What are you talking about "Peace"??????? Have you read the ACA? Have you had any education on what is really in it? The ONLY people that will pay are the ones that refuse to get insurance. Educate yourself please. Go and search for the truth instead of drinking in the lies and spitting them back out. PLEASE!

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The ones who refuse to buy insurance are the same ones on Medicaid now. The states won't be able to afford it. You also need to look at the demographics of some of those states.

Peace & Love-6429601 #1.1 I believe, when the American citizens, take an objective look at the benefits of "Obamacare", none will want these benefits repealed, such as,

Repeal, the closure of the medicare part D donut whole.

Repeal, the insurance providers' responsibility of returning to the policy holder, any money that is less than 80% spent on the health care of the patients premium.

Repeal, the pre-existing condition denial of coverage.

Repeal, the denial of payment for services, based on a cap.

Repeal, children under 26 years of age,staying on their parents policy.

Repeal, the mandating of everyone buying their own health insurance, but continue, the mandating, we who have health insurance, to pay increased premium cost and increased hospital cost, to pay for those who choose, to have no health insurance.

Those of us who have the security of,"government medicare," know what a blessing it is to have, at least I have never heard of anyone who has medicare, wanting it repealed.

Everyone needs to face reality, employers have for years been raising premiums, lowering benefits and many employers have discontinued offering any health insurance.

Government run, Medicare, Tricare, "Obamacare" and VA benefits are the cream of the crop, with no free ride, no rationing and no government review board management. However if and when republicans take control, they will cut all health insurance for the American people, then there will be noting to ration or for government to control. However they will keep their great government insurance, that is paid for by the taxpayers that they think do not deserve any health care.

Real Americans work toward progress and prosperity for America and ALL of her people, equally.

And billy doesn't know what he's talking about again. Nothing new here.

Repeal, "children under 26 years of age"staying on their parents policy.

26 year old children ,,That's funny and sad at the same time. What will it be in 10yrs? 36 year old children?

Some seem to be confused about paying for Obamacare. After doing some research, these are my understandings. Medicaid will be provided to poor people without cost as has been done for many years. The Federal government will pick up the cost of Medicaid for ten years, so there is no reason for states to decline Medicaid for at least ten years (except for political reasons). Middle class people who cannot afford to pay full market price for insurance will be able to buy insurance through exchanges at a more affordable cost. But, middle class people will be required to pay SOMETHING-- which means we are adding payers to the system. Those who can afford to will continue to pay FULL market price for insurance. Seniors who are on Medicare will continue to pay a premium. Those who can afford to buy insurance and refuse to do so will be subject to a fine. So, we will be collecting insurance premiums from MILLIONS of people, probably collecting some fines, AND there is a small tax on insurance companies to fund Obamacare. Many people are not yet that sick, so we should take in more money than we pay out. With more people paying insurance premiums, the cost of insurance should go down for everyone. Obamacare is already helping us and our country! Seniors who are on Medicare have already saved $3.2 BILLION for prescription drugs that once fell beyond a limit (in the "doughnut hole"). It is estimated that the Medicare program (the government) will save $200 BILLION through 2016. The system that we now have is ripe with fraud. The government has already recovered $4.1 BILLION in anti-fraud efforts. Please search the Internet and READ the following articles: "Report: Health care law to save billions" by Kelly Kennedy (USA Today) and "ObamaCare is winning the fight on fraud and abuse" by John McDonough. MOST of us need to be better informed before we speak--or rant and rave--about Obamacare.

Thank you Wanda Garr!

Thank you, Mr. Grant.

No one has ever accused Walker of having a brain cell in his head...

The ONLY people that will pay are the ones that refuse to get insurance.

When you don't make enough to buy insurance, but you make too much to qualify for medicaid (<$700 mo in my state), how is that refusing to get insurance?

so what's Cupp's ideas on extended medicaid?

My idiot Repub governor is saying he's not going to do it, even though the DM Register wrote a big editorial in favor of it and the big hospitals here said he should OK it. He is a total moron. I don't know how in the Hell he ever got elected again. He was a lousy governor twenty-five years ago and he's only gotten worse!

totally agree, Braindead is called Braindead for a reason!

No looking at that map just shows that states with GOP in power are going to go against the people of the states in favor of the wealthy like they have been doing all along.

just like a teapub....perhaps, leaning, maybe Islamic mole, coulda woulda shoulda.

gots to be...........

how about a bunch of one timers on the way out..............?

Sure, one more GOP grand conspiracy.

What that map proves is the people of the USA do not want the federal government running their health care.

holy cow....Romneycare in Mass ain't wanted he says. ya see....take a long hard look at Robme....Obama didn't change did he????????????????? he stuck with it. no if I said it...............

save the economy....we have a crystal ball supplied by who knows where....with brail attached................

