My senator tells me "health care is a right". If it is a right, why would I be forced to buy insurance and drugs from private companies in order to avail myself of that right? After all, I don't have to buy insurance for the Armed Forces to protect me, or for the roads to be maintained.
I think my senator is foolishly and recklessly confusing "needs" with "rights". I think there is a reason that "food, clothing, and housing" were not listed in the constitution along with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". How about you?

Maybe people are finally wising up to discover that if goverment becomes involved in health care, they will tell you can or cannot have a procedure (i.e., an abortion) or they will deny expensive live saving drugs like Canada and Great Britain do now. HEALTH CARE IS NOT A RIGHT!

People are largely satisfied with American health care, they just want costs to come down. Establishing 111 new government programs to manage health care WILL CERTAINLY NOT bring the costs down. If Pelosi/Reid really wanted to do this, they would deregulate the industry and allow competition across state lines just like auto insurance now--i.e., true competition and choice! The fact is, the liberals in control want socialized, single-payer failure of a system in America. This is a HORRIBLE bill!

Road maintenance and Armed Forces protection are not rights but Armed forces protection is one of the 17 things the federal government is supposed to do in the constitution but road maintenance is not. See the bill of rights for rights and see the federal gasoline tax for road maintenance - even though almost all the federal gasoline tax is not spent on fixing roads which is why there are pot holes and bridges falling down. It is spent on airports for some reason instead which only your federally elected officals can explain why they stole it from road repairs to send on airports.

True,..very true but you forgot to add hes a liar also. Always has been a liar and always will be a liar

If you don't do anything except lie about it, how can you be responsible for it.

the government now supplies free cell phones, with free minutes, for welfare recipents, or should I say we provide this with our tax dollars,

Finally! Someone who gets it!

What kind of jerk would take the time to shoot the messenger when he doesn't even ad his opinion to the information that he provides. I like the fact that he just gives us the facts to chew on and doesn't tell us what we should think like say? CORN! I won't even read his lefty crap any more, ever! He's not a messenger he is a liberal propaganda machine.

How dare you. I do work, full time employment I'll have you know. Guess what I have no health insurance. My company does not offer it. I got sick a few years ago. Had to spend two weeks in the hospital. The total cost was over $100,000.00. Was out of work for over 3 months because of the illness. I had to apply for charity care. There is no way I could pay that bill. It was 4 times my yearly salary. If I had had health insurance I could have went to a doctor and the condition would have been caught earlier and treated with medication and resolved cheaper and easier.

Gina if the bill was 4 times yr salary and you are saying
the bill was 100,000.00 then you make 25,000.00 per year and would
qualify for Medicaid and you do not HAVE to have ins to go to a DR.
In fact most cities have free clinics etc or you could have paid cash.

This government is too inept to create any more entitlement programs. We are already bankrupting America with this stimulus bill,etc. and our unemploymemt national average is 10.2%. That 2000 page monstrosity means taxes will have to be raised on all levels of income except those in the lower incomes who pay no taxes now. The government originally promised social security deposits would be put in a lockbox, so that when we retire, they would be available for us. Well, guess what? They spent our money and now it is going bankrupt! So is medicare and they want to take whatever funds left that they can scrape from our only care for seniors and create a monstrous government takeover of our healthcare? Given their past mistakes and the proof that government cannot run any programs efficiently, I do not trust them with something as personal and important as my healthcare decisions and noone else in their right mind should either!
We need real heathcare reform, not a government takeover! They should take their time and do it right, not shove their socialism down our throats in the dark of night!

Obama said health care would create more jobs than then are Chinese, if you can learn count and lie like he does.

Gina, you are making a huge assumption by claiming that had you had insurance, your bill would have been avoided. Many people with insurance don't take care of themselves, have routine doctor visits, or do anything that qualifies as helping themselves. As it is, even without insurance you were neither denied care nor rendered penniless by having to pay for it. Looks like the system worked out well for you.

Govt is poorly equipped to run something the size of health care and has proven it with much smaller programs, from Medicare to the Post Office to Amtrak. Every town has clinics that provide services for relatively small amounts of money and some have free clinics. Even if the goal is to cover the uncovered, why must everyone be worked over?

No one is denied medical care in this country because they lack insurance or can't afford it. Medicaid provides medical care for the poor and working poor if they qualify. But there are limits on income to qualify around $32,000 for a family of 4. Less for a family of 3, 2, and singles.

Medicare is available for the old but they refuse some care at twice the rate of private insurance if they deem the treatment not necessary. Emergency rooms that accept federal money of any kind, by law must treat anyone regardless if being reimbursed by insurance or the government.

So health care is not denied to anyone in this country. But this president and lefty political ideologies lie about it all the time.