What the heck does the Senate think they are doing? Senate DEMS WAKE UP

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Senate may drop public option
Reid says he is optimistic about bill after deal

By: Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery | Source: Washington Post | December 9, 2009


Democratic Senate negotiators struck a tentative agreement Tuesday night to drop the controversial government-run insurance plan from their overhaul of the health-care system, hoping to remove a last major roadblock preventing the bill from moving to a final vote in the chamber.

Under the deal, the government plan preferred by liberals would be replaced with a program that would create several national insurance policies administered by private companies but negotiated by the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees health policies for federal workers. If private firms were unable to deliver acceptable national policies, a government plan would be created.

In addition, people as young as 55 would be permitted to buy into Medicare, the popular federal health program for retirees. And private insurance companies would face stringent new regulations, including a requirement that they spend at least 90 cents of every dollar they collect in premiums on medical services for their customers.

The announcement came after six days of negotiations among 10 Democrats -- five liberals and five moderates -- appointed by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) to work out differences between the two camps on the public option and other pressing issues. Appearing in the Capitol with Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), the leader of the liberal faction, and Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), representing moderates, Reid hailed the deal as a broad agreement that has the potential to "overcome a real problem that we had" and push the measure to final Senate vote before Christmas.

"Not everyone is going to agree with every piece," Reid said. But when asked whether the deal means the end is in sight after nearly a year of work on President Obama's most important domestic initiative, he smiled. "The answer's yes," he said.

According to a Democrat briefed on the talks, the deal represents only an agreement among the 10 negotiators to send the new package to congressional budget analysts, not an agreement to support its elements. One of the negotiators, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), quickly issued a statement criticizing the deal.

"While I appreciate the willingness of all parties to engage in good-faith discussions, I do not support proposals that would replace the public option in the bill with a purely private approach," he said. He added, however, that he will base his vote "on the entirety of what is in the bill, and whether I think the bill is good for Wisconsin."

Democrats must also win the approval of several key lawmakers who have not been involved in the talks, including Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Olympia J. Snowe (Maine), the only Republican who has voted in favor of the Democratic health initiative. If the Senate approves the agreement, it will face a huge obstacle in the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has fought hard to preserve a public plan in the face of opposition from House moderates.

If the deal holds, it will represent a major breakthrough on one of the most contentious issues of the health-care debate, settling a dispute between moderates wary of excessive government intrusion into the private sector and liberals determined to create a strong competitor able to curb the most egregious abuses in the private insurance industry.

"It may be different from what was previously included in the bill," said Reid spokesman Jim Manley, "but it accomplishes the same goals as a so-called public option."

Abortion issue

Earlier in the day, the Senate turned back an amendment that would have barred millions of Americans from purchasing subsidized insurance policies that cover abortion, as Democratic leaders struggled to maintain a delicate party coalition. The amendment was rejected 54 to 45. Although the outcome of the vote was not a surprise, the defeat could cost Reid the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), a conservative Democrat who has threatened to join a GOP filibuster of the bill unless abortion restrictions are tightened.

Nelson is one of five moderates in the Democratic caucus demanding changes to the legislation, forcing Reid to balance their concerns with those of liberals as he seeks to maintain the 60 votes needed to push a bill across the finish line. The biggest challenge has been determining the fate of the public option, a chief priority for progressive Democrats.

Key liberals said they were prepared to abandon a government-run insurance program if it would move the chamber closer to a final deal, provided it was replaced with other coverage options and tighter restrictions on insurance companies. "I don't think we're going to get that right now," Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) said of the public option. "So we're going for as strong a regulation guidance as we possibly can."

Democrats made a different calculation on abortion. Although the House voted Nov. 7 to bar their public plan from offering abortion coverage and to prohibit people from using federal subsidies to purchase private policies that cover elective abortion, Senate Democrats rejected Nelson's measure, despite the potential threat to final passage. Six Democrats joined all but two Republicans to support the tighter rules, but some Democratic abortion opponents -- including Reid -- opposed the amendment as too far-reaching.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Reid said the current Senate language, which would allow individuals who qualify for insurance subsidies to purchase abortion coverage with their own money, represented "a fair middle ground."

