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As if Crap-o and the rest of Repubs care about what America needs, all they offer is fear and hatred. And all they care about is corporate greed. The reason there is some debate amongst the Dems is that they actaually try to be responsible to their constituents. Repubs are simple minded clowns who play follow their leader and will take us all off the cliff – again if we let them.

The GOP attitude is mind boggling. Don't most of them also proclaim themselves righteous Christians? What you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me. Who said that?

Actually the GOPers sound more like the Pharisees and Saducees than followers of Jesus.

Too many people NOT enough RESOURCES! use logic and see how CHINA(whom we are deeply in debt to) is solving and if you like the way the CHINEESE are doing it, by all means let the government Take Over. BUT.Some of the recipients of the current Government program,know that it isn't working. It has all but depleted the money paid out of the original MEDICARE program,and now they want to take over and limit what we pay for.If you only knew the truth,you would be sick.It's a doggone shame,because it's only half of the problem with the Government TAKEOVER

What would you expect from the party of no ideas and no clue.

I do not like the Republican Party. BUT the elephants are not wrong here. THis plan stinks. IT SUCKS. WASTE WASTE WASTE.

GOP is out of mind....they need to get rid of all old junk....it is almost dead..."dead". It drained my nation like a hell....out of "Iraq war". they get mercy if they support health care with public option....ok....

Of course Conservatives will complain. The GOP goal has always been to bankrupt the Federal Government ... so Private enterprise can take over our country economically causing the rich to prosper while serfs work for minumum wage. Why do you think the GOP never solved immigration reform the last 9 years? But it's okay to spend trillions of dollars on war over false intelligence, and increasing oil revenues. Then....spending becomes a different story. Tax cuts for the rich during wartime when war is extremely expensive is like saying, "Let's make the middle class and poor fund our wars while the rich go on vacation".

Yeah, that's the goal: to destroy America. Democrats are all evil aliens from outer space who are conspiring to kill your grandma.

I vote IN FAVOR of the Healthcare Reform Legislation Bill WITH THE PUBLIC OPTION !! It is my understanding the GOP Republicans are also IN FAVOR of Healthcare Reform Legislation; HOWEVER, I hear their Bill is referred to as "H.R. Die Quickly" !!

Just fix what's broke!

You know when the republicans rant and rave about the things in the health care bill, that they are telling the public about, are out and out lies. Then they say they want health care reform. I guess other than the tea bags and the hate and violent inciters, there is anybody in the country that doesn't want it. When will the shut the hades up and get on with the business they were elected to do. Either that or resign and get the devil out of DC.

The Republcans are absolutely terrified that this health care reform will go through. Remember they want to defeat it at all costs so it will be "Obama's Waterloo". Instead of wanting what is best for millions of Americans they are only thinking of their re-elections. That is really sad. Those politicians who vote against it should have nightmares every night about the thousands of people who go bankrupt paying for health care or who die because they don't have it. The rest of the world is watching how this health care vote goes down. Those who vote against it will be seen as greedy, partisan, mean spoilers.

I told ya the GOP was full of Crap.

Just another old, disgruntled white Republican preaching the importance of doing nothing.

What a mess the GOP has become.

Smug as a bug...he's got great healthcare insurance for himself and his family.

So Senator CRAPo, what is your answer to healthcare reform?..........thought so.

More lies from the republican confidence men!

The GOP sure ain't the party Mom and Pop once supported. Sad.

GOP – bought and paid for by Health Insurance Company profits from premiums you and I pay.

What a life. Show up every now and then and vote NO. Maybe if they would read instead of getting in front of so many cameras they would know they are spewing misinformation.

When George Bush and his Republican thugs were in office, the cost of two wars wasn't an issue. Now that Americans here at home need healthcare reform, Republicans seem to be obsessed with the financial costs. What a bunch of hypocrites. I'm sick of the GOP.

Sounds and smeslls like republican CRAPo to me.

Then what is your answer Senator Crapo???.......thought so.

Then whats your answer Senator Crapo????.....thought so.

How fitting a name (CRAPo) for a REPUBLICAN Senator.

Now there's a pile of Crapo.

GOP... Your goverment Health care Plan works for you ***Why are you SIR not Talking about YOUR own health care, paid by the Taxpayers

Pass HealthCare-Now!

All conservatives are vile people who hate Americans.

Republicans look like bullying thugs.

Coincidence perhaps that Senator CRAPO gives a speech about the Republicans "displeasure" with this bill...so what's new there. They don't like ANYTHING. Hope it passes in the end without a single one of them A$$es voting for it!

Old, disgruntled and pathetic. That's what the GOP consists of. Time to get em out!!

Don't have any solutions of their own, but they sure can gripe. It's what Republicans do best. Pathetic.

Republicans do not want ANY healthcare reform. They have no understanding of what Americans are going through in dealing with the greedy and unethical insurance companies.

Why are Republicans so hung up on the bill being 2000 pages long? Can none of them read or stay focused to get through it? I read it and it was no big deal. Every bill has template wording and legalese at the beginning that take up many pages. A bill this important and so full of detailed reform, cost, and benefits should be a long bill. I think the size of a bill represents the quality of the work that has been done to produce something veryy historic and worthwhile.

I have already been watching the Senate discussions on CSPAN today and it is so typical. Democrats are presenting each section of the bill with great care and details of benefits. Republicans are not offering a single idea for how they think something might be improved – nope – every Republican is criticizing the bill, misrepresenting the facts, telling outright lies (that have already been disproved), and grandstanding. So these people have NOTHING positive or truthful to offer??

We're not going to let the Republicans and their insurance buddies win – we are going to get the votes we need and pass healthcare reform we have been trying to pass for the People for more than 40 years.

The People are going to win today when Democrats vote to invest in us and not pander to big business! This will be a historic win for the PEOPLE!

