good luck making it to 65, then the gov't will chip in to cover you. You need chemo at 59? Pre-existing condition. Sorry, you don't even get a panel, just the death part. You want to get a cat scan? Either pony up $3000 or wait until you're 65.

The situation is so infuriating. Stressing about this heathcare issue is bad for my health. I just can't believe the amount of misinformation out there.

Special interests are especially screwing over the public here. God I hope the insurance executives have a great time in Cabo this year. I really do. Because, shit, if they don't, well, that would be the pinnacle of tragedy. Screwing over millions of people better benefit someone somewhere, as messed up as that sounds.

I'm angry. Insurance companies have become a necessary evil without in a country without a public option. They will do anything they can to avoid paying for your healthcare. It's their job to do this. The real problem is that these mega-'insurers' are publicly traded companies. So anyone who has money in an index fund, wants those insurers to maximize profits. The companies achieve this by telling people like my mom, who has terminal cancer, to take a hike after she paid in for years and years. Even she has money in index funds, which have money in the very insurer which is refusing her care.

Does anyone see the conflict of interest here? She's literally investing in her own demise. Someone figure out a way to clearly convey that to the American public and I'm 100% sure we can reform healthcare. Come on Barack, you're pretty good at this stuff. We need you.

I'm near my boiling point (don't worry, nothing Sodini-like or anything).

I have some good friends who are girls. But if I'm attracted to a girl, then I can't be a normal friend (unless she's engaged or married). See, when a single guy is attracted to a girl, he tries to seduce her. That's hardwired into our DNA.

My DNA doesn't allow me to be a good old fashioned friend. It will yell at me, "try to get with her. That's the real 'companionship' you want in the relationship. Go get it. Now and forever. Go!"

There, I said it. And I don't especially approve of the dynamic. But it is what it is. One of my best friends is a girl, but if I were attracted to her, it just wouldn't work.

Will a feminist accept that dynamic? Or is the nature of man not good enough for our post-modern liberal society? That's the real question.

He is so sharp, so smart, so well spoken and so right about nearly every issue. Watching him in action is like watching Michael Jordan play baseketball. He has all the right moves and he's better than everyone at what he does. (this post is coming from someone who voted for Bush in Ohio in 2004 - please forgive me)

Prediction: President Obama will go on national TV during primetime and do a 30 minute pitch to Americans. I bet he's planning it and prepping for it as we blog. It will be reminiscent of Ross Perot in 92 - think charts and graphs and stuff. He will denounce the lies and misinformation which is impacting the actual debate. And Barack will nail it. It will be the most important half hour of his young presidency. And it will be a major turning point in American history.

And we can only hope that Bobby Jindal will follow up with one of his trademark rebuttals.

The 10 biggest healthcare insurance companies increased their profits 428% between 2000 and 2007. An outside observer would attribute the gains to the companies doing a bang-up job servicing their customers - but that's wrong. These insurance companies made the profits by cutting off access to healthcare to those who need it the most. Someone find me another industry which can perform so poorly (see immorally), yet increases their profits by 428% in 7 years. If you can find that industry, it needs to be regulated too!

These companies are business to make money, make no bones about it. Their goal is not to provide healthcare as efficiently as possible to as many people as possible. Therein lies the rub. And that's why we need a public option. A public option would create a system in which the government would be accountable to the people for healthcare..... as opposed to private plans in which insurance companies are beholden to their shareholders to increase profits. Increasing profits for an insurance company means denying benefits, and ultimately not covering anyone with any sort of sickness. The logical conclusion of private insurance would be to only cover healthy young people. That is where we're heaading, and it will bankrupt every American --- because everyone grows old and sick. And in turn, it will bankrupt our country and people will move.

My dad is a dentist, has practiced for 33 years, with about 10 to go. His wife (my mother) has cancer and was dropped by her insurance because of it. Now, my father will pay for her healthcare and it will bankrupt him. That's the country we live in. Who wants to live in a country where a 43 year career as a dentist ends in bankrupcy because of your wife's cancer? That's where we're going. And Barack Obama needs to make Americans understand that that is where we are heading. We're praying she holds on until her 65th birthday - you know, when she will be eligible for publicly provided healthcare.

Great rant on unlovely.

I agree. Speaking of taxes, I'm positively giddy over the IRS getting 4500 names of high net worth US citizens who hid funds in swiss accounts to avoid taxation. You know, paying taxes to provide our treasury with the funds needed for roads, healthcare, social security, schools, etc........

If Bill O'Reilly is on the list I will reach nirvana.