re: #221 Desert Dog

Well, Medicare is the one bleeding the most right now and my parents have little choice in the matter the way things are set up now. The costs of caring for the elderly are the largest and fastest growing expense. Giving everyone a form of Medicare is not a good idea, IMHO. I am very happy I do not have Medicare.

But, you are right…our healthcare in this country does need to change. I submit that the way the Obama Administration and the Democrat controlled Congress are ramrodding their own vision down the throats of the citizens is not healthy and reeks of politics. And, I think this entire power play stinks. This is an entirely partisan exercise, are you ok with that? If you are, will you speak out when the Republicans get back into power and start force feeding you policy you do not like?

Most people do not feel the way you do about Medicare. In fact, I never heard of anyone say these things about it! Not that I don’t believe you, but yours is the exception, not the rule. Medicare is a wonderful system.

On the one hand you have Rush, Beck and a whole bunch of pundits riling everyone up to go to these Town Halls and make a ruckus (I suspect many of them are hired to do so). On the other hand, you have the administration who has not been very clear at all what they are going to do. Now the bill is very big and covers a lot of things, but I think if they would at least tell people what it will and won’t cover, people would feel a lot better. At least know what’s going on. I have been following this like everyone else and the whole thing is very confusing.

I don’t think anything will be forced fed to anyone, but we need to know what it IS. I don’t think so because the Right has said lots of things about the Left. They’re Nazis, they’re commies, they’ll take your guns, it’s all BS and rhetoric.

I get frustrated and upset at the Right. The party of NO. NO to healthcare, NO to abortion, NO to stem cell research, NO to sex education, NO to planned parenthood, NO to Evolution. What they hell do they stand FOR? Some 1950’s apple pie and baseball America that doesn’t exist, that NEVER existed?