Kristen777's Comments (2134)

“Let's do it...just make the phone call, write the letter, send the email:

Example letter:

"As of Jan. 1.2010 please cancel my health coverage with your demonic corporation."”

“Even if you get rid of the insurance industry doctors, hospitals, and drug companies are still charging obscene fees for their products. Until you curb the cause, high costs, the problem will be unsolvable.”

“They should. If this bill passes, doctors will go broke.”

“Kristen, I'm sure doctors are just distraught knowing that their exorbitant fees will stay the same while government imposes mandatory insurance for all with fines for those who don't comply.

Doctor greed is an issue no one ever addresses.

$250 for a 10-15 office visit is ridiculous.

Try looking up the salaries doctors earn and you will be shocked.

Right out of residency $225k is not uncommon. Some specialties command $400k and up.”

“My husband is livid! He is a physician ... he has advocated for single payer for as long as I can remember ... For him (as it is for many many doctors) it is about caring for the sick ... we both feel duped by this bill.”

“And don't forget the nurses are most likely looking out for their own best interest also.”

“Yes, it is a step backwards to start taxing haealth insurance payments. Amazing but true, this is what our best and brightest have come up with.”

“He also said that a PO was necessary to promote effective competition since no politician worth his salt would ever think about yanking their benefactor's antitrust exemption status!”

“I'm very concerned over the non-profit that I'm on the board for. We do great work, but we won't be able to afford more than we're already paying.”

“You have a great plan.

The rest of us with NO healthcare at work get nothing!”

“Ha! And all of my friends who picked Obama over Hil because she "voted for the Iraq war" and now feeling pretty stupid.”

“yep”

“Yeah. I wasn't meaning that to come off as disagreement. I just wanted to emphasize that Bush did more than threaten a veto and, while some may like to believe it was Democratic civility that resulted in so few filibusters during his time in office, the reality is that they didn't occur because those who would engage in them were made aware of the consequences.”

“Not quite. Bush and especially Cheney were no strangers to framing the debate before it hit the legislature. This gave them much more room to exert private pressure on the Senate. Cheney was always on Meet The Press before something important to him was going to the legislature. As he put it, it was the best show because it allowed him to dictate the message. He literally said why people who would be against something were against it, before anyone who was opposed to it even said as much. Then, our lazy media (which is no less lazy now) repeated it over and over again, to the point where it became true. It pretty much directly implied that if you didn't support their policy, you were a bad person. And it worked quite well with the Senate.

Obama never did this. He let the opposition frame the debate, and never fought to take control of it. I don't care what Gibbs said. The lack of true speeches to really energize his base and supporters about this, all while he broke his promise on transparency and lobbyist influence when he secretly cut a deal with the pharmaceutical lobby, shows exactly how little he fought for the public option.”

“There's no way to do it without mandates, how will they ensure everyone signs up? I'm cool with them as long as there is an OPTION for us... Hillary was our only chance and that becomes ever more clear as each day passes... HCR died in Denver peeps when we selected this bufoon...”

“by the end of 2010 it will look like scene from "The Road"”