Obama wants a "single payer" system which elimanates private insurers.. Which means we all will be on the public dole..
Then the "waiting game" begins..

"When the person who in possession of a government, shall say to a nation, I hold this power in 'contempt' of you, it signifies not on what authority he pretends to say it is..but an aggravation to a person in slavery"..Thomas Paine

Health care reform may fail.

If it does, it is sad if it fails because of the lies and childish antics of the wingnuts of the conservative Republicans.

President Obama is not pursuing a single-payer system. I think this would be the best system for America, but President Obama has not proposed this and it is not under consideration by Congress. And this is only one of the lies told by conservatives about health care reform.

The childish antics of the tea baggers to disrupt town hall meetings held by Congressional representatives are more like Nazi brownshirt tactics than responsible partisan opposition.

Tea baggers, birthers, bigots, and their fellow travelers seem to be all that is left in the Republican party.

How sad. This country needs two adult political parties.

I wonder if that 48% is the 48% that the Government already pays for. The government(us) already pays that percentage, with Medicare, Medicaid, Government employees, etc....I'm sure it is mighty fine especially with those who are in those government employee groups...

There has to be a public option to give the insurance companies competition or else they just won't get it. Costs on their clients will continue to rise unless there is a game change. Now if they don't want to compete with a public option, then Yes, they will be out of business. Competition is the name of the game..you either compete or away you go as a company. Health-care insurance companies are not warm and fuzzy creatures, more like, snakes in the grass, as in, jump up and bite you when you are not looking.

Now if those Politicians come up with a public option that they themselves won't consider for themselves and their families, then nope won't be good enough for we the people either.

The new polling also shows that 80% of those with insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent. That’s up from 70% in May.

Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 53% rate the current system as good or excellent while just 18% say it’s poor.

Just 28% say they are willing to pay higher taxes so that all Americans can have health insurance. Sixty percent (60%) are opposed. Those figures are little changed since May.

Recent polling has shown that cost, not universal coverage, is the top concern about health care.

Seventy-four percent (74%) of voters rate the quality of care they receive as good or excellent. In May, just 62% of adults said the same.

Just seven percent (7%) now rate the quality of care they receive as poor. That’s little changed since May.