Taxing the 1% of our taxpayers never seems to bother the democrats.   Get health care for everyone and let someone else pay for it.  Pay for all of those people who are grossly overweight from poor choices in their diets, the drug addicts, alcoholics  and nicotine addicts who have enough money to buy their drugs, alcohol and cigarettes but, well, hey, they just don’t have the money to pay for health coverage and, hey, they really don’t want a job because the drugs have taken over their lives and who would hire them anyway?    Let the rich pay for the illegal aliens who need health care…why not…it’s America and the rich can pay for those who just, simply, don’t want to fork out the extra money to do "the right thing for their families."   Open the gates and let them in….the taxpayer’s will support them.

Since we already pay for those who are at poverty level through our socialist programs, maybe the rich can update their big screen TV’s and their cars for them.  

The problem with this socialist program is that it will fail just like medicare and welfare….and that’s okay to the democrats because it won’t be "their" money it will be the rich paying for it.   No problem.

Barbara, there are over 76 million baby boomers.

deber b, that was a great post.  Thank you for showing the facts about the multitude of residual problems it causes to legalize products that are not only devistating for the person doing them, but for all of us.

I do think we should get the non-violent drug offenders out of our jails and prisons. I have not done my research on this, but I highly doubt they get the total rehab help they need in those places. 

These people should be in rehab centers teaching them how to stay clean as well as how to actually live day to day. We need to teach them how to work and be good parents to their children, so we don’t get the next generation of ‘throw-away’ people.

They need to learn to make meaningful contributions to society instead of just learning to work the social-systems and being ‘gimmies’ or locked away so we don’t have to be uncomfortable in looking at them or dealing with their issues.

I’m sure programs like this would cost much less than it does to throw them in with violent offenders behind locked barbed gates patroled by armed guards.

I have taken into my home, a number of thrown away teenagers (kids who were living on the streets due to being kicked out) on my own without any government assistance, (but with the full knowledge of at least one parent or guardian,) and it is frustrating and madening and wonderful and makes you want to scream and laugh at the same time sometimes.

I see how I’ve been able to make a difference in some cases and seemingly failed in others. Sometimes you never know how much difference you actually did make, but we all need to at least make an effort to help those around us.

Legalize drugs and prostitution, that exploit and pray on the vunerable in our society, to pay for health care for everyone else? Heck no!

Obama’s plan is not something I would be likely to support.  this isn’t cananda or the UK, it’s America, and our government as far back as i can remember has been taxing the American middle and lower class to the point of poverty.  Is this going to be the goal for the next four to eight yrs. Just because I am on disability with the Navy and Social Security I still pay over 100 each every month for this insurance, and the copay on meds is killing me.

we need to take care of Americans not people in other countries especially if they attacked us, no one came ever to help us rebuild after a war, England,France, Japan, Iran, no one So I say the hell with them all and take careof the American public, the ones who put you in office.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…..

and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…..

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

the health care payment system, private and federally funded is not working for patient or providor.  it has not for years, we predicted it, we ignored it and now it’s here and biting us hard. Americans health is pathetic. We need a system of prevention.  We have reliable information to show each individual what health issues could cause them problems.  We have answers on how to solve health issues and guidelines for people to follow.

you can look at all the statistics and read one side and another and fight about it till the cows come home.  The only way to solve it is restructure it totally and it will cost money i’m sure to do that.  BUT in the long run, as Obama stated from day one in office, it will be for the future of our childrens’ children.  We have to suffer and sacrifice now in order to turn things around.  We are in a depression!!! and ONE contributing factor is because people could not pay for thier catastrophic health care that occured because they didn’t have preventative health care.  So, they couldn’t go to work and then they couldn’t pay thier mortgage.

So the people who do have health care will probably have to suffer for it, but if they have health care that means they have a job.  If they have a job I’m sure they can find something in their budget, YES ONE MORE THING, that they can sacrifice for the health of another human being.  Like for instance instead of 400 channels through cable, downsize, save a few bucks, get your fat ass off the couch and go work out on that treadmill thats sitting in the basement.