2009-12-26T00:31:02Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/59951 2009-12-26T00:31:02Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-26:/comment/179595 driskells better yet, how about quashing Veteran Care. 2009-12-26T00:29:03Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-26:/comment/179593 driskells Bush was an idiot. The bad part about it is that I voted for him. 2010-03-11T12:05:57Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-11:/comment/188476 saknama I just read that Obama is planning on putting Student Loan overhaul into the Health Care Bill?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! What does one have to do with the other and when you vote Yes on the Health Care Bill does that mean that you're voting Yes to the Student Loan provisions at the same time? What does this man not understand about transparency? 2010-03-12T21:27:21Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-12:/comment/188615 TBSchemer "Social programs like this do nothing but good over time." ... ...which is clearly why Massachusetts, upon implementing a similar system to the one Obama is proposing in 2006, saw skyrocketing health costs. We wouldn't even have a health care crisis if not for Medicare, Medicaid, and government regulation. The government requires employers in many states to provide "health benefits" to their employees, and this is a huge part of what has caused consumers to have no choice in their health insurance coverage. 2009-11-24T15:31:53Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-11-24:/comment/172112 LucasFoxx It’s amusing that the trolls are still circle jerking on H.R.3962 and going back through the treads to pick fights that they missed with the ghosts of people who no longer find them interesting. Looks like they might be going through a shift change. As soon as something is posted here, someone will clue them in and the whole herd will pile in over here. I know the GOP was sending people to this site. Perhaps their astro-turf placement academies haven’t updated their links. 2010-03-15T16:50:38Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-15:/comment/188805 Nile If insurance companies are making "too" much money, if banks are making "too" much money, if the oil companies are making "too" much money, ...go to your broker and get rich !!! This is nothing but big government takeover and control that our "constitution" was supposed to protect us from! Next election I will work for a canidate that can read the Constitution and has guts enough to stand up for it! 2010-03-15T20:22:20Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-15:/comment/188813 Intensero Thats called slavery Jerod. Example of fairness. Jon has 2 cars, 1 for him and 1 for his wife, Julie. Julie only works part time so she can stay home with their 3 year old Bobby. Jon's neighbor Stuart has 1 car since he lives alone. Stuart's neighbor Greg 3 doors down has no car and takes the bus to work. He want's a car and is saving up for one. One day Stuart takes Jon's wife's car and gives it to Greg and says look how much I've helped you. Later Jon has Stuart Arrested and reclaims his car from a upset Greg who had no idea it was Jon's car. Here is the difference when Government does it: The police knock on Jon's door one day and say "Greg doesn't have a car so to be fair we are taking the one you don't really need." Jon gets mad and says no. The Policeman Cuffs him and tosses him into jail. Your argument is a excuse to plunder. 2010-03-09T07:26:23Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-09:/comment/188245 Jerod Well at least the taxes will stay in the country, add balance to the economy, and help people. Isn't that the idea behind taxes? Social programs like this do nothing but good over time. If you don't want to contribute to something good and helpful and balancing? Try a different country. We need more Tax programs like SSA and Health care, not less. Especially in a capitalistic social system. Perhaps people who oppose this stuff, don't allow them selves to enjoy their country and its benefits. I could see why they would look down on people who do. But they should start by looking at themselves and how much they take, that makes a need for these programs to create balance. Also learn to live and share. 2010-03-03T21:58:04Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-03:/comment/187721 suzieqs Most of what the Republican party's original ideology has been warped, and tainted by greed. Especially the part regarding ending slavery, which in some sense isn't true, yes people get paid for working, but how much, in all reality we should be receiving a minimum wage of 13.78 per hr (based on rate of inflation and consumer price index calculator), but we still don't even see the $10 per hr. minimum wage yet. When "Big Businesses" close up shop in the US and put millions out of work, how in the world do you expect them to afford any health care costs? You try to live on a fixed income like they have for just one month, I dare you, and see how you fare. Walk a mile in the other's shoes. 2010-03-17T16:37:10Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-17:/comment/189032 Americafirst hones it is a MONOPOLY NOW! Reform will make it a free market! Get it! 2010-03-17T16:36:02Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-17:/comment/189031 Americafirst Dummy, it raises taxes on the super rich. NOT THE MIDDLE CLASS! 