Letter I wrote Bill O'Reilly

[Tony_FLADEM]

Dear Bill,

Most people cannot afford the high cost of health care because they do not have the ability and willingness to prostitute themselves that you have.

You are not an accomplished person that is self reliant. You are pathetic "human bering" whose opinions and beliefs are predictable.

You supported the war in Iraq so Corporate America could profit, and now you are opposing heath care reform so the health insurance industry can retain it's huge profits.

The people who do not have health insurance are worth more than you will ever be.





Tony _____

Largo, Florida

[Oregone]

1. For good measure...

You should of told him to suck off Reagan's carcass. Otherwise, well done

[TxRider]

2. To be fair

If I remember right he wasn't exactly for the war in Iraq.

And I don't see him opposing health care reform either.

In fact he said we needed health care reform, and medicare reform when he had McCaskill on the other night.

As for people and health care, polls say most Americans say they are happy with their health care.

This whole health care issue is about the simple fact this country has never accepted health care as a right. We have always been one accident or disease away from the poor house.

What we are deciding now is whether we as a moral country, and a rich nation, should provide that health care as a right to all or not. Many Americans do not agree it is a right, and everyone should be self reliant.

But even most of those will admit it is the moral thing to do when pushed. And if the argument was given properly most would accept a government role in doing so. Not all, but most.

Trying to ram a bill through before August while saying your going to cut a half a billion from medicare and and expand government health care wasn't a smart way to approach it IMO.

It set the process back. We'll see how it plays out in Sept.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Please site your sources on those polls

Polls can be manipulated.

Also, have you read the bill? I have, and my only concern is if they will actually achieve the savings they say they will. Personally, I'm all for:

Title IV: Amendments to IRS Tax Code of 1986
Subtitle D: Other Revenue Provisions
Sec. 441: Surcharge on high income individuals-59c 1 says 1% surcharge on those making between $350 – 500K per year; 1.5% if $500K-1M; 5.4% on those making more than $1M., with these rates going down if more income comes in from health reform savings than is predicte

And what American is going to object to:
Title II- Health Insurance Exchange & Related Provisions
Subtitle C: Individual Affordability Credits

Sec. 243: Affordable Premium Credit
A. Amount = amount for the premium of plan exceeds the affordable premium amount
B. Affordable Premium Amount= 1/12 premium percentage limit X family’s yearly income Premium percentage limit based on table:

Family income Initial % Final % Actuarial Value
% of Poverty Lev. %
133-150 1.5 3 97
150-200 3 5 93
200-250 5 7 85
250-300 7 9 78
300-350 9 10 72
350-400 10 11 70

These are notes I took on these portions of the bill. I suggest everyone read the bill and do the same.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. He was very much for the war on Iraq

Monday, March 17, 2003

By Bill O'Reilly
...
In hindsight, Mr. Bush should have done with President Clinton did with Milosevic, attack him without U.N. approval. You remember that France opposed bombing Serbia, even though soldiers from that country were committing mass murder throughout the Balkans. Mr. Clinton, to his credit, ignored French objections and bombed Belgrade.

But President Bush was persuaded to take the diplomatic road on Saddam, and that has failed dismally. Once again, even after the U.N. passed Resolution 1441 last November, demanding that Saddam account for his weapons of mass destruction, the U.N. will not force him to do so.
...
These are very difficult times for all of is here in America. But, again, we must do the right thing. Saddam is evil and a threat to the world; he must go.

But the Bush administration must also learn a lesson from this debacle and either repair relationships with powerful countries or make it quite clear to the world that we will fight alone against dangerous tyrants and terrorists if we have to.

From the Google cache for a search for this phrase: "killer with huge stocks of anthrax and other deadly weapons"

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=%22killer+with+huge+stocks+of+anthrax+and+other+deadly+weapons%22&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8