O.K. We are starting to see a timetable.

Good guys need to grow some you know what...We MUST DO heathcare reform,even though bad guys will start their crusade against it to sell it to uneducated public.We must hit them with facts our current system&results compare to other countries.Single payer is must! Once is done,everybody will be happy when they go to hospital and don't have to pay like everywhere else.The best to combat GOP and their medical alies is for president to put his weight behind and challenge head on these guys.I would have president visit say person in the south who had surgery and can not pay bills and stuff and explain adventage of single payer and say to him-hey we got you covered-your bills are paid,you can go to your own doctor whenever you want.This how will new system work.Whoever wants to keep Humana and other bandits who decide whether or not to cover you or pay your bill,go right ahead,choice for most of us will be president's plan...My God,my son got separated shoulder in football game and stayed for two hours in Largo Med center,The bill was 13000 and Humana paid 1600,his school insurance paid 600 and I had to pay 2600.Who on Gods earth think this normal? For love of a god,can we abolish this awful and inhumane system.There are countless people out there with even lot worse example than this,I know many of them...you can find them without any problems and put them on TV to counter Harry and Louise who are now bankcrupt due to medical bills and they will soon expire if we don't give them help with new universal healthcare.
Healthcare will be big winner for us for decades to come! Just like social security and medicare was...try to take that socialist coverage away from any republican and see what happens.

I was dismayed to read in "The Age" newspaper in Melbourne Australia, this morning, that President Obama has decided to "revive Guantanamo trials". I certainly hope that the rules under which the military commissions were operating during the Bush Administration, have been thrown out and that any trials will be conducted with due regard to the rule of law, as it is understood in all democratic societies.
Guantanamo Bay and the "Terrorist Trials" conducted there, were a significant blot on the reputation of the USA around the world. I, like many other world citizens, felt great relief at the election of a President such as Barak Obama to your great nation. Many people believed that this would be an end of the eight year nightmare under Bush and a return to decency and compassion. I hope with all my heart that our and your hopes for this better world were justified.
Please President Obama, do not abandon the rule of law in your treatment of anyone in your custody, the USA must lead in finding a new way of combatting extremists, if we lower ourselves to their level, we lose and they win.
Lorie
Melbourne, Australia

Everyone needs to remember what he said...our Constitution is a list of "negative rights". Just remember that as this whole cluster goes forward. We're headed to rationed health care, just like Great Britian and Canada. Waiting lists months long for simple ultra-sound or MRI tests. If you are a breast cancer or prostate cancer patient, ask yourself this.....can I have waited 2-6 months for a diagnosis. Or more precisely, "What would waiting have meant to me and my survival?" But everyone needs to ask themselves this....do I want a bureaucrat deciding what medical treatment or tests are ok for me? Do I want to be limited on what tests or treatment I can get simply because I'm 65 or 75 and not 35? Under Tom Daschel's health care plan, Ted Kennedy whould have been told that he has a duty to die because the hundreds of thousands of dollars of treatments he has received would have been deemed by the rationed health care systems to be "excessive due to the limited return on the investment". Except that he would have simple flown to a foreign island and received treatment that the rest of us "middle-class" citizens couldn't afford. Enjoy the ride folks!!!! If you live long enough to. No government run health care!!

THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE PEOPLE ANYMORE.
It is obvious that corporations and the "Pay to Play" game have
taken over all or most of our so called representatives.
Yes, non profit healthcare for all is the only way to go and we are not going there. Bailing out the rich who can bail out themselves isn't the way to go either. Time to regroup and restructure how our government works. I don't know how but I hope someone comes up with a plan. I admire my president and I hope he has some surprises up his sleeves for us. If not. God help us.

I supported Obama throughout the election process. For the first time I even sent money to a candidate because I believed in Obama. Now I would love to talk with someone at the DNC about their lack of real facts about Advantage Medical coverage. They are truly breathing down a dead horse's mouth.

DNC comments do not match my experience. I am a senior and an Advantage subscriber. My plan not only saves me money, it saves the government a ton of money. It is the best direction to go for solving Medigap. I pay a low premium ($33/mo), high co-pay per visit, and they pay eye glasses 1 time/2 yr, my monthly health club dues, 1 time per yr dental cleaning. I have gotten healthier from the health club (I am 71), and do not need a doctor (the work outs cured my leg pain to a large extent). They paid my $125 dental bill. I am entitled with any plan for a physical 1 time/yr but have not had one yet. All I see is I have lost 20 lbs weight, lowered blood pressure to 110 over 75, feel lots better due to the Advantage plan - all at a coverage cost of $390/yr. I also carry plan D prescription which costs almost as much as the Advantage Plan. Under Plan J MediGap I was in to a Doctor 3 to 5 times/yr - had a prescription for Lipotor, and felt lousy. The Advantage was a real change I could believe in.