2010-10-01T09:30:33Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-10-01:/comment/211403 umrph95 Last year our federal income tax, alone, was within 3 or 4 thousand dollars of my husband's entire gross income! We have 4 children and both work full time, plus I have 4 prn positions to keep us afloat. As a health care professional I am livid when I see the amount of my hard-earned $ that our government wastes. When a customer/patient drives up to our drive-thru in a Lincoln Navigator, wearing designer clothes, and talking on a Blackberry then hands me a medicaid card to pay for their medication it is difficult to maintain a professional composure. I resent giving half of my income to these kinds of people. Waste is rampant!!! If our government wants to save $ on healthcare, lets limit access to these programs to only the elderly, TRULY disabled, or critically ill (those with a CRITICAL illness that prevents them from working). I stood on my feet working 10 - 12 hr shifts for the past 2 years with a hemoglobin of 7 (they give transfusions at 5). If I can do it, so can a lot of others 2010-03-18T00:44:17Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-18:/comment/189054 jamesselton2 good. http://sunnyvale-foreclosures.homes-4.info 2010-03-18T00:46:02Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-18:/comment/189056 jamesselton2 good. [url=http://sunnyvale-homes-for-sale.homes-3.info]Sunnyvale homes for sale[/url] - [url=http://sunnyvale-foreclosures.homes-4.info]Sunnyvale Foreclosures[/url] - [url=http://sunnyvale-real-estate.homes-3.info]Sunnyvale Real Estate[/url] 2010-03-19T07:16:42Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-19:/comment/189308 JasonSpenc Can someone please explain to me in simple terms HOW we "trim" the federal deficit by $138 billion while adding 32 million uninsured? If the answer is further increase Medicare taxes on dividends/interest I'm concerned the constitutionality of coercive taking of wealth from one's production and giving it to someone who didn't produce it. The bill bars the insurance industry from denying coverage to pre-existing medical conditions. Gee, insurance only WORKS by excluding "pre-existing" conditions. Example in car insurance: Can I not pay premiums, then call and get car insurance only AFTER I've been in an accident? This whole bill is a car wreck... Most coercive government action I recall in my lifetime: Starting 2014, most Americans would be required for the first time to purchase insurance or face penalties if they refused. Large businesses would face fines if they did not offer good-quality coverage to their workers. Gee, I wouldn't want to be a "large business" anytime soon then. 2009-12-08T04:21:11Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-08:/comment/175207 justamick this bill has nothing to do with Health care... it is just a legislative vehicle. You want to complain about HR3962 or SR1679. 2009-12-08T04:16:49Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-08:/comment/175203 justamick First of all Lucas, this is not a bill about health care, if you look at the title, you would see that it is a legislative vehicle. In other words, this is the bill that is going to carry the health care bill with it. This bill covers a first time home buyers credit for members of the armed forces. It has nothing to do with health care. 2009-11-27T13:33:32Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-11-27:/comment/172763 bravo6lima I would support this bill rather than hr3262.One thing,Why if I disagree with some one am I a Troll(being a conservative rather than a republican)?I remember a time when being labled as a liberal meant that you were open to new ideas and did not have tunnel vision.As time has passed,the roles seem to be changing,at least through my eyes.I could be wrong(as I frequently am). 2010-03-20T12:43:33Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-20:/comment/189507 LucasFoxx Hard to tell what they are thinking, or why they are rejecting he bill. They never have specific complaints. It's just seems to be a general fear of things they don't take the time to understand. 2010-03-20T13:30:32Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-03-20:/comment/189510 LucasFoxx With this bill, we’ll get: a standard for Qualified Health Plans, individual options among those plans; requires those plans to provide coverage for, and not impose any cost sharing requirements for: preventive services, immunizations, and preventative screenings for women and children; reductions in the maximum limits for out-of-pocket expenses, improved Access to Medicaid, and modernizes public health systems. And provides that “nothing in this Act shall be construed to require that an individual terminate coverage under a group health plan or health insurance coverage in which such individual was enrolled on the date of enactment of this Act.” The Reconciliation bill adds: medical loss ratio rebates, elimination of annual or lifetime limits, no cost-sharing for preventive care, increased penalties for fraud and abuse, and money and more authority for enforcement, whistle blower protection, legislates more transparency from the insurance companies. Better than nothing.