Thank you all, friends. Hopefully, we can get HCR through. To me, as some of you, there is

[Mike 03]

nothing that can possibly be more important.

[saracat]

1. "real" HCR is important. Access to healthcare for ALL is important. The current

mandated purchaseof private insurance while covering few and denying coverage to some as exists in the current Bills? Not so much. Nothing still means nothing except we would have to pay for it! Its gonna be cheaper to pay the fine and get the same coverage!

[asdjrocky]

3. I really did think that real HCR would be a done deal.

How silly of me. Maybe we need to have 80 Democratic senators.

[saracat]

5. With no leadership we couldn't pass it it we had 100 !

[WorseBeforeBetter]

Virginia Legislature Passes Ban on Insurance Mandate

(I haven't been on DU much lately and missed any discussion of this...)

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/virginia-legislature-passes-ban-on-insurance-mandate/

Virginia Advances Legislation Against Insurance Requirement
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/virginia-advances-legislation-prohibiting-insurance-requirement/

As goes Virginia, so goes the nation? One would *hope*!

[emilyg]

2. Jobs are far more important to me.

[Mumblefratz]

4. Amen

We've got to get something out of this. At this point I almost don't care what it is as long as the Republicans hate it.

I used to think much of what being proposed was not worth the effort but at this point I'll take pretty much anything if all it does is to acclimate the electorate to "socialist" medicine.

[readmoreoften]

6. Why on earth would anyone unrec 'real health care'? Who set up these unrec bots?

I'm with you, Mike.

[annabanana]

7. +1. . . .n/t

[salguine]

8. I hope you're not referring to the travesty of "health care reform" currently oozing its way

around Congress? That thing needs to be driven out to the desert and forced to dig its own grave at gunpoint.

[Double T]

9. HCR is not possible with the current 'do nothing congress'.

The current 'leadership' is worthless and has blown the opportunity of our lifetime. I sure would like to meet all those strange americans that enjoy paying higher and higher premiums on our substandard health care.