Thats is my thing. Not that I do not care, I have other things to worry about and I am thankful to God that is one thing that I do not have to worry about... And then you have the big percent that DONT worry about it becasue they live off the government and OUR tax dollars. So they have nothing to worry about.

The one of the first doctors my daughter saw with her condition ended up in jail for dispensing fake medications. I was suspicious of him right from the first time we saw him, and quickly moved her to the care of another doctor. I personally know of three people who ended up blinded by this doctor's negligent care. If I hadn't been able to move her to another doctor, mine might be number four. That is only one of the reasons that I'm not too excited about this public health care initiative. I don't want my child or anyone else's child to have to see an assigned doctor. I don't want anyone to be stuck with the option of an incompetent doctor or no doctor. So far, they haven't been able to guarantee options. The hospital where this doctor practiced is the place where all public cases in this area go. Had there not been a hospital in a neighboring state two hours away that I could take her to, he would have been my only option. I can make that drive, but for people coming two hours to get to our area, it is just to far away to be an option, and he was their only option. Public health isn't going to be all sunshine and roses and a gift from a benevolent government who cares about us. It will likely look like every other government program: just like Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, welfare and food stamps. It will be a morass of uncaring and even mean bureaucrats trying to keep you from getting benefits.

i saw a poll yesterday that showed that 24% of republicans didn't know that medicare was public health insurance. if you were to pull out the utter stupidity of these folks, i'm not sure if we'd be stuck with the "i have mine, too bad" syndrome or we might just be like the grinch and have a heart that grows 3 1/2 sizes.

That is not what the polls show. They show that an overwhelming majority of Americans do not favor health care reform of the Obama/Pelosi brand. There is no poll that shows a majority of people do not want those who are not insured to be able to obtain affordable insurance. You have misquoted the article. The article says that "87 percent of Americans who have health insurance aren't much interested in giving any new rights and entitlements to "them"—the uninsured." That's a very different statement. The article is talking about rights and entitlements to health care, not the affordability of it.

Its because they are, greedy, uncompassionate, self centered pricks, who care only about themselves, and would prefer to see the hardworking poor die on the street than have EQUAL rights. When it comes down to it its because those people are amoral uncompassionate human beings, who cant empathise with the plight of the poor minimum wage worker who is exploited,and gets no health benefits. its greed.

Every American has health care, and so do illegal immigrants. All a sick person has to do is show up in an emergency room. But about four per cent don't have health care insurance and can't afford it (the large majority of those who don't have it don't want it). The attitude is not "I have mine, too bad about you," it's "I paid for mine. Why should I pay for yours too?" Even more people see that Obama can't even perform on "Cash for Clunkers" or fix the Post Office. So we aren't ready to hand that incompetent clown a sixth of the American economy just because he likes to break things and remake them in his own image.

This who do have health care insurance often don't realize it, but they do currently pay for those without insurance who go to a hospital emergency room and then can't pay for life-saving care. That is part of what's driving insurance costs up so rapidly -- that and the greed and monopolistic practices of the post-deregulation insurance giants.