OT: Hope for a Veto!

I am with you on this one, Cathy!! There is so much weird stuff being decided behind closed doors with this administration. I guess it has always been done......................but it seems so much worse now, with all the "czars".

I am starting to believe that Pres Obama is just the "mouthpiece" for the presidency, and am wondering who is telling him what to say.

Nebraska and Louisiana came out very well in the Senate plan; it shows that anyone can be bought.

Gillian

Oh for heavens sake. This goes on in all politics. Period. It went on in spades during the Bush years. "Seems" doesn't make it so.

We need health care reform. You didn't want it so you screamed blue bloody murder. So we got this can of worms instead.

Dianne

You've nailed it, Dianne. At one point I didn't know whether to support it at all, it's been so altered, but heads wiser than I have convinced me that it's better than nothing, and at least a starting point.

We've been through the wringer in the past month and a half with health care coverage availability, and I can tell you, there are SERIOUS flaws in the system. And why does the system expect the employer to pay for health care insurance, if we want to make people "personally" responsible? That makes no sense.

sue

Many of us could write volumes on their experiences with the health care system. It is absolutely broken except for those who don't use it, or their coverage is excellent and they pay little or nothing.

Between what we pay in premiums that the employer doesn't cover, and our medical bills, we are spending over $9,000 annually (or more in some years). In 2010 our deductible has doubled for prescriptions that are non-generic. A normal doctor visit for me is around $159. I only pay $40, but look at that number! Ridiculous that we have to have that much administration and overhead to cover the cost of my doctor reading labs and refilling scripts. Yes, I have plenty of time with the doctor, and yes s/he doesn't come cheap. But $159?

Our country simply cannot sustain this type of bleeding in our economy.

Dianne