| The future of healthcare in America now depends on | | | | The progressives say that over 40,000 people die |
| parliamentary procedure. This is the problem with | | | | each year because they do not have access to |
| government controlled anything. The word of the | | | | healthcare. Once this bill is passed, that stat will be |
| day is no longer surgery, healing, or medicine. | | | | hidden. If the bill passes, will anyone question 10 |
| Healthcare now depends on "reconciliation". Isn't it | | | | years from now how many died due to lack of care? |
| ironic that reconciliation in congress means that | | | | Even if 80,000 were to die the government would |
| democrats must divorce themselves from the | | | | claim success. They would say that 160,000 would |
| republicans on this issue? This stuff makes me sick! | | | | have died without the bill. |
| I am grateful for the healthcare I have received | | | | Ditto on the costs. I believe each of us will pay more |
| throughout my life. In 1957 I was born in a small rural | | | | for healthcare regardless of this bill. The government |
| hospital in East Tennessee with a club foot. At 10 | | | | again will boast of their genius for reducing costs. |
| years old, doctors performed surgery to straighten | | | | They will say that costs would have skyrocketed |
| my legs. I would later become an athlete and | | | | without their intervention. |
| routinely outperform others in physical activities. I | | | | The big number is the uninsured. Obama says this bill |
| want to start a boxing league for guys over 50 right | | | | will insure 30 million people who do not currently have |
| now. | | | | insurance. Does the government have the names of |
| My kids experienced numerous health problems | | | | those people and will they follow up in 10 years to |
| landing them in hospitals. We had multiple knee | | | | see how many are in the program? That would be |
| surgeries and one burst appendix. Even with | | | | no, but they will proclaim loudly about the millions who |
| insurance, my family has qualified for the medical | | | | received it. When you get government control, you |
| deduction on income taxes multiple times. I have no | | | | get political spin and no real accountability. |
| complaints about the nurses, doctors, or hospitals. I | | | | I listened to two doctors, on both sides of the issue, |
| have never appreciated the complicated billing | | | | debate about the bill's effect on various medical |
| process or the mounds of paperwork required. Like | | | | procedures until my head was about to explode. Each |
| everyone, I hate how much medical care costs. | | | | procedure carries it's own unique requirements, |
| My greatest fear is that this healthcare plan will limit | | | | complications, and risks. Is Nancy Pelosi really the |
| services, increase costs, and overall reduce the | | | | best person in the country to provide a solution to |
| quality of care. Obama promises just the opposite. I | | | | this mess? |
| hope he is right. My problem is that once the | | | | I am getting sicker by the minute. |
| government is in charge there is no accountability. | | | | |