Old, disgruntled Republicans digging in their heels once again. They have become worthless. NO SOLUTIONS of their own, just complaints.

Bottom line folks, is we need health care reform. Health care costs are unsustainable, as are health insurance premiums, unless you make hundreds of thousands a year, or have good employer provided insurance. Just don't lose your job, or run your own small company. And the GOP is on the side of the insurance companies and against the people they represent. Why is that? I have three republicans (older men) representing me in congress and you would not believe their responses to my e-mails about health care. They're trying to protect the rights of insurance companies to make a profit, and they say that right out. It's obscene. And when I ask why they're doing that instead of protecting us, I don't hear back. Funny, that.

Of course the GOP is displeasured. Shocker! They are the Party of No after all. No solutions. No ideas. No Clue!

I will ask the Republicans again this question...IF you are so concerned about getting the right health care, WHY didn't you do it when you were in control of Congress????? I'm still waiting for an answer to my question and I DON'T want any DOUBLE TALK either....

Crapo is right! This plan isn't what the American people need. What we need is a single payer system that cuts out the greedy health insurance firms and removes the endless flow of cash to the party of "NO" But I will settle for progress. Some stride made in the right direction. Next stop, Public Option to take effect in 2010! If we fight hard enough we can achieve this goal!!!!

To the person who wrote here that all our system needs is "tweaks" it's obvious you have never worked in health care and never had a serious illness. Tell you what – even though you don't care about your neighbors, I'll still say a prayer for you that you never learn firsthand how miserable our current system really is.

Those were some Crapo comments alright.

People who don't pay taxes have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. Go ahead support it; It has nothing to do with any party.

GOP Senator Crap-O from I Da Ho says the Democratic Health Care Bill is not what the American people need. That's cool but if for all these years it has not been what we need, where is what we do need? Republicans had 8 years to give us what we do need and we got nothing and when Democrats take control and offer up stuff all Republicans can say is that it is not what we need and they STILL MAKE NO OFFERS. It is a shame that Republicans are a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Big Business and The Health Care Industry while Democrats are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Legal Profession. It appears that one way or another, anytime the screws are tightened by either side, the American Middle Class is the one that gets screwed.

Why are these Republicans still in Washington? There is no proof of them having done anything for Americans not even saying NO to George W. Bush against the Iraq war then turn around and ask Americans to support them. That's more than enough proof of why these Republicans have got to go.

Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness GOP. LIFE.... Although private insurance company have made this very difficult with there rationing, dropping people when they do get sick and raising rates so high that it forces people out. its either put food on the table or have insurance( that may or may not be there for you, even if you never miss one payment to them) This should not be a partisan issue. Its a human issue. Engough trying to have Obama fail. Grow up and do what is right. OR DROP YOUR GOVERNMENT RUN INSURANCE. I do not want to pay for your health when mine and my families doesn't matter to you!

Instead of being constantly critical, the GOP should join the debate, and work to come up with a plan. It seems to me that they are against any kind of change whatsoever just for the sake of being against the Obama administration which is attacking difficult problems that need to be addressed. They have rallied around that gas bag Limbaugh and the ever so tiresome Glenn Beck in their hopes that Obama fails. I can't think of anything more un-American.

The Republicans are consistently being aggressive and grossly dishonest, even using bazaar and irresponsible statements, all without any conscience in their efforts to excite emotions and control public opinion. They demand total loyalty and unity from their representatives, coerced with threats and evidenced in their word-for-word repetition of their scripted messages. In it all they are belligerent and 'in your face' arrogant, which at best is disgusting. The American people should literally be offended by all of it yet many accept the subterfuge and simply use it to rationalize their predetermined positions. How very short some memories are (reference Bush-Cheney 2000-2008). What is really needed is responsible bipartisan fine-tuning of the proposals and efforts, and not poorly disguised self-focused obstructionist efforts to return to ‘more of the same', the 'same' that cost us so much and would now again promise only more benefit for Special Interests and the select few, once more paid for by the majority. That is ridiculous!

Republicans offer nothing, if you support republicans, God has given you a thinking brain by mistake.

the irony of this guys last name has had me laughing for the last 2 hours ... well the retards in the republican't party had me crying for the chimps 8 years of misery, death, torture and greed

when will the GOP become useful again?

Republicans find displeasure in everything....well, except sex.

Reopublicans find displeasure in everything.....except sex.

How much money did we spend on just the last 2 wars?
How much money did Bush, Dick and their war mongering cronies such as Black Water, etc. make on the war?
How many lives Americans and others lost and left their loved ones mourning?
How many Americans have lost their jobs, homes, businesses and livelihood after these 8 years of Bush disaster?
How much deficit did we incur right after the surplus we had when Bush took office?
And Republicans claim to be pro-life, pro-business!
May be the 2000 page Healthcare reform bill is not perfect. But again nothing is perfect. We can always strive for perfection and hope to achieve it someday.
There are two groups that are working their best to defeat the healthcare bill. The priests who are against abortion, and I wonder why? And the war mongering Republicans who wish to use all US assets to build a global empire which benefits only themselves.
All I can say is “Republican leaders just shot the ****up and crawl under the nearest rock you can find”.

The poor Repugnants are displeased. A bunch of spoiled, sour-grapes sore losers. I don't know what to say except maybe "Awwwwww".

What would make them happy???? That question is the most elusive mystery in the universe. I think we should just continue on paying exorbitant prices until we can't pay anymore and maybe that will please them. I received a letter from Blue Cross/Blue Shield the other day stating their displeasure with health reform. They should be displeased. At my company an individual paying for family health care is paying $500.50 off the top of their paycheck and our employer pays the same amount. Can't sustain their buddies in the insurance industry forever. In our state, the former CEO of the company who had one DUI during his tenure was given a multimillion dollar severance package, after BC/BS employees partied it up in the Caymen Islands. The company then proceeded to raise our rates by 26%. I did request that they never send their propaganda to me again. Stick by them GOP. Your friends and CEO'S will have us all falling over like dominos.