He told reporters that he will seek other avenues in attempting to allay Nelson's concerns, but added, "This is not the right place for this debate. We have to get on with the larger issue at hand." After the vote, Nelson said he will not rule out supporting the final Senate measure. "Let's see what develops. One thing I've found is that the future sometimes can surprise you," he said.

Nearing the finish line

A series of pending amendments, including several popular measures, must be resolved before Reid can end debate on the bill and call a final vote. On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to consider a bipartisan effort to allow cheaper prescription drugs to be imported from Canada and other countries. And a group of Senate Democratic freshmen is pushing a package of cost-control provisions, including an expansion of an independent Medicare advisory board that would allow it to recommend changes to the entire health-care system.

Despite the full slate, Reid said he is optimistic. "Every day that we work on these amendments and do the negotiations we're doing," he told reporters, "the closer we get to the finish line."

After the vote, Nelson returned to the talks about the public option. In addition to the ideas accepted late Tuesday, the group had been discussing an additional expansion of Medicaid eligibility, an idea that many moderates dismissed as too expensive. Many also have doubts about letting younger people who do not have access to coverage through an employer buy into Medicare.

By some estimates, that idea could add as many as 3 million people to the financially struggling program. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that those these individuals could face annual premiums of as much as $7,600. And because such a program could encourage people to retire earlier than they might otherwise, a buy-in program could increase Social Security costs for the federal government.

Still, key senators, including Snowe, said they would be willing to discuss a Medicare buy-in program so long as states with particularly low Medicare reimbursement rates were compensated and a mechanism was adopted to ensure that Medicare would not suffer financially because of the expansion.

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Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals

Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals - Kaiser Family Foundation


Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress. President Obama has outlined eight principles for health reform, seeking to address not only the 45 million people who lack health insurance, but also rising health care costs and lack of quality. In Congress, a number of comprehensive reform proposals have been announced as the debate proceeds over how to overhaul the health care system.

This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Included in this side-by-side are proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the President and Members of Congress. In an effort to capture the most important proposals, we have included those that have been formally introduced as legislation as well as those that have been offered as draft proposals or as policy options. It will be regularly updated to reflect changes in the proposals and to incorporate major new proposals as they are announced. This side-by-side offers a summary of the major components of these proposals. The Foundation also has prepared detailed descriptions of the Medicare and Medicaid provisions, and a summary of the coverage provisions, in the legislation moving through Congress.

This is not about Politics. This is about People's Lives. This is about OUR Future

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REALITY CHECK

Get the facts about the stability and security you get from health insurance reform | Health Insurance Reform Reality Check


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First Lady Highlights Health Care Reform Issues Affecting Older Women

First lady Michelle Obama hosted a group of women leaders in the East Room of the White House Friday in an event designed to highlight the plight of older women grappling with the inequities of the current health care system.

“Our entire lives as women,” Obama said, “we are asked to bear much of the responsibility for our family’s health and well-being, and yet we often face special challenges when it comes to our own health insurance.”

The problems of cost and coverage only grow worse as women age, she contended. “Older women are more likely than men to face chronic illness,” she said, “but they are less likely to be able to afford the cost of treating that illness.” Obama added that recent studies have shown women over the age of 65 spend 17 percent of their income on health care.

“Our mothers and grandmothers, they have taken care of us all their lives. They’ve made the sacrifices,” she said. “America has the responsibility to give all seniors the golden years that they deserve and the secure, dignified retirement that they worked so hard to achieve,” she added.

The first lady said health insurance reform would cap out-of-pocket expenses and make it against the law for insurance companies to deny coverage for preexisting conditions.

She said that health care reform would make Medicare “more stable and more secure by eliminating wasteful subsidies and cracking down on fraud and abuse,” adding that President Obama is committed to closing the Medicare coverage gap.

“My husband believes that Medicare is a sacred part of America’s social safety net, and it’s a safety net that he will protect with health insurance reform,” she said.

