I really fell if you take the greed and lobbiest out of the health care debate, you can come up with a decent public plan for all at a decent cost.

Universal health care if for all. Obama health care plan divide the US into two camps. The ones having to abide by the health care bill, and the one that do not -- unions, illegals, congress and government. Ones that are taxed and fined to pay for the 45 million without, and the ones not...Segregation at it finest.

We have forgotten that our government has three branches. Congress passes laws, the chief executive (president) enforces the law and the Supreme Cout interprets the law. The president is not king. Obama's approach is the right one. He can suggest that congress passes bills that he would liket to see made into law and then decide whether to sign or not sign them. Thus the president should not be judged on whether certain measures are passed; congress should.

Here's a strategy--get some balls and tell these paid off Republicans and Blue dogs where to go!! If you are going to be Presient, ACT like a President and throw your weight around. Stop all of this Mr. Nice Guy crap or go home.

WHAT GOOD IS HEALTH CARE REFORM WHEN A FEDERAL 'MULTI-AGENCY COORDINATED ACTION PROGRAM' IS DESTROYS THE LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS OF UNJUSTLY TARGETED AMERICANS...

BY MEANS OF A GPS-ACTIVATED CIVILIAN VIGILANTE 'COMMUNITY STALKING' HARASSMENT ARMY;

CO-OPTED LOCAL POLICE;

FINANCIAL SABOTAGE;

AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF SILENT, INJURY- AND ILLNESS-INDUCING MICROWAVE/LASER 'DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS' ...

...THE COVERT TORTURE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS BY THEIR GOVERNMENT.

President Obama must dismantle the Bush-Cheney- spawned, nationwide extrajudicial targeting and punishment "torture matrix" and remove from power the secretive security officials who continue to oversee it.

http://nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america

OR (if link is corrupted / disabled):

http://NowPublic.com/scrivener RE: "GESTAPO USA"

Much of the recent stream of comments attributed to the President seem like a mixture of a news vacume created by the break and those trying to establish their agenda by filling it with leaks that vaguely associate that agenda with the President. Establishing a clearer set of goals could be useful if some reassurance is provided to the American people of a committment to maintain the quality of their health care. It would also be useful to send a clear signal to Nancy Pelosi and the AFL-CIO that they are not going to be able to dictate the terms of a health care bill. But there are two bigger issues. One is establishing a process that can realistically be expected to produce a bill that all of the Democrats in the Senate can support. The other is actually creating a bill that most of the American people understand well enough to have confidence that it is really going to work. The main cause of the growing opposition to health care reform is a growing lack of confidence in the effectiveness in the outcome of the effort. The only way to change that reaction is by actually writing a bill that is worthy of the American people's confidence.

Most of the opposition that has developed in the last 2 months (polls in June showed 73-83% for a public option) has developed from a vacuum of mixed proposals and ideas, none of which constitutes a bill. This vacuum has been filled with the biggest bunch of lies and most extreme hypothetical fears Republican Neocons could imagine, on every healthcare subject.

Sooner or later Americans are going to get the true facts of solid legislation, and that's when opinions will count.

Palmer,Michael; 'The Society'
New York: Bantam Books c.2004
0553802046

Unfortunately the three branches of Government do not practice affirmative action themselves, so Comrade Obama is going to have to play with the big dogs without special help. I think he is painfully aware of this and does not want to put out a stupid health care bill that will be sliced and diced into oblivion. Hmmmm - but he does have to do something - VERY INTERESTING???

If we disagree with THE ONE, will he bring out the guns and shoot us?

It's a little difficult to take the Health Care bill seriously when this administration as well as the majority of the liberal democratic legislators have spent on it....How many months have they labored and toiled on this monstrous bill that would affect almost each and every American? Who is involved in creating a Nationalized Health Care Bill? Let's see, mostly liberal democrats(legislator's). I'm sorry I am having a hard time swallowing alot of this political jargon(rhetoric) that this administration as well as the democratic legislatation is throwing around. It's time for this administration as well as the democratic party to actually do their homework....Why don't these legislators actually consult with health care professionals instead of their friends (lobbyists) who actually know about providing direct patient contact and care.....What a novel idea!! Please don't tell Americans that Rahm Emanuel's brother is a physician and this who they are taking their lead from....