GOP Counters Obama AARP Healthcare Town Hall

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We are looking more like the Europeans and the former USSR every day.

Don of VA 8:40AM August 23, 2009

There are millions of people, 52% of Americans, according to July 27, 2009 Zogby poll, that disagree with a universal healthcare plan where the government would provide health insurance for everyone. The other 48%of the people have to be asked, "Have you ever dealt with a public agency?" If you have, whether it is the local post office, the Department of Aging, the Department of Public Welfare, Medicare, Social Security or any other, trying to even get a person on the phone, which is often the first step, is next to impossible. Would you rather have this option during a medical concern or have the option to call your primary care's emergency number or going to the emergency room?
If we think the emergency rooms are a headache now, wait until everyone is on government-sponsored healthcare. The lines will be longer, the wait will be longer, and the quality of the care will go down tremendously because all of the doctors are being paid the same. The hospitals will be filled with second-rate doctors who were able to get into medical school that could not before because all of the quality doctors will have left the system due to outrageous bureaucratic restrictions and pay reductions.
Of all of the information that is out there, I have not seen a good itemized source of who these uninsured are. I know there are indigent people who need healthcare. I get that. Do they not get Medicare? If that is not adequate, then reform Medicare! Who is included in these statistics of the uninsured? The White House is not clear on this. Reports have shown that this includes people who are out of work for a day, a week or a month, which grossly inflates the number they are reporting. There are thousands of people who have chosen not to have healthcare insurance. They participate in the "pay-as-you-go" method of healthcare. This is their choice, yet they are reported as victims of the healthcare system and yet, they do not want it. So, who are all of these uninsured? Please identify yourselves. We would love to hear from you. The only people I hear talking about a need for insurance for the uninsured are the pundits who all have insurance.
This has me so fired up, I finally started a blog.
read more at homebasedpolitics.blogspot.com

Diane S. of PA 3:50PM August 19, 2009

In all fairness we should experiment with this health care program before putting it into full swing.
I propose for the first couple of years only federal employees including congress and their families are to be covered under this program. When one of them needs medical treatment it is put before the American people as to the treatment they get (by popular vote). They must abide by the decision of the people. They would not be allowed to use outside insurance or pay for it from their own pocket. After two years, the surviving Congressmen can then vote on the outcome of the bill.
Sounds like the fair way to do things.

Kelly Brannum of TX 1:49PM August 11, 2009

Public option = Socialized healthcare=Rationing. our folks out in the town halls protesting this horror of a healthcare reform better not get hurt for exercising thier First Amendment rights if they do Obama is directly responsible for any harm that comes to these folks.

kiowa of CA 9:28PM August 08, 2009

If this healthcare is so great for All Americans, then why doesn't President Obama and Congress want the same healthcare plan they want to force down all our throats? My answer, as I understand it, is because they know it a bad bill and it stinks, and a majority of all those officials are senior citizens, and they know it would mean not getting the healthcare they need(procedures, doctors, medicines, and hospitals,etc.), and they would eventually be counselled that maybe they are at the time in their lives where they are no longer "useful" and should consider ending their lives! That is barbaric and unacceptable! it would also mean rationing the care everybody gets and long months (maybe years) of waiting to see a doctor and getting treatment! If President Obama and Congress thinks their healthcare plan is so wonderful for us, then why aren't they willing to have it for themselves? I am happy with my healthcare and want to keep it! All of us should have that option! No matter what they tell you, my research and what I have read about this bill, everyone will eventuall be force into a public option plan! Folks, this bill is all about government control! Can anyone think pf anything that the government has had anything to do with turn out good? Too much government is bad for the country! This very costly, high tax, government controlled bill must be defeated! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" God bless America, the Constitution, and it's people!

SJK of TX 11:00AM August 08, 2009

Aug 07, 2009 10:50:25 AM comment
And the brainwashing is all on one side, what a strange observation. And I guess we are all going to receive cheap or free health care after they create a new government bureaucracy like the Post Office. I hear they are giving away free ocean front parcels in Northern Arizona.

Don of VA 6:07PM August 07, 2009

Take away the public option. The insurance industry will jack up the costs up because they hold the monopoly. Republicans are paid by the insurance industry to brainwash the public. Take away the government healthcare, there is no health care for military. Take away the medicare, there will be no care for the seniors who will be forced to pay for insurances which is exactly what Insurance industry wants. Insurance Industry wants your $$$. They don't care about you. They just want your $$. PERIOD!!

Andrew of OH 10:50AM August 07, 2009

KY
Aug 07, 2009 09:27:41
What a jerk, they can take care of you with the gas chamber if you live past your age of consent to breathe. You are a free rider, get off the bus, you never pulled a day for the nation. Try Pakistan, they will leave your brains in a mass grave somewhere if you ever had any.
Retired Military Personnel

Don of VA 10:00AM August 07, 2009

down with aarp - down with obama health care- up with present method of health care it works just fine for the majority.

Maurice Aubree of PA 9:35AM August 07, 2009

the best thing that can be done to fix healthcare is to end medicaid and social security and take the seniors out back and finish the job that nature intended to be quite honest. hell, they the reason why almost 50% of the national debt. seriously they cost us too much money.

keith of KY 9:27AM August 07, 2009