It doesn't.  We felt this particular rally was especially because Bachmann was calling for it.  She's pretty racsist.  BTW most folks in my office today felt that way as well.  In fact the ED brought it up not me.  Had no idea they felt as I did.  Govt' hs done a good job with Medicare and once we can get the gap closed with the Medicare Part D plan, it should be that much better.  

How can you say the government has done a good job with Medicare when they underestimated the cost by about a factor of 10 and now Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke because the same government raided the SS trust fund to pay for their social programs and now you want me to trust the same government to run 1/6 of our entire economy when the government has never even run a lemonade stand and shown a profit.

Medicaid is broke! The government can't even get a flu shot program right.

  The one sector of the economy that is actually growing jobs is health care. Now Obama and his running dogs want to wreck that too. Obamacare is a horrible job destroying bill. Of course Tonko was for it before he read it.

I am not for government run health care. As far as medicare, it has served my mom "ok". But the system is going broke. My mom not only pays for her medicare out of her ss check, at almost $100/mo, she also has to pay for an additional supplement for services medicare won't pay for. There are also very very heavy restrictions with medicare. They have very restrictive guidelines when it comes to certain procedures. My mom almost died after her open heart surgery due to the government guidelines. And, the system is financially broke.

The VA hospital and doctors are also "ok" but with very restrictive guidelines. Someone I know, who goes to the VA, had a heart attack. He never knew he had a heart attack, until it was revealed in a blood test. He was instructed to go through tests to see the extent of damage, if any, or the cause of this heart attack. That was one month ago. He hasn't heard from them yet as to the results.

Medicaid is also "ok". I know someone who has HIV. This person is on medicaid and only allowed to go through an HIV clinic set up by the government. This person was in need of back surgery due to a slipped disc. It took over one year to get the approval from the government for the surgery.

The post office - also going broke.

Social security - also going broke.

Combine this with the ever increasing cost of private health care. I personally don't think we need health care reform. We need health insurance reform. We have the best medical care in the world and I'm not ready to give that up. I certainly don't know all of the answers, but I do know that the government has a history of creating government programs, that are either mismanaged or are going broke.

I do know that private insurance costs can't continue the way they have been. I think tort reform is one piece of the solution. Opening state boarders for more competition. And the government has got to stop placing mandates on these insurance companies.

I see us at a critical cross roads with health care. I just pray to God they make the right decisions! Our lives depend on it.

Just my 2 cents.

It really disturbs me when I see the caliber of those in Congress who are making the decisions pertaining to health-care when they don't even read the bill, have no clue what the bill will cost, and have no idea of the unintended consequences which may be caused by the changes they're making.

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It really disturbs me when I see the caliber of those in Congress who are making the decisions pertaining to health-care when they don't even read the bill, have no clue what the bill will cost, and have no idea of the unintended consequences which may be caused by the changes they're making.

I have to agree with you. They all seem so disconnected from the rest of us.

It's just all feel good rhetoric from the government.......here's the deal.....there is no money for it.....and the
boomers are a GIANT weight on it......ask the guys/gals at the top of the decision making tree why they wont
address the insurance companies/drug companies etc......SHOW ME THE $$ TRAIL.....SHOW ME AARP $$ TRAIL

If those in the 'feel good' business dont empty their pockets and show the public everything.....I'm sorry to
say that those 'death panels', though they will not be called that.....will exist in a different form......

we have 2 choices....fix the INSURANCE industry or just take everyone else's $$ and pretend to care for every
one else.....

there is no such thing as paid for healthcare......but there is paid for health insurance.......

ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR DEALINGS WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES/DRUG COMPANIES ETC.......

show me the $$ trail........they wont......and remember the boomers are coming and they are taking the next
generations $$ to fund their old age......with or without death panels.....pay attention.....

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NPR reporter pressured over Fox role
By: Josh Gerstein
December 6, 2009 10:36 PM EST

Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.

According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR’s executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network’s supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.

At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she’d seen no significant change in Fox’s programming and planned to continue appearing on the network, the source said.

NPR’s focus on Liasson’s work as a commentator on Fox’s “Special Report” and “Fox News Sunday” came at about the same time as a White House campaign launched in September to delegitimize the network by painting it as an extension of the Republican Party.

One source said the White House’s criticism of Fox was raised during the discussions with Liasson. However, an NPR spokeswoman told POLITICO that the Obama administration’s attempts to discourage other news outlets from treating Fox as a peer had no impact on any internal discussions at NPR.

Liasson defended her work for Fox by saying that she appears on two of the network’s news programs, not on commentary programs with conservative hosts, the source said. She has also told colleagues that she’s under contract to Fox, so it would be difficult for her to sever her ties with the network, which she has appeared on for more than a decade.

Liasson did not return phone calls seeking comment on the meetings. In an e-mail message, she declined to be interviewed for this article.

NPR spokeswoman Dana Rehm declined to discuss Liasson and her work on Fox.

“It isn’t our practice to comment about internal conversations or about personnel matters, and we’re not going to be changing that policy,” she said. “As part of our ongoing work we have internal conversations about talent appearances all the time that are part of our regular editorial evaluation.” .......................>>>>.....................>>>>...................http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29892.html