The House is about to socialize your medicine, and your life.

[Riot]

Here is a good chart that was around in the newspapers this past week, comparing specific provisions within the three health reform bills out there approved by House/Senate:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6709715.hmtl

[ArlJim78]

The Republicans offered up a very reasonable plan, that addressed all the issues that people are concerned about. Tort reform, opening up competition, providing a hardship safety net for people who fall through the cracks, regulating industry the industry for pre-existing conditions, etc. The CBO scored the plan and found it actuall reduced costs. Their plan wouldn't raise taxes and punish businesses and explode the deficit like Obama/Pelosi would. Of course this plan was dead on arrival and was shot down in a hot minute.

the Democrats main focus isn't on solving problems. their first mission is to take over the system, that to them solves the problem. they only know one approach, total central command and control, that way it consolidates more power in Washington and guarantees that they will be able to meddle in ours lives forever.

they'll pass some hideous bill, but I'm not too worried about it because I'm pretty confident it will be scrapped by the next congress.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

The Republicans offered up a very reasonable plan, that addressed all the issues that people are concerned about. Tort reform, opening up competition, providing a hardship safety net for people who fall through the cracks, regulating industry the industry for pre-existing conditions, etc. The CBO scored the plan and found it actuall reduced costs. Their plan wouldn't raise taxes and punish businesses and explode the deficit like Obama/Pelosi would.

The Republican plan most certainly did NOT address "all the issues that people are concerned about."
One of the issues people are concerned about - for example - is the 17% of Americans who currently have no health insurance. According to the CBO evaluation, the Republican plan....would make zero impact on that number over the next decade. That's right, they came up with a health care plan that doesn't provide people who don't have coverage with coverage.
I think that qualifies as an issue that at least some people are concerned about.
Read for yourself:
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/127463
or read the CBO review itself:
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10705

The direct quote from them is:
"The share of legal nonelderly residents with insurance coverage in 2019 would be about 83 percent, roughly in line with the current share."

Listen, I'm not a big fan of this half-assed measure that the House passed (or the cowardly Democrats who passed it) but lets not pretend for one second that John Boehner has all the answers.