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Government health insurance plan, wow that's scary. If the government can lose billions in native american money just think what they can do with health insurance!

First off, under the Federal Poverty Wage Guideline, for a Married Couple "without kid's because they grew up", in 2008, was $14.600, it went up 3% in 2009 by its self, seniors need this help, very badly, while living on Social Security, each getting a check per month, that they PAID INTO THIS PROGRAM for decades, while they worked, before retirement, or became disabled or both, subsidies for health insurance would be offered on a sliding scale to those earning up to four times the federal poverty level, or $88,200 for a family of four, according to the document.

Let's HOPE these person's are NOT left-out, because they have NO KID'S living with them no more, to use as a pawn per se, under the federal poverty wage guideline, like other's do that have kid's, and are MUCH YOUNGER couples, then these seniors are, and we can get Health Insurance, to go along with the A and B part's, that we already pay for, out from our EARNED social security check's.

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Marcus is a very intelligent man. The government has a proven track record of complete failure in economic decisions. Indeed, this is because the national government has no business messing around with health care in the first place. The sole function of the federal government is to protect us from crime and foreign invasion. Any other use of government power is unconstitutional and illegal.

The basic problem with American health care is cost-- on this, nearly everyone agrees.

So why isn't Washington doing ANYTHING to address cost? Government takeover only increases cost of anything!

Limit malpractice awards. Cut overhead costs like government-mandated tests and paperwork. Cut hospital administration. Cut middlemen in drugs and equipment. This ain't rocket science!

On the surface, this sounds really good. However, once you look at the government track record for running businesses, it is doomed to failure.

The Senate Cafeteria ran $2 million deficits, had poor service and poor quality.

Freddie and Fannie contributed significantly to the downfall of the banking and securities industries.

The post office did quite well, until the past few years, and now it is running into a deficit.

Medicare will be broke by 2016.

Social Security is rapidly heading towards broke.

GM, was only government controlled for a few months, now they are going bankrupt.

The VA system is full of abuse and and fraud.

Remind me again what business ventures the Federal government has run that actually continue to work?

The federal government has no Constitutional basis to be involved in health care, much less to require it of employers and individuals.

Federal intervention always makes things more expensive, not less!

Look at how well the Federal Government runs Medicare, Social Security and like programs. Is that really want you want when it comes to our health care? Would you trust a bureaucrat with your LIFE?

If this country continues down this path, we are all going to be living in a sick, third-world country that is full of diseases that were eradicated long ago from our land, all in the name of power for the selected few politicians and their cronies.

The more you tax my employer or the more that you require they pay in health care the less i get paid. The problem as stated above is cost and government involvement will up that.

Think Medicare, think Social Security, think welfare. All plans which the government has screwed up. Social security would have been fine if the stupid congress had kept its greedy paws off the money paid in. NO, they had to use it for their pork and other legislation. Now it is in the dumps.

DON'T EVERY FORGET THAT WHEN CONGRESS SAYS THEY CAN DO IT BETTER, IT MEANS IT WILL BE SCREWED UP WITHIN THE YEAR.

The only thing congress can do right is to grease their own palms, with their restaurants, their perks, their retirement, etc.

The federal government needs to get involved in health care because it has simply become too expensive for poor Americans to afford health insurance.

We have over 45 million Americans right now who are uninsured. The biggest reason is because they cannot afford the high cost of coverage--besides, if you were required by law to have it, then doctors and hospitals wouldn't be able to screw you on costs.

The quality of health care would improve because doctor's offices and hospitals would have to follow strict government regulations to stay open.

Besides, I, like many others, am tired of being up late at night and fighting with my spouse about how we're going to get health insurance if I lose my job.

With government-mandated insurance, that will never be a concern again.

Government ran healthcare. I am a retired, ill woman, who needs her medications and procedures in a timely fashion... I am terrified that when the government starts changing things, my insulin, heart meds, etc., are going to become so expensive I will not be able to afford them, or even get them due to beauracratic red tape and government malfeasance. I worked for 40 years, and now that I cannot, I am afraid that myself and others like me are going to be in real trouble. This isn't postage or a mortgage... this is life supporting medicine and healthcare.

About 1/2 of those uninsured Americans earn over $80,000 per year! They could easily afford health insurance, but have chosen not to purchase it.

Our health care system needs improvement, to be sure. I think there should be more study and consideration than Congress seems to be doing.

Rather than going to government and upping taxes specding and cost for everyone,

how about addressing the real issues and problems:

Why is healthcare so expensive?

why can't some poor person go to a clinic or hospital and get affordable care?

Is insurance for basic healthcare really needed and should it be neccessary?

those are the questions and problems that need we need to be addressing,

not how can we make government pay for everyone, which we all pay through the nose for everyone.

Let's solve the real problems and not create massive new ones.

If you are indeed retired and disabled, then you should know better than anyone that the very best coverage that you can get is with Medicare and medicaid. The only downfall to medicare is that donut hole in part D, thanks to the republicans selling us out to the big pharma.

Thinkin' Man says: If cost is the disease, government intervention is the virus. A few well-placed, well thought-out regulations aimed at making the health care system more efficient & lean would do more to lower the total cost than the heavy-handed government takeover being proposed so naively today. That would bloat the entire system, costing MORE of the GDP.

Remember, whether you're paying directly or through taxes, you still pay. And with new government agencies to pay for, you pay MORE.

Quality of health care is not an issue--I don't know what criticism you have of the best health care in the world. Government involvement does not guarantee quality. In fact, it can lower quality by introducing delays, restrictions & limits, paperwork, unnecessary tests, and higher costs.

If health care costs (not insurance, but straight health care) were reduced, you wouldn't have to fight with your spouse about cost. You'd be free to fight about other things.

I 100% with you!

I can't wait for the Federal Government to run health care; they've done such a good job with the Post Office!