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Leavitt cites waves of discord

RUNAWAY COSTS for Health Care Insurance only have been a problem since January 20, 2009.

Yeah, Right.

Where was this "discussion" when the REPUBLICANS WERE IN POWER?

The REPUBLICANS are experts at "SLOW DANCING" (read: talking to death) any legislation which would adversly effect their CORPORATE SUGAR DADDIES (read: their TRUE CONSTIUENTS).

The REPUBLICANS had their time, their opportunity, but they FAILED.

Now they ask us (WE THE PEOPLE) to TRUST THEM (?).

TRUST FAILURES?

So, WE THE PEOPLE are supposed to dump on and give up on people who have been in office for 8 months when we gave the last crew at least 6 years when they had total control of the WHITE HOUSE, the SENATE and the HOUSE?

When the REPUBLICANS begin to make a SERIOUS EFFORT to actually SOLVE PROBLEMS, maybe their efforts will be taken seriously.

Leavittship: I second that.

Medicare part D was a stop gap measure that was poorly thought out. Out of pocket costs before the elderly lost their coverage was suppose to be just that, out of pocket. But after Leavitt got through with it, out of pocket costs became total cost of what seniors and the insurance company paid. Out of pocket became what the health care/insurance industry decided to charge you.

It is a great deal for the Insurance industry.

...a Republican in name only. He is not a conservative but a closet progressive.

I remember rallying at the capitol in the early 1990's trying to convince him to sign a piece of legislation that would have banned abortion in Utah...he refused.

Now we have another conservative pretender in the governor's office that is talking about limiting concealed carry permits to Utah citizens only. Why wouldn't a constitutional lover want all Americans, regardless of where they're from, to be able to carry their arms at will?

Leavitt knows something about discord, because he stirred up plenty when he was governor and when he headed the Environmental Protection Agency.

REPUBLICANS started us down this path with destruction of:
Air Traffic controllers strike, replacement workers, the 87 collapse of S&L Banking, let Wall Street pawn Deriviatives, let the chains off the mortgagors they spawned the sub prime loans, Dubya started 2 wars after 9/11, one in the right country and one in the wrong one, and put his forces in the wrong one. Companies like Compusa, Cuircut City, Blockbuster CEOs cut and run, closing the stores instead of saving them, this is the longest jobless recovery and history. Levitt was under indictment of the games.

Yet hes literially preaching to his choir that we (not him nor the LDS church) are losing. He should know, hes just another part of the problem, and you should too. Maybe thats why newspapers are folding. Where is the news?

Agreed Leavittship...and not for purely partisan reasons as some will think.

This has been the saddest case of partisan sore-losers that I have ever seen since childhood. The Republicans have sat down, folded their arms and have said no to everything without offering solid alternatives or any good ideas at all! Their tactics have run from overt smears e.g. "death panels" to subtle approaches like Mr. Leavitt's here. The result? Denial and no.

It's true. If they cared one whit about us all they would have tackled this most important issue while they had control. My sister died because of lack of health insurance. Yes, that's truth. She devoted her life as a nurse then couldn't get care when she had to retire prematurely.

No, they can't be trusted until they realize their party has been hijacked by neo-cons who have an agenda of personal wealth, power and greed. They've used the GOP like a finely tuned violin and most of the GOP sheeple are too close minded to realize. Sad.

Leavitt is a contributor to the health insurance crisis. Mr. insurance man participated in forbidding Medicaire to negotiate on drug prices to lower costs like the VA does. He stands for the status quo and should be ashamed of himself putting power and profits before the people.

Please don't say that he's coming back. As governor, he did so very little of substance, other than to give us a left-wing activist court. As HHS secretary, he rushed the health care crisis along and used federal government dollars to fly all over on private jets. This guy was bad news then and he's worse news now. The Republican party has done so well without. PLEASE GO BACK TO DC where you belong. TAKE BENNETT with you.

Its all coming back, its coming back to me now.... oh...

Leavitt, Bennett, Hatch.... ouch.

No Results for Healthcare for All.

What did you do for us in Washington?