Comments on: Why the Baucus bill doesn’t help the middle class

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:33:05 +0000

If the battle over healthcare reform is making you sick to your stomach, this musical parody is just what the doctor ordered! Check out “Healthcare Fighting (Kung Fu Mix)” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nc1VwJOb9Y

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:19:14 +0000

I’ve got mine. I’ve got the wife with the federal health plan. In three years I get Medicare. THE ONLY PROBLEM.. We have two adult children with chronic health problems who cannot work, have been denied medicaid , cannot even get a diaggnosis and treatment. Oh my wife’s federal job; 50%-70% of her entire take home pay goes to copays,pharmaceuticals , emergency room fees,and up front fees for lab tests and doctor fees who demand this because the kids have no insurance. Welcome to retirement when you are underinsured and have family to think about.

By: Chris Broe

Chris Broe — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:59 +0000

Rush Limbaugh is adamant that Obama didn’t deserve the Nobel Prize. Rush thinks Beyonce made an amazing video this year and should have won. Kanye West ditto’d.

Obama announced his new policy on gays in the military: “Dont T-bag, dont play taps”.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:48:58 +0000

To truth serum. Yes, Medicare has been a rip roaring success if one compares the lives of seniors and workers who become totally disabled now vs. 40 years ago. Sorry its not perfect. The silence is deafening regard the abuses and missteps by private insurance company but everything touched by the govt sucks. Go figure.

By: Truth Serum

Truth Serum — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:09:14 +0000

“See the history of Medicare. Passed in 1965 & signed by Johnson. Then the expansion started. Nixon, Reagan, Clinton & Bush 43″ –jconservative

Yeah, and it’s been such a rip roaring fiscal success just like about anything else the government gets its paws on, hasn’t it? Just throw more taxpayer dollars to “fix” it. Warning bells were rung several years ago.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/06/09/the_coming_crisis_for_medicare/

By: pd

pd — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:06:44 +0000

Why would a family of 4 not have health insurance?

If you have kids, you better have coverage

By: Churchill's MOM

Churchill's MOM — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:25:04 +0000

For the last 2 weeks the National media has been all over Saxby Chambliss for using his PAC as a slush fund, well the AJC has finally got around to the story 2 weeks late. As a real conservative, I am worried about the future of the Republican Party so thing bit in POITICO is a ray of hope to me.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28157.html

By: jconservative

jconservative — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:10:58 +0000

Nice spin job.

But I see the problem a little differently. No matter what gets passed & signed into law it will be expanded in the coming years. See the history of Medicare. Passed in 1965 & signed by Johnson. Then the expansion started. Nixon, Reagan, Clinton & Bush 43 all expanded the simple old country boy Medicare into the $803.1 Billion dollar program we have in this fiscal year.

“ What experience and history teach is this: that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history. “ Hegel

By: pd

pd — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:52:24 +0000

Its becoming more apparent that the only system that could work is a single payer system. Thats a shame, but it looks like the only solution to this problem.

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:44:03 +0000

We only need 1 insurance company.