Nobody in the United States of America is denied helth care, it is the law if they need help they get it, and they do.
I have met nobody, nor has anyone I talked met anyone who was turned down going to an emergency room with no insurance.
I think the standard is no matter how they fix you up, they put you on a plan to pay 5 bucks a month...I got this from a registerd nurse. They also sometimes tear up the bill, which they did for my niece, and say goodbye, who also did not have health insurance. Nobody dies in the street for lack of health care, it's all hogwash. All bull.
Now to the main point....TeamNelson is right on...The government does not generate revenue; it taxes citizens. This says it all. You can fill in the rest.
Of course the reason why we don't want government to run this (or anything) is because they already are planning to be much less efficient than our largest insurance company...which insures 70 million people..with a staff of about 175,000.
Our government is trying to give insurance to only 30 million people, with a staff of 4 million! Nacy Polosi's own numbers...she says she will create 4 million government jobs to support this, paid by us. Why would we want something worse, much much worse that what we have? Why would we want to cut services on government programs, and tax them even more to do this? (medicare)
To top that off...the legislation says NOBODY gets health care if this passes for almost half a decade...so what is the hurry to pass anything at all? We just get taxed for 4 years with nobody getting anything, except the people on medicare suffer more...that is what they are really passing.
The legislaiton is bad, it does not make sense, and we tax payers do not have the money to give to government to flush it down the drain...again.
Basically...this is not about health care at all. It's all politics....about control, about government getting more of our tax money to waste.
If they had a true health reform bill I'd vote for it my self...but there isn't one...what they offer is not reform of any kind at all...same as the stim package was not really a stim package at all...sure the people know that now...but they passed it already. We just want to stop them...only ignorant people who have not read the original house bill thinks it's really health care reform. Ignorant is not a bad word, they are not stupid, just ignorant.
Now they won't let us read the "drafts" they put forth....I want to read them. (there is NO BILL YET) They won't let us. Took me days to read the stim package and original health care bill from the house...but it seems it was worth it to not be ignorant of what they are doing.
Opinons are great...but not worth much if you have not spent days reading what they passed in legislation. All you know is what you hear. We do not have to trust our government at all after what they have already passed, and tried to hide from the masses. Best thing is to stop them.
I would add if it does pass, hope it goes to the high court...they are not following this very close...
Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution, however, expressly states that for any bill to beome law "the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by the yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively." After that, under the Constitution, the president must either sign the bill or hold it for ten days (not counting Sundays), after which it will become law unless Congress adjourns in the interim.
I would wager there are five justices who are already angry and ready....