'Blue Dog' Democrats Still Want Health Care Reform

If this is true, they must be prepared to sacrifice their positions for the Obama Administration as they will be voted out.

How do you like the photos of the lawmaker playing solitaire on the computer and viewing ESPN during debate? I guess this explains why many of them do not read the bills.

Yes, we DO need a reform of our health care system. What we don't need is a 1000+ pages bill, unread by most. This is monumental: This will affect the entire U.S. populace! Why can't they start slow with changes? Why does it have to be everything at once? Those in Washington who are tinkering with every aspect of what used to be "The Good Life" had best sit back and take a long look. They have become arrogant and think they know what's best for everyone. One thing they could look at is getting those obnoxious pharmaceutical commercials off the television air waves. They are targeted at the wrong audience; the self-diagnosed couch potatoes cannot run out to Walgreens and buy their prescription-only products. I trust that my doctor knows what prescription meds I should take. We all know how expensive national commercials are, this should free several billion of the big-pharma money to where they could actually cut back the cost of their meds and make them affordable. I certainly hope our Blue Dog Democrat, Ben Nelson, will listen to his constituents: We don't want this quick change. We want something that will have been researched that will be beneficial, not another huge tax piled on top of what we've already been served.

Maybe it's just human nature. But, we seem to resist BIG change. That's why much of what has been accomplished has been achieved incrementally. There are some good provisions within the 1000+ page bill and those ought to be extracted and passed sans all the other "stuff" that people find so objectionable.

If the healthcare bill does not pass, or use the republican thoughts on how to do it.. perhaps we should name WEALTH CARE..
Billionaires for Wealth Care at Susan Davis town hall in Spring Valley, California

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3VnCficDA

Obama, Congress and government employees begun enrolling themselves in universal health care yet?

Mass, tried universal health insurance, most middle income peoples that could use it just couldn't afford it. At this point the costs of health care in this country have gotten plain ridicules, it cost $15,000 to have a baby in a hospital with a normal delivery and a two day stay. What a joke. The main reason for this situation is laws passed by your governments both State and Federal that infuse large amounts of money into the system and give near monopoly status to hospitals and drug companies. Ever wonder why there are lots of abortion clinics and no birthing clinics? Anyway I see the system crashing under its own weight in the next ten years. Only hope is to start a parallel system run by the government much like education. Private care and public care. The public system would compete with the private system and help bring down the costs of the private system. The thinking behind everyone paying for public schools even if you are wealthy and send your kids to a private school is that everyone benefits from a well educated population. The same goes for health care, we all benefit from a healthy work force. The current VA hospital system could be a nucleus for the start of the public system.

If Americans think the Federal government and the unions care about them, they are in fantasy land. Congress and The Fed and the unions are running amok with power and money, printing and spending monopoly money irresponsibly. American citizens are going to pay for this big time. We already are with incomprehensible debt and loss of job and runaway inflation. PS...what if we pay for health care for all with the money from Ted Kennedy's estate AND all the money being spent on political campaigns? that should cover the expense of health care for all.

Yeah Stella, your and everyone else's kid's education is not a right either but it is the RIGHT thing to do...so are fire departments, police departments and other socialist things that keep this society moving. Allowing people to die because someone thinks it is too expensive to offer them any kind of healthcare is wrong...it is unAmerican and cannot continue.

hey wanagiakicita

you can say the republicans are being obstructionists or whatever your heart desires, but the democrats DO NOT NEED A SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTE TO PASS THIS CRAP. the ONLY reason they want republican support is so when it puts this country into bankruptcy, they cam BLAME republicans. If this is the panacea that you dems claim it to be, say screw the republicans, pass it without ANY support and if it succeeds, you would end the republican party. But you know it is the WORST thing that would EVER pass, so you need cover.