Why I'm Against the Healthcare Bill

I agree, I can tell you half the bill will be earmarks for their friends.

It was designed that way - a work in progress that will change as the tyrannical leadership grows and expand their powers.

Stop over at CA's place and read what he just posted: Buy-bye Constitution CA reports on a Constitutional attorney who has at least read what's available - House Bill
3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009.

I don't believe the cost report from the Congressional Budget Office on the healthcare bill proposed by the Senate Finance Committee. I do not believe the claim that any Big Government health care scheme will reduce the deficit, but even if it does, it will do so at the cost of higher taxes. I still think Congress is trying to defraud the American public . . .

They are.

I still think Congress is trying to defraud the American public . . .

You are all reacting exactly the way the insurance and drug companies are wanting you to.
But really the Senate bill is a DOG of a payoff to the health care industry.
It stinks of bribery.
And deserves to die.
Grassley (R) and Baucus (D) are two of the top recipients of health care industry money.

You're right about the "payoff to the health care industry". No change to the corruption with Insurance and Pharmco...

So, they start again. Simplify and do right for all the people of this country. Do over

Our "leaders" in Washington are disgusting!

Carol,

We are thinking alike on this one. I have the same opinions and feelings about the government, the industries, and our health. I have a very gloomy outlook on this one. I can't see anything good coming out of this because the foxes have bought off the dogs guarding the hen house. (How's that for a metaphor?) We are going to be taken advantage of when we are most vulnerable. We can't even stop it now while the bill is being considered because there is too much money against reform.

I agree - it's all so confusing. I truly want healthcare reform, but I definintely don't want a worse system than we already have. I just want honesty from our politicians!

It is my personal understanding ~ after trying to decipher who's lying,~ (and somebody has to be) with so many different stories circulating on this health care plan. Obama is being less than candid with the American public about what he is pushing as he attempts to sell socialized medicine to a wary nation.

If we had been listening with our ears, instead of starry eyes, when Obama was campaigning, we would have gotten the message way back then that he would push the Socialist agenda. When he told Joe the plumber, "It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too. When you spread the wealth around it helps everybody." That's pretty clear.

After reading as much as time allows on this issue, it is clear Obama is lying. Here's five (5) Obama lies discussed, at length, in "Forbes" some time back, about this health care plan.

Lie One: In the beginning, he said, "No one will be compelled to buy coverage."

Now he says he is for "making every American responsible for having health insurance coverage, and making employers share in the cost."

Lie Two: In the beginning he said, "No new taxes on employer benefits."

Now, he's saying he will go along with a far worse scheme to tax employer-sponsored benefits to fund the $1.6 trillion or so it will cost to provide universal coverage.

Lie Three: In the beginning he said, "Government can control rising health care costs better than the private sector."

It is clear that government in our health care will ruin--not improve--even the functioning aspects of private plans.

Lie Four: In the beginning he said, " A public plan won't be a Trojan horse for a single-payer monopoly. "

Even during the initial days of his campaign--Obama repeatedly said that he was in favor of a single-payer system.

Lie Five: In the beginning Obama said, "Patients don't have to fear rationing."

Now he's saying that the rationing patients would face under a government-run system wouldn't be any more draconian than what they currently confront under private plans.

Obama has repeatedly asked for honesty in the health care debate. It is high time he started showing some. Some time back, a wise man said about Obama, "Watch what he does, not what he says." That's good advice for all of us.

Carol
No matter what they do its going to stick it to someone...
Thats all I am going to say .... mouth zippered shut :D

i guess i look at it different then every one im going to be 58 next may and i dont no how much longer i have to be here, but when its all said and done its not going to make any diff to me cause i will be gone. they have been passing bills left and right there they do it every day and the money they spend it would make me sick just to hear about it.

It's easier to be against the healthcare bill, if you're employed, and are healthcare insured (at least you think you are). I lost my job 2 weeks ago, and my insurance too. I'm 63 years ol, and have health issues requiring medication. I support government healthcare (we all may need it someday), but you're right that it's too big, and difficult to comprehend all its complexities. One has to take it on faith. They should do more to keep it simple.
On the other hand, how much do we really know about a lot of things that government deals with ? Don't we really take a lot of things on faith, that we don't have a clear focus about ? (ex. nuclear weapons, terrorism, food safety, etc.)