You call this Health Care Reform?

Health Care Reform - what bullshit. The current bills being discussed won't work to get the insurance companies to lower Health Care costs!

Let's face it, both Schumer and Obama took HUGE contributions from the Insurance/Pharmaceutical industries and they are not FREE to do the right thing!

Plus, most of the American people don't even know that the Public Option will only even be available to a very small segment of the population (approx 12.5-15 million people) at its BEST. How could this be enough of an incentive for the Insurance companies to lower their rates?

The Insurance Companies are getting 48 million new customers or something, so they can afford to lose 12-15 million of them to the Public Option, rather than cut their rates for the rest of us.

This is such baloney, how the Reps and Senators are all saying, that now NOBODY will ever have to be without health care again, isn't that fantastic?

Where do these elected officials think the people who couldn't afford Health Care before are going to get the money to afford it now, oh ye, Public Servants, who all have the luxury of Federally Funded Health Care? BTW, let's not forget that these same congresspeople get to vote on their OWN PAY RAISES, too, PLUS once they leave congress they still will be earning over $100,ooo per year, for LIFE! Nice, huh?

The mandatory Health Care plan was a huge reason why I was very wary of Obama way back when.

I went from supporting Kucinich (he lost me after the "Flying Saucer incident"), to Edwards (damn, I'm pissed at him, he had some FANTASTIC and EXCITING ideas for both Health Care and Education Reform...now I understand why the press never gave him any play - the reporters all already knew about the affair, and that he wouldn't have a chance once the story got out). Then I moved on to Hillary for a few months, and finally ended up voting for Obama - but with Obama I was always worried about two things:

1) His promise of MANDATORY HEALTH CARE, whether one could afford it or not

2) He was never really enough of a Pacifist for me - he was at least going to get us out of Iraq wasn't he (???), but he was quite bellicose about Afghanistan, and it worried me (BTW: why are we in Afghanistan again? - but that's another whole post).

Anyway, this "Public Option" fiasco has been going on for months, and we just recently were informed that it won't affect almost all of the US population, so what's the big Bru-Ha-Ha about? Why so much energy wasted on this made-up issue.

I don't know, but I feel a little - depressed, dejected and "de-hoped" these days.