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This was one of the clearest explanations of the health care reform issue. Bravo to Lehrer and Murray.

profit = 40000 dead americans every year
http://namesofthedead.com/

supposed to be for No Logo segment, and I swear I clicked on that link!

"It's got what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!"

As has been pointed out above, this woman is presenting market approaches as a likely and desirable mean of providing health care.

This is not reporting. She is actively advocating for this approach.

Why is WNYC complicit in this fraud?

The last thing we need is anything that resembles the Federal Reserve Board. the FED board is a JOKE and is run by only the New York FED. It is an illusion that this will be an independenty body. Think of Tim Geithner, a banker looking after the banks interest not the public. This Healthcare Board will be ran by healthcare insiders and only look out for the insurance and pharmaceutical corporation and not the public good. All thses people (board memebers) will either come from or leave to work for these healthcare corporations.

"I hope the republicans succeed in forcing the reading of the 2000 + page bill"

oh yeah, Brian, I'm sure everyone will listen to every page of the bill while it is being read aloud.........how can you make statements like that? Do you really think this is an effective use of the Senate"s time?

“Reid seeks to cover elective abortions in two big new federal health programs, but tries to conceal that unpopular reality with layers of contrived definitions and hollow bookkeeping requirements,” NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson said in a statement.

We must move forward, not backward, upward not forward,and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

Good job Harry!

Who is this women? Why is she masking market fundamentalist ideology as reporting?

Economists have shown that health care is not a commodity that can be viewed in the way refrigerators are. I suppose this reflects the debate in the Senate. Most Americans (%57 I think... which is something considering the media coverage) want a real public option, but the corporate power structure has hijacked our legislative process so completely. And people will continue to suffer and die due a lack of sufficient care. This is so sad. So damn sad.

why is the debate even about insurance? shouldn't it be about actual healthcare? hasn't the insurance lobby hijacked the entire conversation in order to inject themselves fundamentally into the middle of it?

Why not ask Ms. Murray if she can cite a single example, in 3000 years of recorded of history, where the so-called "free market" provided quality universal coverage, on the order of what's available in Japan, France, Canada or Germany today?

Or do we have to pretend that the tooth-fairy exists, whenever we discuss health-care?

Oh stop it, mandate this mandate that deny this deny that approve this approve that, for chrissake European countries pay for everything they pay less they don't bitch about having to pay for other people's diseases and conditions, bla bla bla. I'm sick of Americans! Big selfish children looking out for me me me, Hypocrites supreme who claim to be the "best" in the world in everything, like CNN and in reality nothing but cranky hypocrites who follow and don't know how to lead. Who have bought into corporate lies and brainwashing and think WE are the USA, WE do it best. Well, WE don't, we don't anymore. Maybe we did once but we don't anymore. Wake up America, remember Dennis Kucinich at the Democratic Convention? Wake up and grow up.

Why are individuals, entrepreneurs and the self employed asked to pay for health care with after tax dollars, while employees of larger companies are allowed to pay with pre-tax dollars? This fundamental unfairness is never addressed in the public discourse.

Why are individuals, entrepeneurs and the self employed asked to pay for healthcare with after tax dollars, while employees of larger companies are allowed to pay with pre-tax dollars? This fundamental unfairness is never addressed in the public discourse.

Money better spent would be to create primary care centers throughout the country. That would decongest ERs, ASSURE everybody primary care (www.the-public-option.com)and control patient care which is the job of primary care. PC doctors ingtegrate patient care and prevent wanderring specialist to specialist.

The congress is trying to fix a process that they fail to understand. It is a procesws that starts with primary care.

www.primary-care-centers.net

not possible to take seriously a reporter who glibly parrots the 'cadillac' health plan idea, suggesting that people with full access to health care become addicted to GOING TO THE DOCTOR.
Any data from more reasonable countries to point to a DOCTOR-VISITING MANIA?

Sure, let's tax union members for winning good health care. Great idea!

It seems that the Chinese government gave Obama their own unsolicited and unwelcomed opinion on this healthcare bill....Stop Spending Money That You Don't Have !!! (THAT'S OUR MONEY!!)

Is the Obama White House still backing health care legislation that is pro-life and anti-gay rights? Not exactly the change we were promised.

Too soon to say I told you so?