It’s your turn to express yourself on health reform

MSNBC & Democrats = The New Hitler and Communist party

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Life’s short, have fun. Be Gay.

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All you right-wing, teabagging loonies are hilarious. So let me get this straight– we didn’t need to reform our health care system? Having 46 million uninsured, who we end up paying for anyway when they go to the emergency room, is a good thing?
Every time I think you neocons can’t get any stupider, you prove me wrong.
Truly amazing.

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GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY HOORAY

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GAY

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GAY REPUBLICANS ARE SILLY

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I strongly encourage EVERY American (who is able to read) to Yahoo search the following:

Ron Paul Twila Brase Blame the HMOs

You find a speech from the 2001 Congressional Record that provides a short but detailed history DOCUMENTING how the health-care industry in this country was PURPOSELY & DELIBERATELY DESTROYED by Congress.

After reading that 2001 speech made by Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. of Texas, you will ONCE AND FOR ALL clearly see EXACTLY HOW the American heathcare was destroyed, and WHY the current version of “healthcare reform” will COMPLETELY DESTROY the last remaining vestiges of free-market health care.

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Didn’t yall make a big fuss over Michelle Obama’s proud comment? Many conservatives said they have NEVER and will NEVER lose pride in America. But, now Limbaugh is moving (yay!!) and yall are hating. Funny!!

Obama = America
Democrats = America
Minorities = America
Poor people = America

Go America!!

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Ray,

I bet you still live at home with mommy cause your too much of a loser to go our and support yourself. Your also too damn stupid to know better..get your facts straight before shooting your ignorant liberal mouth off…..Its time to go out and get a job to support yourself rather then expecting me and the other productive members of society to take care of your lazy ass LOSER.

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I am a Republican, did not vote for Obama……but like the lady said—
IF you are ever sick and have to go through the stress of worrying about HOW you are going to live and make it, this is GOD SENT……PLUS I had to fight BCBS for every little thing I had done……and the doctors did not get paid a 4th of what they charged…..so there will be no changes for the doctors pay. I am a widow and do not want anything free…..I work…..my insurance premium is 1020.00 a month…tell me how I am suppose to keep paying that…….sorry guys but some of you just do not get it……

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Gail, your situation is why we need Health care reform. NOT government take over. So now you want all of us to pay for your health care? YOU do not get it.

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All socialism involves slavery and we are the slaves.

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Some brainiac thought they knew the definition of socialism, which is where we are headed with Obamacare……….here’s your definition!

Main Entry: so·cial·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm\
Function: noun
Date: 1837
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or GOVERNMENTAL OWNERSHIP and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is NO PRIVATE PROPERTY b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE STATE
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

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We just joined the European Union. Why work for something, when you can leach off of someone else that has it…No sense of trying to achieve.

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It is funny that the “will of the people” is always “will” of the conservative party. The conservative party, teabaggers, birthers and all of these other nosiy rabble rousers do not speak for me or any one I know. There have been 450 repliess to this topic and most have been negative toward the bill. All these threats of Democrats losing their seats in congress are coming from folks who are not democrats to start with. Get a grip. Rather than complain about the Democrats passing a bill why not blast the “Party of No” for not presenting a bill that would be acceptable by everyone. You know why because it is not that you do not want healthcare reform but it is “WHO” that is presenting this reform. Most of you guys don’t want healthcare reform because someone told you we do not need it. Thats your only objection. Well last time I checked in order for democrats to be voted out of office a republican or independent in that district must win the seat. Republicans would already be in those seats if were possible so get a grip and stop complaining and start working toward making this work because it is not going anywhere.

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Lamar, you are right. It is about us (PEOPLE) doing that. Not the government doing it for us and basically “choosing” the charity for us.

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bmdpd
I am also Retired Military. The polls as we both know are a sample of the population. YOu need to wake up. Im from the Northeast and no MAss. has never been the most liberal state. If you notice Brown was elected and sent to Washington and thus far this was the first bill he stayed true to the party. To tell you the truth I cant stand either party, I just wish we would debate the real facts and not emotional BS conjured by the right or left wing press. As a former Military member we can both think of good and bad from the VA medicine. However, there is not a public option in the bill it just improves the crooked system. Some of the provisions I dont agree with but the Republicans never came up with a real bill all they did was scream about how they hated it. So again this is what we have as a result of the little boy who cried wolf.

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What?

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This egregious bill should have been thrown in the trashed and burned!!!! John Lewis will pay for his total disregard of the voters wishes and the economic impact on us all — taxes will be increased on everyone, access and quality of healthcare will decline, doctors will reject patience and it will add more than $1 Trillion to our deficit. Obama, Lewis, Pelois and Reid are turning us into the United Socialist States of America.

