Applauding the Retard.

Reich writes: "Medicare built on Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal notion of government as insurer, with citizens making payments to government, and government paying out benefits..."

Uh.. actually that was Bismarck's idea in 1888. Teddy Roosevelt then cribbed in 1912 with his proposal for national health care.

It is important for Americans to understand how socially retarded their country is.

There is no "libertarian" virtue in this. This idea that the many exist for the profit of a few is simply vile. Obama's health care proposal is just another variation on the theme of trickledown.

Yes Congress has done nothing for decades. But if you want us to accept that this legislation is going to get the job done, we the American People WON'T. Because you are far from correct. There MUST be a public option, and ultimately, health insurance will self-destruct as we move into single payer Medicare. Ronald Reagan was a criminal. Richard Nixon was also. To discuss this as if their policies were actually on intelligent decision-making in the interests of the American people is absurd. They both make me want to vomit. Richard Nixon is primarily responsible for this catastrophic MESS called the health insurance industry that we are entangled in. If we had gone the way of Canada instead back then, look where we'd now be! Remember too what we did in Latin America with Ronnie? Or how he blacklisted and hunted Americans down during the McCarthy era? Made his fame and fortune in politics thereafter? I'm so sick of listening to the "new liberalism" polishing these creatures from the lagoon up as if they don't have all that slime dripping from them!

Let's help Greyson of Florida with his simple bill to offer medicare to any one who would like to buy into it. The game is not over, it is just the first quarter.

Reich is correct. Certainly there are many who wanted more than this legislation provided. But this is much more significant than my good friends on the left are willing yet to acknowledge.

Let's not forget that being progressive means that you make progress. This is a big progressive step that can be built upon. Had we missed this opportunity by fighting among ourselves, we may not have had another opportunity for a generation.

The U.S. is being turned into a version of communist China, but with virtually all major goods and services outsourced to them. Our human rights and civil liberties to be left alone by government are being done away with; and, increasingly, "Big Brother" is becoming more and more intrusive in our lives. But, because most "Americans" have been indoctrinated and conditioned to blindly trust government for decades, or do little or nothing about its intrusions and ever-increasing controls, more than they allegedly "distrust government", and because they've been intentionally and negatively acclimated to believe things are supposed to be this way, and/or that they "can't do anything about it anyway", enough people aren't doing enough to put the brakes on out-of-control government, and those who are seeking to do so are considered to be "traitors", "terrorists", "national security threats", "enemy beligerants", "communists", "hippies", "niggers", "ragheads", "Islamo-fascists", "conspiracy theorists", "crazy", etc., by the majority of brainwashed, "good German", Americans...

FOR THE SAKE OF DEMOCRATS and any future 'They' might dream of, I hope a significant part of this new Healthcare Legislation is dedicated to SPINAL RESEARCH....

Saying that this legislation passed is worth anything to anyone but the corporations (read insurance companies) that forced its terms, and is anything more than a subterfuge to attempt salvaging Obama’s poor record of achievements by claiming that he achieved SOMETHING... is like waving a fist in front of someone’s face while sucker-punching them in the gut. It is like saying that a little bit of mercury in drinking water is better than a lot, that nuclear power is green, or that vegetables irrigated with sewage can be organic because sewage is natural, fluorine in drinking water is safe, and pork is the other white meat. Yet people believe almost anything when government officials put their stamps of approval on absurd statements fraudulently derived. Well, this health care “reform” was fraudulently derived. Nobody asked the people what they want – and when surveyed, the people wanted a public option and less monopolistic insurance company control of health care. So it’s all right that anyone, even a minority, is forced to buy something they don’t want or can’t afford? And that a few senators can negate women’s rights for abortion coverage? I bet those same self-righteous sages would scream bloody murder if someone tried to legislate non-coverage of Viagra. Yes, sewage is natural, this “new deal” stinks, and the pork in this legislation has been carefully trimmed and basted by the rich white men who have been grilling the people and feeding us poison literally and figuratively while they dine on ambrosia. It is time for us to learn how to sucker punch back. And not be afraid to do so. A few well-landed blows to the fat guts of the self-made gods who dictate our daily lives would open their eyes, because a little pain, they are saying, is good to suffer... until something better comes along to take it away, right? Most of us will be unaffected, a few will be adversely affected, and a few more will benefit... while a select few... will still profit greatly. How is this really better, or any different than what it alleges to reform?