Me and millions of other Americans have two forms of government run single payer health insurance programs (VA and TriWest). I bet you can't find one veteran or one retired servicemember that would give up their government run health insurance for a private insurance company. NOT ONE!

my question is ...how many of the members who voted for repeal are actually buying their own health insurance or are they all at the "trough" and letting the taxpayers pay!?

 Symbolic yes...but a real waste of tax payers money. So what else is new? The do nothing republicans are real good at wasting tax payers money. Just look how much national debt was added during the bush years....about 6 Trillion dollars or more than double the national debt in his 8 years.

What about all of the pork collected by the republican party in all of the bills passed by them when they were in full control of this country. And then they buffalo american voters into voting them back into power. How ironic....that the some of the american people are gluten for punishment. Haven't they learned a lesson yet? Just watch as the republicans haggle over balancing the budget. they surely won't touch their programs but its going to take some heavy decisions to take control of the budget. Easiest thing to do is cut across the board to balance the budget. Then no one wins and no one looses. Or better yet, how about resurrecting the balance budget amendment. Then is will be automatic every year.

No law is perfect, certainly not the current health care one. We have spent a fortune on educating doctors and medical professionals, last time we went through this drill they ended up working construction, we have too many vacant unpaid for houses this time for that nonsense, there is plenty for them to do and I do not mean showing their lack of sales and marketing skills selling supplements. We needs them contributing to medicine and we do not need politicians telling them what medicine is all about. Good medical care is not an exercise in financial mismanagement, it comes about by maximizing the capabilities of professionals. At this point the doctors know what does not work, it is time to allow them to do what they know does. If the United States had the numbers to realistic show we are the healthiest nation we would not be going through this, but we are currently loosing those with necessary knowledge before they can apply it in an environment that thinks taking care of people only causes Social Security costs to rise. Congress has been trying to do this right for as long as they have been around, there currently are some good doctors in Congress, now if they just can get a few management types that know that printing money is not a solution we may have the chance to do the things in energy that have caused the financial part of the problem in the first place. Let's not act like the current document is the final solution, or it may end up being the Nazi interpretation of those words.

I just reread some of comments, where do demos think the wealth to pay for all this come from? Just print more money, just make it up, keeping increasing the cost while destroying jobs, business and all the sources of wealth. There is no free lunch. One comment was typical, proclaiming that republicans were dumb because if you repeal this and someone without money gets care at an emergency room no one will pay for it and we are really losing money. What ,duh!? Just because the governmant pays for something it isn't fee, there is cost and we pay, all of us. There is what the country is worth, the sum of our wealth and productivity, it is a finite amount. When print more money or over spend( same thing) you simply divide that wealth into smaller units and not increase it's total, so the money each of us have is worth less, causing us to have less of everything, less jobs, lower quality of life, health care, everything. You cannot legislate the wealth of the nation, more services have to paid for. Don't any of you leftys get it, can't you do basic math. It is reality, just because you want the government to take of everybdy for free doesn't mean they can, the wealth to pay for has to come from somewhere. The standard answer tax the rich, which really means what destroy the incentive to create jobs, hard work and the American dream. Why take it away those who earned it. That creates no new wealth it only destroys what there is and you have the same problem. DO THE MATH. You DEMOs are all so darn smart, where does the wealth to pay for all this come from??

I do not understand the logic of the GOP. People who have never paid one dollar in taxes, receive free top quality health care. Then there are people, who work two and three jobs, pay taxes, but have no access to health care. Where is the logic? Every American man, woman and child, should have quality health care, available to them. As a nurse of over forty years, I can honestly say, I NEVER looked at a patients chart, to see who had insurance and who did not. It should not matter. I would rather have every dime, of my taxes paid, to a national health care program, then pay wars, or bailouts for the banks and wall street.

I cannot believe those of you, who are so anti-health care, have ever held a dying child in your arms, because they received health care that was inadequate or too late. Or holding someones hand, as they take their last breath, because they had to choose between one life saving medication for another. Tell me, could anyone of you turn a person away, who has been critically injured, because they have no insurance?

My impression is, those of you who are so determined, to hold on to you wallets, are more concerned about having a Republican in the White House, then you are about your fellow Americans. I for one, would not turn away a Republican or a Democrat, if they needed medical heath. God help you all.

Now we need all these concerned republican congressmen to withdraw from their fully paid health insurance provided by the government for them and their families to emphasize their honorable intentions. What hypocrits. KBN

Maybe the Republicans should repeal those extra unemployment benefits. How about health insurance for first responders. Screw them too, right? Why not bring back DADT? How about getting our money back from TARP? Oh, wait a minute that was Ws. deal. This is not a very good start. But I'm sure the speaker and his drinking buddies are hammering them down right now and exclaiming "We did it".

Knowing that the Senate would never even take it to a vote, why would the House spend an entire day arguing and voting for repeal of the healthcare bill? Even if the Senate voted and passed the bill, the President would veto and it could not be overridden.

What a waste of time. How much is the collective salary of the House for one day?

I'm for some extensive changes in the bill but let's be realistic. This is political posturing at it's worst. They should have spent their time and effort on something that was possible to accomplish. Change...not repeal.

The vote was done for all the Americans that are against this terrible bill . Yes it will go no where but at least when the next election comes , we can vote against all that went against the repeal !!!!!!

