOES NOT even do anything about the exploding cost of medical.. it just keeps climbing along with everyone’s Insurance premiums.. what is it.. 18,000 a year is the average family of 4? I agree with what someone up above said, the Misinformation on the right.. yea.. there is a lot of it.. just as there are a lot on the left that can get off their hard core left soapbox and think for themselves and see this HC bill is not what it should be. We Americans are being screwed by politicians.. Repubs and Dems and until we stop defending the stupidity coming out of DC and take control of who we put there, we are going to keep getting screwed.

ObamaCare was front-loaded with the items that the Democrat’s believed would be the most popular. It appears few have been impressed. The real fun begins in 2014, when the less attractive aspects of the plan are conveniently planned to start after the next presidential election.

I really don’t understand why anyone with health insurance would be against this law. I have health insurance and NOTHING has changed for me except now my son (who is now 22) gets to stay on my health insurance AT NO EXTRA COST. He was cut off at 19 and I was paying an extra $400 a month to insure him, but when the law passed, Blue Cross put him back on my insurance at no extra cost. They even put him back on a month earlier than the law passed. This law saves me $400 a month.

Stay away from my ObamaCare!

Just as I thought, the republicans complain about the Affordable Health Care bill, but I have not seen any of them propose a solution to our out of control health care system on this blog.

Here’s one. Several countries in the world (including Israel) pay for the education of doctors and nurses out right, no loans. The catch is they have to give six years back to the government. They work in neighborhood clinics where people in the neighborhood go for minor problems, cold, cuts, scraps, etc. If the problem is more serious they are sent to a hospital, also staffed mostly by doctors and nurses who are paying back there obligation. Health care costs the government virtually nothing.

This would never work here; the health insurance industry would go crazy, supported by the confederacy of dunces’ tea party.

What do you think about the idea of letting the Governor of each state figure out a Health Care Progam for their people and how to get their unemployed citizens back to work? Let Congress figure and pass bills for all the other problems. Carol