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The White House is beginning its final push on health care this week, with senior adviser David Axelrod and press secretary Robert Gibbs making the rounds of the Sunday talk shows to express confidence that the bill will pass.

"We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week," Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday." "Whoever sits here at this time next week, I think will not be talking about health care as a proposal, but as the law of the land."

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Republicans also took to the airwaves to express opposition to the healthcare bill. "We're going to do everything we can to make it difficult for them, if not impossible, to pass the bill" John Boehner said on CNN's "State of the Union."

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Karl Rove warned on Fox News: "If they pass this thing, I think they lose the House of Representatives this fall".

Asked by Tom Brokaw on "Meet The Press" whether Republicans would be able to run against health care in the 2010 elections, Axelrod told Republicans to bring it on.

If the Republican Party wants to go out and say to that child who now has insurance or say to that small business that will get tax credits this year if he signs the bill to help their employees get health care. If they want to say to them, "You know what? We're actually gonna take that away from you. We don't think that's such a good idea." I say, let's have that fight. Make my day. I'm ready to have that. And every member of Congress ought to be willing to have that debate as well.

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[Star2000dancer]

The law of the land. Hmm.....what land would that be? Is that NAU merger Bush signed in 2005 legal? Are we really the NAU like the EUI? If so who's the boss? And why are we fighting over border when they'd end at S. America and the North pole?

I'm so confused. What does a purple SEIU tie with a hockey shirt mean?

Why does it take 3000 pages to not accomplish anything in over a year?

Is anyone again giving the uninsured insurance? If not , raise your hand if you want that passed.

Passed by a land slide! Next we'll go on to the number 1 killer in America, MISDIAGNOSIS! Over 1000 peopleo have died each day from MISDIAGNOSIS since the 1997 study.TtHAT'.'S OVER A HALF MILLION AMERICANS DEAD EACH YEAR FROM misdiagnosis ALONE.

If you think they should be represented by an attorney, raise your hand. This vote will include the massive amount of Americans who were simply disabled for life from misdiagnosis too..

Passed by the vastest majority ever witnessed in history!

Good Grief! What's happened to the bill? It's half the size it was when we started already. Good job Reps. That's the way to go!

[russoul19]

People are worried about Obamacare....I say what the hell let's try it....we already lived through years of BushBombs!

Obamacare....think about it....Obama cares....Bush Bombed and Bailed

[JaCqieBHO]

I'll take obamaCare thank u

[econ1]

With some uncertainty on what the bill will actually do, and somewhat non-partisan polls like Newsweek indicating that well over half of the citizens aren't in favor of the bill and pretty unhappy about all the back room deals to get to this point...politicians will have to be able to defend the various components of the bill. It will depend on how well they do that.

[gwilder]

I'll believe it when it happens.

[CS GUY]

Only in California would this be construed as "good news". The time has come to take action against these morons who consider themselves above the American people. If this bill passes, heads will roll.
Tort Reform and portability will solve the issues. You cannot make lazy people do anything if they can get it free.................and they will!

[TaggartSteel]

Obama calls it "courage. I call it arrogance.

[Dosadi]

All sensible people who read your post will call it ignorance. You sound scared, I wonder why.

[Dosadi]

Who are these lazy people you speak o?. How about some descriptions? Got that much nerve or do you only feel safe using that term? We all know it is a buzzword for something else. Grow up, stop name calling and start making sense.

[polishlogician]

....he means lazy people, like people in china (with national health care), or Canada (same) or Japan (one of the best health care systems ever)...you know lazy people...

[bcarb]

Oh yeah, just because a few people may jump on the free wagon, you are going to turn your back on the millions of families in need. Is that part of Becker's rewriting of social justice?

[RemoveTheGreedyOnes]

>Tort Reform and portability will solve the issues.

You mean like it has already?

Puh-Lease!

[senatortruth]

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Curious. The contact Page on the White House website no longer has a form to send comments! It appears to have been removed recently leaving only a mailing address. A new bunker mentality? A response to Public Option backfire?
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Liar, liar... pants on fire!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact Republicans have a corner on the Bunker Mentality....just ask our soldiers who were sent to find the WMD in Iraq!!!!
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Yeah, the ones still ALIVE after Buhs's LIES...

