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Peter Roff

The Growing Case Against Obama's Healthcare Plan

June 11, 2009 04:50 PM ET | Peter Roff | Permanent Link | Print

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Obama's Health care plan

I dont know what you are thinking Crystal J. of IL & Maggie Kramer of NY, your Defiantly not understanding what would happen if the US Healthcare Plan is passed…

For one thing there is NO Such thing as FREE Healthcare, furthermore do you even know where the money will come from to Pay for such a thing? It will be the people in the US the normal tax payer!! If you want free healthcare that is your choice but I DON’T!! I have the right to say that I Dont want it either!! You both can pay more money out of your own pay if you want Free Healthcare!!

The US is a FREE Country, We are All Free to Make our Own Choices, that’s what Makes our country so Great and Wonderful!! So We “The People” Should have the Right to Say NO We Don’t want this Healthcare Plan!!

If you want Reform of the Insurance Companies, Fine, but that should NOT Be Run by the Government either!! Someone else should run that…

So if you don’t like the healthcare Plan in the US maybe you should live in a Country like UK or Ireland if you want Government run Healthcare, because This Land is a Free Country Unlike any where in the Whole World!!

Obama's Health care plan

I beleive that Obama's Health care will be an improvement for America. It will give most of us the care we need that some Americans's are missing out on right now. The plan is expensive because of the deficit we have been in for years now. We have to pay money for things that we really need and for things that will be valuable to America. We have to give Obama time to make things happen in America everyone is been so negative.His health care plan will be afforable, middle and lower class families will get the care they and it will build off the plan we have now which I do not thnk is that bad. Im not saying that it will fix all things there are somethings that can be better however I say give Obama a chance it wil be worth it.

uneducated

I think all of you doubtig Obama need to read more and keep your opinions to yourselves. Just because one person says something doesnt mean it's true.

Health Care Reform

Well I'm a thirteen year old but I believe with all of my heart that this bill should Not be passed. Not only will it make us wait for MONTHS just to see a doctor, but it will cost us so much money. To be sincere, I don't think it is possible for us to come up with that quantity of money for this without hurting our economy even more than it is hurting now. It is ridiculous to think so, even if we get that money it will come out of our pocket. If this bill is passed you will have to pay for health isurance even if you don't want to. Not only that, but the health insurance won't be of any quality whatsoever!! From anywhere you look at this it will not have a posotive outcome. I don't see why we are trying to change a health care system that other countries envy and long for. It's insane and it fills me with concern. Please, tell your elected officials not to pass this bill. If I had a say in this I would go all out, but I can't, I'm under age. Don't ruin America for my generation.

Obama's Health Insurance plan

I think the only people that benefit from Obama'a plan are Doctors and Hospitals. The rest of us will have to wait in long lines to get medical care. Get good medical care is hard to find now. Doctors will be over worked and it is going to be impossible to get good treatment.

Another point people is that Obama is going to force you to pay for health insurance whether you want it or not. If you don't pay for health insurance your going to be fined.

I am already forced to pay for car insurance that I can barely afford. I can't afford to pay for health insurance too. I think we should make auto insurance companies pay for medical care by making cars safer. If people didn't crash into each other we could use the money to pay for cancer treatment for those that need it. Auto Insurers are making big money.

Obama's plan stinks.

Lets stop Obama health care bill

If this health care bill passes we are all in trouble.

Please lets all do everything we can to stop him from getting this bill through.

Obama is going to hurt the American people. He is trying to make the US a communist country.. Please people we can't let this happen, I am so troubled. We can't believe a thing he says.

I pray he is going to fail to get this through.

Obama Health Care

Americans and Canadians need to join together now to stop Obama!

Let's talk!

Where will Canadians go?

Just say no to Obama's health care proposal, tell your elected officials you do not want them to vote this bill in. Whether they are Republican or Democrat, they need to know where you stand. Granted, Obama's campaign promise was to "change America", but, this is not the change most Americans want, not a change for the betterment of America. We live in the best country on the face of the earth. Our hospitals and health care are the envy of other countries, they come here for care. WHY should we so drastically change it, to the point we will not be able to turn it around again ? I do not want to wait for 6 months to a year or more to see a Dr., and needless to say, with this plan, there will be a new staff of Doctors, ones that won't take their job seriously, ones that will bow to the beckon call of the president and heavy handed government. Is our health care system perfect? No, but, it's a whole lot better that other countries that say, you have to wait - while the turmor is growing or take a pain pill- when your hip is broken. How can AARP endorse this plan, one that hasn't even been written and passed? They are suppose to be there for the elderly, not be for the plan that will tell them to forget surgery and go into hospice instead. Do you understand the plan, anymore than Obama does? It's not only the Republicans that don't want it, more and more Democrats are finally coming to their senses. Democrat Congressman John Conyers said - it's too long and complicated and you'd need 2 days and 2 lawyers. If this bill passes, where will Canadians go to get the best health care they can get and in a timely manner?

obamas wrath

this man is trying to change everyting that the U.S.A. is all about!!!do you and your children want to be told what and where you can do and what to buy!!nothing has worked in the six mo nths that he has been in office.there are no jobs for anyone.unemployment is RISING its scary,small business is going down the tubes.the america that brought us all prosperity is beig taken away!!!!!!!!

speak up!

As long as the Congress does not read bills (sometimes approving of them before they are even completed), you should expect our Government today to do just about anything as long as they are protected while most Americans are not.

First, we should be able to have access to private insurance and to medical personnel who will help us.

Second, conservatives give a larger percentage of their income to charities than other people give. Instead of our current President trying to "fix things" and worsening our economy, he could have said: "Here is a problem that some people have in health insurance ... Would you help doctors and hospitals be able to help those people with a gift?"

Don't say "They wouldn't listen to me" and remain silent.

Speak up.

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Peter Roff is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. A former senior political writer for United Press International, he is currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Liberty and at Let Freedom Ring, a non-partisan public policy organization. His writing has also appeared on Fox News' Fox Forum.

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