I think the health plan introduced by obama is good for american. Hopefully, no citizen will enjoy the health plan and same time to take a good health.

Is there too much democracy? Are you too involved now? You can see it, at least Sebelius when she stands up and starts getting hell from people, average Americans at these meetings, she doesn't understand it. She's from The Government! You are supposed to sit there, be quiet, respectful, and believe everything she says. You just don't understand. Whenever somebody from Washington comes to tell you how they are going to manage your health care, you're not supposed to say, "Who the hell are you to be managing my health care? You're not a doctor! You're not even a health care professional." They don't react well to you saying and thinking that. I mean, the crowd in that Sebelius and Arlen Specter thing, they were shouting. I don't know if you understood it. "You are lying. That's a lie! You're lying," and Sebelius is totally taken aback, because she knows she's lying, but she doesn't know that you know it. She knows she's lying. She knows that she's walking out there full of it. Specter knows he's walking out there full of it. What they don't think is that you're supposed to know that they're full of it. You're supposed to know your place.

"What diseases are covered?" and I just want you to know that my cousin who is a surgeon and I have read through the bill and she calls me back and she says, "Gwen, this is Medicaid. This is Medicaid. This runs just as Medicaid," because she takes Medicaid patients. She says it's exactly the same language. So the problem with Medicaid is that they do take preexisting conditions. So they'll take your preexisting condition all right, but what she says is that they'll deny you some very needed treatments -- which, you know, considering that this is taxpayer funded, is okay because you can't expect taxpayers to fund every single treatment available to you. It's just too expensive.

Five Freedoms You'll Lose Under Obamacare (According to CNN!)

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072709/content/01125107.html...

Let's not go down that road to withdrawing from dialogue.
In this debate about U.S. Health care on this Observers forum I've seen too much personal criticism. Let's be critical of the issues and the problem, not each other. Likewise, I've read too much defensiveness. I am offended by cheap shots from partisans about Obama's plan, etc. But I will not react in like manner. It's not productive. And please avoid the last stop before plugging one's ears and withdrawing from dialogue: Contempt. Ridicule and contempt serves no one in the long run.

I heard a very good interview between two ideologically opposed experts on the funding of health care in the U.S. and they were respectful and informative, even tho' they did not agree on all points:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=07-28...

Also a fairly even view of the status quo:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=07-27...

More of that kind of debate goes long way.

Doug Jennings
Graphic Artist
Chicago region, USA