Do we have a Choice on health care?

[dems_cry]

Senators are negotiating on Senator Max Baucus' Obama Care 6.0 proposal and it hasn't even been written yet.

Of course, to state the obvious, the fact that they're negotiating on something that hasn't been written means no one has read it yet either.

And, to add even more insult to injury, it's now clear they have no intention of letting you read it.

You read that right. On an almost straight party-line vote, Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee squashed an amendment by Senator Jim Bunning that would have required Baucus' ObamaCare bill to be posted on the Internet - for all Americans to read - for 72 hours prior to the Committee voting on it.

Not only that. Bunning's amendment also called for requiring the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's official tally of how much Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 will cost the American people and what the real impact will be on health costs to be released before the it was voted on.

It's as plain as the nose on your face.

They're leaving the door wide-open to pass Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 proposal in the dead of night... under the cover of darkness... without even telling you and other concerned Americans what it will cost and how it will affect your health care. TRULY DISGUSTING
Adm: Your idea of insurance reform is to force you to have insurance or get fined or possible jail time? This is about socialism and government control .
Just like the stimulus Bill that toasted are kids future that Obama got passed with out reading. Democrat's are going to do it again .This Bill is about Congress and up getting rich while America suffers!

 

[☼Solar☼]

With the status quo you currently don't have a choice and in many cases it is limited. Being drop from your Medical Insurance for silly reason should be illegal: Acne, High Blood Pressure, and Pregnancy? In addition; being dropped or learning about a sealing cap at the worst time of your life is down right unfair. Let's hope we gain some choice from the Legislative Branch. After all the people made their choice and let their voices be heard during last year's election. Its time that the GOP let reality sink in; and honor our time long standing of democracy.

 

[Adam B]

The Republicans don't have the right to dictate anything to anyone. Know why? Because they lost.

This is a committee bill. The bill will become public when it hits the House, and then you can expect it to be heavily modified before it passes.

You keep using the term "ObamaCare." What this tells me is that you don't actually know what's being proposed. If you did, you'd know that this isn't about health care at all - it's about insurance reform.

Edit: If you're going to use the word "socialism" then please at least take the trouble to learn what it means, and then explain why it's bad. Your silly label is not a substitute for actual arguments, sorry.

Your "freedom" and "choice" include the "freedom" to pay premiums for decades and then get denied and dropped the first time you really get sick. Your "freedom" includes the "right" to get denied coverage for prior existing conditions, or go bankrupt because of high medical bills even when the insurance does cover some of them. You have a twisted idea of freedom, my chum. I want to be FREE to know that if I get hit by a bus, my family will still be able to eat and have someplace safe and warm to sleep. I want to be FREE to start a new practice without having to worry about how I'm going to give my workers decent health insurance, something that no on in other developed countries ever has to worry about.

 

[U.S.Veteran]

Not if the Republicans have their way.

With them, it will be "Take the status quo or nothing!" - "Let the people we've stolen money from die in the streets with no health care."

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