27.41%	Favor
72.58%	Oppose

Comment: I am unable to name one thing that the federal goverment oversees that is efficent. They build an empire and the cost build up. Look at the post office,medicare,amtrack and the military. Keep them out of our health care. from crestview,fl by murray

Comment: what a joke, everything offered in the proposal is already being administered to anyone who needs it, they just want more $$$$$$$$$$$$ from tax payers. from pensacola fl by ken

Comment: The government has failed at creating any government -run program that has not resulted in costing the taxpayers more than originally predicted and delivering less service than originally promised. Why should we beleive that this endeavor would be any different? Let us as citizens keep our freedom and make the choices ourselves. from Milton, FL by David

Comment: Hell lets go for broke and get a National White caucus being its a race issue and all go on welfare and let the 3rd world countries support us.Obama needs to stop the B.S. and being the tax payers are paying for this PUT IT TO AN AMERICAN VOTE! wHO THE HELL HAS HEARD OF A "NON PROFIT HEALTH CO-OP...Pelosi needs to move in with Palin with this type of mentality. Non profit my hind end. You pay for what you want...and our President wants the tax payers to pay for WHAT HE WANTS! Poor fella... from Pensacola,FL by Flower

Comment: I am very much in favor of national health care. I am in the lower income level and time and again I’ve been kicked to the curb because I couldn't afford test or hospitalization. I also know others that were not able to afford necessary test and/or hospitalization. Recently I was channel surfing and came across the movie “Sicko” by Michael Moore. I came in during the segment evolving all the volunteers that helped out at ground zero after 9/11. Now years latter when their health is failing (especially their ability to breath without medication/other adds), they find themselves “holding the bag” because they can no longer work and afford what little medical coverage they once had and they can’t find any resources to help. Since Michael Moore heard how the prisoners at Guantánamo Base are receiving first class health care, Michael loaded the volunteers up in boats and attempted to get them into the bases for medical treatment. When his attempt to get on base failed, they went to a hospital in Cuba. Cuba has national health care for all it’s people. They took the group (8-10 people) that was with Michael Moore to a hospital in Cuba and each person was taken in, given a complete work up (including MRI’s, Xrays, blood test, and for at least one man, dental work). They all received free medications and a detailed health regiment program to follow for each that should improve their health. NOT ONE DIME WAS ASKED FOR! And what did Americans do for there own people? NOTHING!!!!!! My Gosh! these people dug for weeks through tons of dirt, dust, metal, glass, wood, etc, to help find any body part they could so that persons’ loved one could have some kind of closure and this country can’t find the resources to tend to these volunteers’ medical needs. PLEASE! I think we need to quite living in the dark ages and get national health. It shouldn’t matter what a persons income or job status is before treatment begins. That is down right barbaric in this day and time. Along with national health care we should discontinue liability insurance for doctors (which is a huge cost to doctors that is always passed down us anyway). Instead I’d like to see committees formed to review lawsuits against doctors BEFORE they go to court. If they find the doctor liable, he/she should be dealt with accordingly, which should include returning to school to “actually learn” what he/she failed to learn the first time around, to pulling their license permanently because that doctor either isn’t smart enough to practice medicine or they really just don’t care enough to cure anybody just as long as they earn the big bucks. I also think doctors should always be evaluated/tested on a regular bases to make sure they keep a certain level of expertise. I have watched “Mystery Diagnosis” on the Discovery channel numourous times and am always blown away by the fact that each story has that person suffering from 10 to 30 YEARS going from doctor to doctor before they finally find a doctor that does his/her job good enough to diagnosis the patient correctly and get them on the road to recovery. This is just pure shameful! Yea! count me in on national health care! It damn sure can't be any worse than what we already have. from Pace, FL by Rita

