Your mistake is thinking that a Republican congressman would ever make a health care move that doesn't line the pockets of the private health care industry.

They don't care about the budget, their constituents, or the future of the country. They just do what big business tells them to do.

So there is no need to point out their hypocrisy, because they won't see it. They are steadfastly pro big business, and will say anything to stay that way.

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Where did the term 'Gatekeepers' come from- Private insurance corps who refuse meds and tx's to their members. so claiming the Gov't will get between you and your doc, only proves these assholes have no concept about what the rest of US go through to get what our Docs prescribe. How many times in even ONE visit do we average americans hear "I'll check with your insurance to see if they cover it"???
As for long Waits for care- obviously these Boys don't have to make a Gyno appt.Since OB/GYN has such astronomical malpractice insurance liability- There are hardly anymore going into the specialty. And that's not to mention the wait once you show up for your appt.
As for Picking My doc- My insurance sends me a list of providers who take my insurance (and I'm under a Union coverage), which means I am NOT Free to Choose my doc. My doc decides to drop out of accepting that insurance, I'm Shit out of Luck, unless I want to pay entirely out of pocket.
The Repugs aren't just out of touch, they have proven they have no interest in finding out what the realities are for the majority of Americans- Reason they rejected and scraped those 'Listening tours'. They are not merely the party of "No" , They are the party of "SO"!
By blocking REAL healthcare reform the Repugs are committing a grave act of Treason-Literally Prohibiting 'We the People' from "Life,Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness"- How many Americans can't afford their heart Meds, their Rheumatoid Arthritis meds, skipping those antidepressants?
Worse yet they are committing Economic Treason. Since the Federal Gov't is the Elected Representative of 'We the people', blocking access of our Representative body to the Free market as a provider, essentially is prohibiting US from participating in the market. Relegating US to merely labor and consumer, means WE are not being granted access to the other side of the Market Table as a producer/provider/seller of Goods and services. Sound Familiar to what transpired in the Feudalistic Cast System of Old Europe? Only the Nobles and Merchant class were afforded a space in the market, along the means (land,Status) to produce such 'wares'.
The Repugs have been waging a war agaisnt our 'inalienable Rights' and Our Free Market ideology for far too long- Time to call them what they are, TREASONOUS.

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Remove their great health coverage and have them set up a savings account to cover their health care. Take away their pensions and secret service protection. They are costing us too much money for the job they do to ruin this country.

We are broke from their bad decisions. Let's hire a private management corporation to run our government (oh I forgot that's what we have now).

Yes...we have "choice" Rebubs. Choice to die without proper care. Choice to which curb we and our children will sleep on when we lose our home from health care costs. Choice to die. All this on our own dollar.

Your promises during the campaign were not really true right? We demanded national health care without insurance profiteers. In many past elections this was the mandate. We've been asking for it for many years. Guess the memories are going from those politicans who can't keep track of what they tell us. We'd better replace them pronto.

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it's the outright BETRAYAL by the democrats that has me LIVID. we need single-payer not-for-profit...we need hr 676...and we need it NOW! the dems have the power to do it, but they are too heavily indebted to the industry...we're screwed and alternet is deflecting our attention to a handful of repubs that were never going to be on board anyway...

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