“People shouldn’t have to wake up every morning worried about what would happen if they got sick. They should have a sense of security and peace of mind.”

Olbermann on Afghanistan: Get out now

In the face political and financial opportunism, not to mention outright lies about the war in Afghanistan, and the stark historical warning represented by Vietnam, President Obama should make the change he promised during his campaign and pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.

I unfortunately agree with Keith and we need to get our troops home. The cost of this war at home and aboard is way too much. Our soldiers believe they are doing the right thing. I commend them, but they have given up too much home, love, health, it is time we bring them home and show them how much we appreciate them for their sacrifice and for our freedom.....BRING THEM HOME..BRING THEM HOME....That should be our war cry.

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It's time Washington looks out for us!

Defend your Dollars. org

Fill out and send the email, NOW!!!!!!

I believe that you are part of the wall street card game, and that you do not care for anything other than the all mighty dollar sign, and personally I would love to see every bank on wall street fail, because you have become this humongous monopoly, and everybody says your too "BIG" to Fail. Hogwash!!! You have too many of the little people right where you want them between your thumb (your corporate CEO's) and your pointer finger (stockholders) who are only interested in profits. Customers are your backbone, not lobbyist, not congressperson. Yet, you pay through the nose the lobbyists to pay the congress to pass or fail bills according to your whims, without regard to us main street USA. How rude, I keep hoping that wall street and the stock market falls ro the GROUND and dies a very brutle, lingering death.....

Now it's time to take our anger straight to the credit card banks!

Now it's time to take our anger straight to the credit card banks!


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Cartoon - Cute

Send the Message!!!!!

I personally think it is appalling that you the credit card companies seem to think that you can get rich off the backs of the workers of this nation. I believe that you are part of the wall street card game, and that you do not care for anything other than the all mighty dollar sign, and personally I would love to see every bank on wall street fail, because you have become this monopoly, and everybody says your too "BIG" to Fail. Hogwash!!! You have too many of the little people right where you want them between your thumb (your corporate CEO's) and your pointer finger (stockholders) who are only interested in profits. Customers are your backbone, yes we charge too much we dig holes for ourselves, but we really want to be able to pay off our debts, but you make that positively impossible when you jack up the interest rates, charge late fees, over limit fees, and any fees you can tack on just for fun. I do not have a credit card, and personally would not have one, and if I did I would not use them, we need to make wall street see our plight and make them pay for their audacity. We should prove that we the little people can make a difference, that we mean business....

SNL - Sarah Palin 2012 Movie Spoof

This is too funnyt and with the Movie 2012 the special effects are spectacular. Watch it!

Senate duo forms pact on climate

I have not always liked, agreed, even cursed at Mr Lindsey Graham, to me he seemed to be the epitome of the GOP, still living in the nineteenth century. I have hope that between Kerry and Graham they can persuade and bring both dems and repub. to the table for climate control, and please leave the lobbyists at home. They do not do anything to help except line the pockets of congresspersons who can be BOUGHT. Again I say We the People elect our congresspersons to do our bidding, but they would rather sell their souls for the almighty dollar(which is not so almighty any more) I am proud of Senator Graham for being forward looking in the health of our Earth. Now if we could get him on our side as far as health care. right.... Maybe if we pray really hard....hahahahaha


Senate Democratic leaders are resting their hopes for bipartisan climate change legislation on the unlikely partnership of Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

The revelation this fall that the two lawmakers shared a strong bond and a commitment to work together on one of the biggest policy issues facing Congress shocked many of their Senate colleagues.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is resting his hopes on Kerry and Graham, who have also teamed up with Lieberman, for getting climate change legislation through the Senate. It looks as though Democrats may pass healthcare reform without any Republican votes, but that does not appear to be possible with climate change legislation because of the strong reservations of Democrats from coal- and oil-and-gas-rich states over a cap-and-trade policy.

Reid told a group of lobbyists at a breakfast meeting last week that the success of climate change legislation lay with Kerry and Graham.

“Reid said the bill is in the hands of Kerry and Graham,” said a person who attended the meeting.

