Comments about ‘3 Utahns in House vote 'nay' on health reform’

The vote today is the beginning of the end of our once-great nation. Congratulations Democrats.

It's good to know that we have representatives who I can feel good about supporting! The Health Care REFORM doesn't reform anything, it's beurocracy that is jibberish, over 1,900 pages, and it's a joke! It doesn't compare to Social Security, Medicare, or anything! It is handcuffing the Insurance industry, taking away MORE of what limited competion they have, and forcing a 1 Payer System in years to come! It's punishing those who have good PRIVATE INSURANCE plans either by themselves or by Company funded plans. It's bring us closer to "Rationing" health care, it's scaring SMART individuals who wanted to be doctors, into other career choices, and of course there will be MORE doctors, because STUPIDER PEOPLE will qualify for MED SCHOOL! Mean while NO TORT REFORM whatsoever will be put in place, causing more lawyers to be crooked cheats with no integrity, and more bad law suits to be in the courts. This does nothing for "MALPRACTICE INSURANCE RATES", and we will putting less money in the pockets of good Drug companies for research and development of new drugs to treat disease and such. Overall, THIS BILL STINKS!!!

you obviously have never been a person who has had a near terminal sickness, 21 yrs old-whom had private insurance through a job, to find my health insurance wants to drop me after I'm diagnosed. When reporting this incident to local newspapers, they decided to keep me on..then after I can't work, cause, well I'm sick with cancer, I have to pay Cobra which is outrageous. Until that runs out, then now I am a "pre-exisiting" condition for 10 years or longer(depending what level the insurance co. considers me as a risk). What is your answer to that? I am one of many with a story like this.

So sad how fear based so many are.

Matheson is hardly conservative. He scored 36 for the American Conservative Union Ratings for 2008. Rob Bishop got 100 and Bennett got 64. Bennett is now the 8th most liberal republican US senator based on those numbers. What does that leave Matheson?

Were used when Social Security and MediCare passed. This nation will endure (unless we continue to ignore the poor. Those who voted against this already are financially secure, but not politically. Good-bye Jim. We'll find another who will stand up for the least among us.

It so sad when they have taken more of our rights away. The U.S. Gov.is growing to large. They can not even get the H1N1 vaccine to the American like they promised. How do they think they can handle health care of this magnitude. It looks like to me they are trying to bankrupt the U.S. Economy. And when that happens they will turn to the UN and work out a deal for America to become part of the world gov. This is big step to America loosing it's freedom's

We need health care reform, but this bill is a disaster for health care and our country.

What we need is law suit abuse reform and to open up the insurance industry to greater competition. This bill will only destroy the best health care in the world and turn it into a socialistic mess. Of course, that's what Obama intended to do when he came to office. These people are so blinded by their ideology that they don't care if they bring this country down.

And to "fear of Change"...yes, we should be afraid. We should be VERY afraid.

Don't you people of Utah believe in trusting God. By now the republicans should realize that prayers are being answered, but not the the republican way.

GOD is still in control.

CougarKeith: Sorry, but the evidence is in, and there is no reason to believe that malpractice claims are a big driver of our skyrocketing health care costs. The people who have studied it say that they amount to less than 2% of health care costs overall. Even more damning, Texas has had drastic tort reform in place for five years now, and their costs not only have failed to go down, they've actually risen faster than the national average.

I would add, "rationing health care" is what insurance companies do when they drop people from their rolls after they get sick, and when they deny claims based on "pre-existing conditions." This bill puts an end to that sort of rationing.

congratulations utah on having a democrat representative with enough guts to represent his constituents and not blindly follow party lines. illinois should be so lucky.

I competely understand the votes of bishop and Chaffetz, they are republicans, the party of obstruction. But matheson's constituency sent him back to be different, better than them and he has again let us down. I frankly would now sooner see a republican in his seat, At least I would know what i could expect.

So "About Time", while I feel for your health challenges and realize it is tough for you and your family, is it right and fair that I now have to pay for your health care? Is it American to force others to carry your burden. Americans would gladly try to help you in any way they can since we are the most charitable people on the earth, but Americans do these things because they are free to do so, not forced to by our government.

There is no choice here, our freedoms are under attack. If signed into law, me might as well work under the hammer & sickle since the Democrats are now seeing red and want all of our money.

I beg all Americans to vote conservative, not Republican or Democrat. We need to retract this unchecked federal government power and take back our country from those who are out to burden us with extreme taxes, who are out to destroy capitalism and want to forecefully share the wealth in socialism.

We can't afford to wait until 2010. It's time to start now with recall elections of anyone that voted yes on this horrid bill.

Sorry to hear about your illness. there is already a program for you it's called Medicade. A government run program would be worse. why can't the politicans just fix what is wrong instead of taking over??????? the Federal government couldn't run a corner Gas Station without using tax dollars to keep it going.

Sorry about your trouble, truly. I couldn't imagine going through what you are enduring. People in your situation should be helped--no question.

But not this way. This way drives America farther into bottomless debt, creates 112 new beauracies with giant mouths to feed, drives even more American jobs oversees with its mandates, and hands unprecedented control over our lives to politicians who have shown themselves to be completely unable to restrain themselves for the public good. This wasn't an either-or situation. And it wasn't really about providing better health care at less cost. You and others in your situation could have been helped without a total federal power-grab. Wait until the money runs out. I fear your case will not be better than it is today, maybe worse. The only thing sure is all of us will be even more beholden to the federal taskmaster.

Please voters vote out of office every single incumbent in the upcoming elections. Lets send a message and stay together until we clean out the graff, stealing, cheating, and theivery from our economy and system. This payola by big business by their lobbyists is way, way over the top and old hat. Now we can change that only if we unemploy these rats. New faces held to the fire will be our only way, let all of them see that "WE" run this country and they are put in office to represent us and what we want! They are our employees not our bosses! They will do it our way or be back in private life! THIS IS OUR COUNTRY--THE CITIZENS!

THANK YOU to all three of our Representatives for doing the right thing.

Now, we get to see if Bob Bennett will use his seniority and experience to stop this foolish healthcare takeover in the Senate with every parliamentary maneuver and bit of influence he claims to have.

How hard is it for a country to declare bankruptcy. We can just do that and start over right? Freedom and hard work made us great. Entitlements and high taxes will make us weak and ordinary at best. Work hard - end up just like everyone else - the new america.

Sorry, it did not work this time. The Republican "No" was squashed.
Our country is finally is on the way to help those who need healthcare.
America's founders would be proud. Our ancestors came here to find a better place. America should be a better place, not power hungry, war like, egotistical, and filled with uppity leaders who just think about themselve and the perks they will now be missing from the insurance and drug companies.
The first step has been completed. Keep the ball rolling and finish with honor.

The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.

You know who is to blame for this? The Republican Party. Why, you ask? Because Democrats are liberal by birth, while Republicans are liberal by choice.

The Republican Party chose to put a liberal, John McCain, on it's presidential ticket - alienating Conservatives. 90% of Utah Republicans voted for Gov. Mitt Romney, who mandated the same "universal health coverage" in his failed state of Massachusetts.

The Republicans are a bunch of do-nothing liberals. So we can blame Democrats all we want, but Democrats are wolves in wolf clothing, while Republicans are wolves in sheep clothing. Both want big government and both refuse to field Conservative candidates.