The law makers are not listening ! We also want them to give up their health care ...They dont want us to have it . And i want to see these old koots try and get health care esp the old one's with prostate cancer and liver problems ! OMG...... preexisting conditions ! HEALTH CARE DENIED !!!

Which, you ask? The smart ones planning ahead for 2012 elections, no doubt.

south park had the correct phrase..Sheeple,thats what the majority of americans are..Im not a politician,an economist or any of the above.But i am smart enough to know that my 8 yr old daughter can stay on my insurance until she's 26 is good,that she cant get denied coverage for a pre-existant illness is good..also the republicans talk about the people all the time yet at christmas,CHRISTMAS i say regardless if ure christian or not but the holidays they were willing to not extend unemployment for people who have little or nothing at all,because what was the excuse,oh right we couldnt afford it,but we could afford to give a tax break to the top 2,TWO if you didnt catch that percent of americans,that we can afford,we can also afford to help the wealthy 2% to keep and pass estates from generation to generation,that we can afford too..And you sheeple sit and watch tv see the same message over and over and figure well it must be true if they keep saying..Superman has been on tv for abt what 70 yrs now?it doesnt mean theres a man that can fly and lift trains..The republicans dont care about anybody but themselves and there rich friends..

I think that our representatives in the House should spend their time on more important business than to have a vote on the Health Care Program when they know that it will be defeated in the senate even if it comes up for a vote---which is very unlikely. The GOP should spend their time reading this bill and select parts which most people are dissatisfied with and draft revisions to it for improvement. This approach should receive enough support by both parties to be enacted into law and everyone would benefit from their cooperative work. The GOP vote is a total waste of time and we thought that the people that we elected were smart enough to recognize that this approach would not benefit anyone, but cause problems in forming a cooperative attitude and spirit within both parties which will be needed to accomplish anything.

Dan Boren should not be allowed to meet with the house democrats ever. He votes with republicans 80% of the time and takes any information he gets from democratic meetings to the republican leaders to use against democrats in the house.

I want to repeal congresses health care. Also take away their retirement plans. The hippocrites.... they'd take the bread right out of your childrens mouths and disconnect your grandmother from life support. The Republicans and Teabaggers wouldn't give you a glass of water if you were dying by the side of the road. Don't let them fool you, these people don't care about anyone but themselves. They'll make sure their famiilies have health care and retirement.

Our #1 job in the new rep led house is to make obama a one term president,those were the words of mitch Mcconnelright? right..Not hey we're gonna try to pass some good bills to help americans who are hurting.and these are the people that are supposed to be for "THE PEOPLE" please..Cross hairs on people they want out of office that no matter what they say was the cause of that horrific incident in az.But is it surprising?when sharon engle was running ads during the last cycle to frighten americans against "illegal immigrants" crossing the border and taking our jobs..Yes these are the republicans who are for "the people"

For all those who do the Bidding for Republicans and Big Business....You want to repeal the Health Care Bill because, 1) you like having insurance companies cancel your policy for any precondition? 2) you would rather those that have no insurance use the emergency rooms that you and I must ultimately pay for, (provided the hospital doesn't go bankrupt in the process).  3) You like having the insurance companies raise the premiums when ever they feel like it. Mine went up 15% this year alone.  4) You believe that America should be a third world nation and not have Health Care (Canada, England and most of Europe, to name a few all have Gov't run health plans.

Why not use some common sense and stop doing the bidding of the Republican (big business party) and right wing religious fanatics.  Is it impossible for those calling for repeal to actually be able to think on their own without being told by the Tea Party, or the Republican Party hacks.

Bikee

2012 can't get here quick enough, I want the ED Show, Keith Overman and Rachel Madow to help our citizens remember who to vote out of office. I wonder how they go there in the first place...

All you can say is that Osama Ben Laden did exactly what he wanted to do...sitting back laughing as we americans destroy ourselves....everyone be proud of the way our system has become....

The Country was completely run by Republicans in 2004, what was their healthcare plan back then? I hope Harry Reid does repeal it, let the Republicans get everything they want.

Still waiting on the Republican plan. ....other than to repeal the Democrats plan.

For a party that does nothing...Tom Delay is headed to prison, and we got DADT passed and we got 9/11 responders bill passed.

U dont need rachael maddow or any of the msnbc staff to do that Sean Hannity,rush limbaugh,glen beck and the other idiots on fox are gonna spew up enough to get u sheeple to believe more of the nonesense they put out and help them to make you all poorer and helpless.

Lets get the Republicans!

Just another stall to try to put stuff off til the election. The GOP is going to be putting out alot of useless stuff to try to buy time as always trying to look busy while the clock ticks. Just watch and see...they will start alot of stupid fake investigations and get rid of old legislation to try to stall as usual...do nothing til you can make another effort to get back in poWer...dont give a damn about the rest of us...as always GOP. Why do these guys get pAID SO MUCH FOR ONLY WORKING TUES THRU THURSDAY?

oh yes, this country is going to H-ll and going bankrupt because of this evil law that hopes to regulate the out of control health care expense system. Whatever! This country is already bankrupt, just ask the Chinese with whom we financed our wars with. Just remember your words when your insurance carrier decides to drop your coverage because of that expensive life saving heart bypass you needed to stay alive.