Comments on: Regarding Healthcare Town-Hall Protesters

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:19:03 +0000

Just FYI I know at least one of the above posters identifies primarily as a conservative. I think civility and sanity is a bipartisan issue. I share your disdain for biased media (liberal or conservative) and echo your endorsement of personal study of original sources.

On that note, if you'd like to know more about the healthcare plans being proposed I suggest you start here:

http://thefactofmyignorance.com/politics/some-basic-info-on-the-houses-healthcare-reform-bill/

Where I've tried to compile several original sources. And for discussion of some of the myths surrounding healthcare reform you can try this article:

http://thefactofmyignorance.com/politics/the-top-7-craziest-myths-about-healthcare-reform/

Which I've sourced with original sources whenever possible. I think you'll find that the actual legislation wouldn't result in a system in which "healthcare is controlled by government" or in which rationing is likely. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on those articles.

By: Down with Big Government

Down with Big Government — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:53:03 +0000

Yikes is right when I see all these posts! The Obama administration is out to systematically turn this country into a socialist nation and you’re all just ready to lay down and let it happen. Apparently you’ve all drunk the Kool-aid the liberal media’s been shoving down your throat. Get informed. Don’t you know if healthcare is controlled by government, you will have rationed care and THEY (congress, etc.) will be exempt from that system? You can’t blame everything on George Bush. You need to open your eyes and see WHY in only 8 months, Obama’s approval rating is down to 42%… he doesn’t know what he’s doing. But that’s okay– sit passively by and don’t hurt anyone’s feelings and you will watch your children and grandchildren suffer the consequences. Better yet, get yourself a copy of the constitution and study up! It’s about time so many American citizens got angry about all these bills being crammed down our throats. Thank God this country’s still free enough for me (and you) to leave these comments… You can thank our founding fathers and our military for that.

By: Always more to learn

Always more to learn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:30:48 +0000

I agree whole heartedly with your post. It is so sad to see the rapid decline of decency, civility and respect in this country.

By: Elise

Elise — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:03:16 +0000

Yikes. This makes me afraid for my country. Thanks for doing the research I would love to do but don’t have the know-how to follow through. I hope to get more familiar with this topic and shall start here.
I hope you enjoyed the email Joel sent you from a “concerned” ward member. It made us laugh and shudder simultaneously.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:39:12 +0000

It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people. And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.

How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a lynch mob advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.