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Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 | 1:28 p.m.
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WASHINGTON -- A day after holding up a square of Astroturf to denounce the orchestrated attacks on Democratic town hall meetings on health care, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office said he would be talking with his Nevada constituents this month over the phone lines.
Reid’s office is scheduling a telephone town hall meeting for August, opting to avoid the shouting matches and microphone speeches that have erupted at events across the country. The senator expects to reach thousands of Nevadans, including those in the state’s rural expanse.
“It’s a forum that obviously lets us reach more people, but also provides a more respectful environment that allows all sides to be heard,” said Reid spokesman Jon Summers.
“It’s more the dialogue that town halls were meant to be, as opposed to the organized disruption we’re seeing in other town halls,” Summers said. “This is so Nevadans who want to be heard can voice their concern, support and their opinions.”
Details of the event will be announced in coming weeks. As is the typically process for tele-town halls, Nevadans will be dialed up on the day of the event and invited to participate.
Reid has already spoken to 30,000 Nevadans about health care through previous tele-town halls and conference calls held during July.
Many lawmakers are receiving requests for town hall forums on health care. Nevada’s Democratic Reps. Shelley Berkley and Dina Titus have also hosted tele-town halls on health care in their districts.
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This is what passes for guts. Phone it in!
smooth move harry...
our poor poor terribly misguided republican friends are frauds...
it is all staged fake outrage to keep the money flowing to the insurance companies...
organized by the big business lobbyists...
and the key is...
they offer no alternative...
none...
they are frauds...
you are the man!!!
The recent events in St. Louis and elsewhere have proven that in the current situation the desire for sides to win has clouded their judgment and violence has erupted. We must do what we can to bring reason to the health care debate and other matters. We must be less polarized. We cannot as a country have the carry over of the anti-abortion violence to other areas. We should all be able to get along without beating up and killing those who differ from us.
Re: your last sentence
You mean like embryos?
Orchestrated attacks...?! What a hypocrite!
The crazed and deranged Republican mobs with their Nazi paraphenalia and firearms won't stop health care reform.
"Senate Majority Leader Harry will be talking with his Nevada constituents this month over the phone lines."
So Too Big Too Fail Senator Harry Reid refuses to meet face to face with his constituents.
Does not want to face up to the pain that he is causing.
How do you select people to ask questions.
Not very impressive for the lead of the Senate to hide like that.
Don't forget "well dressed" nazi republican mobs.
There was no violence at these town hall meetings until the major unions started "getting in the faces" of those exercising their fundamental right to show how displeased they are with our government.
I hope Danny Tarkanian wipes the floor with this disgrace of a Senator.
Where exactly are the photos of protesting nazis and all this nazi paraphernalia?
Pelosi is confusing Americans opposed to Obama care with nazis. These people are OPPOSING communism, fascism, and have "no swastika" signs, meaning swastikas in a circle, with a big x going through it. My favorite are the images of Obama with Hitler's mustache, the caption says, "I've changed." Brilliant.
I have news for you people, there are plenty of democrats opposed to Obama care.
Stevie Wonder for one.
What a chicken sh*t. Doesn't even have the stones to listen to the constituents. How come when Obama's flock gather it's grass roots, but when people gather to oppose Obama and his policies the politicians hide and won't do anything that isn't scripted and within their control?
Cowards!
How's Ensign going to do his town hall? Have money and daddy take the questions for him an affix them to a mobile above his crib?
@mred
I acknowledge your post would have been funny, if I was able to understand it.
hey mred...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
What, are you afraid to have a real Town Hall meeting. Why don't you be a real stand up guy, oh wait, you only know how to be Obama's puppet.Is the wittle man afraid he will get yelled at. Sad, to think we voted for you, NOT a mistake we will EVER make again.
