Debating Healthcare Reform Repeal

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WHY NOT DOUBLE THE COST COMMING OUT OF OUR TAX FOR MEDICARE AND LET EVERYONE USE IT. IF IT WORKS FOR THE SENIORS IT CAN WORK FOR THE REST OF US.

VALERIE of NC 2:57PM July 03, 2012

Really Brain? Did you miss the 261 proposed ammendments last year or the Common Sense Health Care Reform and Affordability Act from this year?
I would submit that getting the parties to work together begins at the grass-roots level, i.e. individuals no longer jumping on the perceived opportunity to trash the other party. Especially without checking for accuracy.
The 'other party' has been trying to contribute and to be heard since this started. Do you think they would be efforting to de-fund Obama's health care reform if they felt they had been heard and included all along?
If we really want to see both parties working together, we must ALL stop inserting our personal negative, unproductive and inaccurate rhetoric into this debate.

Jacob of TX 4:55PM February 14, 2011

Yeap. In fact, did you know that Currently, many insurance companies do not allow adult children to remain on their parents' plan once they reach 19. Companies cannot do that any more. Search onilne for "Wise Health Insurance" and you can insure your kids if you are in the same boat.

timoryan of CA 5:38AM February 08, 2011

The solution to the exorbitant cost and poor performance of health care in America exists. In every other industrial country they spend considerably less than we both on a per-ca-pita basis and as a percentage of their economy.
They however do not rely on profit driven insurance monopolies as a means to finance their health care.
Our leaders are either too beholden or too fearful of these huge financial interests to do the right thing.
The money is not the issue. Efficient allocation of the money is!

Kurt Bateman of OH 5:47PM February 07, 2011

The healthcare Reform Law as presently constituted is one party's vision of reform for healthcare, a system that is terribly broken and adding to the financial woes of this country. The other party first chose obstructionism, last year, and chooses now to engage in meaningless procedural votes. It is time for both parties to work together in a substantive manner and provide the collective genius that the people of this great nation deserve. There is nothing stopping either party from engaging in corrective action on the Healthcare Reform Bill well before it arrives at the feet of the Supreme Court. One party has already initiated the process and we still await the other party's contribution to the process. Thank you.

Brain of CT 1:04PM February 07, 2011