True, just sit back is all we can do. It will be a long wait before we hear their decision.

Jody, think of the horrors of our Canadian system ... just a few-

We do not have the freedom to go bankrupt.

We are forced to meet a Death Panel within a week after our demise.

And yikes, we are not allowed to profit from our neighbor's misfortune.

Ideology,

Holy guacamole! Not allowed to profit from your neighbor's misfortune? Can't go bankrupt? (In ominous deep voice) Death Panels!?!?!?!?! What kind of country do you live in?!?!?!?!?! LOL!

Phine, it really sucks up here. You guys get to go to Heaven on average a whole year before we do. I know, you get better seating that way.

Ideology,

I wouldn't bet the farm about the heaven thing. Haven't you been listening to some of those on the religious right? They might have a bit of explaining to do to St. Peter!

ideology, you are lucky. When HCR was being debated, written and discussed, the local paper had a column about the benefits of the Candadian health care written by a man who spoke with Canadian friends he'd known for years. It was informative and a far cry from the GOPTP depiction of horror they describe as Canada's health care system which clearly shows they are uninformed. What's sad is that once upon a time in the US, reforming and improving our health care system was a bi-partisan cause.

Well, edit the spelling of Canadian; I keep adding some extra letters!

Jody, was not much of the AHA written by the Grand Obama Party?

ideology, yes, it was. Iowa's Grand Old Poopah Senator Charles Grassley added the "mandate" among other things and then promptly headed to Iowa to declare HCR would kill grandma.

I'll answer that Ideology... The democrats had a very short time to push that bill through. They knew Scott Brown was going to win in Mass... and they were going to lose their filibuster proof senate. They rushed the vote and failed to place in the bill provisions to have sections removed by the courts and keep the entire bill in tact. Since someone forgot to install that provision, a single item can negate the entire bill. It was a tremendous mistake the democrats made. But yes, the democrats under Obama wrote the bill and they did not allow republicans very much input to it at all.

Democrats wonder why the republicans want Obama to serve as a one term president, and this had a great deal to do with it. I remember hearing Obama say, the republicans can take a back seat and they need to sit down and shut up. Those were some of the first salvos fired that helped create the chasm between democrats and republicans.

Well Brianb, how you doing? If you can tell me the name of car number 5 I'll vote you up. The song is by some neighbors -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzInnpL1ncI&feature=autoplay&list=UUsFlfxWKBkdMlH5AHSsRpCQ&lf=plcp&playnext=1

ideology,

You are luckier than all those poor people who have to meet a death panel before their demise.

Ideology - Come on!! That was way too easy. My dad had a 59 Chevy Impala with the fins. I had a 67 Chevy Impala fastback as a teenager. It had a 283 with a 2 speed hydroglide transmission in it. I used to get 22 miles per gallon in that car. It would start with no problem even if the temperature was 15 below zero. I loved that car and wish I still had it.

You said it Tommy. When I listen to all the nonsense coming from the GOP, I keep remembering an opinion editorial in 2009 that asked what if we elected a great president and no one noticed. We did elect a great one who has managed to succeed despite the right's best efforts to deny, delay and obstruct and their nonstop lies. Just think how much better things would be if republicans could have put Country First at least 40% of the time.

Obama/Biden 2012!

Americans First, well said. If the estimated 145,000 people who die every year because they cannot afford health care died at one time and in one place, the outrage and the outcry would be heard from shore to shore but because they die quietly day by day in cities and towns across this land, no one hears their cries or sees the tears of their families.

Let's remember that this bill is way way more important than our Constitution, right liberals?

Jody, good post, but I would add one thing:

because they die quietly day by day in cities and towns across this land and are poor, no one hears their cries or sees the tears of their families.