I would love the gov’t to offer affordable coverage. makes a lot of sense for the uninsured. why are the insured complaining so much? shouldn’t the sick be the loudest?

We can pay for this if the rich pay their share. They have taken 90% of the economic growth in this country for the last 8 years. The rest of us have mostly stayed the same. Under Eisenhower, anyone making over the equivalent of $5 million a year paid 90% of income over $5M. This was reduced to 70% before Reagan and now is down to 30+%. The stats are that if we went back up to even 50% for over $5M, we could pay off the deficit in 3 years. Think about it.

Obviously, you people don’t understand that any health care plan now would not be gov’t single payer, and would involve a public OPTION. You understand you can keep you plan if you want? YOU CAN KEEP YOU INSURANCE AND NOTHING WILL CHANGE. Or, if you’re uninsured, you can use the gov’t plan. Jesus.

Thank you Rustydoorknobs! For anyone who does not understand the plan-that is basically it.
However,I believe that all of this shouting is not really about the health care plan. It is a bunch of liberal-hating conservatives ganging together like a bunch of school yard bullies trying anything they can to pull this administration down. They will start ridiculous rumors and scare the hell out of people to get them to join with them in their unpatriotic attempt to weaken the Obama administration.

You have a strange notion of fairness. According to the IRS, the top 1% of income earners earns 22.8% of the income and pays 40.4% of individual federal income tax. The top 5% earn 37.4% and pay 60.6%. On what planet is that “paying their share”?

A public option that receives tax payer subsidies will have an unfair advantage over the private insurance companies. The CBO estimates 6 million people will be forced out of their current plan by the public option.

Watch Youtube video: The Health Care Bill: What they DON’T want you to know!

Stand UP & be heard! WE THE PEOPLE!

I cannot get health care insurance because I have a preexisting condition. Thankfully I am a veteran and have access to health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is socialized medicine. The VA has given me excellent service. I know many others who cannot get insurance because of such things like diabetes. My question for those who do not want reform, what do you propose for people who cannot get insurance or must pay over $800 a month to get limited coverage to do?

why must we revamp the entire system to cover you? Yes, let’s get something for you, lets patch those cracks so you don’t fall through them, but don’t dismantle what I have and create a huge mess.

willyohio, there are NO PRIVISIONS to DISMANTLE what already exists. And, if what already exists actually fully worked & the FREE GOVT MONEY that health insurers already receive (to the tune of 45% of health care operating costs) went into insuring more Americans and raising care levels instead of resulted in 19% more Americans being thrown off the insurance rolls and our level of care going down while record profits and record salaries are posted for insurance execs, then we can preserve it.