Birdiebrain is back and has nothing to say, except to put people down who are trying to discuss a serious topic...
hey larryvegas...
you just discribed yourself in your most recent post...
hee hee hee...
keep trying buddy...
with a lot of practice...
you just might be able to make a decent post every now and then...
however...
i have to warn you...
you have to be brilliant...
to make brilliant posts...
day after day...
like me...
and sadly my friend...
you just don't seem to be that bright...
It's a no win situation to face a mob that won't let you speak.
Harry Reid is acting cowardly for not agreeing to meet his constituents face-to-face. He knows that it would prove this "AstroTurf" claim to be a bogus talking point of the left when he looks around and sees normal, self-motivated voters from his own state in attendance denouncing this crazy scheme.
I've been watching this health-care "debate" and getting more angry with each coming week. After seeing the Democrats and the media denounce those, like me, who oppose this potential disaster as some sort of political conspiracy, I'm now ready to attend my FIRST political rally. I came across this article while searching for "town hall meeting las vegas" on Google.
Senator Reid should take notice: the protests are real, the fury is real, and the plans that the Democratic party has for destroying our health-care system will not be allowed to prevail (and even if it does pass temporarily, it will be repealed after the Republicans re-take the Congress next year as a direct result of this issue).
Actually, I'm somewhat shocked that Sen. Reid doesn't realize that he is marching headlong into the same fate as Former Speaker Foley and Former Leader Daschle?
REI, hahahaha....this guy can't even shove a health care bill down the throats of republicans....Do you really want this guy in office......
Vote Harry Reid out of office in 2010! The best message we can send to our reckless government.
Harry Reid is a gut-less wonder.
The guy even looks like a scrawny twerp. Not even enough balls to speak to his constituents in person.
Atta boy Harry! Can anyone say,REVOLT? Hopefully in 2010,Harry will be gone my freinds!
I expected as much. You don't possess the stones to face the ones who will be voting you out of office in 2010. Not that you have any major concern as you assuredly will take your newly created position as 'puppetmaster' Czar on Obama's lap.
This will prove to be a temporary fix as of Nov. 2012 when the 'Astroturfs' remove the community organizer that you yourself hand picked to outrage an entire nation.
Your days and ways of politics are over.
I knew this would happen. I have never gone to a town hall meeting in my life. This is very important to us all. We need to be heard Harry. Be a man. We are not Nazis, mobs and community organizers. We are not like you, Princess Pelosi and Obama. Enjoy your shortime left in office. We will not make that misake again.
Bye Bye Harry!
This is great. The Dems keep saying how the Republican party is in shambles and totally irrelevant to the discussion, then they (the Dems) can't ram healthcare reform down their OWN throats so they starting belittling the Repubs for not having any ideas.
Isn't this the definition of schizophrenic?
I thought Obama was the agent of Change. He has a mandate. Am I missing something?
The Libs are going to seek revenge at the polls come next election. On themselves.
By Invitation Only!
If you would like to be "invited" to participate in Senator Reid's telephone town hall meeting, register your name and phone number with:
Senator Reid's Washington Office
528 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3542 / Fax: 202-224-7327
Toll Free for Nevadans: 1-866-SEN-REID (736-7343) -Restricted to calls originating from area codes 775 and 702
Or:
Senator Reid's Las Vegas Office
Lloyd D. George Building
333 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Suite 8016
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: 702-388-5020 / Fax: 702-388-5030
Raygun, if you can't understand the post, maybe you should be tested for the early signs of Alzheimer's.
Ensign is going to hold his town meeting in Charlie Daniels Beard at the "Sean Inssanity Freedumb Concert and Beer Hall Putsch." Attended by Iran-Contra figure Ollie "my Gosh by Golly" North and a gaggle of Birthers, Birchers and Belchers... and local hate-talk radio nut-cases.
oh, I hear the Talk radio "bugkiller" was complaining about "posts on the Sun's website."
Glad we have them tuning in...
Another Harry (S. Truman) once waxed: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"
Since Harry Reid has shown he can not stand the heat, it's now the voters' job to throw him out of the kitchen.
