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Let health-care bill die

Give. It. Life.
Did anyone change their mind because I put a period after each word?

Would you also send that same message to the 45,000 Americans that die every year in our current system?

Let it die ! We don't want it in any shape.

... along with those who can't afford or can't qualify for insurance.

Have a clue Matt. You got any better solutions for healthcare than what is being proposed?

Matt, we'll make you a deal, give up your health insurance and then we'll let the bill die, deal?

It's nice to know that I can come to the DN editorial page for intelligent, well-reasoned debate on the issues of the day.

The bill won't save anyones lives and will steal and kill more people.

Insurance is for protection of assets. This healthcare bill is a tax bill. If you are poor, you have medicaid. If you stumble into the hospital sick and uninsured, you will be taken care of. If you go to the doctor, you work out a payment plan. If you are in a car wreck, you are covered, if you are in a work accident you are covered. If you have a home and assets you likely have health insurance to protect them. If you are young and healthy and need your money to pay for education and buy autos and furniture, your assets are so small you don't need health insurance. This bill is nothing but generational theft. The young are sporadically unemployed, and they don't go to doctors. The bill actually is designed to force parents to keep their children on their policies until they are 27, or they are subject to penalties and even criminal convictions. It's a tax bill and a government scam.

If it dies, so should your employer subsidized health insurance.

Lets be reasonable and let it die. Why give even more power to the feds. The founders didn't want all power in heaven and earth to be in the federal govt.
How bout' we clean up the system we already have in place, cut the corruption, let competition and the free market work.
Enough of these bills being passed in the middle of the night with nobody knowing what is in them. Nobody reading them, and costing us more than we have to give. Isn't this reasonable, Obama?

Does anyone see the conflict of the worry that government can't run healthcare when the only demographic group in the country that is completely satisfied with their coverage are those over 65. Stick with Medicare and lower the age to birth.

Another mindless drone voicing Glenn Beck's opinion. wow.

our posters up through 7:17 (the latest posted at this writing) are acting as if the dems seriously flawed and exhorbitantly expensive plan will actually fix the problems we have with paying for health care.

This bill is like a man who had too much iron in his water, so to make it taste better, he added 2 parts anti-freeze to every 3 parts water. It will make it taste sweeter, but it will kill you in the end.

Do we need health care reform? Yes. Is the current bill a good approach to health care reform? No.

TO "SashimiGuy | 4:57 a.m." you realize that if 45,000 people die because of our health system every year, that really isn't a problem. Here are some illnesses that kill more people per year than the health care industry:

Seasonal flu: 63,000
Cancer: 556,902
Pneumonia: 61776
Swine flu (estimate for this flu season): 90,000
Complications with Diabetes: 178689

So, how about we take care of those things first since they kill more people than the health care system.

The author of the letter sounds like he is on one of Sarah Palin's "Death Panels", making the choice that will see more people die.

Note to Matt Milner: the Republican health care plan? Let. You. Die.

(wow, I kinda like the periods Roland, it gives one a false sense of importance ;) )

I oppose any change to health care. I want American sick to die, or survive and declare bankruptcy. I want English to be the only language spoken here. And I want my analog television signal returned just like it was! I oppose change of any kind.

If legislation could prevent the deaths from seasonal flu, cancer, pneumonia, swine flu don't you think we should do it?

Legislation--enacting universal health care--can result in fewer deaths and longer lives for those who lack insurance. So why not?

Interesting group of comments so far. Grover, have you ever seen how much those over 65 pay for their "insurance?" For all intents and purposes, they don't pay a dime. Their premiums barely cover the "shipping and handling" costs of their end-of-year statements. Everyone else pays for their health care costs. I would be happy with that arrangement, too. If Medicare covers everyone, who will pay?

I'm not opposed to reform. But this thing that was cobbled together and passed without anyone having read it--I don't think that ANY of us have a clue of what the end result would be if it became law.

The government has NOTHING in and of itself - it can give only what it takes from others. I'm not opposed to taxes (really, I'm not), but surely there's a better use for our money than this bill provides.

@ok matt - I've never listened to Glenn Beck, for whatever that's worth to you.

@Sashimi - I suspect the mortality rate will be unchanged by this bill. It will stay at 100%. :)