Do you believe the government should control the health care system? Give a straight answer, no weaselly worded baloney.

What is the urgency?

We will live with the consequences of this legislation for generations. In the long run, the unintended consequences of the legislation are likely to dwarf your intentions.

Why can't we take the time to get it right?

You will vote on the result of cobbling together four bills. You will vote within hours to days of the report. You will vote on it without even reading it, much less understanding it. You may even vote on it before it is even available to read. You will vote from hope, not knowledge, not even faith. You will vote because Ms. Pelosi tells you to. (We will know that that is what you are doing because the vote will be a party line vote.)

This process is rank. How can any good come our of it? I would rather watch sausage being made; the smell is better.


Whatever else you do, for heaven's sake, slow down.

Without a real public option (not some kind of co-op), why won't the health care reform just be a huge giveaway to insurance companies like the Medicare drug benefit?

Is every American getting the same QUALITY HEALTH CARE AS Rep John Hall gets?

I don't want to pay for immigrant health care, can't pay for my own. Who is going to pay for immigrant health care. What is the government going to do in the emergency rooms and hospitals, etc.?

How the White House's Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy
August 09, 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/ngqhkn
I'm a strong supporter of universal health insurance, and a fan of the Obama administration. But I'm appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying arm to buy their support.

Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times, the White House confirmed it has promised Big Pharma that any healthcare legislation will bar the government from using its huge purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices. That's basically the same deal George W. Bush struck in getting the Medicare drug benefit, and it's proven a bonanza for the drug industry. A continuation will be an even larger bonanza, given all the Boomers who will be enrolling in Medicare over the next decade. And it will be a gold mine if the deal extends to Medicaid, which will be expanded under most versions of the healthcare bills now emerging from Congress, and to any public option that might be included. (We don't know how far the deal extends beyond Medicare because its details haven't been made public.)
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/08/white-houses-deal-with-big-pharma.html

The Drive for Single Payer
by Ralph Nader / September 1, 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/kt6r45
After several weeks of protests at Senate hearings and health care events by single payer advocates (visit singlepayeraction.org), six physicians from Oregon, with 191 years of combined real-world medical experience, are crossing the country in a 27-foot Winnebago making stops in nearly 30 cities, to debate, educate and advance full medicare for all. Everybody in, nobody out.
Calling themselves "Mad as Hell Doctors," these physicians are already drawing crowds and expect thousands to turn out at each city that they visit, culminating in a large arrival demonstration in front of the White House around October 1. (Visit www.madashelldoctors.com)
They have written President Obama asking for a meeting "to discuss the future of health care as well as the moral, social, and fiscal imperative of enacting a single-payer system for America at this moment in our history."
The White House turned them down flat, not even leaving the door open for reconsideration. Mr. Obama has met countless times with the CEOs of large corporations, whose greed and callousness causes so much of this crisis. Though he believes in single payer "if we started from scratch," he has yet to meet with any single payer delegation.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/01-0

http://www.singlepayeraction.org/

If the Federal government can't get Medicare,Medicade,and VA Hospitals working right, what makes you think you can get it right this time around?

We've been hijacked by "mass media" it's phony experts and crafty editing for benefit of their handlers and sponsors who currently dominate 70% of all commercial air time, especially on cable. Watch your major news channels and keep track for yourselves. BIG PHARMA, PRIVATE INSURERS & THE PRIVATE BANKERS.
Hmmmmmm! RNN How do you propose we fight against that stacked deck?
Big Pharma is willing to market products that have dire consequnces in order to cure a minor ailment. NO ACTION TAKEN BY GOV'T!
Private insurers count on ignorance and fine print in order to dupe some of it's insured out of 100% rather than the 20-30% deemed legal. NO ACTIONS TO STOP THESE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES TAKEN BY GOV'T.
Who can say anything more about the criminality of todays banking industry who claim to owe to their foreign creditors 10x more then all of our property mortgages and assets are worth combined.
When talking government takeover of America be careful, the Federal Reserve is not a gov't agency it is a "consortium of private bankers" and that same consortium are the one's who have bankrupted this nation and our people.
Private bankers use the shield of the FEDERAL RESERVE and budget to cloak all legislation and their dealings with despots and dictators that usurp our treasury and bankrupt our people. The more Americans that are reduced to indentured service paying off debt the better it is for them in implementing their plans for NWO.
John Hall should watch this. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1263677258215075609#
These are the vultures setting the stage and mass medias talking heads are beholding to them to keep their jobs and insure their own security.
...SO THEY LIE, OBSCURE THE FACTS, AND SPIN THE WORLD ON RIDICULOUS POINTS OF CONFOUNDED TRIVIA TOTALLY UNRELATED TO THE TRUE SOURCES OF THE $$$ PROBLEM.
*The dollar shortages all had their beginnings and endings started at the desks of the same private bankers who lost tens of trillions of our future dollars plus. Who had their coffers filled, but won't lend or allow other methods to insure the inheritances or healthcare of others.
Get back the entire $3.3trillion from the bankers including Goldmans $180b from AIG, and there is no deficit and plenty of money for a "private option" and universal coverage as a right of all citizens paying into this fraudulent tax system to be covered in any healthcare plan, and JOB CREATION!!! ...IMMEDIATELY, many times over.

Hooray for John Hall a real people's champion.

Coops do not benefit the people. It is a tax on the taxpayer to cover the new designation name given to an insurer of "charitable institution". it means we the taxpayer will subdize and pay the property taxes of any and all of the properties and rental properties where this entity exists as well as the taxes theat should be excised from its profits. The only taxes they pay is on payroll which in reality is directly extracted from their employees paychecks.
Where is the benefit to the taxpayer for this largesse? Coops do not and cannot set profit margins- they adhere to the structures the mega insurers set forth.

THE COOP PROPOSAL IS NOT AN OPTION AT ALL... IT IS A CONCESSION TO PRIVATE INSURERS.
*We will appear at first glance to lower your premiums for a while, keeping the same Catch 22's...[denials of coverages, and terms of eligibility] ...in place, in return for you the taxpayer paying all of our other taxable incomes that far exceed anything you could ever imagine.

Why doesn't everybody who works for the government, Congress, Senator's, etc. exchange their current, expensive, quality health care, that is paid for by the public taxpayer, for this government option you are pushing and leave the rest of us alone? Look at the money we will save.

"What is the urgency?"

Urgency? We've been trying to get everyone covered for the past sixty years!