Good riddance to him, and all the other bought and paid for cowards, on both sides of the aisle.
1) When Congress has the same health care plan as the rest of the country I will start to listen. If it's that good for us why is it not good enough for them?
2) Invitation only? Hmm, let's go to voter registration records & see who to invite...
its crazy......the dumbocrats dont like the response that they get from people who employ them and pay their wages so their take their little ball and go home......God forbid that you actually listen to the voices of the peole who you are supposed to represent, just do as you please ...typical liberals
Obviously Harry doesn't have the courage to meet with me face-to-face. No surprise there.
Apparently it's true - if you want to shake up a Democrat, just use facts and common sense.
When it comes to the healthcare debate, every member of Congress should do both -- live and virtual townhalls. If they're too lazy or ignorant to read, understand and explain the bill they support/oppose, then they shouldn't be in office. And if they're too cowardly to actually stand and face up to their critics in an open forum, then they shouldn't be in office.
It's so funny that they keep trying to convince people how great this public option will be, yet they've completely exempted themselves from having to go on it. Who wants a "panel" or "board" of people deciding what procedures you can have? We don't even know who will serve on this board or how they'll be elected or appointed. Since our representatives are behaving like sissies and scared to face their constituents, there are some interesting things being planned locally to make them hear our voices. No I'm not part of the "mob" or working for the pharmaceudical companies. Just a pissed off taxpayer. Oh no, I hope they don't report me to flag@whitehouse.gov!!!
Hey Harry... seriously... can we count on all of you in Congress to yourselves use this fantastic plan you're shoving down our throats?
Well its good to know that Harry will protect himself during the shooting of the new sequel, " The Beverly Hillbillies Organize a Town Hall Meeting". How can one give trust to a politition who puts his tail between his legs and can't face his constituents man to man. He's probably aware of the thousands of americans who are upset at the way he isn't handling his senatorial position, and since he isn't the man he was 7 years ago he must be afraid. Harry if you can speak Spanish you should hold a townhall meeting to make the undocumented aware of the progress you are having sponsoring the Dream Act 09, the all important bill to open the door and give millions of undocumented aliens and their relitives a pathway to citizenship. You wouldn't have to have this meeting over the phone because these immigrants realize all the effort and work you are taking away from the american citizens problems and putting it towards making it possible to give them citizenship. One problem Harry,these undocumented people can't vote for you, and the immigrants who have waited and became citizens the legal way are also afraid that their jobs will be taken too. You have put yourself in a lose, lose situation.
Don't hang your head like that Harry, there is still hope, I hear these countries providing us with the undocumented are looking for some good dedicated polititions. This is your only option, since you're washed up here in Nevada.
What a brilliant comment, Birdie. Yes, we astroturfers are working for the insurance companies, trying to line their pockets. That's why we brave the heat to protest outside congressional offices and closed-door "town halls". Only problem is that I haven't been paid yet. Geez, those big-money insurance company lobbies sure are slow to pay us, their hired minions and fake protesters.
Right! Staged outrage by big business lobbyists!!
That's really funny! We are constituents. We are voters. We are republicans, democrats, and independent. We are elderly people, young people, and everything in between. We are sick people and healthy people. All one has to do is look at the people trying to be heard by their representatives. This is not a well organized bunch sent by the pharmaceutical industry or big business lobbyists.
This kind of logic and deafness is exactly what is going to make Obama a one term president, get Harry out of office, and hopefully Pelosi, Boxer, and the rest of these jokers with them. Keep up the good work you sissy jokers.
Beause I disagree strongly with President Obama's Health Care, ongoing Stimulus Bail Outs, etc.,......calling me a "MOB" is insulting, outragous and un-American!
2 short years ago...88% of all American "never heard of Obama"...and "who IS this guy" who comes out of nowhere...and imposses his vision of a "hard turn left"....for America?!? "Dissent"...and "freedom of speach" is exactly who we are...and "why" America is America!
