The timing of the Democrats' health care bill is impeccable. Everything else--the taxes on health care, the mandate that everybody buy insurance, the further bureaucratization of medicine--is a monstrosity. Just as the vote on the House bill and the procedural vote in the Senate took place on Saturdays, the day of the week when people are paying the least attention, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid schedules the substantive vote on the health care overhaul for the weekend before Christmas--the time of the year when Americans are paying the least attention. Do you think the Democrats realize their plan is a political liability? In addition to scheduling the holiday season vote, Democrats in the Senate are asking their colleagues to quickly vote on a bill that few of them have seen. The amendment process, even in comparison to lighter bills, has been abridged. "And here's the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader's conference room has even seen," Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explains. "That's right. The final bill we'll vote on isn't even the one we've had on the floor. It's the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private."

To show what kind of confusion and how much in disarray the Democrats are on this, the Socialist Senator from Vermont on Wednesday withdrew his single-payer healthcare amendment after Tom Coburn requested for and had the Senate clerk read out loud Bernie Sander's 767 page amendment.

So it’s clear that whenever anything having to do with obamanation for government control of healthcare is threatened to be exposed to the public, the Democrats (Socialists) shut it down.

This is a clown fest. But, why worry - these incompetent cretins just want to run another 1/6 th of the economy.

asdf, are you satisfied with the current state of health care in America (costs, life expectancy, health outcomes, quality of life)? If so, why, and if not, what specifically would you reform?

I don't think you've been paying attention. I've voiced in writing my satisfaction with our mostly private health care system here in the States many times.

If there is anything I would offer where I think it could improve, it would be: A) Get government completely out of it, and B) Change the tort laws to keep the lawyers from making it more expensive.

With regard to point A), do you believe that veterans, seniors, and children should be provided health care and if so how would that care be provided if the government wasn't involved? Do you believe the government should be involved in rent-seeking protection and intellectual property laws that disallow drug reimportation and the manufacturing of low-cost lifesaving generic drugs?

Your point B) is a parroting of a slogan that corporatists want you to repeat. Litigation accounts for maybe 3% of total health care cost increases over the past 10 years, and I appreciate that doctors are held accountable for their actions so that doesn't bother me. How much is a lost limb or diminished quality of life worth if a doctor errors or engages in negligence?