Democrats Struggle to Move Forward on Healthcare

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hotels in ukiah california of 1:21PM May 02, 2010

I think that health care reform should have been outsourced.
The Manhattan project was contracted out to the University of California.
The Appolo program was done by NASA and mostly outside contractors.
A management consulting company was contracted to manage the Polaris Submarine
program.
Our Govt has demonstrated its incompetance by getting the country
into a war that will cost over a trillion dollars to find non existant WMD.
It has shown it incompetence by doing nothing while 20 to 30 million people
are in the country illegally.
Universities, think tanks, and managment consulting companies should be
contracted to do most of congresses thinking for them.
Bush could have given out contracts 8 years ago and by now outside
contractors could have come up with the best solution for healthcare.
This way the process could have very scientific and calculated.
Having congress do this makes it unscientific, uncalculated, and
corrupted by special interest who are only intrested in making as
much profit off of the healthcare system even if the profit comes
from waste and inefficiency.
If contractors did the job they could be selective and only hire
the best qualified people and fire anybody who can't do their job.
Poorly qualified people can become presidents, and congressman
and the don't get fired for incompetance.

Phil of TX 3:46PM February 03, 2010

I am frankly tired of this partisan bickerin, and if the Republicans continue to say no to everything just to get Obama's goat, forget this game playing. Go reconciliation. Us independents are tired of Republicans screaming "socialism" and Democrats being politically correct. We need bold action, whether it be jobs, healthcare reform, or financial products reform.

Jack Golding of KS 4:41PM February 02, 2010

Gas!
It needs to be curbed because it is a major contributor to global warming.
Oh, that's another pet project of hers that is DOA.

Fed Up of IN 9:54PM January 29, 2010

An organization of 17,000 physicians has a proposal that won't cost any more than is already being paid for health care in this country, and it would cover all 300 million of us. It is the Physicians for a National Health Program. www.pnhp.org

Dr Robert Heck of IL 4:49PM January 29, 2010

This is a central paragraph in the article: "Then there are those who say the opposite—that the administration hasn't done enough, that change is happening too slowly, that people are upset with Congress's glacial pace. If the latter is true, Congress should buckle down, not give up, healthcare reform advocates say."
The problem here and with this article is that "the latter is NOT true." This president and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have tried to ram government-mandated, government-run health care down the throats of the American people for a year. They have failed--and only Frank Rich, Nancy Pelosi and this article seem to think that the administration should squander even more political capital trying to make it happen. The corrupt, back-room deals in the last six weeks of 2009 not only killed health care "reform," but damaged Democrats and exposed the shallowness of this administration.
There are things that this administration could and should do as Republicans also favor them. They could allow all insurance companies to sell policies across state lines that would not only make many more choices available to everyone but lower costs. But such common-sense ideas such as that are uninteresting to the Obama administration that is only interested in growing government to create more dependency and make-work union jobs. Saving money in health care for the people is not what Obama is concerned about.
This magazine needs to move on to relevant topics.

Sherlock Holmes of NH 3:56PM January 29, 2010

Yes, and reform what's really need about what's wrong with healthcare in America:
A public corporation, Sun Healthcare Group Inc, aka SUNH, gives money to politicians through their P.A.C., for which I've asked them all to return, since it is blood money that came from my mother's death and other patients who died when Sun violated a California State Injunction in 2003. The Dept of Justice turned a blind eye and never fined or punished Sun for these deaths. Why? Political corruption.
I've asked the Grand Jury and Orange County DIstrict Attorney to indict the CEO of Sun Healthcare Group Inc, Rick Matros for perjury, obstruction of justice and manslaughters this month, January, 2010.
Read my blog site at
http://www.sunhealthcaregroupinc.blogspot.com
Deborah Calvert
Newport Beach, California

Deborah Calvert of CA 3:33PM January 29, 2010

There is not so much a mystery to what ha happened as it the ostriches burying their heads in the sand. WAKE REID, PELOSI and "family." Senator Brown is real and the american public is real and you can become a representative of all these groups. Just agree to be part of the people to admit that you may not have an answer to some of your PRECONCEIVED notioms, then we can say to you,"welcome back FELLOW AMERICANS>"

Jack Gourley of NC 3:18PM January 29, 2010

Universal health care be it Obama Care now or Hillary care in the future will eventually become the law of the land, so get ready for it GOP! Government run health care programs are popular with Americans (Yes that means they like them, right wingers like it or not) just ask kids and their parents on the CHIP program, the elderly on Medicare, Veterans on VA health plans, the poor, disabled and nursing home ridden on medicaid. Just as all those Government run health plans are popular with the public so will Universal health care that Obama, Hillary etc. will eventually pass. Even Senator elect Scott Brown agrees that the U.S. should have universal health care coverage and helped pass the big government Romney Universal health plan in Massachusetts in 2006. So brace your selves right wingers we are getting closer and closer to a federal universal health care bill and it will eventually be the law of the land and loved by the majority of Americans even if you all do not.

tom of MA 12:02PM January 29, 2010

I think you don't understand. You obviously know nothing of history or marxism or California. California is where it's at because of corrupt government and overspending. Nothing else. Just like the Repubs spent like crazy on wars we shouldn't be involved in overseas. Now the Dems are trying to clean up, but if they don't get a backbone and pass healthcare reform and show some mettle, we'll be back right where we were before, run by corporate interests. American people seem to want reform yet when they are shown it, much like the Dems, they don't want to pony up the effort and money that it will involve. We could have it instantly if we pulled out of countries that we claim to help but don't want us there anyway. Let those people kill one another and we'll try to fix our country before we go off telling other countries how to fix theirs. We have to lead by example, not force.

dude of LA 11:00PM January 28, 2010