GOP didn't act then, why would it now?

, the GOP is all talk, no action -- unless, you consider obstructing and saying NO action.

Obstructing and saying no is action. The GOP complains that Democrats don't consider their idea's for hearth care when their idea is not to mess with the status quo.

It is amazing to me that Republicans like Pence get on television and spout BS like they do assuming that we've all forgotten how badly they screwed up during the Bush administration. The best is when they say that it was all Bush's fault like we are to believe that they weren't in congress and in control at the same time.

Can anyone name one member of the GOP in the congress or the senate who isn't a lying jackass?!?!

The republicans would love for the democrats to give them a clean piece of paper, and we could start all over, all the way back to the beginning. Think of the time we could waste, maybe all the way to the next election. Of course we still won't ever vote for it, unless you give us exactly what we want. We can still throw up are hands an shed tears for the press, that the democrats won't work with us, and we tried real hard to.

They mean to have a piece of legislation ready to debate if not by the end of this millennium, certainly by the end of the next. What happens in that debate is anybody's guess; perhaps they will need to begin again, again.

Every moment we don't get a health care access bill, it's more money in their pockets. It's all about the money.

in the mean time, those of us who are disabled, yet do not qualify for medicare, YET, simply...DIE!!!

luv,

ron

It's a ruse. Senate Republicans don't want to start over. I swear, this is a pathetically transparent case of "Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown" that I've seen. (And like Lucy, those of you who have had a hand in it should be bitch-slapped).

They are only saying this now because they now know that Dems have caught on to their little schtick and will start passing everything using reconciliation. Once Dems have drunk from that heady power and uses it once, there will be no stopping them. And the Republicans want to delay stop that one before it gets started.

Too late, Senate Republicans. You had multiple chances to cooperate. You didn't. You blocked. You obstructed. You proposed bills that you later voted against because it would have made the Dems look good. Just STFU now and watch the Dems reconcile.

This is just finishing up...

Monday, March 8, 2010 noon..

The President of the United States is on CNN & MSNBC talking about HEALTH CARE in a live speech. He is addressing concerns point by point.

On FOX...they are are ignoring the President.

Fair & Balanced????

Or so blatently one-sided that it reeks ?

The GOP have been working on health care for 50 years now. now they want to start over. WTF

The only reason they want a "clean sheet of paper" is to wipe their butts with it.

I have been asking the same question every since I have been on the Newsvine...,

If the Republicans had a plan for health care reform, and had meant to do something about it why didn't they implement it when they had all 3 branches of government from 2000 to 2006?

This debate has been going on for nearly 100 years. It originally started with Teddy Roosevelt. IT was brought up again with FDR during the New Deal and his call for a 2^nd Bill of Rights. Both times it was soundly rejected as it was contrary to the intent of the Constitution as it would give government entirely too much power. The intent of the founders was limited government and the Constitution was designed to be the toll of that limited government, however should the people decide that the was an issue of such magnitude that the government should address it the Constitution could be amend it to reflect the will of the people. We as a society have done this several times I do not see why it cannot be done now as it should be. If the founders intended universal healthcare for all it would have been in the bill of rights and the enumerated powers clause, it is neither. Pestilence, Disease, and Death are not new and occurred much more frequently then and for far greater reasons than it does now yet universal health care remains absent in our founding documents.

Additionally it is not legal for the government to require the general population to purchase as service. The feds have the ability to levy taxes which could be used to indirectly mandate the purchasing of the service thus skirting the intent of our founding documents. If you all want to avoid all of the problems and the certain Supreme Court challenge just amend the Constitution. The only entities that have the authority to establish healthcare are the individual states. However as it is constituted today nearly all or all depending on who and what you read suggest that state funded healthcare does not work and at a minimum leads to cost overruns or are driving the states towards insolvency.

You look at Europe, and Canada you have the same problem, and not nearly the same population within the individual countries, enormous taxes, long waits, and if you have the money you come to the use to receive life saving surgery in a timely manner. The only thing those countries may have going for them is inexpensive medical drugs, but the system as a whole is abysmal.

Why nothing gets done- because they get lots of lobby money from insurance companies to do nothing.