[cdnrod1]

Why was Robert Gibbs wearing a SEIU purple Bracelet?

[Dosadi]

To tick off the republicans. I like it.

[bcarb]

I really really like it.

[TheAlchemist]

Our System is Broken. I'm not hearing viable solutions from the GOP. Just more about how tort law makes health care expensive. In part, tort law does make health care expensive. But the real culprit is the profit motive. It's embarrassing that we're investing one seventh of our economy in health care that covers only about 85% of the people when so many other civilized nations invest only one tenth of their economy in health care that covers nearly everybody.

I am a huge supporter of Single Payer ( http://www.pnhp.org ) and feel in the long term it will keep us competitive as a nation in the Western Market.

The industry lobbiests make too much noise and represent too few of the people. They do not have the best interest of the average person at heart. They have the interest of their generously compensated industry executives in mind.

You don't see Medicare executives, public servants, making >$1million/yr.

The profit motive just doesn't belong in the health care industry.

I maintain the hope that a Public Option will be included in the final bill.

Medicare For All.

[CS GUY]

To : TheAlchemist;
True socilaist agenda if I ever heard one. Go to Cuba if you want the Government to take care of you!
Are you disappointed because your "man" can't shove his way through the real America?
Keep dreaming......................

[polishlogician]

....or go to: Afghanistan*, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq*, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the United Kingdom

*Universal health coverage provided by United States war funding (did we set up a socialist country in Iraq?)

[TaggartSteel]

"Why would people oppose a bill that would be in their best interest? These people are stupid and believe all the Repubs lies (or they are racist)."

You are scratching your head wondering why those "Teabaggers" are opposed to something they'd benefit from passing.

You attack Christians "because of the blatant hypocrisy necessary to espouse Jesus' teachings while supporting a neoliberal economic doctrine which advocates the extreme hoarding of resources by an elite few."

My point is, you are out of step with most Americans and feel like your point-of-view is superior without understanding theirs. That is why you don't understand the Tea Party (and dismiss them so easily) and Christians in this great country.

You spend so much time trying to convince the good people of America that the Boy Scouts are an evil, close minded group, that Christians hate everyone, the Founding Fathers were evil white slave owners and that up is down and right is wrong.

Most of the good people of this country believe that government should be like an umpire at a ball game. Involved to the limit of keeping the game fair. But involved as little as possible in the actual play.
When the Umpire gets too involved, interfering in the game to the point that the game is about them and what they do, it no longer works.

Liberals are rooting for the umpire to win. The rest of us want the players to get on with the game.

[TheInconvenientTruth]

Who are the players on the opposing teams?

[doubtingdavid]

Precisley.

[CS GUY]

Could you be a bit more succinct?

[Dosadi]

Stop trying to tell us what most people in America think. You haven't met most people in your own home let alone the entire country.

[f252863]

If this health care bill is so wonderul why do most of the provisions only go into effect in 2014?
Oh yeah, by then most of the perpetrators will be out of office.

So if I don't have health insurance through my employer I have to go through a government exchange program? How is that different than buying directly through the government? They set all the terms after all. So much for a free market.

As Ayn Rand said the government ties up business in 100 ways then when it falls apart it goes "look..capitalism failed!" and takes over everything. What a scam.

[TaggartSteel]

If there are 45000 people a year that die in America because they don't have healthcare, and the dems wait until 2014, are they not responable for the deaths of 18,000 Americans?

[just sayin]

I see the 45,000 figure in HP a lot. Where does that figure come from? I don't doubt it, just curious. And is it people who die because they don't have health insurance or people who die without health insurance?

[Star2000dancer]

Let me know when they address the number on KILLER in America, MISDIAGNOSIS.,.

MISDIAGNOSIS kills over 1000 people per day. That's over a half million Americans that die each year from MISDIAGNOSIS alone.

Yet no lawyer will take a case.

Medical & Dental Universities can mutilate you and treat you like an experimental rat. Again, you have no recourse.

Until these things are addressed we do not have health care, we have the bottom care.

