You're not getting what you think you are demanding.

You're not getting what you think you are demanding.

I don't rule out the need for a country to arm itself to protect itself. I support paying taxes to arm our military. That's what we do. We pay the military to protect us. It costs money. It causes death. It is necessary at times. Does that mean I think all wars are justified? No.

Health care like anything else costs money too. I just look at how we pay for our own health care in a very different way than you. I look at the free market and private sector to provide jobs for our salaries and insurance for our catastrophic expenses to help cover them. I don't look to government to pay all of my medical expenses. I do not look to those who earn over $3million a year to pay for may medical expenses.

How do you put Marx and Reagan together? When you know what Marx stood for and the results of countries that adopted his ideology, you don't get the results that Reagan institued here. So not sure what you mean by that. . .

By the way…my Republican husband is no longer a Republican (nor is
he a Democrat), primarily because of their refusal to sit down at the
table and have an honest debate about health care reform. Further, he
strongly supports a public option because he has enough real-life
experience with insurers to understand that until they are forced to
deal with their customers honestly, they won't. He will also tell you
about the free markets we don't have in this country, and how the
actions of a few endanger the lives, livelihoods, and financial
security of many. Again, his perspective comes from years of
observation inside and outside of the industry. His word, not mine,
for the intellectual dishonesty of the Republican attitude on health
care reform? Shameful.

That doesn't mean he's turned into a liberal. He hasn't. He's
inherently conservative, and believes the best option for health care
is single payer, because it's the most cost-effective. But he's
pragmatic, and will support a strong public option in lieu of single
payer, with the goal of getting to single payer at some point. He also
believes that Medicare should be expanded to age 50 as part of the
final bill, with Medicare Advantage phased out over the next 10
years. At the core of his beliefs, there is a strong understanding of
the economic disaster awaiting large and small businesses as well as
individuals if we do not get our health care system reformed.

So…I agree to disagree with you. I'm sorry my views disgust you, but
really, try on the other side of the debate for a few minutes and see
if you can at least view it through a less tainted lens than the one
bought and paid for by our insurance lobby. You won't agree, but you
might be less disgusted.

Where were you in Feb/March of 2003, when this war was being launched? I don't know about you but I was out on the streets with hundreds of thousands of people screaming at the top of our lungs that we should not enter into this–faked evidence, it'll be a quagmire (yup, still there, STILL having our servicepeople killed and STILL sucking the life out of our economy), we couldn't win where the British had failed. So unless you can show some evidence that the billions unaccounted for that went to Hallburton pisses you off as much as spending taxpayer money to save 45,000 Americans from needlessly dying for lack of health care per year, you don't have much credibility.

Why shouldn't people who earn more than $3million a year pay more in taxes? You know, like they did under that Marxist Reagan?

Although, with Obama, it's not like we're seeing him take any leadership in getting rid of this unregulated environment even though he has no personal or political conflict of interest in going against Bill.