http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_go_co/children_s_health 

mine...ITS BS!!!

wonder how many of these people that "cant afford health insurance"...smoke, drink,gamble,have dvd collectins, cell phones, are FAT..because they eat to much, have cable tv, ect ect ect?

I got it...lets all live way above our means and let the deomcrats bail us out with free health insurance.

pretty soon they will be calling us the United Socialist states of America!!!

grrrrrrr....

v

Pretty soon?

With this 900+ BILLION bill that's only going to go up...we're already there. The government's role isn't to bail out private businesses. That's why we have different levels of bankruptcy protection laws written.

I am smoking for the children.

They can smoke for themselves!

The children cannot afford to pay the taxes.

Yeah, we're already there.

SCHIP will barely fund what they have in mind but it opens the back door for socialized medicine.

Problem is the insurance companies are raping the consumers with high premiums & limited coverage while the pharmaceuticals do likewise with overpriced and harmful drugs(laced with mercury) & inoculations (anthrax, etc.).

Imagine, selling a drug for $5,000 which cost 0.50 to produce. I have to pay that for my two boys. Yeah, I know you have to pay for R&D, yada yada yada... Is that why their execs are millionaires & they are STILL raking in record profits?! It's a racket and now the Government want to mandate more so that they can line the pockets of their buddies or at least Bush did.

Not that i dont agree with you, but a lot of poor/underprivelaged or whatever you want to call them people are fat because the crappy high fat high calorie no nutrition food is cheapest, gets you a large short term bang for your buck but in the end is unhealthy

You ever see a fat Mexican?

What about a fat Chinese guy?

I rest my case.

Well just quit smoking, yaw bastid.

I’ve never fully understood why people complain about other’s making money off a product… even if it is record breaking profits… drug industry, hospitals, oil companies, etc… they are all in business for one thing PROFITS. To say that we want the government to make their product cheaper for the consumer is inviting BIG government into any other area of our lives… I hope to one day be in business for myself and just say that I own a donut shop. Do I want the government telling me I can only charge 49 cents for a donut while I want to charge 59 cents? No, because at what cost should government dictate my daily business practices? If the consumer does not like paying the price for my product, they have a choice to go elsewhere thus showing me how dispensable my business can be.

As far as socialist tendencies in America… we’re already there… we’ve been there for years. Our public school system is socialist in nature because it is paid for by all Americans whether or not you have a child does not matter. We have invited the government to take charge of our lives and now the hard part is getting them to step back… I only wish society could have a backbone and standup for themselves… A united people get more done than bureaucratic hope and change…

JMHO… a whole $.02 worth.

- J

Communism.

Call it what it is. Socialism my #$$.

^ whether you agree or don't agree doesn't matter... it's a slippery slope that America has been traveling since the foundation of the republic...

- J

#10 If I had to choose between haves & have nots (two tiers/classes) vs. mostly have nots (one tier/class).

I'll pick the socialist (one tier) even if our filthy apparatchiks (politicos) keep their dachas in the mountains.

I expect there'll be a civil war of sorts if our economy collapses anyway. It's only a matter of time before the final (Government) bubble burts.

^ bursts (what the $#@%^& is happening to my spelling)

Desperation drives people to accept socialism.

We haven't arrived there YET but it's coming.

As much as I hate the thought of forced morality (ie helping the poor, equality for everyone, etc.) if one were to really sit and think about the Utopian society... it would be one mixed with socialism and democracy... personally I would rather work hard and move up in the ranks than to work hard and still be the same as the person who never tries... but that's just me...

- J

#10 Well said, and thank you.

You know it amazes me how some people bemoan businesses making money, then turn around and complain that there are no jobs. Hello?!?! What am I missing here? Please please someone help me understand this fuzzy logic.

Oh that's right, because that 1 fat SOB at the top might make a ton of money. Well guess what, if he is head of an extremely profitable business, and steering it correctly, he deserves it.

Farkin communists, go to Cuba, or Russia and be happy being equal.

You can vent all you want but socialism is inevitable when you have huge disparities in wealth.

Of course I am not a "wise" economist but just based on my day to day dealings with fellow business owners, suppliers, and buyers, the open market is not vibrant nor does it function properly any longer. Whether it's corporate OR Government, the favorites are allotted the majority of contracts while the rest have to scrounge- sounds like the old USSR doesn't it?

In the meantime, we lose our assets but the banks & investment houses get the bulk of OUR taxpayer money.

How long can THAT continue?

Nickoloff Perdomski isn't worried, he is in Russia, maybe for a reason ??? LOL

Scream & yell all you want in the end nothing you are going to do about it,so just STFU and enjoy the cigars you have now. LOL

BO is signing this piece of **** as we speak.

LOL! They have their hearts in the right place but their brains are on vacation, Rambo.

Time will tell who's correct. In the meantime, you're right, there's nothing any of us can do about it. The wheels have been set in motion.

Arriba NAFTA! The jug-eared bastid was right. lol