[BigBirdxx]

I have taken the time to look at the statements made by the right, such as death panels, and now I am turning my attention to statements made by the left as to why we need ObamaCare. I started out with the emergency room statement as one reason costs are increasing. I went into my research not knowing if this is true. Here is what I have found out so far. Interesting, as it looks like with expanded coverage, emergency room visits will increase, and if that is one of the reasons health care costs are increasing as Obama keeps stating, then they will increase more than the 2.3 trillion that is expected if ObamaCare is passed.

A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the insured accounted for 83 percent of emergency room visits, reflecting their share of the population. After Massachusetts adopted universal insurance, emergency room use remained higher than the national average, reports an Urban Institute study. More than two-fifths of visits represented non-emergencies. Adult respondents to a survey said it was "more convenient" to go to the emergency room or they couldn't "get (a doctor's) appointment as soon as needed." If universal coverage makes appointments harder to get, emergency room use may increase.

Next up if the statement that the 168 agencies that will be created by ObamaCare will not (1) control private health care and (2) that these agencies will work better and cheaper than the private sector.

[imusintheevening]

obtuse nonsense

[russoul19]

This is not obtuse nonsense, it is pure and ridiculous CRAP! So more people have insurance....so more people go to the ER....go figure...they need care, they get it because they have access to it! Isn't this the point of universal coverage?

[harobamason]

WOW thats a lot of words to not say much.

[Rosie2]

More Republican propaganda!

[Tom Borosky]

A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the insured accounted for 83 percent of emergency room visits,

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Free preventive health care, and the elimination of any record keeping between doctor and patient would reduce costs -- by 50% or more, and reform a broken health care system.

[brod]

Curious. The contact Page on the White House website no longer has a form to send comments! It appears to have been removed recently leaving only a mailing address. A new bunker mentality? A response to Public Option backfire?

[russoul19]

Liar, liar... pants on fire!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact Republicans have a corner on the Bunker Mentality....just ask our soldiers who were sent to find the WMD in Iraq!!!!

[CS GUY]

You actually posted a White House Website as a reference point? Can you spell propoganda? Are you educated enough to understand BS when you read it? You really believe they reprogrammed the site to make it more friendly? You, my friend, are totally delusional. You win the prize for non-critical thinking! Oh, incidently, I did like the nursery reponse! Almost as good as NA NA NA NA NA NA............

[GonzotheRational]

Prince Obama once said: "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history"
And I thought he was talking about the countries that inhibit liberty and rational thought. But maybe I was wrong.
It sounds more like a description of the Messiah's Administration and the Reid/Pelosi Congress.

[SueMVetforObama2]

Not Rational...........

[TaggartSteel]

Rational = agreeing with Obama.

Not rational = any opposition to the "cause."

[UpFromLiberalism]

hosanna

obama

[harobamason]

you guys do like talking about that messiah maddness.

[totaldisbelief]

Oh Joy, we are going to be Mandated (coerced / forced) to Buy health Insurance from the same companies that have been screwing people for years and with no guarantee that those rates won't go up.
All this time and effort for an other giveaway to big business....nice job dems.

[Tom Borosky]

All this time and effort for an other giveaway to big business....nice job dems.
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Most modern day – Dem politicians -- today are not liberal Democrats, like they were in the 60s. They are Republican-Democrats, mostly, that are in power, with an army of progressives; but progressives are not liberals. Progressives are activist Democrats, sort of like campaign employees.

[Boston Houligan]

In the 60's the Dem's were loaded with Southerners who changed to Republican because of civil rights act. And there were lots of northeast Repuplicans both of which are now an endangered species.

[pragmatic one]

It's like Bill Maher said: "Democrats have moved to the right and Republicans have moved into an insane asylum".

[doesnt drink kool-aid]

this admin sucks

[pragmatic one]

That's deep man.

Thought provoking.

What a great contribution to the board.

[russoul19]

...and how would you describe the admin that induced the recession that we are in?

[TaggartSteel]

"Oh yeah - well, well - Bush was worse, so there!"

[doubtingdavid]

It's Bush's fault, yada, yada, yada,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Star2000dancer]

Oh oh!! Me me..I got this one! Over here!!!!!! ooo ooo.....me!! Here....

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