House plans to tax $1M+ incomes to fund U.S. health-care plan

I had a funny feeling the 20,000 was under report number, thanks ocanada. So now we 35, 911s a year in needless American deaths because of no health care. Whatever it is you bastards that want to keep supporting this system we have will get yours, you are on someones hit list.

Paratus is just stuck in the mud of dead right ideology. And this thought process is used to justify the deaths of thousands of less fortunate Americans. Greed will kill the country and they have proven it over the last eight years and can't stand the thought of losing their precious grip on that almighty tax cut. Because being a fat cat isn't good enough until you can appreciate your status in society by watching and doing nothing to prevent the needless deaths of Americans. PIGS DIE!

I don't want to change the subject but if you're going to use cancer as the main basis for your argument, cancer is being cured all over the world. Some people take so much antioxidants the starving-for-nutrition cancerous cells eat too much and GIVE THEMSELVES A PERMANENT ACID BURN DEATH. In clinics in Europe they have taken another tac to stop cancers.

Cancer cells have a much higher rate of metabolism, so overheating a patient to a fever temperature is being used to metabolize and burn up every cancer cell in a patient's body, and I mean EVERY CANCER CELL even the ones the doctors cannot see and no MRI test either.

FIND ANOTHER TURKEY TO SHOOT. CANCER IS DEAD MAN WALKING ALREADY.

@paratus

who should we feel sorry for? The person in your friend's story, or the thousands of Amercans who would never get the chance to see a doctor?

The median time to get an MRI in Canada is 3 weeks. There is a 90% approval rating from the people that participate in the Canadian government provided healthcare. I'm sorry your friend has had such a terrible experience, but I can gaurantee it's better than the experience of an uninsured American.

Paratus you are out of touch and your fake Canadian friend as well. She obviously doesn't know the 50 million Americans who would not have even had a chance to schedule an MRI. Get real 20,000 Americans are dying ever year because they can't afford to even see a doctor. That is seven 911, or have you forgot your patriotic ferver when Americans die needlessly. I'm sick of your kind pushing for the deaths of terrorist that don't exist and fanfare for a military industrial complex that spends more in one year than would be spent on it's own citizens health care in five years. You Sir are a not a patriot and wouldn't know one if he walked up to your fat ass face and spit in it.

"Your tax cuts from Reagan and Bush have killed the country and your not fucking worth it"

Ahhh yes, Ignorance is not limited to those on Capital Hill is it. Obama, Schumer. Dodd and Frank have killed this country along with the socialist/fascist policies of the liberals/Democrats.

This policy of socialized medicine will be our undoing. I had a conversation just last night with an expat Canadian who said the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and Obama is ruining it. "I smell socialism" was what she said. She said that we are headed down the road toward a government combination of socialism and fascism. She then recounted several examples of the wonderful government healthcare.
Has anything been said about the supplemental policies we will have to obtain. That is Canada. How about the breast cancer survivor who 10 years later had a pain in the spine but when the MRI was done FOUR months later it was found that not only had the cancer returned but it was now everywhere except her brain. The delay was the culprit. Over 50 years old and treatments are routinely denied in Canada. Is this the plan you want to be under? Taxes are high. Unemployment is high. Perhaps we should ask the American Indians how government care is working out for them.

People who wish for this and other policies of Obamunism are lunatics. NO other way to put it. If you want to live as a subject in a fascist country why don't you go elsewhere. Don't ruin my country.

Kiss my ass, you rich bastards. Your tax cuts from Reagan and Bush have killed the country and your not fucking worth it. You have shipped our jobs overseas anyway tax cuts or incentives. You deserve to have the shit taxed out of your asses and the sooner the better. Get the hell out of my country and we will take your left over assets.

Good, success doesn't happen in a vacuum, so it shouldn't be treated like it is. Pay up!

Had a good laugh watching Cobert last night... Rich Tax="jobs Killer"

In 1972 north of Roanoke Virginia on Rt. 11 beside the interstate there was a small motel about 8-10 rooms was all. It was For Sale. I suggested to the wife's family how we could pool our money buy the motel and live there saving our monies as a springboard toward us all having enough to buy land and build a home.

Nope, they wouldn't hear of it. Okay, so we moved to Richmond more jobs were there and I got screwed working for Dunkin' Donuts paying me a salary and no healthcare benefits, paid straight cash no nothing. My hours worked out less than MINIMUM WAGE so we eked by.

About that time a lot of people began moving to the US from India, all named Pehtel, and they would buy a small motel, live there and rent the rest, and sometimes they would purchase a large home and 10-12 ENTIRE FAMILIES would pay the utilities and got ahead DOING EXACTLY WHAT I SUGGESTED TO AMERICANS.

So now you say we're falling behind?! Man, with our attitudes we should be closer to extinction than the whales. A few of us did get ahead, one in particular, bought land, owned trucks, built two log homes and told the rest of go straight to hell.

SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO HELL SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW? Answer to that is that all the rest of YOU are now squealing like stuck pigs because you're getting a taste of living my life. My disability check every day begins to exceed more people's income. Welcome to hell pal. Welcome to the real world you didn't see before.

Heres the scenario
The price of employing americans should go up at the expense of overpriced CEO salaries.
Jobs will always be shipped offshore as corporations tend to move operations from country to country seeking the cheapest labor in the most unregulated countries.....this will never change.
people have already cried "what happened" under Bush as tax credits were given out to major corporations to remove jobs from the american market.
republicans point fingers just like democrats, they are no special species that is morally superior to anyone.
Taxing the rich will keep our society in check and balance out the extreme differences from the rich and poor. This will be one step towards squashing an american revolt on the rich.
borring money you do not have is a tax increase for the future, so Bush's policies are the effect of his cause(Milton Friedman loosely quoted)
republicans are rich bastards too, so don't make it sound like they are poor fuckers looking out for the poor, as they borrow money give it to their rich pals, and then say we have a budget mess, and cut programs for the poor that would sustain their living conditions(and it aint easy living at the poverty level)
equitable tax policy is non existent in America as out tax laws have been rewritten every 4 years to support the incoming president's policy.
We have given Bush's policy a chance and look where that got us,...we are in a mess and it aint due to Obama. Obama is the clean up hitter here.
Give Obamas policy a chance,..see where it leads us, and then criticize, if it doesn't work,...

Give a rich man $1000 and he will save it which has no effect on our economy

give a poor person $1000 and it will be spent in their community in a heartbeat spurring sales, tax revenues, which has a positive effect on our economy.

Do you have any idea at all how much extra money people would have each month if they kept their parents at home instead of an old age home? And if they get off the main meter grid that socks a bunch more in the bank PLUS it reduces poisonous gases from burning COAL so much, meaning reduced healthcare costs = more money again PLUS reduced EPA CLEANUP EXPENDITURES.

1. Plug the leaks
2. Trim the fat
3. Prepare for battle.
4. If you can't meet the Rent move somewhere you can.

So, here is the scenario.
The price of employing Americans goes up.
Jobs are sent off-shore.
People are crying "wha huppened?!".
The predicatble finger pointing by dems at business
resumes followed by the expected demagogery "We must tax the rich!" starts over.
Democrats, who are the rich and richer from the last scheme, agree and find ways tax the rich and in the process reqard themselves.

This plan is sounding more and more like the reasonable option to fully nationalizing medicine.

Everyone will have access to affordable insurance, and the insurance companies, which have virtual monopolies in their respective states will be forced to become more competitive with their prices and in providing reasonably priced health care to more people.