GOP Counts 84 'Requires' in House Democrats' Healthcare Bill

Believe it or not Hillary, but you are pretty close to the nail head with your post. The problems your common sense approach will run into is the sector of the population which feels that it pays too much already for things it does not want. You know that group. The young people who do not want to pay for medi-care or the older folks who don't wish to pay for schools. And of course the tea baggers and their ilk who scream socialism, socialism. Yet they really have no clue what socialism is, because it's so much easier to frighten people with crap instead of informing them with facts. If everyone took a second and saw what insurance companies have done to the American health system and to business in this country, more people would adopt your point of view. Insurance companies have no incentive what so ever to alter their business model, and with the millions of dollars they have spent buying up legislators, they have no one pushing them. Yes, our legislators, be they Democrat or Republican have been bought and payed for. In our country's founding days when a politician or community big wig stepped out of line and harmed the community while benefiting themself " We The People" would rise up. That scoundrel would be dragged to the village square and then tarred and feathered. Maybe what "We The People" should do is start plucking chickens.

JDZ57 of WI 8:17AM September 18, 2009