It's not about health care IF you have your own, or company supplied, or government supplied (Medicare & VA) health care already. It's totally about health care if you can't get it now, even if you want to pay for it!


I couldn't care less if Congress is forced to have the same "public option" as the bill has- that's an immature red herring. Talking about illegal immigrants and abortion provisions and "privacy" are also red herrings.

Illegal aliens are not covered by this bill. End of story- except for those who want to perpetuate a lie. Federal funding for abortions- still banned as it was in the Hyde Amendment. What the conservatives wanted was to outlaw all legal abortion- that's a whole different argument.

Finally, and most importantly, your "private" insurance company already has every bit of information you could ever give them about your health, and they have some low level bureaucrat making life-or-death decisions about you based on some book of "covered" & "non-covered" illnesses. It's disingenuous to claim that some "shadow" government will somehow take away your God-given freedom if health care is made more affordable. If it hasn't happened yet with Social Security, FICA, federal taxes, the Census and other programs, then why assume all of a sudden things will change.

On the other hand, if you believe that the loss of privacy and freedom is already a fact (which, personally, I do "in part"), then this isn't going to make it any worse than it already is!