Notice how all the big mouthed Repubs are the ones that already have TAXPAYER FUNDED health insurance? They don't care about the hard working American people who can't afford outrageous premiums and obscene co-pays (remember, the Senate Finance Committee wants insurance to pay only 65% of costs, leaving 35% as our new co-pay amount). As long as their campaign coffers get stuffed – courtesy of the American taxpayer's via Big Insurance – they will never give us any relief. As always, it's all about the cold hard cash.

Hey Congress, I can't afford to fund YOUR healthcare anymore – I need to buy my own.

Please send me a form to OPT OUT!

I recently encounted a situation that lends a human face to this mess.

A woman had finally started to dig her way out of minimum page hourly jobs when her doctor discovered a lung cancer. With no insurance and minimal savings, she had two choices:

a. Go ahead with the surgey and then declare bankruptcy, thereby ruining her financially and leaving the hospital sitting on unpaid bills.

b. Qualify for Medicaid by losing her job and her husband (whose income was high enough to not qualify for Medicaid but not enough for health insurance.

So... How to the many Christian conservatives advise a person like this? She's trying to follow the American dream of success through working hard but the present system makes this an impossible dream.

It is fundamentally stupid that so many Americans are one serious illness away from financial and personal ruin.

As a prochoice, anti-abortion person, it seems to me abortions would drop if the mother knew she would have good prenatal care and that her baby would have health care once it arrived in this rather complex world. Just maybe the best way to reduce abortions is a strong health care bill that provides total care for mothers and babies.

I love how all these people scream, we cant afford it! we cant afford it! you are not in office, and not privy to any sound financial information. Its not in the governments interest to bankrupt itself, and it wont. ever. Shut up, you dont know anything. Numbers are a game politicans play, when you wont listen to their words.

Annie, it sounds like you've been reading some biased news because everything you're saying is a lie, an amendment was included to prevent abortions with public money. Someone got you to go against the public well-being, probably exploiting your faith and lack of education in order to make the rich richer. You are being exploited.

And to Senator Crapo, what was your price to stop caring about the common man in favor of the wealthy? Who are you to say what the American people want? We want to not be at the mercy of insurers when our lives are in danger. This reform will happen, it is time, I will not see another person die and families be ruined for lack of money.

has there ever been a more appropriate name for a gop member? crapo that says it all

For all of you who complain about "the party of NO", are you actually suggesting that "the party of YES" to everything is better? Do you always say YES to your kids? YES to increases in your electric & water bills? YES to increases in percentage rates for your loans? How about when a peddler comes to your front door? Do you say YES to whatever he's selling? Ask yourself, is YES always better?

Maybe everyone would feel better if this new health reform plan were to be used by the goverment too!!! It's easy for Reid and Polosi to push this plan when they have and will keep their cadillac health plans. If its good enough for all of us who don't work for the goverment then it should be good enough for them. Then maybe I might support it.

I don't trust the Republicans... and I used to be one before they went "rogue" and religious / ideological / diabolical.

Boy, this is a surprise- that the voted-out-of-power Republicans are too scared to even discuss health care reform. They just want the same old "insurance companies make tons of profit- and let people die" system we have in place now. I remember whe Republicans had the GUTS to talk about things important to real Americans. 80% of America wants change- the Senate must vote for HCR NOW!

Where did he come up with $2.4 trillion, when the CBO said the bill would reduce the debt?

Even if it were $2.4, that's less than half what the Bush administration increased the national debt by with their two unnecessary wars and lack of control over the banking industry.

Teaching American's to make healthy choices? That is just down right naive.

At this point in time, the chances of my ever voting for a Republican again are slim to none, with slim walking out the door right now.

Gee, I wonder where he gets his campaign money from these days.

Crapo. Now there's an appropriate name.

When the GOP was in control with White House and both houses of congress they had their chance to lower the deficit and cut government spending. Instead they cut taxes for the top 1% of wage earners and increased spending. Also cutting goverment oversight of the financial markets and causing this recession that we are in. Now the sore losers of the last election are the party of no and are worried about government spending. They don't want health care reform because the insurance companies and the drug companies own them. They are using every scare tactic in the books to block reform including scaring seniors about medicare which when it was enacted they were against it also so why doesn't surprise me that they are against reform. The GOP has got to stop representing companies and the richest of the country and represent everyone. The companies they represent are laying off American workers and moving to China and Mexico so how does that help the country.

Do Americans realize that this republican politicians who DONT want healthcare for all Americans have healthcare for themselves and their families?

The RepubliNAZIS plan does nothing to reign in costs, nothing to to make insurance available, nothing to prevent denied care, nothing to stop the greed for profit by the insurance industry. It also keeps the lobby money flowing. Yep, If I were a RepubliNAZI I'd say it sounds like a great plan!

Republicans are displeased with themselves. They hate themselves. They hate everything around them. This is why they find "displeasure in EVERYTHING around them. What it all boils down to is that they are actually afraid of a black man. Bi-partisanship isn't in their vocabulary.

No ideas. No morals. No ethics...no Party.

The GOP has nothing but fear, hatred, and bigotry.

Welcome to 21st. century Republican politics.

We all have the opportunity to get rid of the crap being spewed by Crapo and his buddies in 2010. If we do not defeat them and elect legislators who will truly represent the people, then we deserve what we get from those who support special interests.

Millions of people want another entitlement and are demanding the government make somebody else pay for it. We are on a long slippery slope and picking up speed rapidly.

Bpin wrote: "It is not the GOP the liberals have to watch out for. It is themselves. They have enough power to pass this disaster on their own. The problem is they cannot get their own disfunctional party to agree."

