DISQUS

Biggus Diggus · 5 months ago

It's time for better ads. These are sad sack stories that a lot of people can't identify with. How about the stories of people like me -- independent contractors who go from job to job, with no benefits, unable to afford insurance industry packages. You don't have to be laid off or have a horrible disease to want public health care. You just have to be a normal hard-working person whose work arrangement does not pay benefits. A stronger ad, please.

KerrynowCampau · 5 months ago

I was surprised when I watched it how tepid it was

Come on, people are pissed about the issue

Show that

NAVDOC3rdMAR · 5 months ago

It is morally repugnant to profit off the misery or ill health of Americans. It's criminal that medical bills to the private for-profit MEDICAL/INSURANCE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX make up 62% of all bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year. The overhead at the private for-profit MEDICAL/INSURANCE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX is upwards of 35% of the health care dollar spent each year in the U.S. This allows the private for-profit MEDICAL/INSURANCE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX to pay for their lavish lifestyles and huge salaries plus perks and bonuses. All the while milking the hard-working men/women of this great nation of their hard earned money.
On the other hand Medicare has an overhead of 2%, Canada's system is 1.5%, Europe's 2.5% on average. The money that could be saved by eliminating the private for-profit MEDICAL/INSURANCE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX is estimated at $500 Billion a year. Enough money to help pay for putting all Americans on MEDICARE/SINGLE-PAYER TYPE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
We have to fight back and call, write e-mails, letters-to-editors, Congress and to the White House to let them know how Americans feel about the private for-profit MEDICAL/INSURANCE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that currently provides the health care in this country.

Here are some Senators and blue dog(dems) who are on the wrong side of Health Care reform. Give them a call and demand,
"MEDICARE/SINGLE-PAYER TYPE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL NOW!"

(blue dogs)
Ross D-AR, Boucher D-VA, Kind D-WI, Pomeroy D-ND, Tanner D-TN
Polis (CO), Titus (NV) and Altmire (PA)

These are the problem Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee: John Barrow (GA-12), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Bart Gordon (TN-04), Baron Hill (IN-09), Jay Inslee (WA-01), Jim Matheson (UT-02), Charlie Melancon LA-03, Zack Space (OH-18) and Bart Stupak (MI-01).

Joe Lieberman I-CT, Chuck Grassley R-IA, Lindsey Graham R-SC,
Susan Collins R-ME, Olympia Snowe R-ME, David Vitter R-LA,
Saxby Chambliss R-GA, Tom Coburn R-OK, Jon Kyl R-AZ,
John Thune R-SD, Richard Lugar R-IN, Jim DeMint R-SC
Jeff Sessions R-AL, Richard Shelby R-AL, Mel Martinez R-FL,
John McCain R-AZ, Mitch McConnell R-KY, Jim Inhofe R-OK,
Lamar Alexander R-TN, Dick Burr R-NC, John Cornyn R-TX

Mark Pryor D-AR, Thomas Carper D-DE, Mary Landrieu D-LA,
Max Baucus D-MT, Kent Conrad D-ND, Ben Nelson D-NE,
Maria Cantwell D-WA, Kay Hagan D-NC, Blanche Lincoln D-AR,
Ron Wyden D-OR, Evan Bayh D-IN, Diane Feinstein D-CA,
Arlen Specter D-PA

Here are the toll-free numbers for the Capitol Hill Switchboard:
(House and Senate)
1-800-828-0498
1-866-338-1015
1-866-220-0044.

Also give the President a call or write an e-mail:

White House Comments Line:

1-202-456-1111 M-F 9:00-5:00 est. (NOT A TOLL-FREE #)

President Obama's e-mail: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Nothing rattles the Congress and White House more than informed CITIZEN/VOTERS ringing the phones off the hook for real health care reform. Call the House, Senate and the White House and demand,
"MEDICARE/SINGLE-PAYER TYPE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL NOW!"
SEMPER FI!

mtiffany · 5 months ago

"Better to be feared than loved." Machiavelli endures.

Indigo · 5 months ago

That's what went wrong with equal rights for gays, isn't it? We're too nice to everybody. Thing is, and Obama has yet to grasp, the GayTM is closed.

kugelschreiber · 5 months ago

Does every post have to lead to the "closed GayTM" declarations?

Indigo · 5 months ago

Where ever it fits.

mtiffany · 5 months ago

Two words: off topic.

