Wow! And then some. Sowell and Walter Williams for Prez and Vice Prez -- switch them around, any way that you like. Do you think that the 95 or 92% would vote for them? I don't think so.

Words reduced for brevity "Republicans ideas improving health care. small businesses band together to buy insurance? Medical malpractice reform? Giving federal subsidies to help low-income individuals." I can go with small businesses grouping and sticking it to lawyers and friends for screwing the justice system, or in-justice if you prefer. Giving free health care to low-income people? Chapman, do you understand the legacies of FDR and LBJ free stuff? Greatest criminal acts against the Constitution. Or do you go for the Constitution of Michael Moore, Soros, Van Jones, ACORN, Pelosi, Reid, etc. Many of the "moderate" Republicans are throwing up their pablum with such recommendations are doing so to save their lecherous jobs. McShame,...

Hey Larry, here's your "bull market" that you spoke of yesterday. From cnnmoney.com: Insiders sell like there's no tomorrow" Is that what is causing the market to rise in this period of unemployment, layoffs and businesses going bust? Is the reason why oil climbed again, even though the world was flush with oil, due to the insiders, speculators, and hedges?

Laurie wrote -- Nathan Plan
"State Medical Insurance
Private Insurance Reform
Tort Reform
Increased Number of Doctors and Nurses
More Funding for VA & IHS
Some streamlining of FDA new drug approval
Reducing Long Term Care Costs"

Uniform state plans would no doubt be controlled, in part, by the Feds and licensing would be enforced or rewarded by Fed money, wouldn't it? The answer to this is that states continue to license companies and any company can sell if they are licensed by the state -- simple?

Increased number of docs and nurses. Do not tell me that this is not a Fed give-away kind of thing?

More funding for the VA and IHS -- more taxes or just print more money?

Reduce Long Term...

They are the ones cultivating the poppies. Our Prez was a friend of poppies.

"...that most conservatives and Republicans didn't protest the speech once the Department of Education's controversially politicized lesson plans were withdrawn." Speech released 9/7/2009 and spoken 9/8. That was many days after conservatives and others got snippy about the marxist speaking to school children. How much of the speech was changed as a result of complaints? We'll never know but I'm confident that quite a bit was changed.

About Buchanan's assertion: "Obama's actual speech proved about as controversial as a Nancy Reagan appeal to eighth-graders to "Just say no!" to drugs." The speech was given September 8 and was released the day before, September 7. I propose that because of all the complaints about the marxist trying to influence school kids, he changed the speech and removed any reference that smacked of leftism, and perhaps, don't forget to report your parents if they do not like what I demand.

Buchanan: "Obama's actual speech proved about as controversial as a Nancy Reagan appeal to eighth-graders to "Just say no!" to drugs." I think I might have been nodding while all of the fit-hit-the-shan complaints were going on leading up to the Zero's speech. Pat, did you read the speech several days before he delivered it? I did not find any source for his speech before he made it. If it was available, I'll pull back. If not, I maintain that he probably changed it considerably. If my thoughts are correct, you owe we conservatives an apology. But rising above this difference -- why are you defending this socialist marxist on any subject?

This is a quote from poster #1. The cyanide will also be free, along with the gubermint furnished health care. To Buchanan, he thinks that Obamacare is a religious question. Wrong again, pundit-who-waves-hands-while-talking. It is not a religion. It is about treating illnesses and who or what pays for it. There are sufficient enemies who dislike the idea of gubermint controlled health care. You needn't introduce religion to further fractionalize those who are against it. Tossing religion at everything is not going to solve most problems - talking religion turns people off. If you don't believe me, start talking your brand of religion to the next 10 new people you meet, then report back your findings.

Pelosi says that the private health insurance industry is the primary cause of her accusations that our health care system is broken. Here, I agree with her, in part but not for her reasons. She is against private anything unless it is her husband and her. She and other libs also hold out Medicare as being a gubermint system that works well. No! My spouse has a private insurance carrier along with Medicare. A recent eye "problem" was that she saw wavy lines when looking at an Amsler graph. The graph is a box with evenly spaced horizontal and vertical lines. Hang the paper graph on the refrigerator and if the lines appear to be wavy, you may have a serious macular degeneration problem, e.g., bleeding. Re-visited the retina specialist....