Just hold on for a while. We are on the verge of the Federal Gevernment getting waste and fraud under control. So it has been promised, so shall it be done.

Pay ten years for something you can have for five years. You call that a bargin?

It's health care insurance reform, not health care reform. What in these two bills addresses lowering the costs of health care delivery while raising effectiveness? What specifics in these two bills will provide support to train doctors and solve the nursing shortage? What are the specifics in the bills that will for the first time in history eliminate waste and fraud in Medicare? What in these two bills brings down the cost of medicines and the overhead that doctors and hospitals must pay.
All this does is address insurance, not the delivery and quality of health care.
This is a opportunity wasted crafted by politicians who are only looking to retaining power.

This is so very sad. Her vote on health care has been bought with $100 MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayers money for her to vote against her conscience. Then as a thank you a fund raiser for the one who gave her this BRIBE.
We were promised change, too bad it's been for the worse.

I've often wondered when you buy a Cadillac, does the passing lane come as standard equipment or is it optional?

"Health care reform legislation pending in Congress would sensibly require that all Americans buy public or private insurance."

I am not understanding something I guess. Are we going to arrest and put in jail the homeless? I am sure that they are not going to buy insurance. How about those who are in the country illegally and are putting a tremendous burden on our health care system? Are we going to jail and fine those people as well when they cannot prove that they have purchased insurance?

"Limbaugh and Obama will not lead you out of this mess -- only you will, by reading between the lines and picking the best people for the job, not the party."
We are close to that moment if not already there. Two things I heard listening to analysis of last nights elections that give me hope were that Independents now out number Democrats or Republicans. Next was Independents broke two to one against the parties in power.
Die hard partisans refuse to see the warts on their elected officials. Bush supporters turned a blind eye to his mistakes and Obama supporters are doing the same. I have got to believe that this is a wake up call, that promises made on the campaign damn well better be kept.

Again I ask what is the mechanism in the bills that will keep the ever increasing costs of a visit to the doctor or a medical procedure in check. If those costs continue as they have been, any savings from this health insurance reform will be swallowed up in a year or two. In fact, it is more likely that the cost of this reform will skyrocket. Why is this only about insurance when there is so much more that contributes to the problem? As far as I know things like tort reform and onerous government regulations aren't being considered. We seem to have gone from health care reform to insurance reform and once again, unintended consequences will be the result.

OK, I get what they hope the public option will accomplish. What I would like to know is what mechanism in the bills being considered would get the skyrocketing medical bills under control. If the price of a visit to the doctor or a medical procedure continues to run wild, the savings of health insurance reform that may be realized will be eaten up inside of a year. I don't hear much debate on that. Seems like a big part of the problem.

Don't just limit it to insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies! List it all. This is where the fouth estate (news media) has truly dropped the ball and has let us down. ALL contributions made by lobbyists should be reported and kept in front of us.