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Now, you would think these thieves would love this bill - but they are actually fighting it. Why? Because it doesn't give them ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the what they want. It only gives them... 90%! YOU SEE, pure greed demands all or nothing.

Jonathan Valdez, 2, holds onto his mother, Angelica Maria Valdez, as he sits on the examination table during a visit to the Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe, Inc. health clinic in El Paso, Texas. Texas ranks second to last in the nation in the percentage of children without health insurance, 10/14/00. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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+6 # Guest 2010-03-18 10:40

Keep on Trucking, Michael; you're the only sane one in the country bringing truthful news to the people; I hope you have someone watching your back; LNE

+4 # Guest 2010-03-18 12:18

The cost of running for office, which is what buys candidates on both sides, can be dramatically lowered if the FEC would force the TV and radio networks to give candidates the same amount of time FREE. It's part of their licensing agreement. and if any candidate buys extra time, all the other candidates must be given the same amount of time FREE. That's the only way we'll get out of this buy-a-candidate cycle. Or, better still, prohibit advertising on TV or appearing on TV during the election period.

+5 # Guest 2010-03-18 12:52

Right on Michael! Insurance, which by its very nature is Socialism in that it is the pooling of several individuals' resources to help one in a time of need has been convoluted into government sanctioned theft.

As I have commented in other articles, Canadian and Brits scratch our heads in amazement and ask you Americans "What in hell is wrong with your heads?"

A centralized government health care system despite its short comings beats the hell out of what you Americans have.

+3 # Guest 2010-03-18 13:36

Good luck Brother! Just lost my job at age 62. How likely is it that I will find a job in the next 12 months? And when unemployment insurance runs out, I have no health care because I'm too young for Medicare. So I'm forced to buy a policy with income I do not have because my retirement savings have gone up in smoke thanks to our friends on Wall Street? But wait!!...the Healthcare police can come arrest me for not having a policy, at which point they will send me to jail where I will be fed, have no mortgage/rent payment and be provided with some sort of health care. This would be funny if it weren't so prophetic. Can I watch your movies when I'm in the slammer?

+2 # Guest 2010-03-18 16:14

I'm in the exact same boat. Wonderful

+2 # Guest 2010-03-18 16:33

"The Healing of America" author T.R. Reid struck a nerve with the question he left hanging: "Why is it that the U.S. does not have the same compassion as the rest of the developed countries in the world?" Per usual, Michael Moore, in your gifted Irish American way, you have given us the answer to this and so many other questions.....GREED! And when you combine that greed with the constantly progressing disease called power addiction, what do we have? The U.S. of (greed and power) A.(ddiction). And that, dear Michael, answers a whole, whole lot, does it not?

+3 # Guest 2010-03-18 17:15

Michael, were it possible that we could start anew, we probably would be in the same position after being offered some pieces of shiny glass and some tin whistle to divert our attention away from learning as much as possible about the beast which consumes all in its path. Capitalism vs Socialism...I don't think so , it is UNBRIDLED CAPITALISM vs SLAVERY.We are the Slaves.

+2 # Guest 2010-03-18 17:26

Michael: I cry every day for the long lost system of government that we used to have. What is happening now in the U.S. is not sustainable....Millions of us out of work, with no prospects in sight. What will the corporations do with those of us that are unhealthy, unemployable and uneducatable??? This situation was predicted in a book By Wilson back in the 70's. I was a reporter for the Bruin Newspaper (UCLA) and I was in a Think Tank reporting the discussion of the situation predicted at the African American Studies Center conference. At the end, people were whispering to each other, "genocide.....genocide".
I think it will take some sort of revolution for we, the people to regain any semblance of justice and democracy. We now live in a Corporatocracy, with no hope for the common people.
Amentha Dymally
Los Angeles

+1 # Guest 2010-03-18 17:50

When my ailing parents can no longer get the medical help they need to stay alive, can I get it for them at gun point?

No?

Or do I just give the weapon to them and suggest suicide?

I wonder what the 40,000 that died due to a lack of health insurance in the last year might have thought.

+2 # Guest 2010-03-19 10:35

You speak for more good people in this country than you will ever know, Michael. Thank you and keep getting in the villains' faces for us all!!!

+1 # Guest 2010-03-19 20:02

Watching our country disintegrate before our eyes while we have no hope for the future is very painful.
Thank you Michael for telling the truth and giving a voice to the rest of us.

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