This bill is unconstitutional and packed with pork. Washington DC is now the most corrupt, irresponsible, self-serving center of government – just remember that in November: RE-ELECT NO ONE, TIME FOR TERM LIMITS!!!!!!

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If your health insurance cost $1020/month for Single/Female coverage,
then YOU have not shopped around for a more cost effective health.

Your comment: “so there will be no changes for the doctors pay.” Think so?
Go ask your current Primary Care Physician about the upcoming
21% decrease in reimbursements for Doctors that WILL occur on July 1, 2010

Your comment: “I am a widow and do not want anything free.”
What YOU ARE asking for (and is being promised in this bill)
is FREE HEALTHCARE paid for by the Government.

Dont think so? Then you obviously have NOT READ the bill.

Go ahead. Call your Primary Care physician today.

Just ask him/her about your ability to see them for care.

Just ask him how many Weeks or Months you will soon HAVE TO WAIT to see them for care.

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@Rsclinks – you are absolutely right on one thing. Just because my husband didn’t see it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. However, the actions of one, two, or even ten bigoted people shouldn’t be representative of the movement that happened that day. The spitting/name-calling has been reported, which means it probably did happen – but why weren’t these people charged with harrassment? People on both sides of the debate should be respected – could it be possible that these harrassers were plants? Let’s not discuss if they were or were not – just is it possible that they could have been plants? And who knows? Maybe they were terrible people.

I also realize that things are never black and white. I’m not against health care reform – I think that it’s desperately needed. What I pay in health care costs per month is astronomical, and I made the choice to pay more each more per month for a “Cadillac” plan. I am not wealthy – in fact, at many times I’ve considered getting a second job to help pay the necessary bills. However, I feel it’s important to have this extra coverage, and I voluntarily pay for the buy-up plan. I’m going to be taxed for my coverage under this new plan – and if the taxes are too high, I’m probably going to have to drop the extra coverage (or get that second job bartending on the weekends).

The working poor will get health care – but at what cost? We should be working on reform that makes it possible for this group to receive affordable, quality health care – the same quality that those of us who are lucky to have insurance coverage have been receiving for years. Instead, we are opening a door that could lower our quality of health care. Doctors deserve every penny they are paid – after all those years of medical school, internships and residency, they deserve to be. Already, doctors and pharmacies are dropping Medicare patients like flies because they can’t afford to treat them. Why? Because the cost of Medicare reimbursement is not even breaking even with the discounted cost of treating the patients.

There are so many other solutions that should have been considered in this bill. Tort reform. Coverage that is not tied to an employer. Medicare/Medicaid audits and testing (I know it’s in the bill – but this should have happened years ago).

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Its seems to me that no one had a solution to the problem. People were loosing their homes trying to pay medical bills. It cost more to get sick than it does to own a home. ISN’T STRANGE THAT IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD TO GET HEALTH CARE. For those of you who feel that Obama is a socialist think of this. They said the same thing about FDR and the same thing about Eisenhower and the same thing about LBJ. Time has proven that they were correct. Quit looking at color and use common sense.

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Who the hell is looking at Obamas color? He is BLACK and WHITE! I could give a damn if he was purple(my favorite color), I still wouldn’t like him.

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The U.S. does need to address the issue of American’s that have no health care – many of whom work everyday. But this bill was not the way to do it. This was something passed just so the President could say “see I did it”. If we are going to have a national healt care – then ALL government employees should be required to use this as the ONLY policy offered by their employer. If they want to buy private insurance they can do so. Let’s make this mandatory if this health care bill is to become law and prehaps we’ll have a snowball’s chance in the firepit to get something substantial and decent out of it. Otherwise, we the people have once again been s……over by our government. This should not be a Republican/Democrat “thing’ this is about all of US.

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Tony,
Why NOW God have mercy on America? From the beginning God has had mercy on America.When you take people land, kill them, enslave them, degrade them, make laws to justify your wrong, put your feet on the necks of the poor for hundreds of years and you now you want to sing “God have on America.” God has had mercy on America. It’s amazing when people talk about God, but don’t know Him. Do you know the story of the Good Samaritan? Did you know Jesus said, “…the poor you will ALWAYS have…” Do you know God said,”do good when it is in your power to do i.” If you so called “right winged” were really who you say you were; this system (world) would be a lot different than what it is. Oh, by the way, God is not a democrat nor republican and He does not favor one man over another. Please stop using His name if you are not following His Word!

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