Sen Reid...."applaud and congratulate ALL Americans" for exercising the 1 Amendment rights!
What he needs to do is just invite his major campaign supporters and ask them how they feel.
This would cut out the middle man and poor abused Harry could at least say he met with constituents.
A shill of a meeting for a shill of a man; sounds about right.
awwwwww...
lookie lookie at our poor poor terribly misguided republican friends...
harry cut them off at the knees...
won't let the republican frauds plan their fake outrage parties...
hee hee hee...
brilliant...
man o man...
our poor poor terribly misguided republican friends...
nothing but a bunch of ugly cry baby losers...
cry you ugly cry baby losers cry...
boo hoo hoo...
wah wah wah...
hey mred...
what talk radio show are you talking about...
i would love to get into that...
there is nothing better than crushing a republican talk show host...
pure joy...
they get caught up in their little frenzied fantasy land...
and then you come along and punch them in the mouth and bring them back to reality...
a beautiful thing...
they hang up on you...
and then cry about you for a half hour...
hee hee hee...
let me know what station and program if you can...
thanks...
the first amendment is a beautiful thing...
in fact...
i just might be the keystone upon which this great country was built!!!
Birdie, I tried to read your post above but you contradict yourself twice, I think.
I think you want healthcare passed so you can finally get the meds you require to unscramble your brain.
I have tried in the nature of fair play to read your comments but I have to tell you I just scroll on down when I get to your drivel. I read this one because it happened to be at the bottom of the post.
getalife, let me help you out.
my name is birdie...
i'm a big freakshow...
wow wee...
am i nuts...
i don't use capital letters or punctuation...
i just put 3 dots at the end of everything i say...
what do you republicans think of that...
hmmmm...
hee hee heee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
i have to wear a helmet all the time...
it's so i don't hurt myself...
because i'm really effed up in the head...
i talk just like this...
so nobody likes me...
but they can kiss the fat huge liberal ass i have from sitting on the couch all the time crying about republicans...
what do you think of that...
hmmmm...
hoo hoo hoo...
hee hee hee...
haa haa haa...
i'll just keep doing this until they come for me with a straight jacket...
hmmmm...
the poor poor misguided mental health professionals will get me sooner or later...
will i go quietly...
nope!!!
my posts are brilliant...
hoo hoo hoo...
hee hee hee...
haa haa haa...
Even the "Cowboy Hat" over at the other paper is saying Baby Tark is a lawsuit happy cry baby, and can't take a punch. I thought conservatives didn't like lawsuits and lawyers?
Looks like Reid is a shoe-in.
hey henderson...
like i said before...
imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...
thanks buddy...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
hey birdie,
please explain phony outrage and how that works. What is the motivation for someone to fake outrage?
mred,
The Freedom Concert is a charity event benefitting the children of the brave men and women killed or permanently disabled in their service to our country.
You are an ignorant, stupid tool.
Harry, You are a True Coward!
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.....
Vote them all out!!
oh henderson henderson henderson...
i love when you poor poor terribly misguided republican clowns play this game...
it's just so damn cute...
you act all innocent...
and naive...
all in an effort to shift some imaginable burden of proof...
it really is just too damn cute...
but i like you henderson...
and you clearly are my biggest fan...
with all of that imitation an such...
so...
i will give you a couple of examples of fake outrage...
msnbc...
the only network worth watching...
had a segment wherein they zoomed in on one of these pathetic clowns faking outrage...
and low and behold guess what they shaw...
one of the clowns forgot to change his shirt...
a blue cross shirt...
hee hee hee...
don't you think he has a vested interest in making sure there is no public option...
hmmm...
there was another segment where this little sweetie pie faked outrage in minnesota i believe...
and when asked if she was republican...
she said i'm just a mother who lives a couple blocks away...
she also said she was not a republican...
hee hee hee...
when pressed she said she had not paid her party dues for 2 years...
but guess what my poor poor terribly misguided republican friend...
turns out she had been something like the vp of the republican party...
hee hee hee...
it's all a joke...
it's all a sham...
it's all a fraud...
kinda like your poor poor terribly misguided republican party...
oh by the way...
how do you suggeest we help insure those 45 million among us who don't have health care...
hmmm...
or could you care less...
are you like private pebble with his damn guns...
is it all about you...
is it you got yours and you could care less about those less fortunate among us...
hmmm...
pathetic!!!
