Comments about ‘Health summit: Heated talk, little agreement’

That's a train wreck I'd like to watch.

This is America's health care summit. I want to hear from our conservative representatives why they cannot support a health reform bill that incorporates 80 percent of their suggestions. Could it be party politics?

to waste the Democrats time. Yes, stay home Republicans. The ship has sailed without you once again. Just keep on doing what you have done on health care from the begining of time: NOTHING!

You know the most widely used health insurance used to pay for healthcare when a person needs a new organ? (Kidney, Heart, etc)




Medicare.

Well done Mr. Obama! I for one would rather help pay 1 trillion dollars in taxes than have to mortage my home in order to continue to pay for my healthcare and any surgery it chooses NOT to cover. The ideas from the other side are.....?

'That's a train wreck I'd like to watch.' - 7:51 a.m.

And you will. Now that Obama has them televised. Oh, look! Obama is doing the will of the people!


What is the GOP doing?

Am I the only one who almost "pukes" every time this guy appears on TV or opens his mouth??

A bit of honesty or integrity in a President....would be nice. Sad day for America....and don't give me that line..."Bush made me do it...."

"We all know that this is urgent," - Obama said.

So, why hasn't the GOP offered more comprehensive ideas before? The 1st president do suggest this was Theador Rosevelt. In 1912!!
Now the GOP wants to take more 'smaller steps?'

Must be nice to have healthcare as a senator....

Pagan--The will of which people? I don't want this health care reform. Last poll I saw clearly HALF of America doesn't either. Do you mean the will of the people that want this? That means we are going against the will of the other half of this country. Clearly the half of this country that wants this reform is the half that isn't willing to work for it nor require other people to work for what is rewarded for WORK. I am not rich but rich enough to be taxed. My health care is pretty good. I have lived in Canada, YOU can have that health care if that is what YOU want. Leave mine alone. I don't want it.

The majority of Americans (check the polling results) do not want the Democrats plan!

Obama's 1984-like, ghoulish, big govenment plan is incompatible with, the GOP's ideas of tort reform, more access accross State lines, and allowing individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.

Bi-partisan for Democrats = "Do what we WANT, now!"
This is a nothing but a media stunt.

GOP says, "We have a better idea."

I guess there's a first time for everything.

The Republicans proposals do not address how to deal with the "pre-existing condition" issue, exhorbitant "out of network" costs, portability of health coverage, etc., etc. Neither party is "looking after the folks", to borrow a Bill O'Reilly phase. If the Republicans are sincere about increasing Health Savings Accounts, then they must also deal with facilitating true catastrophic care insurance coverage (which is a fringe product at best in the current insurance market) and with parity in medical costs when a person pays themselves without going through the insurance company's "fee mark down process".

As I see it, neither party has a workable, sound solution to a serious problem in our nation.

Am I the only one who almost "pukes" every time this guy appears on TV or opens his mouth?? - 9:34 a.m.

Yes. See a doctor.

'Pagan--The will of which people?' - 9:41 a.m.

Ah. See there is your problem. You think Americans are different people. Therefore, they should be divided.
While I agree, I should not generalize, neither should you. What 'poll' are you talking about? The one you cannot name?
And what about your grandparents? Who are over 70 who are out of work? Should they WORK for the benifit of a healthy life...more?

These 'goulish' plans have been in America for over 50 years.

Unemployment, welfare, social security, VA hosptials.

If they are SO bad, 1) Why are there more than 5 2) Why have they existed for so long and 3) Why do the people on them defend them so much?

GOP to Obama at summit - WE all know how HONEST the GOP really are. ALL while we VOTERS rot, and need quality healthcare. EXAMPLE - There is growing speculation that Charlie Crist is going to run as a independent candidate in Florida as he continues sinking in the polls. Just a few weeks ago, Crist and Vice President Biden were caught having a private meal together in Miami. In addition, Crist has returned to embracing the Obama stimulus fraud. Either he’s going Democrat or he’s going independent. Before he goes, however, Crist is determined to do everything possible to run a scorched earth campaign against Marco Rubio. The latest is beyond the pale. Crist has taken the private credit card records of the Republican Party of Florida and leaked them to the press. The only records leaked, of course, were those of Marco Rubio. As the Speaker of the House in Florida, Rubio had a credit card with the Florida GOP. He used it to help get Republicans elected, though some of the charges were personal. Rubio reimbursed the Florida GOP for the personal expenses. That hasn’t stopped Charlie Crist from misappropriating the records to smear Rubio.

They don't want Mom & Dad to have coverage, they don't want coverage for their kids, they don't want coverage for friends. They just want coverage for the rich that can pay for it. The system is broken and the Democrats are trying very hard to fix it and the Republicans, who sleep with big insurance are trying everything to stop it. All they can say is let's start over again from the start. Well, let's start over every day and in ten years let's just start over. The Republicans just do the same old thing: NOTHING! And then they just do it some more.

Today, the "what's left of the GOP since they made everything crash in 2008" will put on another show for the American people. The nationalized healthcare naysayers have been summoned to the White House to give their ideas on healthcare reform. While WE VOTERS still sitting waiting for HELP and healthcare, while the GOP play with our health, saying if you get sick, die fast ?. While they stall, until after the 2010 mid-term re-election. Well, they have to give up something to the GOP from time to time, this time the Democrats have retreated from adding new privacy protections to the nation's primary counterterrorism law, stymied by Senate Republicans who argued the changes would weaken terror investigations. BUT it's not everything, it's not like thrashing' orca drowned SeaWorld trainer, with the daylong policy debate available from start to finish to a divided public, Obama and Democratic leaders cast the health care reform they want as critical to tackling an issue that's even more pressing to many Americans the still-hurting economy. Obama himself hinted at a Democrats-only strategy.

As the A-TEAL says I LOVE IT when a plan comes together.

If voters were educated instead of lazy and ignorant, none of this would matter. It is your responsibility to find out what a candidate proposes and endorses, and to decide if he will correctly represent your beliefs in our representative system of government. Those who vote based only on party affiliation or any other simplistic measure, without doing their due diligence, get the type of representation we now have. You have the government you deserve, people. Own up to it. Decline and fall.

Bro Chuck is 100% right on again.

Glenn Beck would say:

One quickly realizes the major philosophical and principle divide between liberals and conservatives when they painfully deconstruct and analyze their respective rhetoric. Conservatives and liberals are worlds apart in their ideology, an ideology that is now more than ever serving as the impetus for bold and endlessly complex legislation foisted on the already burdened American people. Conservative cling to the power of equality of opportunity and unfettered freedom while liberals, on the other hand, are fearfully willing to sacrifice the hard earned dollars of honest Americans for the freedom of equal outcomes. Healthcare. The Left was willing to sacrifice individual freedom to choose doctors, opting instead to impose a state-run monopoly on medical care at the expense of a market driven health system. They unabashedly didn't care that they were redistributing income from the more productive to the less productive; from the young to the old from the healthy to the less healthy. In contrast, conservatives looked towards market solutions to resolve many of the existing health care issues, one that operated within a framework of the invisible hand of rational behaviors and the proper incentives.

When do you suppose President Barack Obama will acknowledge, the Republican Party has some thoughtful and constructive solutions to the nation's problems, including health care?. I dought it. The way I see it, the GOP is actually the party of "NO". All they say is if you get sick die fast. Vote all the GOP out in the mid-term re-election of 2010.