You have put your finger on a real problem, Bpin. The Democrats are not Liberal. There are a few Liberals and a few Conservatives among the Democrats. Mosty, they are a party of career politicians whose interest is not in the nation's welfare but in their own careers. These political hacks avoid controversy like the plague. They will likely sink the health care proposal by watering it down to nothing or by finding some way not to vote.

Republicans, on the other hand, are a disciplined party. There is nothing Republicans hate more than a Republican with a conscience and the courage to stand up for what he believes in. If any Republican departs from his party's dogma in thought, word, or deed then he is drummed out of the Congress. Every Republican does as he is told, thinks as he is told to, says what he is told to say, and uses exactly the words and phrases he is commanded to use. Republicans are not concerned with the welfare of America. All they want is more power for themselves and more money for their corporate supporters. Republicans are not at all interested in government – except for who gets the contract.

The ship of state is taking on water, boys. Man the pumps.

As a relatively new citizen I am astounded that more is not made of the fact that all of these politicians sit there with fat pension and medical coverage PAID FOR BY YOU and would deny the same to our fellow Americans. Dont you know that this is banana republic stuff?
Come on speak up!!!!! This is not acceptable

Who needs healthcare when 34% percent Americans have Jesus as their doctor and have literary turned US into a biggest Banana Republic in the western hemisphere

Republicans don't debate because they lake the skills to do so.

Senator Mary Landruieu (D ) LA is nothing more than a common street walker. And expensive one ($100 million) but still a street walker.

This party is gone ROGUE ! Guess believe if I told Republicans the President of Scotland is Tony Blair and I repeat it time and again they will accept it.
How did the party of Lincoln end into such shame? Do we start to blame Reagan ang Bushes?

Isabelle...sorry, but you have been mis-informed by the dreaded party of "NO"!!!
This bill will do none of those things!

Tough! Your side lost! Deal with it!

Universal Health Care is where this country is going... but this bill is CRAP, get the pork/union/payoffs out... get it down to 500 pages.. move forward.. if congress cant produce a real bill vote them out.

This is the death panel for America.

No surprise with GOP opposition to health care reform. Many in the GOP thought that Social Security and Medicare was leading us down the road of socialism.

Giving these guys power is like giving the keys to your car to a convicted drunk.

The Republics know how to attack 'government', but they don't know how to govern.

Status Quo? Too many people are dying from lack of health insurance.

Pass the bill.

Say NO to the Party of No. Say YES to healthcare. Now, please.

Very suitable name

The manor and tactics which the Democratic leadership is trying to shove this bill down the American taxpayers throat is unheard of, outrages and will be a disaster for the country.

Paying off the democratic representative, who was a hold out, $100 mil.
of taxpayers money for her state in order for her to vote for the bill is appalling. We desperately need a change in 2010.

GOP has been against healthcare reform for decades..so much so that during the Bush years they didn't even make an effort to change it as the insurance compaines lined their wallets. Now since it looks close to that we may get a reform the GOP has nothing left but the fear tactics they have used in their playbook. Sad thing is that there are still people that feed into it. Maybe less this time but still people that do.

What a pile of CRAPO coming from the Republicans. They don't want Health care reform because their in the pockets of the insurance , pharmaceutical industries. These Congressmen have great insurance for themselves and their families, thanks to the U.S. Govt. So they figure screw everyone else I got mine and 'we don't want to upset the big cats'.

The obvious response to Crapo is that he is full of crap. but that's too easy.

Crapo gets insurance from the government for being a worthless pile of steaming poo, but doesn't want anyone poor to have insurance.

That's what this boils down to.

Displeasure, indeed. The only thing that will make them happy is to see the President fail in any and all of his efforts to move this country forward and to undo the havoc created by his predecessor over the previous eight years.

And I'm not the first to note how deliciously hypocritical it is for the Repbulicans to pretend to act as the protectors of Medicare, given that they adamantly opposed it in the 1960s as a socialist program, and continue to decry "government-run health care".

If you are among those who actually vote for any of these poseurs, I beseech you to take a good honest look at yourself. You really can't be that foolish.

'GOP REITERATES THEIR DISPLEASURE' is an hourly occurance. I don't know why they even bother showing up, everyone knows they're against everything.

Then answer the question why is it that anytime the GOP has been in power it has not made any attempt to reform healthcare?

The only reason why they are talking about it is because the liberals have made a huge issue about it. Now its important all of a sudden? Dont be fooled they are just fine with the "Status Quo".

How completely pathetic. Way to represent your party as the party of fear. There is no rational debate with these people.

This is just business as usual for the Republican party. Spread fear and hatred. What Mike Crapo (unfortunate name) really means is
"Don't mess with the drug companies who contribute billions to the Republican Party coffers.Mike Crapo..... Yes! Crapo indeed

Health Care Reforms with the Public Option are what every American is hoping for, not tomorrow,not the day after but TODAY.
Its time that those opposing the Health Care Bill wake up to this reality.
What Sen.Crapo says is not right.
Health Care is every American's right not a privilege & the Govt. has to be responsible for providing it.
We are not talking here of fancy homes,cars, vacations to exotic islands & fairy tale living. These are the rights of those who are more successful than the others in a free society & they are welcome to these benefits. But to say that govt. meddling in Health Care smells of socialism or whatever is just nonsense. A way to continue feeding Insurance Cos , big businees & lobbies etc.
Pass the Bill (please!).

Maybe if they had participated in solving the problem instead of trying to stop it from being solved the bill would be more to their liking. Can anyone think of anything that the Republicans have done when they had power that helped anybody but rich people? I can't. And I'm tired of them trying to get in the way whenever President Obama wants to work problems that everyone agrees are there.

Surprise surprise. Republicans who already have their own healthcare don't want to help pay for someone who doesn't. What would Jesus do? I bet he wouldn't vote against giving healthcare to people who need it.

