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Harrison,

I have to say, I am very dissappointed in your belief that Americans do not want healthcare reform. For someone who started this website because Insurance companines were ruining our lives and healthcare, it's just shocking. What on earth was your motivation for creating this forum for people to learn from other's experience to help fight insurance companies for coverage. Let me correct that, I asked you for months to create the Insurance hell section because you were more focused on recovery for the lucky few who had participated in the clinical trials, or paid for the surgery out of pocket, and the really lucky few that got early insurance coverage before the iron fist shut the rest of us out. Insurance companies are getting filthy rich off of our premiums and misery. Regardless of your obvious politics, you should have a little more sympathy and understanding of the need for healthcare reform.

Most people don't follow politics so they don't understand the complicated issues. Just one example: many (most?) young people don't know what it means let alone feels like to be in the Medicare donut hole! During an OFA phone bank, I had to explain this issue to a number of people because they had no clue what this was all about. And if you and certain others only listen to Fox so called "news" or shock jock Limbaugh or similar, all you and they hear are bald face lies in an effort to "take Obama down." There were no "death panels," there is no government takeover of healthcare, even though there should be a government takeover of regulating the health care insurance companies and a government public option to keep the insurance companies honest.

We all understand pre-existing conditions. Should having a c-section be a pre-existing condition? What if you were raped or a victim of domestic violence, should that be justification of a pre-existing condition. What if you can't get tested to help donate an organ to a blood relative, because you might be found to have a pre-existing condition! If your child has developed diabetes or cancer, and the parents lose their job,should they not have a right to health care so they can treat their child's illness or disease? Or should we continue to let people die because millions of people can't get or can't afford health care? Private Insurance companies have death panels. The government is trying to force insurance companies to prioritize people over obscene profit levels on the backs of people's misery.

If you had a pro health care reform rally next to a anti health reform rally, the negative side always got covered more and pro health care people were mostly ignored. Teabaggers (the crazies) got the most coverage. Because it makes salacious tv. That's it.

The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) found that this reform will SAVE $$$$. A party neutral group doing the financial analysis. It's an accepted practice on both sides of the aisle.

Finally, most people who have been screwed by the insurance industry are depressed, angry, frustrated, and neck high in fighting their own personal battles. The people who are fighting on tv against healthcare, are paid by the industry and the super conservative / teabagger right that have a political agenda ONLY, and absolutely not interested in making the public lives better.

If you are healthy and don't actually NEED your insurance company to pony up serious coverage, you are lucky and living in bliss with no idea what it's like when you are a stuck in a miserable situation with no options.

Let's save more $ by getting the h.e.l.l. out of the middle east. And stop paying the immoral, irresponsible, budget raping, private contractors over there.