The House just voted

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Ohighway

Good point in your first paragraph. If it was a bad idea then, it's a bad idea now. When do we collectively say "enough" and demand a cure to that ?

Apparently when people you voted for are no longer taking away my rights and persecuting people who don't live the way you live. This is just noise that has nothing at all to do with the issue at hand.

As for cost overruns and such, sorry, but again, this is different from everything ever done how? Why do we care all of a sudden now? Were you marching on Washington saying "This Iraq thing is a bad idea- cost over runs will kill our economy"? I suspect not. Your arguments are arguments that could be used against any piece of legislation. I find it ironic that people who rolled on just fine while passing things I didn't agree with are all of a sudden so worried about the process.

If you do a little research on the proposal, no services will be cut for people on Medicade or Medicare. Think about it. Look at the post earlier asking for the free health care. Well there isn't free health care, but there will be better access to health care at lower prices. So we won't need as many supplemental programs to make it work. Look, that's a very quick and shoddy overview, but there is plenty of information available about this if you're really interested. But most people who are yelling about this kind of thing are just looking for some reason to be against it. I hope you're not one of them.

And Medicare *is* more efficient than private insurance. Again, there is a lot of information on this. Medicare is a great example of how well the Government actually does this kind of thing. Expanding it is a great way to cover more people with high quality, lower cost medical care.

Take care,

Ed