Indigo · 5 months ago

two more words: lost soul.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

I hope it still is.

libertydan · 5 months ago

I hope they dont rush it like everything else that turns out disastrous.

psychodrew · 5 months ago

We need to keep the pressure on them. They will do anything to avoid, you know, doing their jobs.

infodriveway · 5 months ago

Oh hell yeah.

It's about time.

Really, it's been about time.

I'm glad the DNC has noticed.

judybrowni · 5 months ago

It seems kinda weak tea to combat the millions from health insurance lobbyists -- unless, of course, it's the opening shot from the Obama administration, and a warning shot, at that.

If the Blue Dogs take the hint, fine -- but unlikely. Only if Obama follows up with more pointed hints, naming names outright do I think it will work.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

That will never happen. He's already upset that MoveOn and others are "picking" on all those poor Blue Dogs. If he isn't going to lead this fight, then get the hell out of the way.

LynnDee · 5 months ago

Is Obama upset about that? I thought it was Harry Reid who was.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

I think it was Obama. He doesn't seem to care much for MoveOn and asked them once before to cool it. I think he was more lamenting about it this time around. It wouldn't surprise me if Reid had the same opinion. He seems more "Blue Dog" than regular democrat. Since he is a Mormon, I wouldn't think he would lean to the progressive side.

joeinhell · 5 months ago

Nail them. Can anyone tell me how I can get money to any legitimate campaign to crucify Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. I not only do not want her as an elected official, I don't want her and her filth in the United States.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Perhaps, removing their own health care might get their attention.

evil_insurer · 5 months ago

If the house bill stays the way it is or gets worse, I'd rather it not pass. As it is, the current health care proposals are just huge bailouts for private insurers. The public option they have so far really sucks too.

americanteacher · 5 months ago

Better yet - follow the money. Publish the list of those who balk, and include how much money they have received from all "branches" of the health care industry (pharma, insurance, etc.) Put it out there for all to see. Of course, the MSM will never do that, being run by the same greedy corporate bastards.

Brittanicus · 5 months ago

It is a shame that some Americans are so gullible, to the outlandish propaganda and lies spat in the newspapers, television and radio about Obama’s health care agenda. They have demonized the British, Canadian and other worthy plans. Hidden under a disguise cover, these radical entities are determined to keep the special interest organizations in absolute power. Comprising of the money-draining profitable insurance companies and their rich stockholders. They don't want any changes to the broken system of medical care, because it will hurt the status quo. I was born in England, in the county of Sussex and until the inception of the European Union and the European Parliament dictating to Britain. That they must accept millions of foreign workers, the nations medical system was exemplary. I never had to wonder if I would have to file bankruptcy, to pay my medical bills, or listen to the incessant ring of debt collectors on the phone.


On several occasions I ended up in the cottage hospital and their was never a cost applied to it, never a ream of paperwork. Incidentally, I choose my own doctor where I Lived. The longest I waited for surgery was three months, as it was not an emergency. No doctor, no hospital or specialist asking me for my Social Security number, drivers license or if I was covered by a predatory for-profit insurer. No premiums, no-cops and pre-existing condition clauses. Yes! Didn't have a private room, but who cares? Today the British Isles is being submerged under a barrage of legal and illegal immigrants, who have never paid into the system, have caused some rationing. Prior to the importation of foreign labor my trips to doctor, to hospital, the eye or a dentist was paid from my taxation. Unless we pass a national health care agenda, Americans will never know what it's like to breeze through their lives, without worrying about paying for health care? Tell your Senators and Congressman you want an alternative to the--GET RICH-- insurance companies, before a Universal health care is killed. 202-224-312 REMEMBER THE INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS DON'T WANT THEIR PIECE OF THE $$$TRILLION$$$ DOLLAR PIE DISTURBED. EVEN SOME POLITICIANS HAVE THEIR DIRTY FINGERS IN THE PIE?
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH CARE, A GOVERNMENT SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM WILL ASSIST IN REVITALIZING THE WILTING US ECONOMY.

Alan8 · 5 months ago

Or you could vote for a party you DON'T have to "beat up": The Green Party doesn't accept corporate money (unlike the Democrats) and they DO do the right thing!

They've been calling for single-payer forever. In the last administration, they were calling to impeach the fascists.

Don't waste your vote on a corrupt party that you have to "beat up".