"Don't take away my health care." Or, put another way: "Keep re-electing me so that I keep getting my free, taxpayer funded 'Cadillac' health plan for House members."

the rhetoric is just so overblown.

She is so wrong. Single-payer is the crown jewel we seek. Oh, and, fuck you, Michelle.

I'm continually amazed at the catchy terms these nuts come up with. Trouble is, they don't seem to understand it only works for about 30% of Americans that are stupid enough to fall for it.
Good luck getting elected in future. Most of the country is a loss for you.

Since the rise of Michelle Bachmann, has Marilyn Manson been seen in public? It's a striking resemblance.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed Michele Bachmann's political career that she would go on national television to call on supporters to descend on Washington, invade the halls of Congress "at high noon" to protest health care reform, and confront members of Congress, looking "at the whites of their eyes."

Bachmann pulled similar publicity stunts five years ago while crusading in the Minnesota state Senate for a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions.

More at http://www.immelman.us/news/bachmann-stunt-back-to-roots/

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One of those 'ISM' that Al Gore is particular about but could be cause embezzling tactical foreign command would turn toward what is called extortion.ism of taxpayer money. It works like this, charity workers & American's working abroad would be licensed to be in a country if they have paid for the government Insurance, if not they have to pay a Tax and another Tax for having to be placed into jail or prison whichever is available and not over crowded and that could cause their Visa to expire and if that happens the State Dept must craft a Amnesty and pay the overhead for their release or they would forever and ever be in that country and no one know where they are. There's got to be a easier way to do this Insurance thing without leaving the door wide open for extremist foreign leaders to take a unfair advantage of taxpayers money. I propose that we lower the standards of Insurance Companies, so that we give the hospitals and doctors priority instead. In doing this another nation cannot climb on the backs of taxpayers and force them into their jails and prisons and steal taxpayer money cause I know they do not intend to mandate changes of their hospitals and medical staff but America does educate doctors longer to know that Insurance Companies are really Land Brokerages with a flair for spying on doctors and hospitals. Another service is prescription drugs, insurers do not need to become involved cause they are a third party to that as well and really hospitals and doctors should be given priority then their prescriptions might appear at pharmacies and druggist locations to fill prescriptions so that what they order then becomes a priority for Medicare & Medicaid to see to it those drugs are price protected to provide the lowest cost possible, nothing on the score of stragglers whom can't meet deadlines cause that is what it is about - service demands staying on schedule. I see that a schedule for H1N1 is profiled but keeping that a certainty is about impossibilities, it remains to be seen that pharmaceutical makers must expand their manufacturing base and produce more jobs else the situation can only escalate. So its the first time in history H1N1 moved on the world, there will be other situations that could be worse so we need to have better planning in the future if not sooner than later. Medical Equipment is a necessity, almost like having to have a oven to cook in a refrigerator to hold food and a sink to wash dishes according to charitable Food Stamp suppliers. If for some reason a individual becomes dehydrated those things would become a waste due to that individual passing out and not being able to wake up, roaches, ants, maybe even birds or rats would quickly surround the individual and death become evident. It should not be that way but it is just like that in many cities where dehydration could be something else as well like no heating so the individual freezes to death. In a Health Care Insurance we should require that certain people be looked after like checking for a daily newspaper that is delivered so those things do not happen and that is my idea of what a Insurance Company should be responsible for. Like it is now a Insurance Company is nothing more than a daily balance sheet on a computer that has no connectivity for workers in the field. Now for state services why separate Departments so that they could eliminate the Insurance Sales Team within those building entirely since people see people know people that are sick and take people that are sick to hospitals or call 911 for them, its nothing to call a insurer it just never happens so why put a bundle into a Insurance Trust that will not be needed except for buying the newest computing system and paying for the best of the best business security system, it is wasteful spending and you tell Obama I told you he has little respect for the American people to adjust himself to the needs they have to design a Insurance that is lowest in cost and objectivity, to drive for the best solution for hospitals and doctors because a insurance business never ever needs a doctor and seldom anyone goes from there to a hospital. People use Insurance to borrow money from their policy, its how people have managed their lives for years and years, if you change anything show these people that there is a better way to get money besides going to a Insurance Company to get money, show them that Uncle Sam can produce money for them in a emergency. All I see right now is that Uncle Sam can slam the governmental doors shut preventing people from getting anything cause uncle Sam tells me that there is getting less and less for them to get from the government till one day the government will have a sub category instead of being respectable. Now if he responds back telling you he has better things to do suggest him to cram his head into a hole in one at the golf course so Congress can walk past and club him on his rear end one at a time then all the people can at not cost to them and that guarantees that the deficit will not increase at all as Nancy Pelosi has planned the future for investment opportunity.

fcleff ... for someone that has nothing to comment but to simply screw around with words themselves what does it matter if they have a grammar?
I figure those folk are going to vote for another Obama one day and America will again be showing her ignorant hind side to the rest of the world.
The best ignorance is one which you can share, if you grew up in a world that sharing was nothing more than a shot in the dark at someone each time they said something you opposed then your the only ingnorant person in humanity with nothing to suggest, use you brain sometime to comment about the situation written in the article or simply shut-up.

Work Credits increase with age from 31 through above 60 and the total at 60 and above is 40 work credits so how could unemployment ever create qualifiable Medicare recipients? Change that SSA Law and there's no need to do anything except update the existing optional government Insurance plans.

you know, i don't like the wacko, but she's right on this. no matter what they pass they will keep adding to it in years to come, until we all look back and say 'how the hell did this happen?'. i don't care, i'm on medicare already, but i will say this, government healthcare is better then nothing, but just barely.

I am currently an upper middle class engineer with an employer provided health care plan (a high deductible plan). I would much prefer a single payer system like they have in every other civilized first world country. I want those that didn't have my opportunities to have access to health care. I know folks that can barely do basic math and have a hard time finding any job at all and certainly can't find a job that pays for health insurance. If they get sick, I'd like to know they can go to a doctor and not just suffer and die needlessly.

I am willing to pay more in taxes to get such a plan if its necessary. I am willing to spend a bit longer in line at the doctor, if that is necessary. What I cannot tolerate is a system that allows poor people to suffer needlessly.

Health care should be regarded as a universal human right and not some sort of commodity that is traded on the floors of an exchange.