P and L, Repealing Obamacare, as you call it, will add over 190 Billion to the deficit. It's not going to happen. Millions of Americans need the ACA. It has grown in popularity since people know what it ACTUALLY is and not what the right tell them it is.

The ACA will lower the deficit, as well as provide care to millions of Americans. (From the CBO) a non-partisan organization.

I am putting you on ignore before I get banned for telling you what I think of you and all the trolls and re-regs. You too, Ho-lee-Cow, aka Stupidita.

hey India...how's it goin? your right about ACA. it's not perfect by any means but it is the start. a start that republicans initiated and dropped once they(dems too) got their pockets lined.

having a brain fart and can't remember if it was you who had the daughter that is dependent on the "can't be dropped part" of it.

anyways....some people have no compassion for anyone but themselves and money. when they finally get up in years or a catastrophic situation takes a hold of a family member....their words will come back to them........

Hesback, Yes, it is my daughter-in-law who could die.

India...thought so. was touched by your concern and actuall real life experience. your daughter in law and others is why (((we))) care..........Obama........again....

Thank you.

India, I very well know your concern about the Health care and your daughter in law, at this time all we can do is pray, I know you are a woman of faith, but please, take care of your health i.e you do not want to have a health condition brought on by stress, God is the provider, he will make sure all is well, I know it seems like this is just talk, but truly believe and all will be well, I will join you in believing that "It is well." not everything should be calculated in dollars and cents, there is the human factor, I hope some will not face the situation of life and death with no foreseeable hope...

Thanks, CM.

India.... I pray for your daughter-n-law as well. Nothing political for you anymore from me. I don't want to upset you. I don't mean this in a bad way but I will be putting things on here you will not like that are a part of my beliefs, so you are right to put me on ignore if you don't want to see them and judging from the last few weeks of your posts I feel you are under too much stress and I would like to see that reduced if possible for you.

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) would allow my children to stay on my policy until they are 26. Obamacare allows me to move from job to job without fear of preexisting conditions. the CBO has said the Affordable Care Act would reduce the deficit by $132 billion through 2019. Republican politicians are giving speeches condemning Obamacare as “unconstitutional” and “government overreach.” Conservative pundits are painting apocalyptic scenarios of Soviet-style government crushing our freedoms by forcing us to buy health insurance. Republicans who once championed the individual mandate now call it “socialism". But SCOTUS said it is constitutional, so now Repugs are trying to persuade you it's "the largest tax increase in American history." Bullocks! The mandate only applies to those that can afford health insurance but refuse to participate. That's estimated as 1%. If you already have insurance it doesn't affect you at all, except it's expected to bring down your premium costs because 30 million new policyholders will be in the system. Why were Republicans for the individual mandate before they were against it? The individual mandate was originally a Republican plan. In 1993, when Hillary Clinton was proposing health care reform nd an employer mandate., Republicans advocated an alternative that included the individual mandate. 1993 Senator John Chafee (R) introduced the insurance act that included an individual mandate, a bill sponsored by Bob Dole, Sen Orin Hatch, Sen Bond and others. The republican alternative to Hillary's plan. They made the same case for it that Obama made — that in order to expand insurance coverage, healthy people should buy in, too. It can’t work if people just wait till they’re old or sick to get coverage.
Republicans called the individual mandate a “market-based” approach to health care reform. Mitt Romney must have really liked the idea, because he enacted it while he was governor of Massachusetts. Now he says it was good enough for Massachusetts citizens, but not good enough for thre rest of the country. But in a July 2009 op-ed in USA Today, Romney thought the President could learn a thing or two from the plan he signed into law in Massachusetts, including using the individual mandate as an incentive for people to buy insurance. Mitt Romney's Advice For ObamaCare: Look At RomneyCare Mitt Romney once touted his plan to Obama as a model for health care reform. He didn't mention keeping it at the state level. In a "Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn't have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did... encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others." Just another episode in the continuing flip flop saga of Mitt Romney. Remember, Romney doesn't need health coverage. He can just purchase the hospital. Just another example of the hypocracy of the Republican Party.

From Fareed Zakaria:

"America's health care system is broken. Our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world – behind Slovenia. Our infant mortality rate ranks 30th – more than twice that of Sweden and Japan. And for this sub-par care, we pay more than any other nation in the world. Almost one out of every five dollars spent in America is spent on health care".

"Twenty years ago, Switzerland had a system very similar to America’s – private insurers, private providers – with very similar problems. People didn’t buy insurance but ended up in emergency rooms, insurers screened out people with pre-existing conditions, and costs were rising fast. The country came to the conclusion that to make health care work, everyone had to buy insurance. So the Swiss passed an individual mandate and reformed their system along lines very similar to Obamacare. The reform law passed by referendum, narrowly. The result two decades later: quality of care remains very high, everyone has access, and costs have moderated. Switzerland spends 11% of its GDP on health care, compared with 17% in the U.S. Its 8 million people have health care that is not tied to their employers, they can choose among many plans, and they can switch plans every year. Overall satisfaction with the system is high".