Comment: No from San Francisco,CAL by Heywood

Comment: Perhaps Americans need to be taught a basic lesson on the economics of employment-based health insurance before they will feel as smugly secure with it as they do now and before they will stop nitpicking health-reform efforts to death over this or that detail. America's currently insured middle class will be increasingly desperate if health reform fails. Millions more such families will see their take-home pay shrink. Millions will lose their employment-based insurance, especially in medium and small-sized firms. And millions will find themselves inexorably priced out of health care as we know it. Aside from their still modest out-of-pocket payments and contributions to employment-based insurance premiums, most employees seem sincerely to believe that the bulk of their family's health care is basically paid for by "the company," which is why so few members of the middle class have ever been much interested in controlling health spending in this country. prospect -- relatively stagnant family incomes combined with family health-care costs that double every decade -- is what America's middle class should contemplate as it thinks about the imperative of health reform. It is a pity that this central issue seems to have been shoved aside by mendacious distortions from Sarah Palin, Betsy McCaughey, Rush Limbaugh and other extremist commentators seeking to frighten Americans with their prattle about "death panels" and "pulling plugs on granny" that no bill before Congress even remotely envisions. from p'cola fl by h

Comment: The UK healthcare system is in trouble, likewise the socialist system in Canada. The answer is what has happened in Texas. from Molino, FL by Joseph

Comment: We need to have this for those that fall thruogh the financial cracks. Although some can afford the cost of the employers health plan, they end up going broke after paying the co-pays and deductables. from Milton/FL by Tammy

Comment: I personally am in favor of ANYTHING that will break the stranglehold that insurance industies have upon the medical profession. We all know by now what a greedy bunch of characters are running the insurance industries; but whatever happened to the hipocratic oath of "heal the sick". Today, our insurance industries are letting doctors do anything but. It's high time that something is done -- but something that will not ultimately hurt the public when it comes to healthcare. Whatever happened to "housecalls"? from Mary Esther, FL. by Tom

Comment: I think private insurance has held the public hostage with its monopoly and rising premiums for far too long without fear of competition. Insurance companies are no better than oil companies. It's all about their bottom line. If a public option is socialism, then so is Medicare and Social Security. I want affordable health care that is attainable even if I am unemployed or have a pre-existing medical condition. from Pensacola, FL by Dara

Comment: They have bankrupt SS and Medicare, they can't even run cash 4 clunkers right and they want to take over health care. No Way!! from Gulf Breeze/Florida by Michael

Comment: I oppose it in everyway, until the Senators and Congressmen are willing to give up their health plan, and except this one that they are trying to pass; I do not trust them or their plan that they are trying to pass thorugh. from Milton by Noel

Comment: I am opposed to any government run option. We can't afford medicare or medicaid and they say Veterans health care is too expensive so how in the world could we afford another program of this type? from Milton, FL by Jeff

Comment: Public (not for profit) plan would drive all private Insurance companies out of business, so there would not be competition after a short time. Socialized medicine is hated in all countries that have it. Reform is needed,i.e. tort reform, but not public health care plan. from Pensacola by JIM

Comment: The Feds. need to stay out of the Health Care Business. Anyway the nation is Broke, we can't afford it. from Pace/Fl. by Ferren

Comment: The government needs to stay out of our lives. by Freda

Comment: OH YES....but then again I believe in the Tooth Fairy. No!!! the government can't even run the post office just ask Obama. Fix the problems with the system...don't change everything and make it worse...tort reform and greed and waste needs to be addressed...keep the government away from pulling my plug. Joe Walsh from Pensacola, FL by Joe

Comment: If insurance companies can pay their executives millions of dollars a year, they should be able to make insurance affordable to all. Because of corporate greed the government will have to help insure it's citizens or face a health care crisis of monumental porportions that will cost Hundreds of Billions anyway. Choose either 12 of one or a dozen of the other,..or uthanasia. from pensacola by james

Comment: i am willing for something to bring down the cost that hospitals and doctors charg. tom s. from CENTURY,FL by tomas

Comment: anything 'ran' by the government is up for opposition...just because of it being run by the government. why does O'Bama think our government can run such a program and 'we the people of the U.S.' can't? from pensacola by georgia

Comment: i volunteered at alocal clinic for a while i came away knowing something needs to be done. lucky for us a stimulus grant helped this clinic a bit. from pensacola fl. by dolores

Comment: I do favor the public plan. I feel this would keep the private plans " honest". If not a public plan perhaps guidelines set from the feds and open bidding on the contract. from Crestview, FL by Neil