I don't work for Blue Cross or the republican party. I am a real constituent with real rage over this bill. How about I pay for my health care/insurance and everyone else pays for theirs.
That is the way it's supposed to be. I enjoy the fruits of my labor, you enjoy the fruits of your labor.
You see 2 clips of people that may work for Blue Cross or the republican party and think the entire opposition is faking outrage? That is just the mindset that is going to get Harry, Obama, Pelosi kicked out of office.
oh henderson henderson henderson...
quite frankly this tactic bores me...
the old play innocent and naive then refute whatever they say routine...
it's old...
it's pathetic...
suffice to say there are countles other examples...
but i'm done playing your little game...
bottom line...
the insurance industry is paying a fotune every single day to defeat health care...
why do you think that is...
hmmm...
they are spending your money to defeat a campaign that would cut your health care costs...
got that skippy...
but you are too caught up in your own arrognace that you can't see it...
you would rather shout i have mine screw everybody else...
that's pathetic...
do me a favor skippy...
just say for the record that you could care less about all of the innocent children that will go to bed tonight without health care...
say it...
say you could give a damn...
then at least i would respect you for being honest....
until you do...
you are nothing but a poor poor terribly misguided republican clown that does have the character to speak the truth...
sadly...
a most common characteristic among our poor poor terribly misguided republican friends!!!
Birdie, why don't you spend more time hammering the DEMOCRATS that can't pass this turkey.
You continually bash Repubs for stalling and taking money but they don't have enough votes to decide who the next dog catcher in Searchlight is going to be.
You not only need intervention, I think you need to look in the mirror and hammer that.
birdie,
It is a parent's responsibility to make sure their children receive health care. Not mine.
For the record, it's also not the government's job to provide health care.
I too wanted to participate in a town hall meeting re: health care while our senators and congressmen are in Nevada. When I googled, I find out Sen. Reid is holding his via phone. How interesting! I wonder how the participants are selected for this teleconference? Sen. Reid should have the courage of his convictions and face the voters. Have you ever noticed when Code Pink or ACORN or some environmental group protests a speaker, no one says boo, but heaven forbid conservative Americans organize and protest, we are somehow dangerous and a threat to the system?
rachga51,
We'll have our chance to see Reid when the sissy is campaigning again. He'll be everywhere! I can't wait for the chance to vote his ass out of office!
Birdie has no pride in being a citizen of the United States. His foolish and relentless stupidity takes him to plateaus normal citizens never knew existed. He argues with people when he should be intelligently trying to give opinions on how to correct the problems our country is now facing.
Birdie you seem to be intelligent enough to add to the forums with comments that could make conversation. Why not try to speak intelligently and gain respect from your fellow citizens.
I have actually read the HR healthcare bill. Have any of you? I also work as a nurse. I am definitely opposed to government take over of the healthcare system. It is unfortunate that Harry Reid is unwilling to allow all of us to voice our opinions. You should think of what it will be like for you, or your parents, when you or they become a Senior Citizen and need medical care. This country has always been based on freedom and individualism. This health care bill is certainly a major step toward communism. No one seems to use that word anymore. Has America forgotten what it was, or is like, in communist countries?
Birdiedreamin is "Jaba The Hut"
he he he...
hoo hoo hoo...
ha ha ha...
And a brainwashed sheep BAAAAAAAAH BAAAAAAAAAH
informedamerican,
I have been reading it, it's long but I'm getting through it.
