Comments on: Spratt Silent, Obama Speaks On His Behalf

By: Skidmarks

Skidmarks — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:55:21 +0000

Medicare costs have to be reduced. Too bad. But the costs have to be cut.

By: jazzgrrrl25

jazzgrrrl25 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:15:31 +0000

SOCIALISM? $4,000?

please, get your facts straight. it is not socialism or a government takeover…the government will not own the hospitals, pay the doctors, dictate procedure, ect…it is simply a competitive measure against the reaming we’ve been taking from the big business of healthcare.

i’m all for capitalism, but making a profit on the backs of others misfortune and ill health is unconscionable…not every business should be for profit…and, that our gross national monies tallies over 15% for healthcare is absurd.

you want to make money?…make widgets, build things, play baseball, write a book…don’t gamble on peoples’ well-being…paying 44 dollars for bandages in a hospital that i can buy for 2.68 at the corner store is both obscene and immoral.

these blowhards that are so against the reform are the very people who had the opportunity over the last eight years to present a solution, and, they are the very people who have pocketed monies from the health care and insurance industries…demint with over 500,000 dollars, ect.

By: OnNoNotAgain

OnNoNotAgain — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:57:04 +0000

Isaac.
Spratt trying to “enslave” Americans?
Get help man.
A Michelle Bachman-esque Rep?
Good lord.
It just isn’t going to happen.
The Fifth District is a lot different from the folks who share your floor at the ward. Apparently going on the Internet and fabricating and fantasizing is a new form of group therapy.
Ring the little bell and tell the nurses to stop snapping the pills in half or something.

By: Designated Driver

Designated Driver — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:01:53 +0000

I didn’t know there were any mills left in Rockhill

We don’t wanna be the bitches of the Chinese. I hear they’re pretty “small”

By: Isaac Bickerstaff

Isaac Bickerstaff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:27:05 +0000

John Spratt needs to go. We need a Michelle Bachman-esque representative to bring the 5th District back to its days of glory, power and wealth. How many more mills have to close in Rock Hill before we realize that our Chinese overlords, Hussein Obama and John Spratt are trying to enslave the God-Fearing people of SC?

We need more free marketers like Mark Sanford and Jim Demint in charge so we can keep the economy in SC strong and vibrant, unlike Masshole.

By: Designated Driver

Designated Driver — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:12:20 +0000

I got a message for John Spratt … hey, suck this you stupid mofo. Too bad we’ve got to choose from Rich John and Rich Mick next year. Neither of them have any idea how much the little guy suffers in their district.

By: Liberty For Me

Liberty For Me — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:57:23 +0000

We have no free market in healthcare!!!!!!!!!
We have a one party government..The Big ASS government Party
We promise free housing,money and healthcare on one side of it and corporatism on both sides.Why are med stocks rising on news of the bill passing the house?? Because they all have their hands in it to make money.
Goldman Sachs execs are in both cabinets..for many years…You people spill hate towards each other and the enemy is the government…They want the distraction of party fighting.Its all about power and money and the people not getting any.Think about it?? why would an aspirin cost $20 in a non-profit hospital??..and how do life long politicians get so rich on $150,000 a year??

By: Liberty For Me

Liberty For Me — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:41:50 +0000

You people cant seem to get any gray matter to have a spark…why is hospitalization so expensive ??? How is it different than say 1965 ??
Crooner..Clue…almost 65% of hospitals are still non profit.It has nothing to do with it

By: No Way!

No Way! — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:16:56 +0000

Spratt will go the way of Obama, He will go home in 2-3 more years. I would as soon sem Obama move back to the motherland with brother Zububu.

By: mbmxyz

mbmxyz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:01 +0000

Riddle me this. How is it that all-blue Taxachusetts, which has something like Obamacare, is the rich state (income per capita in 1999 was $25,952 and $62,383 per household in 2007) and the Palmetto State is the poor cousin (income per capita in 1999 was $18,795 and $45,508 per household in 2007). (Figures from US census) SC sure is doing something wrong. Get your cracker heads out of the Carolina sand.

How in hell are we going to keep jobs in this country when our industries are covering the exorbitant cost of US health care for their employees. Health insurance adds $1500 to $2000 to the cost of GM cars. Are we surprised they went under. In Canada, our northern neighbor, the cost of health care is 83% lower than here; In Switzerland, the country with the second most expensive health care system in the world, health care is 64% cheaper than here. Jobs are not just going to India and China. They are moving to Canada and Europe too. And why not? What business can afford pay these costs? And what does FitsNews want to do?

“We absolutely need health care reform in this country, but the goal shouldn’t be a costly government takeover, it should be a crackdown on fraud and abuse, a reform of the current delivery/ eligibility system, a relaxing of regulation and the implementation of private health accounts.

That’s what a free market Republic would do, at least.”

Throw back a double shot of good whiskey. (For me, Gordon’s Gin over ice with a wedge of lime works well.) You need strong medicine to face what we have to do.

Do you have any evidence that private health accounts and less regulation will reduce health costs? (By the way, isn’t cracking down on fraud and abuse more regulation?) Your contradictory, cockeyed, conservative theories will not cut it.

John Spratt is doing the right thing. You, on the other hand, seem happy to let the health care industry bankrupt our free Republic. Not much freedom in the poorhouse guy.