We Americans must rearrange our priorities. There should be a public awareness campaign that illustrates the necessity of having health insurance, as well as a campaign that informs people about how poor lifestyle choices cause a detrimental effect to their health and to their premiums (Armed Forces Network does a great job–should be used as a model).

There are many young health people who feel they do not need insurance because they are healthy. There are also too many people who do not wish to purchase insurance because the premiums cost money that they feel is better spent elsewhere, such as payments on out-of-control credit card debt, beer, partying, new Harley payments, etc.

On a policy level, there are things I feel could help dramatically. 1st, illegal aliens should not be eligible for government help; 2nd, employers must not be forced to provide health insurance to employees; 3rd, we should view health care in a similar vein as auto insurance and vehicle maintenance: do we file a claim with our insurer when we need an oil change or a new transmission? Can people just show up for new tires and not pay for them, expecting Good Year to eat the bill? Of course not. Were we to do that, car insurance would be in the same situation as health insurance, and auto repair and maintenance would not be affordable.

Health/dental insurance should be modeled after auto insurance. We should pay our own way from our own pockets for basic health maintenance and small emergencies, reserving insurance for a catastrophy, utilizing a deductible of some sort. We should also look into health care savings plans (I do not know anything about them).

I think health insurers should not be able to deny coverage or drop people, but they could adjust the premiums accordingly for risky behavior/lifestyles.

Americans must rearrange their priorities and alter their spending and borrowing (ie, credit cards) habits so that they can afford health care. For those who cannot afford it in spite of their best efforts and life situation, something can be figured out for them. I have an idea for that, but it is too long for this space.

The man has lost credibility with too many Americans, especially the ones that voted for him. His first official act as President was to sign the Stimulus bill and by doing that he turned two campaign promises into lies. As a candidate, he promised promised to post all proposed legislation on the internet for five days before acting on it. This was to be a routine part of his "transparent" administration. As a candidate, he also promised to exercise line item veto authority on any legislation containing earmarks or pork barrel spending. As President, the very first piece of legislation he was given was the Stimulous bill, containing 1,100 pages with 9,000 earmarks of absurd spending, at a price tag of $800 billion dollars. It wasn't posted on the internet for five days for the public to see. He didn't excersize line item veto authority on even one of the 9,000 earmarked, pork barrel projects. HE DIDN'T EVEN READ IT BEFORE HE SIGNED IT! It did nothing to stem the tide of unemployment or stimulate the economy.

Please tell me, why anyone with a lick of common sense would give any credence to what this man says?

Mr.Obama and his supporters have terribly misread the rest of the American public's opinion of Mr. Obama and his actions since becoming President. Following the debacle that was TARP, the public was in no mood for more of the same. Yet that is exactly what they got under Stimulous – hundreds of billions of dollars that neither stimulated the economy, nor stemmed the rising tide of unemployment. They didn't like the takeover of GM and Chrysler. They didn't like the bail-out of AIG, nor the bonuses AIG executives were given as part of the Stimulus bill that Mr. Obama signed, but unfortunately didn't bother to read.

This was one of the few times I actually felt sorry for Mr. Obama. He went on TV and in a press conference said that like the American public, he too was outraged over the bonuses given to AIG executives, only to discover later that it was something he unwittingly signed into law.

Another thing that irritated the rest of the American public was the name calling of Tea Party protesters by Mr. Obama and his supporters.

Then, the railroad tie that broke the camel's back, came the ill-fated attempt to ram through national health care (another 1,000 page bill, costing hundreds of billions of dollars that neither Mr. Obama nor his supporters bothered to read) prior to the August 1st Congressional recess.

It was not just the national health care plan they tried to slip by the public, but it was a culmination of all of these other things, plus the fact that not even one federal employee from Mr. Obama on down would be impacted by it. All federal employees would, of course, keep their own health plans. It was all of this that caused the anger that boiled over in the Town Hall meetings. That anger was only further inflamed by the callous dismissal of Town Hall protester's

questions and the name calling from the administration and its supporters directed at the protesters.

If this cannot be done, then have all the remaining States that have yet to do so, become Soveriegn, and answerable only to the United States Consitution and its Amendments and DC can just issue orders to itself!

Hozro