Health Care Debate - Kansas City, MO

[Latonia davis]

i support Obama 110%

[angie jones]

do not think the government should be running the health insurance of this country. I have not had health insurance since 2006. I am 65years old and don't have medicare either or social security. I am an AMERICAN CITIZEN and do not plan to purchase insurance if the democrats get their way.

[Bobbie Hagerty]

I am for Medicare for everyone. Everyone is happy with Medicare. Because the older demographic uses their health care at a much higher rate than people younger than 65, Medicare for all could be operated much more cost efficiently than the current Medicare program. The majority of Americans voted for Obama's agenda. We voted for his leadership. We want the Public Option to be equal to Medicare.

[lisa]

Latonia davis wrote:

i support Obama 110%

Of course you do. You're a tool and as long as it's someone else that is paying for it, you couldn't give a rat's azz!!

[lisa]

Bobbie Hagerty wrote:

I am for Medicare for everyone. Everyone is happy with Medicare. Because the older demographic uses their health care at a much higher rate than people younger than 65, Medicare for all could be operated much more cost efficiently than the current Medicare program. The majority of Americans voted for Obama's agenda. We voted for his leadership. We want the Public Option to be equal to Medicare.

You're wrong. The majority are against the plans Obama has set forth. Quit trying to distort reality.

[jhj]

It will bankrupt us as a nation.

[Dwight Mansburden]

This administration could not run a car wash profitably and without bankruptcy

[Bag of Bones]

The health care ' system ' needs repairs, not a total scrapping.

Do you really want the Government deciding WHO gets WHAT treatment and WHEN?

Do you want some bureaucrat-pencil-pusher making decisions on YOUR health care needs?

Another 1500 - 2000 page Bill written in
" legalese ", that will have to be overseen by lawyers, that effects everyone's health care, run by the people that brought you $800 hammers and bridges-to-nowhere. By estimates, effecting ONE-SIXTH of the entire USA economy.

CHANGE you can believe in?

Feel free to list below, ALL the Government agencies that now operate in a well run and efficient manner:
1.
2.
3.

[Bag of Bones]

And over ONE HUNDRED NEW Government agencies to oversee this BS:
__________
New 'Bureaucracies' in House Health Care Bill

The following is a list of the "new federal bureaucracies" that the House Republican Conference claims are created in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care reform bill.

1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)
3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)
4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)
5. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)
6. Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)
7. Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)
8. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)
9. Program for technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)
10. Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)
11. Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)
12. State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)
13. Grant program for health insurance cooperatives (Section 310, p. 206)
14. "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 321, p. 211)
15. Ombudsman for "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 321(d), p. 213)
16. Account for receipts and disbursements for "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 322(b), p. 215)
17. Telehealth Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)
18. Demonstration program providing reimbursement for "culturally and linguistically appropriate services" (Section 1222, p. 617)
19. Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 648)
20. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicare (Section 1301, p. 653)

70. Grant program for State alternative medical liability laws (Section 2531, p. 1431)
71. Grant program to develop infant mortality programs (Section 2532, p. 1433)
72. Grant program to prepare secondary school students for careers in health professions (Section 2533, p. 1437)
73. Grant program for community-based collaborative care (Section 2534, p. 1440)
74. Grant program for community-based overweight and obesity prevention (Section 2535, p. 1457)
75. Grant program for reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio in primary and secondary schools (Section 2536, p. 1462)
----------

I won't list them all, go do your own homework!

[Anonymous]

Absolutely, against!!!!!!!! This is unconstitutional! Government can not constitutional compete with private industry. Our founding fathers are screaming from their graves.

[Anonymous]

Bobbie Hagerty wrote:

I am for Medicare for everyone. Everyone is happy with Medicare. Because the older demographic uses their health care at a much higher rate than people younger than 65, Medicare for all could be operated much more cost efficiently than the current Medicare program. The majority of Americans voted for Obama's agenda. We voted for his leadership. We want the Public Option to be equal to Medicare.

No idea what world this person is living in! I am a physician and have yet to treat a patient that is HAPPY with Medicare! If this does go through, people will get a really hard "slap in the face" from reality!

[lexmo]

i agree with the doctor above my statement ....... we will get a slap in the face and it wont be the way obama say it will be ....it will be another surprise slap to us from obama ......... just like he said he woiuld bring our kids home , i knew he was not going to do it ........ read middle east news topix, they say he muslim

[lexmo]

i dont believe the government should control our healthcare in america home of the free. its nothing but for the welfare people who dont want to work and taxpayers will flip the bill.

[DeLee]

What other great big program has the government improved by taking it over??? People, we are losing our ability to choose for ourselves on many fronts, and lots of people just don't seem to care/have a clue. Obama's promises are empty - they helped him get where he wanted to go - the White House. But we mustn't expect that he will take care of us all, any more than any other politician. God help us all.

[Jason Hutchison]

One year ago today the government owned and controlled 19% of the economy. Today with government takeovers of the banks, GM, etc. the government controls 30%. With healthcare they will control over 50% of our economy. Next up cap and trade. Get the picture people. If this was about the people dying in the streets because they have no healthcare, then why wait until 2013 to implement it....oh thats right the elections. No thanks, I will keep my Liberty!

[Bag of Bones]

The democratic plan = To retain power, grow the government; destroy the middle class.

If you think ANY Health Plan will leave out Illegals ...you are delusional. Even if it's not in the original draft, it WILL be ammended later to include them. Why? VOTES!

The greater number of citizens depending upon on the government for a job, health care, a paycheck, a hand-out, etc... just who do you think those citizens will vote to retain in office?

A bloated, ever-increasing Government and a bloated ever-increasing lower/dependant class with their hands out = a shrinking middle class.

Not a pleasant picture developing....

[J.L. Gibeson]

Our country is already far above its head in debt. This "health care program" will put us so far under that we will never recoverIt is a ploy for "big government". Politicians, as a whole, cannot run or control programs of this type. Just look at Social Security.They say they won't attempt to govern the program, but history shows they just can't help themselves.There has to be a better way to heal our health care system without digging a deal dept hole for our country,

[Silly Boy]

Let me see if I understand all this...

IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU WILL BE JAILED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.

IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY, you will get a job, a driver's license, a social security card, welfare benefits, food stamps, credit cards, subsidized rent, a loan to buy a house, free education,
free health care, a lobbyist in Washington, and in some cases you can vote. What a system the US offers to outsiders!

[J L Gibeson]

Jason Hutchison wrote:

One year ago today the government owned and controlled 19% of the economy. Today with government takeovers of the banks, GM, etc. the government controls 30%. With healthcare they will control over 50% of our economy. Next up cap and trade. Get the picture people. If this was about the people dying in the streets because they have no healthcare, then why wait until 2013 to implement it....oh thats right the elections. No thanks, I will keep my Liberty!

This effort is a prime example of Socialism, one of many ideas that the liberals are advocating and they deny this publicly. They are either extremely dumb or are lying and consider the vast majority of our country as gullible fools to be led by the nose to doom.

[lexmo]

silly boy...... you are so right . i learned that when i was living in tx .....