There’s no option to not buy HC Insurance under this bill. AND if I don’t my worst case is jail and serious fines. Somehow that seems un-American to me. I take it that the Constitution is of no defense in this case to most since at any cost everyone has to have HC?!?

I assume you drive a car,right? If so, then it is legally required to have at least liability coverage to be able to drive in most states. So yes, the government does mandate you buy a private product at times.

Secondly, while I agree that POTUS Obama did bow to the insurance companies, I think it’s safe to say that he is way smarter than you or I when it comes to dealing with the HC issues. As it stands, the current price tag for the bill is around $900 Billion over 10 years. We just spent $600 billion to fund the two wars for the next year. Personally, I think we need to find a way to get our troops home and stop wasting money on a war that can’t be won. That would at least save us billions that can be used to deal with our domestic issues.

It includes an individual mandate that forces people to buy private health insurance. Since when can the government force anybody to buy a private product? Furthermore, there are no cost controls. You could be forced to buy an inferior product whose price keeps increasing. I am also afraid that Individual PPO plans will be phased out along with employer sponsored health care plans.

Obama sold out to the health insurance industry. During the primaries, I thought that he was no different from Clarence Thomas and I was right. He’s an Uncle Tom, but the liberals couldn’t see through him because he made them feel like they weren’t racists anymore. Idiots.

This fool bowed to the insurance companies just like he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.

I am no longer a Democrat!!

And the inverse is true…many of us have that freaking Tio who refuses to work…does just enough to get by, has no ambition to make life better for him or his family, YET I and my hardworking $$ (in the form of taxes) has to pay for this Cabron…if this Bill could show me how it doesn’t reward lazy “Son Cabrones y duermen tarde” Latinos, then sure I’d support this 100 percent…but it doesn’t. I went home this past weekend and heard many of these type of peoples (los Tios que no hacen por mejorarse I mean) clamoring about how they are set since they don’t have work for HC anymore.

I could go on and on, and we’d disagree anyway…in the long term if this bill passes it simply keeps the Latino from forging ahead on self initiative attitudes. I’m going to sound like a conspiracy theorist and say since the Black American has gotten its President its time to keep the nanny state alive in the Latino communities (sine in the end it caters to the Latino Community according to The Atlantic), after all its how the Gringo controlled the Blackman and its how the Black man will control the Latino.

Lastly, does anyone here care that this President is now worse then the former in terms of corruption? Bought off Senators and the lack of transparency as promised…I mean how can we fully discuss HC if they are hiding the very Bill we need to debate? Is this what liberal signed up for? Wasn’t this the very politics the left was so upset about? LOL—Merry Christmas!!

It’s amazing that we can spend billions monthly of two wars, but we can’t find a way to spend that kind of money to reform our broken HC system.

I just saw a CNN report that in Canada a 30 day supply of Lipitor goes for around $93 dollars where as in the U.S. the same supply cost around $180. This is just the craziest things ever. I know R&D cost money, but to pay 2x is ridiculous. Anyone that thinks otherwise is simply in denial.

As for this Health Care battle that we are observing, it’s just a bunch of old timers in D.C. that know how to save their own asses. To think that our U.S. Senators are truly looking out for the best interest of our citizens with regard to Health Reform is ludicrous. You don’t want to lower the Medicaid age to 55 from 65, fine, then how about 60. That too me would sound fair.

Now, I will admit, I’ve not read any portion of the bill, but there has to be a way for these “grand standers” to come to a resolution.

Wow, talk about sounding cynical!