'Compromise' not a dirty word

Sen. Lindsey Graham apparently dodged a pie in the face on Monday when Berkeley County Republicans declined, for now, to censure him for the sin of recurrent bipartisanship. The county party's executive committee has decided to wait until January, and the Dorchester GOP reportedly is doing the same.

Not so, their counterparts in Charleston who voted last week to formally state their objections to Sen. Graham's efforts to work with Senate Democrats on a number of issues. That view fails to acknowledge that responsible governance occasionally requires compromise. Maintaining a strictly partisan level of discourse might work on the stump but neither party should be formally opposed to bipartisan cooperation to resolve national problems.

Apparently, the last straw for the Charleston executive committee was Sen. Graham's decision to work with the likes of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on an energy bill aimed at easing global warming.

The GOP committee contended that "global warming caused by carbon emissions is still in doubt as evidenced by the past decade of cooling temperatures." It also cited the potential expense of the energy bill's cap-and-trade plan.

The energy bill seeks to reduce greenhouse gases by a cap-and-trade system, similar to a program that sharply reduced acid rain without throttling the economy. It also would encourage alternative energy production, which would have the beneficial effect of reducing America's dependence of foreign oil.

Unfortunately, the bill passed by the House has a number of flaws that need to be addressed by the Senate.

Maybe Sen. Graham, a bona fide conservative, can improve the bill during Senate deliberations. He deserves credit for working across the aisle in an effort to produce solutions, instead of more hot air.

Lunch Break

It's a bit of a heavy day around here, so today's lunch break is a little boy seeing a lobster for the first time.

Has I wish that I could have copme up with this

This is exactly how I feel!!!! I can't take credit, but I love the attitude and the conversation.......

To:
Sen. Mitch McConnell

LISTEN UP YOU RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS NUT-JOBS. KEEP UP YOUR CALLS FOR REVOLUTION AND HARM ONE HAIR ON THE HEAD OF OUR PRESIDENT AND YOU WILL BE HUNTED DOWN AND BECOME EXTINCT. YOU CAN WEAR CAMOUFLAGE AND PLAY WAR GAMES BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU.

WE ARE TIRED OF HEARING YOUR RELIGIOUS RIGHT WING NUT JOBS BEING MANIPULATED BY YOUR LEADERS AND THE LIKES OF RUSH LIMBAUGH AND GLENN BECK. YOU AND THOSE A$$HOLES FROM THE C-STREET FAMILY, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL, DOBSON AND ALL THOSE OTHER RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.

THINK THE CRUSADES EXCEPT THE EVANGELICALS GET WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE PLANET. KEEP YOUR RELIGION TO YOURSELVES OR SUFFER THE WRATH OF ALL OTHERS.

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

Check this out, if you curse over the headlines you can see at the top where it tells you want each segment is. I am impressed




U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

Sarah Palin's Going Rogue is Going Rogue (11/17/09)

This is too funny not to post hope you enjoy it. From Jimmy Fallon's show and Rachel Maddow has a small bit..Love the ending.

There is a button to see it full screen which is better

Space Suttle Atlantis on their journey to the International Space Station

WHAT DO YOU THINK? I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR OPINION..
Should President Obama keep the shuttle program going for an extra couple of years. Should he make a decision for the new Atlas rocket, or should he let those companies out in California make their bids for a public system.
Me personally this excites my blood, God would not have given us the capability to do this had he not wanted us to explore our universe. I would rather see a base on the moon, be4 we try going straight to Mars. We need that extra cushion, and the idea that all those workers at Kennedy would lose their jobs, in this economy, would be disastrous. I have two videos here the first one is strictly showing the lift off. The second one is Contessa Brewer talking to Jay Barbree discussing this flight and the fact there are only six left until next fall when there will not be any more and we will have to rely on Russia for rides to the Space station. And the fact that we would not be able to carry any parts or supplies to the space station.

