There is so much garbage intertwined in this mess of a bill, it would be incredibly difficult and time consuming to go through it. Make a clean break and start over. Also all the other non-health care provisions that were sneaked into this bill (like always) will be taken away as well.
I bet if you really knew everything that is in this bill, you would think twice about keeping it.

Makes it more affordable? Health insurance and health care costs already have risen because of this bill. Just ask the employees of AARP who lost their health insurance coverage because AARP could no longer afford to pay for it with the increased cost. Think about it “medical device” manufacturers now have to pay a new tax on all devices. How does that cut costs? As for leeching off the rest of us, my family loses a LOT of money to taxes each year. Why don’t the rest of YOU stop leeching off of US?

But it’s ok for the Health Insurance Companies to “leech” off of the consumer, & it’s ok for the Big Oil companies to “leech” off the land and it’s ok for Big Corporations to “leech” off of the taxpayer in tax loopholes & government subsidies.

My earnings have remained stagnant for 12 years now, even a .50 cent an hour increase doesn’t anywhere near make up for the increased cost for heat & utilities, or the cost for gas at the pump. Never mind that food prices have risen sharply as well.

And I cannot afford to pay more in my health insurance premiums to cover your in ability to pay for health insurance. If you do not want to buy health insurance and cannot pay cash for the services rendered at your local hospital or doctors office then don’t go when you are sick, in a car accident, or fall and break your arm. A big part of the problem is people like you. Stop smoking a carton of cigarettes a week and you may be able to afford health insurance….

Ok, I have to mention something that hasn’t been said here.

I currently have insurance, but when the individual mandate goes into effect, I plan on dropping my coverage until I need it because it’s cheaper just to break the law as far as this goes. I know I’m not the only one willing to do that. So, if insurance companies fail because of people like me, doesn’t that just leave us with the government or “public” option. And if so, wouldn’t this create more government spending?

And where is the personal responsibility in not buying health insurance, waiting until your sick to use emergency room care, and then forcing tax payers to foot the bill and causing insurance rates to skyrocket? The original health care law helps level the playing field. It seems like the government should only really help the neediest people who can’t afford health care, not those irresponsible people who choose not to have health insurance because they think nothing will ever happen to them and then they go bankrupt from health bills because they can’t get insurance after they’re already sick.

B58 – it is not a government run healthcare, which is the purpose for all of this theatre. If the constituents truly understood that the Affordable Healthcare Act takes government money to help Americans purchase private healthcare, we wouldn’t have to go through this whole dance on the Congress floor, believe me, the Healthcare industry has no intention of letting this Act get repealed. Its the best deal they could hope for actually, this was a republican idea in the first place. What the Healthcare industry really wants is to get the republicans to dismantle all of the consumer protections that are in the bill so they can sell more junk insurance policies. – which is really what this fight is about. The real issues haven’t surfaced yet. Stay tuned

Obamacare has to be repealed. It dose nothing about the cost of health care! Health Insurance is from the Insurance industry. Health Care is from the Health Care industry. Two differant Industries. The cost of health care is what I pay when I go to the doc. or hospital. Insurance is money I would be giving away.

Waste of time. Nothing but a front to appease those who voted for them. It will most likely not pass. Precious time wasted. Time, that could be utilized to deal with other pertinent issues that will actually help our economy.

It just shows how real antagonistic the Republicans are. Eric Cantor doesn’t have a job to serve the American People, his job is to be a Thorn on Obama’s Administration. That’s the one, true, absolute purpose in his life. In fact, if Obama finally suffers, I bet he can die a happy man.

And the Democrats only have our best interest in mind right?

Conservatives attack ideas? So if they repeal the LIHEAP program that means they’re only attacking an ideal, not a collection of society, it’s just our imagination that Low Income Families & Seniors will be harmed if this happens, and it’s just our imagination that those people with pre-existing conditions will be harmed if this were to truly be enacted.

Yea, conservatives don’t attack people, you’re right. It’s just our imagination.

kir, From reading your post I bet you and your family are like mine, We PAY for OUR own health Care. We just don’t have Health insurance. I don’t want health insurance and I don’t need any help paying for the services I contract. If I can’t afford to get an annual check-up I DON"T. I get the health services I can afford and that’s enough.

You mean kind of like the logic that leads Republicans to claim “less government” but really just want to control aspects of our lives?

Drug laws
anti-abortion laws
anti-sodomy laws
anti-gay marriage laws

Sounds like a lot of government intervention to me.

Actually, it is common practice to in some way connect a politician’s name to legislation when that politician was instrumental in its passage. It is more often done in a way such as the McCain/Feingold Act.

As to the term “Obamacare” being an attack, the only way that someone in the Democratic party could truly view this as an attack would be if they had a negative view of the bill itself. If they are as fond of it as they claim to be, they should instead be jealous that it is not THEIR name on it!

here is a link that explains the healthc are bill…http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/your-money/health-insurance/22consumer.html?scp=1&sq=health%20care%20bill&st=Search

Thanks for the link…lays it out well.

What is your opinion on the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen that President John Adams signed into law? It apparently garnished the wages of merchant sailors to pay for government built and run hospitals in order to help protect the economy of the day.

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/21/thomas-jefferson-also-supported-government-run-health-care/

Government is not supposed to step in take over personal responsibilities. America became what it is by American’s hard work and personal responsibility. Compare that to where we are now. It is sickening to see our country changing from within so much.

What our federal government is doing now is similar to a person who lights a fire, which quickly becomes out of control and then this same person offers his advice and help to put it out, but does so badly.