single payer healthcare.

Public option is the only way to fix all this mess.

We don’t want a PUBLIC OPTION!!! We want SINGLE-PAYER! Why has that pretty much been wiped off of the discussion table? It’ll solve the economic crisis, housing market, job market, and auto markets immediately. The money people pay for their health insurance premiums will go right back into the economy and house payments. There’s no excuse for the Dems losing their balls and trying to “negotiate” or pass legislation on a bi-partisan basis. ***** the Republicans and let’s get it done!

Yeehee! That’s my representative!

thats how we get it done in kentuckyyy… represent!
haha

I’m having a conversation with you, not Glen Beck’s Stand-In. Hell, if I wanted to have a conversation with Glen Beck, I could just as easily have a chit-chat with an asylum resident.

Having said that, I have now come to realize that:

1) Everyone involved is a massive hypocrite, because none of these jackasses made noise when John McCain purposed the very same idea.

and

2) Glen Beck, Rand Paul, and Nancy Pelosi all agree that taxing health benefits is a bad idea.

Exactly. To bad there aren’t checks and balances in place for the health care companies.

It’s easy as long as it’s not you. It’s what you end up with in a society that’s geared almost exclusively to financial profit. The almighty dollar dictates what’s good or bad in our system.

Don’t get me wrong I think capitalism is great, when taken in measure. But left to run wild, like we are still allowing, it’s a recipe for disaster, like any system taken to extremes.

The free market is not the panacea the government would like us to think it is.

Our health care system is disgusting, sick people can’t get treatment from doctors because a company says so. Insurance companies are now dictating how long a doctor can spend with a patient. Insurance companies are now dictating what treatments or tests are allowed or needed for a patient. I can’t believe there are people defending this! The greed and the apathy for the suffering of others is appalling to me. I can’t emphasize how utterly repugnant this is.

watch?v=zzoxRr24N5U

HI almost missed it, but then it hit me that something sounded familliar

Sentence by sentence.

1) Yes, it is. Reference USPS, Manhattan Project, and FDIC.

2) I would hope the federal government doesn’t levy taxes on itself.

3) Health Care is currently rationed by the amount of money you have in your pocket, unless you have insurance, then it’s rationed by a insurance company that is beholden to it’s shareholders, not you. Alternatively you can show up to an emergency room nearly dead.

4) Insurance policies do have cost sharing policies in excess of 10%.

Ran out of analogies.

Private industry itself is a problem because it’s for profit. Insurance works so that they sign up healthy people to pay for sick people. However, that means you want to leave out those that are already sick because it would kill profit margins. That’s why old people have a hard time getting regular insurance without paying an arm and a leg for it. That was why medicare and medicaid exist.

Health care is the most major issue of our time as Americans that any plan that calls for all of us to destroy the strangle hold of big pharma and these health insurance companies which that they can decide what not to cover or if you live or die. They are at an essence our masters. Why can’ the masters be the people of the US how worst could it be if we become the competition at least everyone has access to health care whether you be rich or poor.

What a great guest! I love what he said about how the stakes are too high for compromise. It is nice to hear a politician say that.

I missed it the first time, I thought that I heard something familiar, and restarting the video, sure enough.

Yeah. I assumed that if this public option were initiated it wouldn’t be half-assed, which shows the extent of my understanding. Thank you.

very cool, straightforward guy! keep him in office Kentucky!

Efficient federal government? ***!? I think that the lack of competition is to do with government regulation. Thee public option isn’t competitive because it will be exempt of taxes and it will get a giant taxpayer subsidy. Health care is largely rationed because of Medicare and Medicaid as well as people not caring about the cost of health care. If insurance required people to pay around 10% of their medical bills the system would work a lot better. This should be promoted.

Well, your statement would be true, if it were true.

Obama’s so called public option is the ultimate form of competition. It pits the inefficient, caniving, litigeous, heath insurance industry (an industry not known for competitions, seeing as it’s excluded from many anti-trust laws), against the Federal Government. This is ******** competition.

And another thing. As it stands now, health care is being rationed, by the O’Mighty Dollar. Health Care goes up x2 inflation. Which do you prefer?

try living in California.

same rules of lawsuits would have to aply.
thats why its ‘rules’ must be carefuly calculated, and clearly say whats covered, whats not. it cant be privilaged in any way here.
but devil lies in details as they say