Health Care Debate - San Jose, CA

[Anonymous]

Short of a complete overhaul, our next best hope is the reform proposed by President Obama.

[Anonymous]

Obama care increases the national deficit. Do you want an entity who runs the army in a deficit, the post office in a deficit, the schools in a deficit running your heath care?

[Anonymous]

Let's get Tort Reform First.
Then we can revise health care step by step.

[justmyluck]

too much too quickly

[J C Lawrence]

I've lived in countries with nationalised health care, such as the UK, and I've received major health care while there under those services. The scare stories are just that: stories to scare children, not adults who know better.

[mike cookson]

How do you explain not wanting an option if you are part of US health care scam beneficiary, or and idiot?

[JimE.Kelly]

My insurance is going up to $300 a month qnd iam retired on a fixed income. I take home less than $1800 a month my rent is 50% of that and get no increses. I almost did get a colonoscopy as I am worried abut the costs. They foudn a polyp and I am awaiting th results. We need an option that is more affordable and a single payer would sav us all considerable sums. It would be portable, without preexisting exclusions, and would help the 43 million uninsured while alleviating people going to ER when a less exspensive alternative would coevr us.

[Still Alive]

I have paid insurance my whole adult life. Never needed it. So, it was pure profit to the private insurance companies. I was in Construction Management and lost my job when the housing crash hit. Then, 6 months into the job search while with no insurance, I came down with a problem involving my heart. I did not seek medical attention due to the lock out policies of the very same companies I had given free money my entire working life of 30 years. It is ironic, that if I was diagnosed as someone who would require care, I would be unable to get that care.
Now, 2 years later I have medical insurance, and it is too late. Damage done. The heart requires more advanced spending that otherwise might have been avoided. I pay the premiums, the system pays the price of its own stupidity. If this had happened in one of the many countries with universal health care, my health would now be better and the system would have paid less to save me. Death before poverty. Don't like it? Too bad, it's the truth.

[Still Alive]

[QUOTE who="JimE.Kelly"]My insurance is going up to $300 a month qnd iam retired on a fixed income. I take home less than $1800 a month my rent is 50% of that and get no increses. I almost did get a colonoscopy as I am worried abut the costs. They foudn a polyp and I am awaiting th results. We need an option that is more affordable and a single payer would sav us all considerable sums. It would be portable, without preexisting exclusions, and would help the 43 million uninsured while alleviating people going to ER when a less exspensive alternative would coevr us.[/QUOTE]
I hear you.

[Ronald Reagan]

Why would anyone in their right mind want a FOR PROFIT company to run their healthcare?

Clueless fools...

[Ralph Gibbs]

because he doesn't have the funds available to pay for this bill.

[Anonymous]

Ronald Reagan wrote:

Why would anyone in their right mind want a FOR PROFIT company to run their healthcare?
Clueless fools...

You are kidding right?

For profit causes competition, which means individuals can leave a company that is incompetant and choose a company that does a better job.

Do you not read or understand the concept of capitalism?

[Ronald Reagan]

Faux Pas wrote:

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You are kidding right?
For profit causes competition, which means individuals can leave a company that is incompetant and choose a company that does a better job.
Do you not read or understand the concept of capitalism?

Idiot, do you not understand what actually goes on in the world today with your beloved capitalism?

Capitalism is dead and it's been replaced with a pyramid scheme run by the rich.

How much worse does it have to get for some people to wake up?

[Bob]

I desperately wanted the Public Option, but we need some progress on this issue. I understand those who would rather wait until we can get it ALL.

[Anon]

Ronald Reagan wrote:

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Idiot, do you not understand what actually goes on in the world today with your beloved capitalism?
Capitalism is dead and it's been replaced with a pyramid scheme run by the rich.
How much worse does it have to get for some people to wake up?

You're referring to Globalism (and to vanilla corruption and theft) not to Capitalism. Before credit was globalized, and before the globalists started the race to the bottom outsourcing and offshoring that has cratered American wages and destroyed the manufacturing base, capitalism worked just fine.

Capitalism is still the only system that can improve the lives of people in poverty without stealing from others.

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Ever hear that?

What we require is massive reform - an end to our insane monetary system, this fake Monopoly-money system where money is actually debt secured only by the government's ability to coerce payments and steal from its citizens earnings (all of it literally at gunpoint, by force).

And we need new nationalistic ideology, based on a sensible and conservative fiscal and foreign policy of isolationism and non-interventionalism; one reason we're not just broke but threatened abroad is because we engage in imperialistic behavior, which requires militaryism and the continual export of force/war around the globe, to make the world safe not for capitalism, or democracy, but for globalists and multinational corporations.

Don't blame capitalism for the malfeasances of the rich. Capitalism has been around for a long time and only recently have we had the problems we have now.

[Eric]

The government has no right to get involved in private businesses like healthcare. The government is suppose to govern, not run businesses. Open the borders between states so healthcare companies can compete with eachother.

[Eric]

Tort reform... The government has spent decades screwing up Medicare... now they want to take over healthcare

[Anonymous]

RobTorres wrote:

Short of a complete overhaul, our next best hope is the reform proposed by President Obama.

No.
Hope is not settling for death panels.. which are included by cutting the benefits of our seniors.

Hope is not allowing the government to shackel our small businesses by impossible fees and fines for not providing health insurance.

Hope is not taxing the middle class out of existance.

You are the voice of give up...

You are the voice of mediocre..

Excellance drove our nation to its strength.

Excellance drove our factories to prominence.

Choose the American way. The way of excellance not some 1700 page poorly written, not read throughly piece of legistlation that takes over on sixth of the American economy.

[Debbie Bettendorf]

Government should not be involved in our healthcare AT ALL!! It's unconstitutional what the current administration is doing and imposing on the American people. Redistribution of wealth is not in the constitution!!

[Ronald Reagan]

Debbie Bettendorf wrote:

Government should not be involved in our healthcare AT ALL!! It's unconstitutional what the current administration is doing and imposing on the American people. Redistribution of wealth is not in the constitution!!

So do you want them to pull out of medicare/medicaid and do away with the veterans hospitals as well?