New jobless claims rise unexpectedly...

House approves $290 billion increase in debt limit...

Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill...

House approves $155 billion for 'jobs'...

DOES THAT COUNT YOU ASS?
BUSH SUCKED! STARTED AN ENDLESS WAR! WE KNOW THIS!

FROM 1 "WORST PRESIDENT" to THE NEXT.

who the f--k cares about my name says: -_- fu--ng gay comments made by gay people....... here's what i hafta say to those haters:

I still have high hopes for Obama because he is our current president (what the hell why am i using big words) and let's just make the best of it. He's fucking badass man and I respect him. He is better than McCain and George W. Bush put together and Obama is also making history. Since when was the last time you saw someone like that?

he's interesting and I'm not gonna let a couple of stupid republicans make fun of my pres. like that 'cuz rednecks are the haters and they drink haterade everyday... republicans are the haters with the haterade, and Obama is wiping the haters off his shoulders day-by-day...

f--k republicans (who think wrong about Obama)

First of all, these "common people" protesting against health care reform are revealed day after day as being mostly: a) employees of the health insurance industry, which is probably coercing them into joining these "demonstrations" at risk of losing their jobs (hence their insurances); b) members of right wing terrorist militia; c) affiliated to the Republican party. Hardly representatives of the "masses" with no vested political interest.
Secondly, even if they were "common people", they are badly informed ones: a single-payer, government-run system would mean affordable, universal, non-deniable health care for ALL. "Affordable" means nothing to these protesting morons?
So let me explain what it means in other, civilized countries (ie. pretty much the whole of the Western world except America), by using my experience:
I've lived in Italy, the UK, the US and Canada, and only in the US was I ever denied health care despite the fact I was paying for garbage, profit-oriented, private insurance. I could not afford to have the operation I needed because I would have had to pay 20% co-pay = thousands of dollars even with insurance.
I was also constantly billed for treatments I had received but my insurance never told me were not included in the plan, which caused me to run into debt and get bad credit.
I came to live in Canada for my university studies and after 3 months I was on the provincial health plan and with only a few weeks wait I was able to have my operation, at NO extra cost above the pittance I pay each month into the health plan.
Why on earth would anybody in their sane mind prefer to spend $500+ a month for a health care that is still limited and not 100% available, with huge deductibles and co-pays to boot, instead of paying $54 a month? That's how much it costs me to have total health care in Canada. Think of all the good stuff I can do with that extra $450 in my pockets!
I've been here 4 years; at $54 a month (bar the first 3 months when I had to have private, and rather inexpensive, insurance) that makes $2,430 for total health care. How many months does that cover for the average US health insurance - without including all the deductibles and co-pays?
In the 25 years I lived in Italy, and the 15 I lived in England, I didn't even have to pay that little for health care: it was FREE and comprehensive. This may have changed now, and people may have to pay a small tax, but it's still a pittance against the thousands of dollars Americans pay for LIMITED health insurance.
In most of the European countries and Canada, where there is universal health care, private insurances are also available which will help cover the cost of whatever procedure may not be included in the national plan (and these are NEVER urgent or specialized care; they usually have to do with alternative medicine; or things like massage therapy; and dental which used to be free in all these countries but sadly it is not anymore).
None of my friends in Italy and the UK, nor anybody they know, has ever died while waiting "years" for operations or medical treatments; nor have they ever been denied medical care.
All people outside the US, no matter how much they might grumble and complain about their country's health care, consider themselves lucky to have universal health care and would never change that. They are also baffled by the American people's ideological, crazy opposition to PUBLIC health care.
US health care (or rather, lack thereof) is THE biggest scam perpetrated by rampant capitalism at the expense of people's health and lives.
Here's an idea for all those history-ignorant wackos out there who go around with pictures of Obama=Hitler:
it is in fact private health care that is fascism: it denies people any real choice by forcing them to shell out hard-earned money for what is a very poor service. There is no real competition in that market: all health insurances in the US play by the same totalitarian rules, which they make up to suit their own financial interests, never that of their insured.
The idea that someone with a "pre-existing condition" should be denied health care is also scarily similar to Nazi eugenics: it "weeds out" those already weakened by a health problem and gives health care only to the "worthy" ones, those in good shape. Exactly the same principles used by Nazi doctors when they were eliminating those they saw as carriers of inferior and weaker genes.
Talk about "killing granny" and "death panels"! The reality is that, in America, the old are the only ones who will not die for lack of medical care because they can get Medicare: a GOVERNMENT program! It's the rest of us under 65 who are likely to die because our blood-sucking corporate insurances will bump us off their plans any time one of their CEOs needs cash to jump on his private jet and get his dick sucked by under-age prostitutes in Thailand; or go to Las Vegas and gamble all his (=OUR) money off; or spend a week of his salary (=OUR money) to indulge in a three-day cocaine binge.
Obviously more Americans need to be taken off their vile insurance plans and lose all health care and die because of it before the country finally wakes up to the notion that only a single-payer plan will ever work.
For my part, when I get back to the US, if the public option does not pass, I will refuse to buy private insurance and give my money to these leeches; I am going to pay out of pocket for any treatment I need and I will only go to doctors who believe in the single-payer system and are members of Physicians for a National Health Program
http://www.pnhp.org/
Americans who believe the nonsensical propaganda about public health care would do well to go to this site: it contains a lot of useful statistics and information on how health care is organized in the rest of the world (=better than in the US).
Maybe some of these ignorant people will think my ideas make me a communist; I think they make me a rational person with an ethical conscience and no desire to give my blood to corporate vampires.

hey guys!
I'm Portuguese (it means i'm from a poor country next to Spain, in the corner of Europe)
If i may say something about the subject..
I can tell you that we have that kind of socialist health care system,
meaning that if i need to go to a Hospital with a broken arm, I leave in a couple of hours, with the respective treatment that costed somemething like... $5?
Can you imagine that our right wing polititians want to establish an ealthcare system using the actual American one as an exemple?
I don't have private insurance, and if i was unimployed i wold pay $0.
Isn't socialism great?
Private insurance companies need us more than we need them!
Sorry about the English, i've said i'm Portuguese.

I just don't understand why adult civilized people would protest against affordable healthcare?

Maybe it's a sign of a failing educational system as well?