36 countries have some sort of universal healthcare. The U.S is the only "westernized country without it. Afghanistan, Argentina Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ira, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. It is ironic that Iran & Afganistan both have universal healthcare coverage provided by the U.S. war funding, yet we can't have even single payer here.
One of the great advantages of Universal Healthcare that I never hear talked about is that it takes the cost and responsibility away from the corporation as well as the small businesses. Corporations move overseas because they find the cost of labor too high in the U.S.. Think about it. Healthcare costs these businesses on average $1200 PER EMPLOYEE. Remove this labor cost and watch how fast business comes back and jobs are created.
The United States spends twice as much (double) on health care than any other country at 17.9 percent of GDP compared with the OECD average for advanced countries of 9.5 percent. And yet dollar for dollar it gets results that are consistently in the bottom third of developed countries along with Mexico or Hungary, as measured by average health outcomes.

Thank you for your detailed comments, Mr. Federman. I enjoyed reading these comments very much.

xxx ooo....what money did I balance my state with....?

yes going to be fun to watch the debates between Robme and Obama.

will Romney bring his wife to talk for him???????????

Romney is also using a telepromptrr, but of course, gotoleft and his ilk, do not see that!!!!

They all use telepromters. Even Bauchmann.

Palin writes on her hand!!

Palin writes on her hand

Texas has an inordinate number of employers who provide no insurance to their workers. Twenty-six percent of Texans have no health insurance — the highest percentage of medically uninsured residents of any state. Texas leads the nation in the percentage of children who lack medical insurance.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas flatly said they won’t participate in the expansion.

But Rick Perry has said such things in the past. In his 2010 book, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America From Washington, Governor Rick Perry wrote this: "We are fed up with bailout after bailout and stimulus plan after stimulus plan, each one of which tosses principle out the window along with taxpayer money."
Texas was the state that depended the most on the stimulus funds ($17 Billion) to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010.

Perry will almost have to end up taking Medicaid. The doctors and hospitals will be up in arms if he does not.

Exactly. Rick(oops)perry is just doing what he does best, playing to his moron base. He'll undoubtedly take those funds and use it to plug the deficit in his budget just like he did with the stimulus funds, and his IDIOT base will re-elect that POS once again. Damn, I'm surrounded by idiots in this state.

It's time for you to move to another state. I live in Va. To mean, what the Rest of the country Hears about Gov Perry and Texas Republicans, is giving Texas such a bad name. The rest of the country wonders How he gets elected and more so, Why? And, The Image that texas republicans give about the state of texas is, that they, Gov Perry, and Repubs, don't care about the residents of the state, but just care about what is good for the rich republicans down there. And also, show no Shame is screwing the residents of texas over. Almost, like they want them to leave texas. The Image of texas, from the view Outside texas is Very bad.

Corrupt Media Stinks IE ED~~Read comment #1.5

And it took over 2,600 pages to do this? I think there is more to it?

greg 53, Frankly, because they can. They enjoy this.

And I guess you 'intellectuals' will believe anything. What taxes went up 66%, explain in detail.

He'll give in or get voted out, the freak. I agree with Mark Twain: If, when I die, and am given the choice between living in Hell or living in Texas, I'll live in Hell and rent out Texas.

'The GOP doesn't trust the poor and underpriviledged'. Which explains the terminal paranoia that consumes the teabaggers. But they trust a lying, flip flopping, dog torturing, draft dodging, POS like romeny. By the way, it costs this country 700 BILLION a year in lost revenue with robme and his buddies tax haven in the Caymen and Burmuda Islands. That means you and the rest of the moron teabaggers are paying for his taxes, ever think of that? Of course not. I guess that makes you one of the GOP's B****'s. Damn you PPL are dense.

Smart enough to make a fool out of you... 'Thank you sir, may I have another'....lol But when it comes to teabagger voters hell, Forrest Gump could manage that easily.

Because you're too damn ignorant to know when you're being made a fool of. see post 15.5 above. And 'bagging is a nasty habit.

There are two kinds of republicans, the rich and the suckers. Clear to see which catagory you fall in...

Glenn beck is a CONservative too.... And Michele Batsh** crazy Bachmann...and Oxyrush, and palin. Need I say more?. And not true, we make fools of you and your teabagger partners every day.

No, as usual you did'nt learn a damn thing. Except you're proud to be a fool. After all, you did vote for bush not once but twice did'nt you?. But what would you expect from a brain dead CONservative?

And I'm supposed to take the word of a person who is a kock wannabe,? Thinks Glenn Beck is a visionary?...your kidding, right?...lol. Now tell the truth CONservative, you married your sister and watch 'my big fat redneck wedding' every night, correct?

and no, you're proud to be a fool, you proved that already.

'Ya'll come back now, ya hear?