The open political discussion thread. Read the first post!

[mo_feezy]

The bill clearly states that...

- rationing care for the elderly WILL take place (your parents and grandparents). They will receive end of life counseling instead of life saving treatment deemed too expensive by a bureaucrat.

- Private companies WILL die off as they are forced to compete with a system that doesn't need to profit and can go into infinite debt.

- Specialists will become very difficult to find and see as government will force an increase on primary/general care to save money. General practitioners often miss and misdiagnose that specialists find.

- Doctors and other medical workers will begin to leave or not enter health care because of lesser compensation and increased bureaucracy.

- Your taxes WILL go up to pay for the 10's of millions added to the system (even for the coverage of 10 million illegal aliens). There's not enough evil wealthy people in the world to pay for it all which the bill says it will raise taxes significantly. These include small business owners which will have to lay off millions of workers as a result. No problem.
It's actually poor people who employ everyone anyway.

What I don't understand is why anyone uses these things as a point of contention. Do you think these things don't already happen? They DO already happen. Insurance companies have their own death panels, and theirs are consistently denying coverage to 50% of those seeking coverage. 50% of the people who have paid their insurance bills out of their wages for many years are denied coverage when the companies decide it's too expensive. It isn't insurance if they can only insure you will be covered 50% of the time.

We are not actually talking about health care reform. We are talking about government health insurance, not universal health care. If our peer nations can provide health care to all of their citizens, we can do it as well.

These "grassroots protesters" and "teabaggers" are actually just puppets of the corporate mechanisms operating in our country. The media covers their behavior and makes it seem like it is happening much more than it actually is.