>>>*I wonder if anyone here believes for one second that some well publicized protests on the government takeover of health care has turned the tide?

This administration now has "Heard the people" and will bend to their will?

Believe that, and we all will deserve what is coming.

Government placates the people by forming "co-operatives", then "funding" them.

*Hmmm...isn't that about what they did to AIG and General Motors?

Government funding of co-operatives means that government...decides...what is done with the funding, after all, it IS the people's money.

(Well, it isn't actually, government just prints it now but that's another issue.)

Since it IS the people's money, government will keep control, just like they "didn't" with GM. (That one was "We don't run GM, as long as they do what we say.") One duly elected corporate executive would not "mind" so he was replaced.

Government did that.

Government will NOT run the co-operatives either (As long as they do what they are told.)

As I look at the current bobs and weaves by government, all I see is them changing the way they say what it was that they were saying.

Obama wants total government control of corporate, wage scales, health care, on and on and on. If government forms, funds and controls co-operatives, then total control of health care will have arrived.

At first, all will be fairly normal. Then the issue of "costs" will arrive. Right behind that will be a formation of someone to "control" costs.

(*Hmmm...Let's see. YOU are now 70 years old and drawing Social Security and you need a kidney transplant. *Hmmm...taptaptap..carry the one...*Hmmm...Here, take these pills instead. ... NEXT CASE!)

It will just take a bit longer to run the insurance companies out (The keyword here will be "absorb into the system")...is all.

Chip away at the base of a tree long enough, she will come down, no matter how small each chip is.

BKG sees it, this old man sees it, quite a few of you see it. This President has not abandoned his plans, all that has happened as the result of a few protests is hesitation and some rewording of public statements.

I saw one man at a public meeting say it all. "He said, "Why can't you people just LEAVE us alone?"

Would we all be better off with a government run health care system? He**, I don't know, what I DO know is I like things just fine the way they are and I DO know that EVERYBODY has access right now, even if they can't pay.

It seems to be the law. It's not perfect, but then nothing ever is. There are some leftover segments of society, but then there always is, and there always will be.

What IS wrong is when your HOUSE can be taken because you get sick. Now I would be happy if government just fixed that and then went back to their meetings.

.....*EB