I especially like the part about the "grants" set aside to offer and provide appropriate language services at no additional charge to each patient with limited English proficiency at all points of contact, in a timely manner during all hours of operation; notify Medicare beneficiaries of their right to receive language services in their primary language;
Are these people for real? Now we have to subsidize health care for people that don't even speak English? F this S.
Only cowards due telephone town hall meeting.
How about section 440, which describes how states can get grants to do home visitation to families with children or expecting children? So, what happens when during these visitation they don't agree with how you are raising you children? It opens the door for the State deciding how your children will be raised, and gives the State opportunities for indoctrination. If they don't like what you are doing, they will take your children from you. Statism pure and simple. And this is supposed to be for healthcare! Wake up people. It specifically targets low income families, supposedly to "help" them. I don't see how you all in Southern Nevada can possibly keep re-electing Harry Reid! Shame on you.
Sure, everyone has an opinion - and an anus! I, for one, am just stunned at the stupidity of way too many of our occupants (it wouldn't be fair to call them citizens - well, O.K., technically some of them are citizens because their Mother dropped them here)!
I am so tired of the 5% of the loud-mouthed looney tunes on the far left and the 5% of the radical, right-wing, neo-con, nut-cases! These are the idiots that have undermined our national security, destroyed education, and brought America to the brink of bankruptcy!
I want to hear from the 90% of us in the middle PLEASE!
Frankly folks, I don't want to even waste my valuable time with the idiots that didn't even get a G.E.D. education! Let alone the dummies that don't even know their Medicare, Medicaid and V.A. Healthcare benefits ARE government run systems!
Nor, do I have time for those participating in political theater - and that includes the $7/Hr republi-thugs that have been brain-washed into spending their time trying to defend the corporate cronies who are screwing them over on their healthcare rights (and they don't even know it)!
Life and time, and these important issues, are just too valuable to me!
I like the idea of Tele-Town Halls! Hey, maybe we can even get our elected politicians to shoot it through those inter-net tubey thingies where people can watch it live on their computers?
The only reason, setting all of the excuses aside, that we have not fixed Medicaid, Medicare or the V.A. is that these are healthcare programs for the poor - and the rich do not really care (including way too many in positions of power like Congress)!
I've been to countless "Town Halls" - they're all staged and highly controlled public political productions - and the everyday people don't get to ask any really tough questions (unless the producers screen them, agree, and it fits the "spin" of the "message" and media of the day)!
I'd also like to see the Democratic Party start to do some quality scientific polling of all of our registered voters too!
I'm a curious fellow and do want to hear from anyone - especially those that can pass the U. S. Citizenship Test (and know that Africa is actually one of those big Continent thingies)!
We've got to try and turn the idiots into informed voters - so, hey, why not start by asking them if they know their Precinct, Ward, State Assembly and State Senate and County and Congressional Districts - and their elected Reps? We could set-up the program so they try and answer (including a multiple choice selection where they could actually be honest and dare to say "I don't know") - and then, after they've answered, they get all the correct answers at the end!
At least, then, we'd know how many people are actually curious and genuinely interested in the issues of the day!
Oh, and for most of the Republican Party members out there that just do not care about other people - we do get that! You're just selfish and on the fast track to becoming sociopaths - that's why we want a comprehensives mental healthcare component in the new plan TOO (just for YOU)!
Where is repeat where is Birdie? The world wonders"
Hey birdie,
Why don't we have a town hall meeting
and see who's real or not, what interests
we represent and motives!
Have Insurance? Great, if not don't wait for me to pay for yours!
Have a Gulfstream G5, oh that's right, Pelosi's order got pulled, yours is on back order! If she
was really smart, she could have made a deal with the Auto makers for theirs! You would be set!
Good thing your over 5 and under 50, Government run Health Care would be perfect for you! Go to the Post Office, wait in the long line and when it's your turn, tell them you need a Flu shot! GOOD LUCK!