The anti-healthcare people are hiding their selfishness behind a facade of ideology.

If Crap-o and the rest of the GOP has a problem with the health care bill, they should have thought about that before they spent eight years running this country into the ground, causing the people to reject the party in the voting booths last year, making them the MINORITY party that they are. Their opinion means nothing.

Let's just get an up or down vote. Wasn't that the mantra of the republicans when they were in power?

The party of no is at it again.

they have no plan!

OK CRAPO, lets do it. I am listening. It is funny, how you EMPHASIZE the IMPORTANCE of getting affordable healthcare, but GIVE nothing towards the process. Get the LOBBYIST for Insurance companies out of your back pocket and bring the noise for change or shut the hell up. Tell you what, I will trade my insurance program with you. Mine is "don't get sick" vs. yours, which is guess what–provided by the government. Liars and thieves, that is what you are.

It sounds like someone's being pressured by the insurance lobbyists. I find it amazing that this fact isn't transparent to everyone in this debate. The GOP argument has never been about protecting citizens or control government spending... it's about keeping profits large for their big business friends. Hasn't this been the MO of the Republican party since the 60's?

The issue of a 2000 page bill would be moot if they didn't double space all of the stuff so comments can be made. This Congress, both R's and D's, couldn't order a ham sandwich in less than 100 pages.

The issue is health care, not pages of the document! I am sick of hearing so-called "christians" with his/her anti-healthcare stance. Their God is Money. Just like the Chamber and those business who continue to use the ER as their health care program. Let's get something started. Health care is NOT a privilege for the rich and well-connected. There is a free clinic in Little Rock this morning and 60% of those signed up ARE EMPLOYED but don't get healthcare.

It will be good for all those businesses that export as they compete with companies who do have government healthcare at half the cost of ours. Where are the industry leaders who ought to be leading the bandwagon on this as good for business rather than letting the Chamber mouth the GOP position?

We have 10.2% UNEMPLOYMENT, and an Ocean of corrupt spending and debt, but the Obama and the Democrats are going full steam ahead with this Obamacare nightmare. It will hit our economy like a million ton of bricks, raise unemployment to 15-20% and cost trillions upon trillions. And Lord help those on Medicare if Obama and the Democrats really cut $500 billion. Although, they never really will which means that $500 billion will just go into pile of debt. Its hard to believe that any President or Political party could be this absolutely reckless with our economy and our jobs!!!!!

With the help of Keith Olbermann the Msnbc network has collected almost 2 million dollars for free clinics for people with little or no health insurance. The cities that were selected were New Orleans, Kansas City, Little Rock and Las Vegas. Two of the cities have had this event already and were over crowded as long lines of people were unable to get in due too a lack of time and in the case of New Orleans there was a lack of equiptment that was lost during Katrina. While this is being planned, the Fox netwark is planning yet another tea bagger hate party to protest health care reform. Is it not ironic that the family values party is against people being able to live life due to a secure health care plan. What do Republicans feel that the cost of saving human lives should cost and what are they willing to spend? How much is mom or dad or gramma or grampa worth it they will die from no health care? What does family values party mean?

It is not the GOP the liberals have to watch out for. It is themselves. They have enough power to pass this disaster on their own. The problem is they cannot get their own disfunctional party to agree. However, that will chnge as the no-debate begins. They will sweeten the pot for their outcasts that do not want to support them with great district deals that will allow kickbacks. The libs will get it passed, and don't worry when it bankrupts our country. The standard line applies. "It's Bush's fault!!!!!

The party of NO........They offer amendments and even if accepted they would NEVER vote for the bill. They will require the entire bill be read on the floor...purpose DELAY..........
They are so in the pockets of the Health Insurance industry and they will fight hard for them rather than worry about average Americans that need help............They are truely the party of NO ideas...they introduce a bill at the last minute that actually makes the insured numbers WORSE and they say they speak for average Americans.......They speak for the rich and large insurance companies that they want to protect................PATHETIC

Nancy Reagan, who now supports this reform effort as well as other health iniatives (e.g., stem cell research), unfortunately outlined the Republican Party's platfrom all too well at one time: JUST SAY NO.

Didn't work then, and it still sounds so off-key as to be offensive to the entire nation and our children's reality.

Their plan....Don't get sick(make healthy choices), and if you do get sick......(die quickly) I guess they should call it "the Crap-o(as in crappy) plan"!!!

Same old republi'con' line.... it only helps the insurance industry....the insurance industry will be glad to sell insurance across state lines(for the SAME price)!!!

Do they expect us to believe the industry will self-regulate ??? They haven't so far. What is their inticement to regulate? Do they voluntarily WANT less profits? Only a public option will keep (or try to keep) them honest!!

Same old, same old from the Party of No.
Do the American people know that this panel that gave us the mammogram recommendations was formed when Bush was in office. Now the Republicans are using it against health reform and blaming the Democrats. Check your facts people.

If the Republicans cared about all americans, they would work with the Democrats. I'm sick and tired of our government not working together. The Republicans make me feel our system is flawed. The Republicans will be responsible for not getting anything done with healthcare. Now that's something to be proud of.

THIS IS A BAD BILL.
Call your senators and shoot this thing down now....
Women should really be against this bill from all walks of life...
The bill will cut spending on all womens health issues except for abortion....
You reall need to say no.
There is too much spending.
Our budget is shot.
They are raising taxes dramatically.
They are cutting medicare spending which is already bankrupt....
We simply do not have the money.
This is as if a person with a $40,000 a year job has $200,000 in current credit card debt and now they will double that....
We CAN NOT AFFORD IT...

If I read this statement correctly, more than half his claims have been debunked. At least he didn't say "death panels"

As an unrelated question: doesn't Crapo mean frog in french?

How the heck would he know what I need? GOP = American Taliban

Crapo forgot the most important part of the Republican plan: do everything to preserve the status quo so that the medical industry and insurance companies can continue to rake in obscene profits. I'm a champion of a free market economy, but it's seems unethical to allow a business to profit on people's health (and death).

It's not what the in-the-pockets of the health insurance industry and pharmaceuticals politicians want. They had no problems spending under Bush and had absolutely no plan for health care reform. If you really think the Republicans care about you or your family, wait until you get into trouble.. While all of this exaggeration is going on health care costs are rising, except for Congress of course. After 8 years of Bush, they have little room for criticizing anyone. Hypoctires!

"GOP reiterates health care displeasure". Voicing displeasure is what the 'Party of No' does. Who better to spread the party's load of bull than Sen. Crapo.

Crap-o....appropriate name for a 'con', don't you think???

More party of "no"!!!

Don't they get it, the majority wants, and needs, reform!!

Do the Republicans actually think that the Democrats and at least half of the US population want to cut medicare for seniors, drive up the cost of health care, etc., etc,. etc.? If it would indeed do all that, NO ONE would be behind it!!! The Republicans need to stop the ridiculous attempt at scare tactics and sit down and debate the things that they would like to negotiate.

all speculation from the GOP... but has anyone seen any legilation from the GOP?...NOPE!!!

How dare the DNC take food out of the mouths of insurance companies. And how dare the DNC take food out of the mouths of Blackwater, Haliburton, etc. etc.

If we wait for the Repubicans to do anything about health care reform we will be waiting forever. The GOP has been in power alot more than the Dems but they never want to do anything about health care. When the Dems try to do anthing about it, the GOP won't help. They sit on their hands. What is wrong with that bunch? They simply don't care about the people. They all have plenty of money and good health insurance. But you know what. Their day is coming. They won't always be in Washington, may not be rich, may not have insurance of any kinf and be in failing health. They will have plenty of time to reflect back upon their good lives and wish they still had them. But it will be too late. Now is the time for them to right their wrongs. I hope they will all do the right thing!! If they don't, may God help us!!

I really hope this bill is defeated. Our economy cannot handle the spending that will take place if this bill passes and is signed into law. Things are horrible as it is, with most people I know being stretched to the limit financially, unhappy in jobs that are forcing them to work more hours for the same money (no raises), and unable to leave those jobs because there aren't any other jobs to go to.

The national debt is nearly out of control and the dollar is falling and this bill is an insult to the American people. It is 2,000 pages and will only serve to ration care, increase costs and increase the tax burden on an already burdened American public (the tax increases will start as soon as the bill is passed).

I can't speak for anyone else, but I can say for us, we can't afford anymore tax increases. We are already trying to cut our food bills even more than we already have and we rarely go out to eat and never for any kind of entertainment anymore. My husband is working insane hours for the same salary. If this bill passes, things will only get worse. I'm calling my Senator today and I hope others do, too, to stop this travesty.

I have to give it to the GOP and their masters the health insurance companies they have the scare tactics down pat. Please how can the GOP who is susposed to fight for new born babies right to life and then as soon as they are born you are on your own?

Does anybody else see a double standard here?

There's no need for the Party of No to attempt to explain anything.

you know what they say about if it walks, talks, and sounds like a duck then it must be a duck – exactly what this sounds to me like CRAP from CRAPO. We the people have been listening for the past 40 years from guys like this and every time we try to do something to help the real people of this country along comes another CRAPO to tell us that we do not need it – that what really need is what CRAPO and his kind want us to have – well Mr CRAPO what we need is for you to shut up with the CRAP that you continuly spew out of your insurance company owned mouth.

The republican health care plan is a complete farce, supporting the continuation of raping the American people. There is no reform, stipulations, guidelines for the insurance companies. Big surprise, right?
Going across state lines is a big winner, when a few companies control health care and we know they will bid against theirselves, right?
Tax credits, health care savings accounts are the answer for those struggling to put food on the table.
Tort reform is .04% of health care costs.
Until the party of NOthing starts caring about the American people, middle class etc, not only the rich and big business, they are a party which has no morals, ethics and creditibility.
The party of hate, anger, fear mongering, lies, sewer tactics is trying to continue their destruction of the last eight years. They were not able to get rid of middle class, senior citizens, disabled, less fortunate but will never give up trying.
They are truly on the path of becoming our countries most dangerous domestic terrorists.

You know, healthcare reform, in my view, was never a political issue with me, it is a moral, American issue in my view. Every American no matter their religion, political affilation, gender, race, or sexual oreintation, should have decent affordable health-care. Furthermore, it is okay if you disagree, but after you disagree, how about offering an logical, thoughtful, intelligent alternative.
PS: A warning to all 100 senators- If any of you vote down a chance to at least debate this bill, you minus well bring a suitcase with you as you do it, lets just say that. Besides, if you vote down debate, how can you have a chance to make the changes that you want to see happen, in your own point of view. If you refuse to debate, that means you are not doing your job, and you are wasting a good senate seat. In my state, we severely dislike people who refuse or walk out on their job, and America feels that way as well.

After working many years for food service employers who offered no coverage or coverage with such high deductibles that it was a waste of money to purchase them, I moved to Vermont. In Vermont I qualified for health coverage through the state. I finally had a doctor that worked with me proactively on my health and wellness, and I am forever grateful. Thank you Dr. Penney. And thank you, the people of Vermont, for believing still that we are a government FOR the people, and by the people. The road of life took me to another state, where health coverage was not affordable. I am cornered into bankruptcy now from the thousands of dollars in health bills from emergency surgery. I work full time. I'm not freeloading on society. But someone who made money off my work has health insurance you can bet. We the people deserve a government that cares deeply for it's citizens and not solely for profit for a few.

It's unbelievable about all of the lies that the GOP is spreading, I'm a senior, and let me tell you that my health is rationed, medicines that are not payable with my income, doctors that don't want to accept me as a patient and so on.

