The money everyone could have kept if our government hadn't have given it to the banks could have offset that considerably.

I think the money is to pay for the uninsured's insurance. Is that not what this is all about, to provide health insurance to those who presently do not have any? How else can they pay for it? The money has to come from somewhere.

I really wish some of you Henny-Penny-the sky-is-falling-types would actually take the time to look elsewhere for your health care statistics.

You already have the most expensive health care system in the western world .... and approximately 50 million without coverage

So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, look at what other nations are doing and pick and choose the best from among them.

Is that too difficult or are you so xenophobic a pig-headed to try

Really you Americans have the opportunity to develop the best system in the world . Why would you choose to blow it by listening to half-truths and outright lies or distortions from biased sources

http://www.forwardon.com/view.php?e=Id11f70bcaec4308a2&type=featured&time=all

Yep, unfortunately just as I thought.

HULLO TOAD............
Talk about getting your statistics correct......
NOW WE are up to 50 MILLION w/o insurance.??????????
Is that including SOUTH AMERICA?

Q. Just how many Americans lack health insurance?
A. The short answer is “too many,” but the total numbers depend on whom you ask and how they measure the problem. The most commonly reported figure is from the Current Population Survey (CPS) by the U.S. Census Bureau. It found that 47 million people had no health insurance in 2006. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) reported that 41.9 million persons lacked health insurance when interviewed from January 2007 to March 2007. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) estimated 50.4 million people were uninsured during the first six months of 2006.

Remember, I said "approximately"

Now run off to Faux news and get their stats

Just how many Americans lack health insurance?

47 million people had no health insurance in 2006

Problem here is that number includes non-citizens, people who choose to be without insurance, and those who qualify for Medicaid but don't know it (and would be signed up automatically if they sought treatment). The more important number here is how many Americans fall into that range where they make too much to qualify for Medicaid or other state run insurance for the poor, but not enough where insurance is really affordable. A closer estimate on that number is about ten million.

I still have not heard where this money is coming from to cover the (?) millions without coverage. Somebody is going to have to pay the bill. Sure we can reduce costs by reducing the quality of coverage to those who are paying now. That is one way to spread the "wealth", but nothing is free, particularly when it is coming from Uncle Sam.

Also, I would like to know which countries have it all figured out. From what I read and hear, most of the socialized medical care countries have bad service and uncontrollable costs unless everybody is "lying". Then how do we know who to believe Obama or mathematical facts?

We're all going to pay for the people who are uninsured...distributing the wealth. Re bad service and uncontrollable costs, I would take the mathematical facts before I would beleive Obama. Why then, do people from all over the world come here, for the best medical attention in the world;

Our government is so broken, so inefficient, so stupid and so out of touch with reality that we may be better off if they didn't do anything at all.

we may be better off if they didn't do anything at all

There's a poll for that...

http://bit.ly/48pn1e

Ask the Pentagon for some of it's $680B budget. I'm sure they won't mind closing a few of the 370 bases they have around the globe.

the answer is: TOO MUCH.................
It is costing TOO MUCH..........