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October 29, 2009: Exclusive - Al Gore Extended Interviewwith Jon Stewart

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Exclusive - Al Gore Extended Interview Pt. 1
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Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis

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Ft Hood Texas

I am absolutely mortified at what is going on in our military. Where are the generals who sit on their high a_____, they do not seem to be doing anything to help our soldiers when they come back from war, much less those who must sit and listen to those soldiers horror stories. It is not right It says shame on the United States, they can't even keep their soldiers safe...
This man a Muslin, a doctor, for whatever reason, opened fire, we may never know why, but somewhere it is telling us a story that we need to know how to make it end right for our military personnel. I do not believe that it was a terrorist act, or a religious thing, I believe it was a cry for help that went unanswered. I do not know what to do I am a civilian, never been in the service be4, and I wish that I had an answer, somewhere there is one, and we need to find it, be4 another since less act is committed against our military here at home (where they are suppose to be safe)or aboard.

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White House Trick or Treat

I love the look of having a young family in the white house again....

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What does Obama want in health bill

President Obama can not sell us out in the public option, he can not hope for a bipartisan bill by not supporting a public option, that is letting the 80% plus uninsured left flapping in the wind. NO NO NO We can do this. Mr. President

STAND UP FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED YOU, WHO ARE COUNTING ON YOU AND YOUR PROMISE, THAT THERE WILL BE AN AGGRESSIVE PUBLIC OPTION

. We voted those congressmen in but they do not work for us they are PAID for by the Lobbyist of the insurance companies who do not want a health care reform bill. BECAUSE they do not want a public option that guarantees US, the public, healthy competition, for their services...

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First lady' on Leno,

where he asked her whether POTUS would prefer world peace or White Sox in the World Series. A little laughter and a lot of poise. I love this First Lady, she has the strength and confidence the world admires. And she reminds me of Jackie Kennedy...

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Medicare and Public Option show similarities

I support a public option, 2 reasons, the biggest one being that it will give the insurance companies a whack on the back of their necks. They have gotten too big for their britches, and they just keep increasing our premiums. Have you seen the latest in their blotched thinking....Again it goes back to children being denied benefits because of weight, using pre existing conditions. I would be afraid for my grandsons trying to get covered. They have Osteogenesis Imperfecta, otherwise known as brittle or glass bones, they were born with it. Would an insurance company look at that as a pre existing condition.

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UPDATE: Rocky Mountain Health Plans to Cover Heavy Babies

[My Commentary: This is just one example of the bureaucracy that happens every day that denies Health Insurance to thousands of Americans, and now i have heard that the insurance companies have stabbed the white house in the back. Are we going to stand and take this I hope not,I do not know what to do, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.....]

Discovery of Flaw in System Leads to Policy Change
(GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.) – Today, Rocky Mountain Health Plans has made a company wide policy change and will now provide health plan coverage for healthy infants, regardless of their weight.
“A recent situation in which we denied coverage to a heavy, yet healthy, infant brought to our attention a flaw in our underwriting system for approving infants,” says Steve Erken Brack, president and CEO, Rocky Mountain Health Plans. “Because we are a small company dedicated to the people of Colorado, we are pleased to be in a position to act quickly. We have changed our policy, corrected our underwriting guidelines and are working to notify the parents of the infant who we earlier denied.”
The trend in health care has been for more and more families with small children to seek individual coverage for their children from health insurers. Rocky Mountain Health Plans has also been seeing this trend. Underwriting for this age group is a relatively new process.
“We are part of the Colorado community too and that includes healthy babies. Rocky Mountain has been serving this community for more than 35 years and our collaborative, community approach to health care is well documented. We are constantly working on new, innovative ways to deliver quality, affordable health plans that are designed for the people of Colorado.
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a "happy, adorable, big baby." denied health insurance for being overweight

Four-month-old Alex Lange is described as a "happy, adorable, big baby." Yet he can't get health insurance.

Rocky Mountain Health Plans refuses to cover little Alex because he's too large. Grand Junction's NBC11News.com reports.

Because of his size, Baby Alex was turned down for health insurance, his height and weight put him in the 99th percentile according to CDC guidelines.


Kelli [his mother] says it's ridiculous, "It's frustrating, it's very frustrating."

