Have you lived in the U.S. where no bill in Congress is brought to help members of the country, but are all for interest groups and lobbyists who have the money to pay a politician off? The system, as is, will bankrupt every middle-class American, causing great economic hardship, worse than what we are currently in, if it isn’t stopped. Greed is the end-all of conversations here in our private insurance industry.

That sums it up nicely Mary, thank you.

Quit maligning and misinforming. Obama the miscommunicator doesn’t have have clue. But what’s your excuse?

National Helath Systems WORK! UK and CANADA are living proof. As someone real, don’t rely on sensationalist daily junk papers only.

Read in N.Y. Times Nicholas Kristof’s article on 59-year-old American lawyer *Diane Tucker* who immigrated to Canada and became a permanent resident for no other reason than its NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM that WORKS.

Not a single Canadian files for bankruptcy as result of Medical Bills. 62% Americans do!

And if anyone tries to mess around with this, in Canada or UK, that politician’s days in power would be numbered and he’d find himself on his posterior outside Parliament. Google Tommy Douglas….

I have relatives in UK, France and what you are stating is absurd! The UK would be filled with riots were the goverment to lay a finger on healthcare system there! It works and no one goes without care if they need it! Read more facts!@
As for Canada, jsut read this story:

N.Y.Times (Nic Kristof) The story of Diane Tucker,
the American 59-year-old Lawyer who immigrated to Vancouver, CANADA for one reson….its National Single-Payer Healthcare! And google Tommy Douglas.

UK and Canada have excellent singlepayer systems that work for their citizens without allowing them to fall prey to insurance vultures. And guess what/ “European”? They spend one-third of their GDP than the U.S. And they don’t have THIRD WORLD U.S. HEALTHCARE to show for it. Longevity factor, infant mortality….#37 –one below Costa Rica!

And you have grudges agaisnt the UK/Canadian great systems that treat their citizens like “PATIENTS” and not prey on them like “CUSTOMERS”.
It’s a bloody Human right! Learn, European, learn!

How can you possible MISLEAD in your post so much. My relatives in UK and France would prove you wrong in a second. You believe, like the regressive Republicans, what a few nasty stories have to tell you. I doubt you even know anything about how healthcare runs in the UK! Giving you pills, you say? No bloody way, old chap! They refer you to specialists at a moment’s notice, and if you don’t like your practitioner, you can get another one. As a matter of fact, there’s a drive for U.K. PREVENTIVE medicine right now! Don’t lie to us!

And just take a trip, oh European?, up north to Canada to see that they haven’t had a bankruptcy due to inability to pay medical bills since 1965!
Why don’t you go closer to home to spin your untruths, pseudo-European my posterior!

Go to Canada and see why people there LOVE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE! They treat people humanely, have access to state-of-the-art medicine and, yes, they may wait a bit for ELECTIVE surgeries (they have the option to go the U.S. and this may even by covered by Canadian healthcare!). But hell, don’t try to tell me that any Canadian would give up his/her HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE to allow the damn Insurance company vultures to prey on them!
Psst, “European”, the longevity factor has the Canadians beating the U.S. by 3 years for women! And infants’ mortality is not a Botswana equivalent as it’s here in u.s.a.! Gimme a break. Do your research.
And read N.Y.Times, Nic Kristof’s article on 59-year-old American lawyer who immigrated to Vancouver, Canada for no other reason than….national Healthcare! Her name is DIANE TUCKER. (June 11/09 NYT) And don’t be like Obama–The Great Miscommunicator who thinks the U.S. has 57 states. Get real! READ FACTS not fiction.
And google “Tommy Douglas” while you’re at it, oh European One!

However, my suggestion would be to courier this to all members of Congress and Senate individually. Send it marked “URGENT” to Obama himself and ask him to read its sallient points and then COMMUNICATE it via a press conference.

Obama has proven himself the greatest MISCOMMUNICATOR since Hoover. He squandered his greatest opportunity to EXPLAIN, INFORM AND EDUCATE people that he’s blaming now of being rowdy republicans! They’re not. They’re ordinary people concerned about their healthcare status! Obama has failed to do what he’s supposedly famous for: Communicate succinctly and accurately to these suffering people that there is no risk–only benefits.
Instead, Obama dropped cowardly the ball and I doubt he’ll be able to bounce it back to his court anytime soon. Ironic indeed that people voted for him citing his great communication talents. But then again with l30 days in Senate inexperience, voting ‘present’ all the time, what did you expect!
The Democratic Party blew it by pushing Hillary off the stage while still fighting and winning–and for what? The Greatest Miscommunicator’s screw-up of Helathcare Reform. Now’s it’s cowardly “insurance reform”…

Can he explain why Canada spends one-third of the U.S. of its GDP on healthcare? Why since l965 in Canada no BANKRUPTUCIES DUE TO MEDICAL BILLS have ever occurred? Yet in the U.S. we witness the SHAMEFUL squandering of funds by insurance predators allowing to make a profit on the backs of uninformed, captive citizens?
*****62% of all bankrutpcies in U.S. are the result
*****of not being able to pay their Medical Bills!!!

Why did Obama fail in telling stories of real people at the start, injecting some real Passion for healthcare from the beginning? He LOST THE MESSAGE a long time ago. (Emannuel Rahmbo failed Obama, too, but then his perennially angry middle finger excuses him)

Amazing that Obama lost the message because he didn’t have the requisite passion to tell stories that would have resonated with the public. Instead, he allowed the fanatic regressive wingers of the Republican party to become the legitimate Communicators that carried the message to the people.
Shame….

In addition, you aren’t able to understand what treatments were rendered in the ER, and you suspect they were not worth $1000. This also makes you angry and Americans as a whole need to help you out.

Glad we cleared up your expectations of the rest of us. I think I understand your definition of “full coverage healthcare”.

Go ahead and send me the bill for your kid. I will go beat $100 each out of my neighbors and send it to you.

Its the least we can do.