I am very serious in my comments to Farnsworth.

I hope you have a successful outcome.

God, this stuff frustrates the hell out of me.

I'd like to say "Onwards and Upwards," the usual tripe I write but, man, there are times when I just feel exhausted.

But there are many others braver, stronger and more resilient than me, so that's good.

If those of us who are healthy refused to pay for health insurance we would bankrupt them in 6 months time.

I'm not sure if I understand this. If they're healthy and paid health insurance why would that bankrupt them? Are you saying the premiums are too high? If so, isn't that an additional reason for a public plan? And, if not, isn't your comment inherently critical of the current system?

Or do you mean they were healthy but then got sick, the'd be bankrupt? If the latter, well, that's the whole problem to begin with, yes?

Anyway, I hope you're sincere with your comments to farnsworth.

Sarah Palin has the inner-vision to see through this,for the past voting records proves Obama is aligned to nazism.

'Shrooms, my friend, 'shrooms, are making you feel this way. And your grasp of contemporary political science is astonishing, as evidenced by Obama's "past voting records," etc., and so on, and blah, blah and pbbt, demonstrates.

Yeah, I'm sure there was a lot of Nazi-type stuff going on at the Illinois Senate and Congressional Senate.

Oh, and you're archive consists of one letter.

Gee, why would that be (Dick Armey--you won't mind if I call you Dick?)

I will never have insurance that allows me to earn a wage anywhere near what I used to earn while I was healthy.

So do you contrarians get it now?

And this is middle America.

I'll ask it again: what are you defending? (and will they be there to defend you? Answer: Obvious: No)

Currently the only drug option that has a success rate higher than 50% (54-58) costs $100,000 a year. The drugs that cost less than $20,000 a year have a success rate about the same as the placebo effect.

I must've missed your earlier posts but I really am sorry to read about your situation. I, myself, have Type 1 diabetes and need to inject insulin everyday (well, multiple times) and so am empathetic. My meds aren't nearly as expensive (are your meds cancer related, if you don't mind my asking?).

Really sorry to read about this.

So, you see, Old Joe, Unlovely Truth, et. al., what people go through each and every day?

(And Old Joe, man, you know; you mentioned your wife lost her job due to oursourcing [at least I think it was you]; why don't you guys wise up?)

So if you don't like what Palin says - show us your better way.

Joe, c'mon man, you know that lady has nothing worthwhile to "say." She's barely literate (and I write "literate" in the sense of "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, tell me what you think of me ...").

About my views on healthcare, they're pretty straightforward: either enact a public option that enforces price competition, or force, legislatively, a price competition among private ensurers that now control some 90% of any given market--the very antithesis of capitalism (but quite synonymous with monopoly).

I don't believe the latter would ever take place, hence the need for a public option. This is critical (and I don''t care how many ridicule the idea).

As it stands, the last thing we have is capitalism regarding healthcare.

What a laugh that is (and, really, not a very funny one at that, since it drives so many families into bankruptcy--and who wants to defend that?).

More from Sarah on Facebook

Ooh, I'm very excited to know what this walking, stumbling idiot has to say about anything.

Today, in the third of three messages, she links to some additional material on Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama's health care guru who advocates utilitarian rationing. The material was summarized by a supportive Cornell law school professor.

And do you know what any of this means (because Palin sure doesn't)? And no fair looking up Jeremy Bentham in Wikipedia, either!

Emanuel seems to be more respectable than Obama's other Chicago pals. To his credit, he doesn't believe the white race invented AIDS to wipe out the black race, nor does he have any bombings or public corruption charges on his rap sheet.

Wow, way too polite, non-specific and utterly libelous; but courageous nonetheless.

he does have some strange ideas about health care.

Oh, that strangeness!

Sane Person: "Hey, what about trying to insure everyone?"

MadMan: "What, are you crazy? Don't you know how much that'll cost?!"

Sane Person: "Well, I was just thinking--"

MadMan: "We don't think around here, mister! We all play the idiot!"

Sane Person: "Yes, sorry Mr. AMA. Here, let me Pledge Allegience to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic--"

MadMan: "Shut up, you! and bring me that Starbucks' brought by that guy from Pfizer!"

For Christ's sake

As I've posted multiple times, the drug industry group PhRMA is four square behind Obama's initiative. They are spending millions in advertising to promote it.

do you think I--and several millions of others--are unaware of lobbying influence with this issue? Do you really think that?

Wrong, pal.

Don't worry, I'm sure the union thugs you are cheering on will soon intimidate people out of dissenting - at least publically.

I've said--repeatedly--that I'm cheering on nothing of the kind, if that's indeed what happened.

Your repetition of that claim (and so many others) won't make it true.

Here's a question: what do you propose that isn't polemical to rectify a lousy situation (aka, the "healthcare," such as it is, that might prove to be genuinely beneficial to your average American)?

I would be very surprised if the people at these meetings have ever heard of the people you mention.

Yeah, like that matters.