Dr. Speedie at Rocky Mountain Health Plans says all babies are evaluated for insurance the same way. "In children it's based on a combination of height and weight."

The health insurance reform legislation moving through Congress would end this practice of denying coverage based on "pre-existing conditions" -- in Alex's case, "obesity."
The Denver Post has more:

"I could understand if we could control what he's eating. But he's 4 months old. He's breast-feeding. We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," joked his frustrated father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction. "There is just something absurd about denying an infant."


Bernie and Kelli Lange tried to get insurance for their growing family with Rocky Mountain Health Plans when their current insurer raised their rates 40 percent after Alex was born. They filled out the paperwork and awaited approval, figuring their family is young and healthy. But the broker who was helping them find new insurance called Thursday with news that shocked them.

"'Your baby is too fat,' she told me," Bernie said.

UDPATE: Bernie, Kelli, and baby Alex will all appear on MSNBC's Ed Show on Monday evening.

Congressman Alan Grayson a Florida Democrat......Three Cheers

This Congressman from Florida I love He has fire in his belly, and he stands up to the Republicans. Now he is the only Democrat who has had the guts to speak up. Is he going to be the one who sets the rest of the Democrats straight?
I can say with pride that I am proud to be a Florida Dem, is there anybody out there who feels the same.

Let me know!

Leave a message....

Commentary on Health Care by Keith Olbermann

Last night Keith Olbermann did an hour commentary on the status of health care in the the United States of America. I am prayng that alot of people saw it and that they think about what he said. If you did not see it than watch it right here. Then take the time and think about what he has said. And then contact your so called congress person and let them know how you feel.

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Poll: Do you support a strong public health care option?

I am tired of all the gas bags in washington who we elected telling everybody that we do not want a public option. I believe the insurance companies are living high on the hog and dismissing health care that people are paying for , putting all that money in their fat back pockets and telling those who pay for their insurnace coverage to go tohell. they tell our doctors what they can do and what services we get. the government can not do not worse and would give those greedy b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, a run for their money. they the insurance companies dictate who lives and who dies, and who can have insurance and who can't. I went without insurance for a long time, now I have medicare, thank God. My children all work and still can't afford insurance for their families, that is not fair. that is morally wrong. insurance is a right for everyone in the united states of America. I am discussed with all the politicians, and those egotistical people who sit int he background and tell the legislators what they can do and not do and then pay them to vote they way they want them to, the worst part is the politicians do it. they are not looking after their constitutes they are looking out fore themselves. we should make them do without their precious health care for six months so they know what we go through.

Legislators for sale

Members of Congress are failing to represent their constituents in the health care fight

Olbermann: Legislators for sale
Aug.3: In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann slams members of Congress for acting more in the interests of their health industry campaign donors than their constituents who so clearly favor health care reform.

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Health Care Reform Opponents-Death Panels

Ex Governor Palin is a disappointment to me. Someone who has a child with downs syndrome who can look people in the eye and tell fantastic lies about what is in the health care reform bill, death squads, who expects people to vote for her if she runs for President, when she and the other GOP and Democratic impersonators are proved to be wrong, we the people of these United States will take back our country from those congressmen who believe that they are the holy grail, that they can do no wrong, and that their word is gospel. I am very disappointed with the deathers and the birthers. I am very irate with the way our Government is being hoodwinked by some congressmen who spout they are for change and when we the people want and vote for change they lie to us, cheat us, and their morality ashamed us.

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What I think of Members of our Congress

i know that there is alot of misinformation about the health care reform bill, I have heard the vicious statements and the hostile, unfair and demeaning statements by certain leaders of the GOP and certain Dems and I am very disappointed in our respected leaders who are by the way elected by us the commoners to see that what we want done in Washington on our behalf is done. But what I see is our dreams being blatantly tossed aside and they are doing what they want, what certain groups want done. Please listen to this web site, do your own checking, know that these groups are run by the GOP. It is our time, our generation, and our future generations, do not let a select few ruin our time for health care reform.....

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