[My2Cents]

So, I guess you folks who are complaining about expansion of existing federal health programs -- particularly for the poor -- at a time when the rate of the uninsured is skyrocking, aren't satisfied seeing homeless people wandering the streets; you also want to see them with open sores, and hacking on you with their tuberculon coughing.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"...you also want to see them with open sores, and hacking on you with their tuberculon coughing."

Yeah... that's what we want to see. Let's not forget the part about wanting to nuke the starving orphan gay whales and throw the old folks out of their rat infested hovels so they can eat cat food out on the street. Who are you? Terry McCaulliff?

Chill dude. There's already a national HHS program in place to insure 100% of the nation's chillun. Medicare takes care of the poor disenfranchised welfare motherssingle moms and the elderly. Who does this leave? A small number of indigents who stay away from the system for reasons of mental illness or lack of need, and young singles who opt not to carry health insurance because they're unlikely to use it. And let's not forget the illegal aliens. This looks like the seeds of HillaryCare for the next dem administration.

[hattend]

So, I guess you folks who are complaining about expansion of existing federal health programs -- particularly for the poor -- at a time when the rate of the uninsured is skyrocking, aren't satisfied seeing homeless people wandering the streets; you also want to see them with open sores, and hacking on you with their tuberculon coughing.

You mean all those federal social programs instituted since the early 60's aren't working? The transfer of $8 trillion dollars of wealth from the givers (taxpayers) to the takers (those who can work if they really wanted to) hasn't worked? Gee imagine that.

There are already enough federal programs to shelter the lives of those truly in need. Enough is enough.

[Lion's Cub]

If you want to expand affordable health care, get the government and the insurance people out of it. They are middlemen who produce nothing constructive, but siphon off all the funds. They generate literally millions of rules and regulations which have turned healthcare into a more or less centrally planned, communist system. There is no free market competition. The only competition is to determine who can provide the government planned care the cheapest. Even the health records of the entire nation are now centralized.

[Rowdee]

I had to give up MY own purchased insurance for health care....I am a widow.....at the time my monthly premium was $98.40 with a a $5,000 deductible. Up pops Uncle Sam demanding all sorts of s**t be covered, and with the usual increase based on age....my premium jumped 58%. Thanks to good, kind, beneveolent Uncle Sam.

I finally got wise, too, to taking care of everybody elses' brats! Damn funny I had to do it all for my kids.....but government can force me to take care of others, too.....F'em....I quit smoking....now y'all can divvy up the price of the premiums.

Every damn thing government touches turns to CRAP. Everything! Get the sumabeaches out of the unlawful involvement and let things take off.....

[Rowdee]

Go look for compassionate socialism someplace else....or at least have the guts to DEMAND your government change its Constitution to cover all this bullcrappie.

[SteamshipTime]

Any mechanism by which the consumers of a commodity do not bear 100% of its cost of production can only result in its increased scarcity.

Compassionate conservatism is neither.