Woot thank god for obama looking out for us small people

like the big corps need any more tax breaks

I think mandated health care will leave 46 million people who can't afford health care paying for something resembling health care, but wuill deliver so little they will not be able to affoprd to use it.

And if your high risk it will be like no fault car insurance when it was mandated in the seventy's I hope they at least give people jobs so they can afford to pay for it when your paying $1000.00 amonth for everthing and anything just what is going to break the Camels back oh never mind it is already broken.

It's hard to conceptualize universal health care without the mandates. Social security exists because of the mandate to pay into it. I would like to hear more of the Obama plan, but the more important issues are getting drowned out by the political contention between him and McCain.

Why not just make those that make more than, say, $200,000 pay for the insurance of those that make less than $200,000. That's the fair way to do it. People having all that extra money can spare a little for their fellow man. Obama believes in taxing high earners to provide other social benefits, why not health care as well?

Mary, which planet are you from? You don't realize that a lot if not all those real rich people got that way from taking in away from the little guy. My husband is living proof of that. Isn't that why manufacturers moved out of the country so they could line their pockets a little thicker? Not everyone falls into that one category you want to put them in. There are lots of different situations.

Healthcare is a boondogle for insurance companies who manipulate the stock market, pharmacutical companies who are freezing out competition and those who rip off the system as it is.

Government workers, including senators, have a great insurance plan. What incentive do they have to change it? When they retire they still keep their benefits.

Politicians' campaigns are funded by the same money-making gang, so where's their incentive?

With boomers getting ready to retire, their reduced numbers of offspring will be paying most of their paychecks to Social Security and Medicare, which many doctors will be forced to deny due to the lowering renumerations.

So bottom line, suck it up and let the one person who really understands it fix it. The one person I believe Can and Will fix it is Hillary Clinton. Everyone else is intimidated by it. And any politician who leads you away from her plan should be scrutinized closely for undercutting the future of this country.

K Phan: she did - you weren't listening apparently.

Medicare for all is the only way to actually get to universal care.

It does no good to mandate enrollment for people who can't afford to cough up $10-20,000 a year.

We need to make Medicare the basic system of the country and then use insurance to cover catastrophic illnesses.

Look at your pay stub.

You are already paying for Medicare, but you don't get it if you are younger than 65.

Do I care what Elizabeth Edwards says about healthcare???? NO.
Why does anyone care for that matter. Her and her husband are all about the glory of themselves. I, at one time, did like them. Now.. I do not.

Mandating health insurance is an extra tax on the young poor and healthy to pay for the old sick and wealthy. When I was in my 20's and between jobs, I gave up my health insurance for a few months. It kept me out of bankrupcy. Had I had to pay anything for healthcare, I would have gone bankrupt before I got my job. I probably could have qualified for healthy assistance but what they felt I could pay was less than I felt I could pay.

Foolish advocates and press say mandates bring down the cost of healthcare by adding healthy people into the insurance pool. That is false. The sick people still cost the same but now the healthy will be forced to pay for the sick.

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