Great work, if you can get it

What a freaking bunch of idiots!

No way, this is putting a gun in the hands of the insurance companies, just like auto insurance. Capone and the boys would love to see how thier protection racket has been taken over and made to look like a legitimate operation. The government has taken the numbers racket, the booze business and the protection racket from the mob and now the government has become the mob itself.WTF?

HR 676 is a much better, less complicated plan and we could all be covered cheaper than the garbage they are proposing. Modeling anything after Massachusetts bankrupt ill conceived plan is stupid. Medicare works, lets improve and expand it. Pay for it out of the general fund. Seems to me that we are able to promote Democracy around the world out of that fund we should be able to promote healthcare out of it.

you want change, you got it!!

This is isn't right, I don't think it's particularly the right change in the right direction.

good, bad or indifferent, the fact remains that we are discussing it and not having it rammed up our asses without a chance to scream about it loudly enough in the right ears.
so if all you've done is posted here without looking for a platform to question your legislators, you're just wasting your electrons.

Which is why single-payer universal health care, the dues indexed to each one's income level and subsidized by the government below a certain low income level, is the ONLY viable solution.

lol, I doubt that could happen. It would just cause a collection nightmare.
I do wonder why anyone feels that insurance/pharma companies making gross money off of selling drugs and price fixing for sick people is ok as it is now. We need to do something drastically different, not shove our fingers in the bursting dam.

IF we are going to socialized medicine as seems the ------ (fill in blank with your own adjectives) in charge are taking us, then why should anyone pay anything. for any insurance, the government just pays for all health costs, It would all just be covered out of our annual tax payments say just make the medicare tax 50% of our earnings or a 20% national sales tax and get it overwith since a few are going to have to pay for all especially those in jail or gangs who are able bodied but disinclined to take responsibility. .

From my limited experience (just family and friends not any polls etc) most people don't buy health insurance because either they think they don't need it (mainly young professionals), dregs of humanity listed above or those that can't afford it. If you can't afford then fines just make the situation worse.

If you don't think you need it, then obviously you aren't using healthcare and aren't contributing to the crisses and therefore shouldn't be forced to pay a fine. If you suddenly needed it then, then a retro payment (in leui of a fine) for insurance say for up to 6 months or such time you could have obtained it from your employer or other such entity would then be appropriate since now once you need it, you can't get it Then you would be required to keep your insurance active.

That way all the gang bangers and druggies that are at the center of many emergency room exurberant costs can be held accountable for taking up room and never paying a dime.

This is yet another grotesque example of our representatives representing their corporate clients and NOT the people who voted them into office.

Fining people for not having health care is an idea that was tossed around by Hilary, and had a LOT to do with why she didn't get the nomination. If they vote it in, vote them out, it's that simple, and it wouldn't hurt to let them know that is your intention.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml