For heaven's sake, fix the economy first before you even think about any more deficit spending! Sheesh. Pass the Fair Tax plan, HR 25 / S 296 and get this economy going. Then maybe we'll look at more spending. Maybe.

Frankly, I'll always choose Blue Cross, and I don't really think I should be obligated to pay for your health care, either as I currently do, or with a potential public competitor.

Cool, we should let people with highly contagious diseases walk down the street and die like flies while contaminating every one they run into, including your relatives, because you should not be obligated to pay for their health-care.

As you're worried about “cheques” (NOT “checks”) I have to ask: Are you receiving Canadian or British National Health benefits or are personally paying out of pocket for Blue Cross?

I want nothing to do with the government sending out cheques to doctors and such. In fact, I want to de-fund HHS, but that's not going to happen, unless someone like me is President, with a Congress of people who think like Tom Coburn. I think we should be reducing the interference of Government in every area, not increasing it, whenever possible.

Frankly, I'll always choose Blue Cross, and I don't really think I should be obligated to pay for your health care, either as I currently do, or with a potential public competitor. Nor should you be obligated to pay for mine. Each should pay for their own, and only when it is absolutely impossible for a person to do so, then should the Government step in, and aid, not pay in entirety for, the private health insurance of a person.

Correction. Again. No one is talking about “government run” health care. We're talking about the VERY mundane clerical aspect of sending the check. The government already sends millions every month. They can do it cheaper than a for-profit company that skims off 17% (insurance companies' own analysis). PBJ, we can use that 17% (actually about 12, because Medicare “bureaucracy” costs 5.2%, according to the insurers). And of course, I'd be more than content for you to continue to pay 12% more for worse care. I do not care. But I would opt for the 12% less and better care (meaning less hassles for the doctor or patient in getting things covered, no “eligibility” gauntlet, no exclusion for pre-existing conditions, no losing your coverage if you change jobs or states, etc.) No, I think clearly the private insurance market has created a MUCH worse bureaucracy here, and it's literally killing us.

As for the concerns that private insurance couldn't compete and would cease to exist? Well, speaking for my own, Blue Cross, GOOD RIDDANCE!

As opposed to what the Establishment insists he and voters believe.

“Lieberman is the poster child of the politcal whore.”

I can’t agree with this.

Lieberman came out during the primary and stated what he believed. Because of that, he lost the primary and had to run as an independent.

If he had lied (as most Democrats do) in order to get the nomination and to win the election, I would go along with label “whore”, but Joe stuck to his principles and told the truth – which is why he is so much like a Republican.

. Crazy left-wingers like Lamont are too out of the mainstream.

Bur even the even crazier left-winger from the People's Republic of Vermont, Bernie Sanders is in a US Senator. So if we elect a couple of more Bernie Sanders, Lamont will be smack in the middle of the main street.

Good job attempting to move the Overton window…

“Sell out” doesn't even begin to approach what he is. Not by a longshot.

That being said, I am not opposed to having those who absolutely are not covered, and cannot be covered, by private insurance being able to use a government plan, so long as the federal government forces businesses to provide competent insurance for their workers bought in the marketplace. The other good suggestion that came out was a federal Health Savings Account plan. That keeps the money spent on health care from being taxed, and allows people, during times of market growth and good economic numbers, to put away more money for a rainy day that can only be touched for health care.

We should be doing everything we can to keep the government from insuring everybody. Private insurance, wherever possible, should be used, and only when it is absolutely impossible for a person to get private insurance should public insurance be given.

Not just the CT Dems causalovserver. When you consider the groundswell of support the republican party has been receiving lately the Democrats should be in fear of their basic survival…

…Just kidding.

Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh are moderate Democrats. Joe Lieberman is a radical Zionist.

While on the subject of Democrat Senators, I ripped Max Cleland in an article I missed earlier. http://themoderatevoice.com/35492/max-clelands-…