And nobody disagrees, except maybe you, that our health care system is by far the most expensive on the planet yet we rank relatively low on key markers like infant mortality and life span. It is why the reform issue surfaces perennially.

I’m also thinking that your attack on Ms. Clegg is entirely misdirected when you should be addressing that issue to your congressman or the president, who I’m quite sure stated repeatedly illegals won’t be able to participate in the reform programs but certainly will if the status quo is maintained. If that’s the issue then you’d best be talking to your buddy Sharon on the County Board.

Its kinda laughable that you have to explain the double entendre to accuse us of childishness even while acknowledging the serious point. And then you fail to grapple with the point or even the thread. Ironically you came online just to engage in the self same name calling you decry in others who may or may not have been aware of it. At least we’re the ones engaging in substantive dialogue instead of relying on unsubstantiated ad hominem attacks. And last I checked they’re proud of their name. Nobody chose it for them. OY.

Why not start with free birth control and vasectomies for everyone regardless of income. A nurse practitioner can do a VAS.

She justifies the Resolution based on escalating health care costs, which, when questioned, turn out to be health care insurance costs for the City’s employees. She wants the Federal Government to consider all options, never mind the mismanagement and fraud that plagues Medicare and Medicaid. She claims that the public health care in European countries, with the public health care option is less costly, but has no data on costs, deductibles, and limits for individuals. She claims that our health care costs billions of dollars more than these Euro countries, but is reluctant to acknowledge that ILLEGAL immigrants are costing Medicare billions of dollars.

My ancestors are immigrants (LEGAL), and they were not allowed to board ship in Liverpool (turned back to Russia) because of health problems, which prevented them becoming a burden to the American health care system. We do not know what health care problems ILLEGAL immigrants bring us and ILLEGAL immigrants ARE a health care burden. My final issue with the “public health plan option” is the Federal Government should be a better REFEREE, and not be a PLAYER. The PLAYERS are the private sector insurers and health care providers.

If the Federal Government becomes a PLAYER in the insurance business game, Elaine of all people, should be aware of the questionable ethics of having the REFEREE provided from the opposition. The City should insist on the Federal Government becoming better REFEREES and stay out of the private sector!

“Section 3. That the City of Boise urges Congress and Administration to achieve the goal of health care for all Americans by expanding existing public sector health care programs, such as Medicare, State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Medicaid, including a public health plan option, maintaining cost-effective and efficient private-sector health insurance options, and addressing access and disparity issues in health care experienced by many Americans.”

The issues upon which Obama campaigned were polled in the only one that matters, last November.”

Actually, I seldom even read Free Republic..Are you a denizen of the swamps of Democrat Underground?

As to the numbers, I would love to see that poll. Anything that has the Odious Pelosi’s negatives under 70% has to be over counting fringe Democrats…

The illegals are a drop in the bucket but, in any event, the proposals clearly preclude their participation in the reform. That and tort reform won’t begin to touch the reform necessary for it to be meaningful to you and I. If private insurance could not find a solution to the the uninsured problem in the last three decades, forcing those people on to the tax rolls, making them sicker and unproductive in the process, then I do not see the harm in government creating a opt in system that is cheaper and easier than what we got.

The issues upon which Obama campaigned were polled in the only one that matters, last November. Given the fierce opposition and its overexposure in the media its not surprising Dems have taken a hit in the polls since they aren’t accomplishing what they were sent to Washington to do. But by no means has the public turned to Republicans for salvation.

Favorable / Unfavorable
Barack Obama: 55 / 38 (chart)
Nancy Pelosi: 34 / 58
Harry Reid: 30 / 58
Mitch McConnell: 19 / 63
John Boehner: 13 / 63
Democratic Party: 41 / 50
Republican Party: 23 / 67

State of the Country
40% Right Direction, 54% Wrong track

If anything these numbers demonstrate a general amount of disgust with the current divisive political environment in which nothing gets done. And we all know whose fault that is. It does not mean they are looking to Republicans to fix it. Indeed I agree that if something substantive is not done on health care, Democrats will lose next November, particularly the most vulnerable, the blue dogs.