Comments about ‘House Democrats clear the way for health-care vote’

Keep looking up Harry, it is good practice for when you are in the warm place below, and wishing you were somewhere else. Oh, is that Nancy behind you, perfect!

I hope it gets put off till next year! Congress is deaf - Americans do not want socialized medicine. We want reform, like buying insurance anywhere in the country, like tort reform so doctors do not have to order useless tests to protect themselves from lawsuits. Too bad the news media were too enamored to ask what kind of change these people wanted to bring the country.

It's interesting that the Wall Street Journal earlier this week branded the Pelosi Bill as one that "...may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced." The article went on to state "Critics will say we are exaggerating, but we believe it is no stretch to say that Mrs. Pelosi's handiwork ranks with the Smoot-Hawley tariff and FDR's National Industrial Recovery Act as among the worst bills Congress has ever seriously contemplated."

The lengthy article (much shorter than 1,990 pages of the actual Bill) goes on to explicitly "make its case" in significant detail. The article (Worst Bill Ever, 11/01/09) is a good description of the Bill's ramifications for anyone who is not ideologically blinded.

I work hard so Obama voters dont' have to, with health care being a perfect example. Socialism here we come.

This bill represents all that is wrong in Washington DC.

Pelosi - what a piece of work! Oh yes, I'm sure the blue dog House Democrats are just biting at the bit to vote on this ugly Obama-Care monstrosity as soon as possible especially after they just witnessed their fellow democratic chums in Virgina and New Jersey go down in flames at the polls. A BIG LOUD WARNING SHOT was fired at the democrats that people are REJECTING Obama's policies and what was Obama doing ? Watching the Chicago Bulls game on TV! Apparently Nancy is going deaf in her old age because she also missed hearing the warning shot fired last night. The Blue Dogs all know now (if they didn't before) that if they follow Obama they will do it at the risk of losing their job in 2010. Somebody tell Nancy!!

So Blue Dog dems - go ahead and vote yes for Obama-care and then see what happens to you in 2010 at the polls. A hint - New Jersey and Virginia both have NEW GOP governors!!!

It's a broken system that needs to be changed. If the change is imperfect, it's still better than the status quo. I want nationalized healthcare, but almost any move from where we are would be progress.

Chris,

I work hard, too, but I don't whine about it.

Do you similarly whine about your taxes supporting schools, hospitals, police officers, firefighters, road construction, airports, park rangers, etc.?

You're just fine with the US spending twice as much money per person on health care than any other nation, yet ranking 37th in the world in terms of overall health of its citizens?

You're just fine with 40+ million Americans living without health insurance?

You've got no problems with your health insurance company making billions in profits yet denying coverage to people for bizarre and indefensible reasons?

"Socialism here we come."

???

You don't know what you're talking about.

Educate yourselves before you post your knee-jerk partisan comments, folks.

Chris B., I work just as hard as you do, and pay my taxes -- heck I might even sit next to you in church! Silly, uninformed stereotypes like yours are precisely why the GOP is floundering right now.

Worst bill ever -- Really? The Wall Street Journal published a piece critical of legislation that would hold an industry's feet to the fire? Get out!

Randall -- over 60% of Americans want a public option, and that number goes above 70% if it's available only contingent on income. Tort reform is a tiny, tiny part of health care costs -- and, in fact, states that have introduced have seen none of the promised cost reductions. And if you have cross-state systems, you're going to see exactly what we see in the corporate sector today: companies setting up shop in the states with the flimsiest laws and weakest oversight, meaning more money wasted on fraud.

One day after a trouncing of democratic candidates in VA and CT, and the House Dems announce they are ready to vote. This bill could easily be defeated this week.

If not, you know that some big-money deals were struck between moderate dems and the leadership. Why just yesterday, the most contentious issue of all, abortion, was a topic of hot debate. Maybe leadership caved on this one, and felt the sooner, the better, for a vote.

Democratic leadership at all levels is the most pathetic....ever...! Republicans have not been much better but at least profess some ethics / standards / morals.

Barak, Harry, Nancy, Barney,.....sickening, sickening, sickening.....spend, spend, spend, tax, tax, tax, lie, lie, lie......God Help Us All....!

Appears to be a planned attempt to bankrupt this nation so they can enslave all their patheitic dependents.....

It doesn't take alot of brains to figure out that just moving in any direction is better than what we have right now. Please use your brain and understand that giving away free choice won't make you healthier.
Don't break the system to say you have done something. The marxists in Washington are not in your corner. They are not on your side. They are not nice.
Why aren't all the sheeple Mormons voting for Harry Reid Health Care? I thought they all just did what they were told? Guess not.

The House Bill doesn't cover all Americans - in fact it leaves out some 30 million. The House Bill will drive health care cost up not down. The House Bill will force over 60% off their current insurance and onto the watered down gov plan. So if you have a nice Blue Cross Blue Shield plan from your employer that plan will eventually be dropped by your employer due to competition with the fed gov. The House Bill rations care (better get that hip replacement before age 60). The House Bill guts Medicare Plus which is the life blood of most seniors. The House Bill forces coverage of abortion. The House Bill bill covers illegals. The House Bill will drive the federal deficit through the clouds and cause taxes to be raised. Pelosi has already admitted to tax increases coming. The Wall Street Journal said yesterday that this House Bill was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever produced from the House.

.... so I ask you ...do you still want it????

Obama hasn't registered this phrase yet - "its the economy stupid". Yes it's the economy that has been forgotten in all of this irrational push to pass Obama-care. Never mind the fact that unemployment is 10% and rising or the fact that the credit market is virtually frozen again or the fact that no body is hiring. What is even worse - THERE ARE TAX INCREASES COMING PEOPLE TO BUSINESS AND INDIVIUALS if Obama - care passes. Those tax increases ought to do wonders to an already suffering business environment. The good people of Virgina and New Jersey who were pro-Obama in 08 showed their anger at Obama's policies by sweeping the dem's out of power last night. County by county who were heavy democrat in 08 reversed to republican last night. So, Obama better shut off the Bulls game and pay attention to his country or he and his fellow dem's will suffer the same fate in 2010 and 2012!!!

Go for it. We have one more democrat in congress. Thanks Rush and Sarah, we could have never done it without you!

To Mormon Dem, where are you getting your statistics? I have heard just the opposite and seen polls that suggest most Americans do not want the public option.

I would like to "educate myself" so please cite your sources for statistics. By the way, I live in a heavily democratic state and the majority of information and opinions I come across is that few are happy about national health care! You would think that the people in this "blue" region would be in agreement with this political ideal!

Oh, what fickle people Americans are. Apparently President Obama was supposed to turn this country around in the 10 short months he's been in office, this after inheriting the worst economic crisis since the great depression. Even Bush was on board with this. Do you think McCain and Palin would not have been? What exactly would be different now, only 10 months later? Obviously, if people are turning from Obama in droves, they are people who expect miracles and overnight changes. One poster says "God help us." By that logic, wouldn't it stand to reason that somehow God got us to this point in the first place?

You work hard AND voted for Obama? That doesn't make any sense. Boy are you in for a shock. Talking about uneducated.

Independence Day - 1/23/2013
Socialism will be over