It's a shame that the Democrats are not able to tell the real story, those GOP loudmouths are a disgrace to our country.

True we need health care reform but the democrats are looking at this as yet another money tree. And where in the Constitution does it say that the government shall have the right to heavily fine or jail you if you do not go along with them and enroll into obama care?

The cost of helping people is always too expensive for republicans, but there's never any talk of cutting our number one expense: our bloated military budget.

Talk about the trillions you give to kill people and bomb bridges else where first before you try to rag on a noble cause like healthcare...

And the most ironic thing about this whole comment im making...IRAQIS HAVE HEALTHCARE GURANTEED BY US! WE DON'T EVEN HAVE IT BUT WE GUARUNTEE IT FOR THEM!

Lastly: Spread the word: if you have healthcare now, and universal healthcare is passed...if your taxes go up, its actually likely you'll end up paying less for healthcare!
Heres why: My family (in actuality) pays over $10k a year for health insurance. If my taxes now go up $6k to pay for healthcare, I've actually saved $4k...so to those on the right, think before you speak!

Republicans Yakety yakety yak!

Yap, yap, yap, never have an original thought of their own!

This sounds like more of the same old Crapo the Refusenik party has been spouting for months. Let's move forward and cooperate in improving healthcare for all Americans. My advice to the Refuseniks is to lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Just wondering about the 5 minute Patriot Act vote no one read that but that passed and yes we lost rights but it was okay cause it was REpublican, ugh can I tell you how much I dislike the GnOP

& just how does Mr. Crapo pretend to know what the American people need or want?

This one is too good to pass up – Crapo????? LOL
Crapo is disgusted. If it sounds like . . . . . . . . then yes, it IS a repug.
While it is true that many Americans should take better care of their health, unfortunately for many heredity plays a major part on heart disease, diabetes, cancer. You cannot change your genes.
That rep bringing in that little white rich girl to "speak" to Congress was a joke also.

Who cares what the Republicans think? After driving our nation off a cliff fiscally they really and truly are irrelevant. Don't trust them and never will again. I only vote for Independents and Democrats now and that is the way it's going to stay.

Wow that's a shocker Republican Sen. Crap-o is displeased with the bill, while they had months to read the bill and then read the amendments as they come along, if you can't do that then please don't run for office next term, morons.

Mike Crapo...ha ha ha ha. Is this guy's name for real? What can be expected from the party of NO? Seriously other than just saying NO NO NO and more NO. I would like to hear "lets try this and that and the other". At this juncture I honestly do not think that the GOP has my and my family's best interests at heart. This is besides all of the wacko groups of angry white people that they have spawned to try and bring down society in the country. People like "Oath Keepers". They claim to protect the Constitution but selectively say what parts of it they will uphold. Hardly patriotic. An offshoot of a failed GOP flunky from the last elections. Same goes for the Tea Baggers, some more failed white flunkies who are very angry that there is a black man in the White House. The health care debate will heat up in the next few days no doubt and well see who is really for and against the people. I hope they all put the people's business ahead of party caca.

CONServatives....GOPhers...religious NUTS...just like the senator's name....full of Crap

Looks like the Republicans picked the right spokesperson for their latest whining binge about health care reform. Mr. Crapo, who sounds as if he is quite full of himself in every sense, makes these broad accusations while offering no alternate solution. It's all about attacking from an ideological viewpoint rather than being pragmatic about the problem.

Maybe the bills in the House and Senate are not perfect, but they are both major improvements to a broken system that is escalating in cost beyond the reach of most middle class families. Of course, the GOP never cared about the middle class. It only seems to be interested in helping the wealthy and the corporations that line its pockets.

Who is he kidding when he talks about "educating Americans on how to make healthy choices, and allowing people to purchase insurance outside of their own state"? Since when did Republicans ever care about educating anybody about anything? In any case, how are "healthy choices" going to help people with broken bones and bacterial infections who don't have insurance?

More importantly, what would keep insurance companies from increasing premiums on customers who live out of state, just as many state universities do today? What naive gene does Mr. Crapo and the GOP have which makes them think that insurance companies wouldn't find a way to immediately neutralize any consumer advantage to out-of-state of purchases?

The insurance industry is always one step ahead of these half-measures, but Mr. Crapo pretends that "competition" would somehow magically come into effect causing premiums and deductibles to drop instead of increasing by double-digits every year.

Mr. Crapo and the Republican Party are digging themselves into a massive hole here with their obstructionist and corporatist strategy. Then again, this was never the party of intellectuals. It's a group of people who need their ideology to make their decisions for them.

Why are they not talking about their own health care, paid by the taxpayer

"Crapo" - His name speaks volumes...

The GOP (Greedy Old Puppets-of the Insurance Industry) are so obnoxiously predictable-not just with this issue but with absolutely everything President Obama says-doesn't say-does-doesn't do-recommends-doesn't recommend. At every single turn; in every single instance they are knocking him down with lies, innuendos, fear tactics. To me this makes obvious the fact that they have no real plans or substance or ideas or suggestions to add to the debates at hand. They continue to use outlandish tactics instead of contributing. And those horrid tea-party idiots and the disgusting likes of Palin and Beck only worsen their political venue. They've never offered any sort of a real Plan to give People what they deserve-a real Heatlhcare Plan-but then their ties with Insurance lobbysists prohibits such moral character.
NOW is the time to give All Americans what those Voted into Congress have-Affordable Health Insurance. I support President Obama and all working so hard to make this happen. I support President Obama as he works to bring us back from the brink of destruction. Pass HealthCare-Now!

Purchasing insurance across state lines without your own state regulations, reminds me of why credit card companies flocked to states with little or no regulations, and that has not helped the consumer.