Comment: if the government will pay for my Butt to be clean, then a clean butt is a happy butt..but keep the FEDS butts out of my BUTT from pensacola by Chunky

Comment: Look at what a nightmare medicaid and medicare are. from Pensacola, FL by Bob

Comment: Strongly oppose from Pensacola, FL by Don

Comment: I oppose anything that the federal government runs. My husband is on medicare and I pay a high premium to continue my coverage but it is significantly better than what the government offers. Thank goodness for people like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin (commented on by another person)so we can be aware of what Obama is trying to shove down our throats. from Brewton, AL by Sharon

Comment: This is like a bad nightmare - the government has proven that it can't run anything right!! Most of these legislators have never even owned a business. They have no idea how ridiculous they sound when they speak about things they don't understand - which is just about everything! from Gulf Breeze, FL by Deb

Comment: This proposed health care program is nothing more than disguised scam to gain more control of the general public. The government does not have the funds to cover the costs. Very few if any of our elected representatives have ever read the entire proposed bill. Official change their stance on this bill just about every time they address the public. I don't believe they can be covered. from Cantonment / Florida by Donald

Comment: I've had 20 years of socialized medicine courtesy of the USAF, and I was very satisfied. Twenty years of steadily decreasing benefits and increasing payments with private insurance. I'm getting ready to join my husband in the benefits of that extremely well run government health care program -- Medicare. I think all Americans should be able to buy into Medicare. from Spanish Fort AL by Gail

Comment: Government should fix Medicaid / Medicare. Put Government workers/Congress under the same health plan as their constituents. from Milton, Florida by John

Comment: When you look at some public insurance plans, Medicare can be better appreciated. It is not as bad as some would have everyone believe. It does need some improvements, like assistance with hearing aids, dental care, and things like that. The public companies are pricing insurance out of reach of an entire generation. from MILTON by BARBARA

Comment: Shame on those who have used scare tactics and lies to defeat to try to defeat Obama's health care plan. What is this opposition to a Federal Government Health Care Option. Medicare is a Federal Government project and it works. A great many of us who are elderly depend on it. And if we are going to get costs down for health care, there has to be competion. Obama was elected by the people. Give him a chance to get this country solvent and help our people. He inherited this mess. So don't blame him. At every turn he is being opposed and that is not fair because he is working very hard to be fair. I did not like bailing out the irresponsible banking and financial institutions and resent their big bonuses to their employees and investors but he did the right thing to bail them out and saved the world economy from collapse. Now give him a chance with health care. Obama is not greedy and what he is fighting is greed. from Pensacola, Florida by Imogene

Comment: Nothing is being done to lower costs. All this will do is increase taxes to pay for it. We need to have more doctors and nurses trained. from pensacola, fl by dennis

Comment: How can private companys compete with the Feds? It ain't possible ! by Lee

Comment: The only human choice. from Pensacola, FL by Bob

Comment: Socialzed (communist) medicine. If it passes like all the rest of Obama's ideas, we can soon quit using terms such as Mr.,Mrs.,Miss,Mz, because "Comrade" fits all. from milton, fl by bob

Comment: Mackey's WSJ article is right on. The public option is a move to socialism and bigger more inefficient government. from Cantonment/FL by Ron

Comment: Reform is needed, but it must be bi-partisan, tort reform is a must, but lawyers are to deeply in bed with Dems. Republicans have doctors and insurance company's to answer to. It is a shame, it was not designed to be this way. from Pensacola, Fl by Tom

Comment: Why can't Congress just lower the Medicare age. What healthy person in their 30's-40's worries about insurance? That's the few million Obama & Congress are worried about. Working people that need medical ins. buys it. Why do we need to pay for those not working? from Pensacola,FL by Leonard

Comment: This is the United States of America! We are SUPPOSED to have freedom. from Monroeville, AL by Sheena

Comment: The Government's, Postal Service, Medicare, Medicaid, are BROKE! How in the world could they run a Health Care System? No, NEVER! Nancy Pelosi doesn't know anything. from Pensacola by Kaylie