Ever own your own company? or do you just flip burgers? If you are in business for yourself you would understand the concern with Cap and Trade.
News Flash: White House say there are no more "Enemy Combatants".
Harry was right, "The War is lost", the Surge has failed! NOT!
Get a clue, put down the Kool Aid and, go to Rehab and get in the Real World! Read the proposed Bills', if you don't understand the "Legaleze" ask for help from a 5th Grader.
Take the tape off your remote and watch other news other than the Liberal, bias, kiss butt station MSNBC. Expand you world, you might learn somthing that's real and factual!
No supprise Harry's not having any Town Hall meetings, he has been too comfy too long hidding in his office in Washington. Not much longer!
Have a Great Day!
Stinky Pinky, also known as Pelosi's lap dog, WILL be voted out office in 2010. For patriots, please go to NobamaCalendar.com. Stand your ground! Keep the faith! Your courage and clarity was never needed more than now - the Constitution must be preserved.
Can anyone tell me what is so wrong with the public option? My daughter was working two full time jobs and 1 part time job to pay her college loan when she was involved in an accident. She could not afford medical insurance and although the injuries she sustained was covered through her auto insurance, they discovered MS, not covered. Now she can't get medical... we, you and I, will pay for the expenses incurred when advanced deterioration forces her to get treatment. You will not remember how beautiful and vivacious she was, I will. All this, so that some Insurance Executive can profit? How many people must be sacrificed for the almighty dollar?
Oh, and for most of the Republican Party members out there that just do not care about other people - we do get that! You're just selfish and on the fast track to becoming sociopaths - that's why we want a comprehensives mental healthcare component in the new plan TOO (just for YOU)!
This statement is pathetic and the reason why Washington looks like it does. Republicans do care about others if we didn't we wouldn't be shouting don't let the government interfere in healthcare. I know you think they can rescue you and all your needs will be met. WAKE UP stop being so deceived. Why is no one even considering the comments from other people in the countries where the lines are so great it takes months to be seen? Is that what you want. And the woman who's daughter has MS terrible the insurance companies should not be allowed to not cover due to her condition that is where the reform is needed....not with government involvement. There is no way this country can pay for all the new people that will be dumped into the system.....those who need care will wait months before they are seen and the elderly WILL suffer with a lack of treatment due to younger people needing it as well as illegals.....Get the facts strait reform is needed relying on the government like we are helpless babies and can't do anything for ourselves because we are too weak so they have to fix everything will lead down the road it has with other countries in the past..............TOTAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL!!!
First of all I reject the idea that other countries have long lines... I have lived in some of these countries and have had to had medical treatment, frankly, I had better treatment and I was amazed at the efficiency of thier system. When I had my son (he was a month late), they did not induce labor just because I was "due" instead they monitored our health closely. Oh, I could have opted to induce but given the care, I was confident in what they were telling me... when they felt I needed more close attention I was admitted and monitored constantly. A midwife attended to me and the doctor was on hand to intervene if necessary. I only had to pay for the services of the midwife, not the physician. Thier practice of providing physical therapy during recovery, made recovery much faster. Upon my release, the midwife would visit my home weekly for a month, examining the baby, asking about me, my child, and adressed any concerns I had. Not a citizen, I did have to pay a fee... hmmm, it was 20 years ago, but I think the bill was about $27.00. Not counting tip... oh yes, you tip the nurses to show gratitude, it's not mandatory, imagine that! Now I'm not expecting our reform will reflect these kinds of services, we are after all Americans... but we can provide healthcare for those less fortunate. It's not about free lunches or government handouts, it's about providing freedom, giving those less fortunate than ourselves the opportunity to take control of thier lives, thier health. Whether you like it or not we are already paying for it... look at your premiums lately? To think that the government wants total control is delusional... stoked by political conservative rethoric. I don't blame Republicans in general just those Republican politicians pushing their own agendas through public fear.
Reform without a public option is not an option.