I am sure all insurance companies will also flock to the state with the least regulations. This may help a state like Texas, but not so much, the American People.

Once again Mr. CRAPo and the GOP offer no real solutions, but why should they when it has no impact on their daily lives, selfish pricks.

My former GOP continues to repeat the same old LIES about health-care reforms without offering ANY new alternatives. For instance, you can already purchase insurance across state lines–ex. my company policy is in CA. Not to mention, the GOP so-called "solution" a few weeks ago did not offer pre-existing coverage, which was pathetic.

To clarify another lie from Sen. Crapo (seems fitting btw),the proposed Medicare reforms would actually help our seniors by closing donut holes in their coverage and stopping the cycle billing by greedy insurance companies to keep the funds for senior care, where it belongs.

"Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!" – The GOP Doomsayers are at it again. Proclaiming that if we try to bring up health care in this country to half the level that it is in the rest of industrialized world it can only lead to widespread ruin. Give me a break!

The Party of No reiterates No. After doing nothing about health care the entire time they had control they're saying no. What to worry they got theirs, including up until now their abortion coverage. The GOP are the epitome of hypocrisy and down right pathetic.

why don't these morons shut up and try working for the good of the country?

I can't believe the Senate is havinga debate to vote on if they are going to debate on the health care or not.......come on, enough already...just get the job done and stop the fighting. stop spending our money on garbage like this;......I can not take this anymore!!!!!!!!

The loudest doesn't mean they care correct.

CNN stop spinning for the GOP. How about reporting more on the healthcare and democrats who are going to vote for the bill and how many districts can no longer afford healthcare..

Everything about THE GOP is Displeasure........ !!

The party of ZERO

Yes, we Americans don't know what we need, we need people like Senator Crapo to tell us. We let the GOP do our thinking for us. We are abject idiots. We prefer to have private options rip us off, opposed to having public ones do it. We're smarter than we look but dumber than we seem. We need more radical right-wing feedback with our coffee to help jumpstart our day. In the land of the free, we need the GOP to decide what is fair and balanced and keep reminding us how fair and balanced regressive, puritanical, oppressive idealogy is. We need to return to the Bush-Rove years. We all felt so valued, supported, helped.

I'd like to reiterate my displeasure with these no solution obstructionist corporate shills that populate the GOP (Greedy Old Politicians).

If you want to speak, talk about solutions that will actually work.

As I see this party deteriorate into angry old white hillbillies, I can never see myself ever voting Republican again.

Abraham Lincoln would shoot himself before being part of this Garbage Old Party.

GOP would like to see this country return to the pioneer days where there was no government, no services, no state or national parks, no regulation, no safety nets for people. Then they could continue to divert all of our tax dollars to war and making weapons, bailing out banks and funneling the money to the wealthy of the country. That is what they have been all about for 30 years now and it has brought ruin to our country. The workers of America are down on the floor and being trod upon. We need to make sure that the GOP stay the minority party forever. They are bad for America.

This health care disaster is not supported by the majority in the country.

The majority agree that some tweeks/changes should be made to our health care system to make it more affordable/effective for citizens--but they do NOT believe that this health care disaster is the answer.

We do NOT need to destroy our entire health care system--or 1/6 of our economy-–just to make a few changes/tweeks to health care.

The post office is more efficient than the GOP Congressmen.

So sad. Too bad. We will have healthcare and every registered Republican can be banned from it along with the illegals that they are sooo worried about getting coverage.

I just want to know what have the GOP done for health care when they were in control. And what is the GOP plan for getting 45 millions Americans insured?

GOP Congressmen are a prime example of socialism, by their own definition. They take taxpayer money, and do nothing for the American People in return.

I wonder if the GOP Congressmen would be interested in giving up their positions as paid spectators, and actually engage in legitimate debate on this for the American people. For them to get paid for not doing their job represents the worst case of welfare fraud abuse.

Now my health insurance premiums are increasing again, to pay for the insurance company bribes to the congressmen to defeat this, and also the 24 hour media blitz of fear.

So this would mean that the GOP is going to vote to proceed to the bill so we can see you ideas put into the bill.
Sen. Crapo must think every one falls for this line of BS. You need to proceed to the bill to debate your ideas and get them into the bill. You don't even want to take the step of debating the bill because you have no idea's that aren't preapproved by the insurance lobby.

Why can't people wake up and see these so called health care plans for what they really are– rationed medical care and tax bills. Strange that new gov. study guidelines are coming out just before the vote isn't it??? Less tests for all. Take a good look; these could be put in place under Obamacare.

I keep hearing the 85% in this country who have insurance are happy with it. I am hear as a representative of millions telling you we are NOT HAPPY! I have seen my premium double in 5 years, my co-pays have gone up 200%, and now I have to clear $1000 deductible just to get them to pay even though i have been paying premiums up the ass! Meanwhile i have not received any extra coverage, or any better service! So stop saying we whohave it are happy with our coverage we are not! and I llok forward for this reform to go throught to cover everyone and bring down health care cost!

Any senator that votes in favor of the Reid healthcare bill today can kiss their political career goodbye re: re-election.

What's in a name? More of the same GOP protection of the health insurance industry.

"And when I say 'American people' I mean the insurance industry."

No one is saying there does not need to be health care reform but this 2000+ monstrosity is nothing more than government rationed health care. According to the constitution WE THE PEOPLE cannot be FORCED to purchase anything. It virtually eliminates seniors and the chronically ill. It forces us to use our tax dollars to murder babies. It puts the government in charge of running/ruining a massive program and they can't get small programs right. AND even worse reid and his fellow criminals are resorting to bribery to get it passed.
AND all of these corrupt politicians are totally ignoring the wishes of the people who pay their salaries.

No answers to any problems only fear mongering, playing to their un-intelligent base. Sure am glad to be a CANADIAN. Your pathetic.

Sounds like Crapo to me