Obama's "impartial" town hall meeting...

[preferredduck]

She is divorcing and unemployed and she does NOT want a government solution.

So I take it she won't be choosing to receive unemployment compensation then?

One thing I will nitpick about Obama's stance on healthcare is that he's pretty much guaranteeing people that they can keep their existing plans. But really, the details with particular plans are up to employers/insurance companies. So people can keep their plans as long as the employers choose to provide them. But most insurance plans are raising premiums and cutting coverage, I know the insurance here did that last year (before the election, mind you). I was going to sign up for insurance... before they pulled a dick move on us.

So while we are getting the rug pulled out from under us by our insurance, we're also getting furloughs, which puts me even urther away from getting private insurance. So a public option, or some kind of subsidy voucher would be awesome in my particular case.

The people I really feel bad for are those here who make less than I do and have families to support. Between the furloughs, the rising costs of insurance, and the inflation rate, these people have been pretty much thrown to the wolves.

The main cost saving points of the bill are compromises with the insurance companies and drug companies that end government subsidies payed out to big pharma and big insurance. That will cut something like 80 billion, and the rest of the money is money that is already in the system... just shuffled around. They are saying it won't increase the deficit.

Anyway, the status quo is just not a sustainable option. And I don't see how the Teabaggers/Astroturfers/Deathers add anything to the debate except empty rhetoric about how "government is bad" and misimpretations of the Constitution that forget the commerce clause or the elastic clause.

here is one thing obama keeps saying is people will have to pay for the gov't insurance like a premium. most of the uninsured could not afford an extra $10 a month for healthcare so how would that work. then there would be a copay of sorts, deductables, etc.

and honestly do you think the insurance companies would be endorsing the plan if they are not making a chunk of money somehow. look at medicare and medicaid. they are both in the same cookie jar with insurance companies. united healthcare does alot of medicare work along with BCBS. also there really isn't this great plan set in stone and the tab on the bill is outragous.

-on that note would you loan me $20,000 for a business idea i have involving making greener cars. it will improve mileage and cut down greenhouse gases and save the planet. loan it to me no now now and i'll tell you more about it after you give me the money. does that sound familiar, like a bailout maybe.

[Total_Blender]

here is one thing obama keeps saying is people will have to pay for the gov't insurance like a premium. most of the uninsured could not afford an extra $10 a month for healthcare so how would that work. then there would be a copay of sorts, deductables, etc.
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I can almost afford health insurance. Really I could afford it now, but I would have to go on food stamps. Eventually I will get to the point where I can afford it, once I get my degree in December and hopefully the pay-grade increase (or a move to a better job) that comes with it for Fy '11.

I wouldn't mind paying a small premium, maybe 1/2 or even 3/4 what the insurance my employer offers costs. I am not expecting to get something for free.

[preferredduck]

I can almost afford health insurance. Really I could afford it now, but I would have to go on food stamps. Eventually I will get to the point where I can afford it, once I get my degree in December and hopefully the pay-grade increase (or a move to a better job) that comes with it for Fy '11.

I wouldn't mind paying a small premium, maybe 1/2 or even 3/4 what the insurance my employer offers costs. I am not expecting to get something for free.

sadly most supporters of the plan don't have a brain and think it is going to be free. did you guys know that BCBS and UHC underwrite all medicare claims and some medicaid claims. this is why im saying the price may go down but there will be more denials of service. take my neck for example, i have a pinched nerve at c5-c6 which causes a constant headache. with my insurance that i paid $360/month for for just me i could not get approved for trigger point injections which in turn would mean less medicine i have to take daily. watch the movie sicko and see some of the other things denied by insurance. and let me tell you to the gov't it will be the bottom line on who lives and who dies and after a certain age we cost them money.

i am very glad this bill was not pushed through before recess and we the people actually have time to read it. i mean it's alot of $$.

this is what i mean by everyone thinks it will be free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8...layer_embedded