And while I didn’t vote for Obama, I don’t blame him for anything other than rolling over to his corrupt congress. He has the veto pen and let’s hope he uses it if we don’t get a good public option. And remember I said “option,” which means that right-wingers can opt out.

But you are wrong about a single-payer system. We are already paying the costs for one, we just aren’t getting it because the insurance industry is skimming off 31% of our current healthcare costs. And greedy corporate CEOs are outsourcing their jobs to countries that already have universal health care.

Isn’t unfettered capitalism great?

The only businessperson who would agree to such a plan is someone who already cares not one wit for the employee and cares only to increase their profit margin and consume the labor pool like the nazis and their forced labor camps. Compassion? Values? You businesspeople ought to collude to provide a value-added product that is marketable…oh yeah, you’ll wait ’til the government helps you…and then blame the government for what becomes of that union of the minds.

Why so socialist?

“And those that have, and are raising their voices in opposition, are being colored as unamerican and even racist, simply because the president is colored.”

Wow. And…

“Whaoaa…back-up the camel Husssein!.”

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Oh, that must have also affected health care? Give me a break.

Obama:“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”

Whaoaa…back-up the camel Husssein!

Lets hear that Obama quote on more time:: “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”

What’s wrong with our health care system? The profit margin. Take it out and it’s possible to compare us favorably with other industrialized countries.

Health care isn’t too expensive; insurance is. A single-payer, nonprofit system would lower the cost, allowing insurance for all.

The insurance companies, drug companies and the medical-industrial complex are all fighting for their very lives in fear of a better, cheaper option. Do politicians have the guts to stand up to the special interests?

Definitely not, as both sides of the aisle receive huge contributions intended as bribes to maintain the status quo. If only those entrusted with this responsibility had the courage to do the right thing.

What’s the solution? Medicare for all. The cost savings would allow for full coverage for all Americans at reasonable rates and would allow adequate rates for doctors and hospitals.
America would join the modern world.

Steven Kahn
Princeton, N.J., Aug. 10, 2009

I truly believe that if the protesters knew they were inadvertently supporting, say, the plans of the for-profit insurance industry, that many of them would realize that they are being led to slaughter and start acting on their own.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with respectful protest, and I support that and would participate as well. But I want to know who I am in bed with, why they are in bed, and whether I am going to get screwed before I get out of it.

But you are absolutely correct. I see many right wingers listen to and blindly believe the lies of Limbaugh and Palin, even when the espoused solution is not in their own best interest and in some cases are very detrimental to their own families. I can’t put ideology ahead of that, and I’m sure you can’t either.

But on the plan being socialism, it isn’t, as you know. But who in the hell would even care if it benefited the entire nation, as a single-payer system would. But we won’t convince conservatives and we won’t unconvince liberals. Why the right is even battling this is beyond me, because the folks with the $46 million in campaign contributions is doing battle for them.

And I agree Glenn. I don’t think the public option is going to make it either, or even the single payer, all because of the $46 million in bribes. (But the right wingers think these options stand a chance or they wouldn’t be bellowing. Go figure.)

We don’t fully agree on the effects of the dollars, but you are right that the problem is systemic. There are only two kinds of money, public and private, and the system demands the latter.

My only concern with dealing with the smallest bank is they have limited services. But overall I agree. I stay away from BofA, mainly because they are part of the problem.

First off, the proprietor of this blog who you claim is supporting a “socialist” health care plan happens to be a conservative Republican with perhaps ten times the business experience to you all put together, running successful companies.

So he knows what a detriment the current system has been. All of you howling socialism are defending a group of companies that has been one the biggest detriment to people getting into business and growing a business.

It is just amazing that anyone would be so clueless as to defend something that has made all of our lives so difficult.

Freedom. My ass. What kind of freedom is it top be stuck in a job or even a marriage because the fear of losing health insurance? What kind of freedom is it to find yourself financially bound and bound to die because your claim for a cancer treatment has been denied? Talk about your death panels.

With freedom comes responsibility. If you are going to go to a town hall and make a damned fool out of yourself you’d better read up on what you are talking about, not take your information spoon fed from some insurance company lobbyist or a right wing media buffoon like Beck or Limbaugh.

You might feel soooo cool stepping up to the mike or shouting down a Congress member. But these people are human with a terrific sense of self and the last thing they will do is allow themselves to be bullied by hooting morons.

All of you who think that someday you too will be a millionaire appear to be totally unaware what a drag your company’s health insurance costs are on your pay.

Big, bellowing men. You all are puppets for profit.

Your homework. Explain how this plan is socialism.

Your second assignment. Explain actually how “tort reform” will reduce costs? So what are you proposing? Not paying someone who was the victim of a botched procedure?