I observe that it is a tyranny of the anti women's rights crowd that the have me pay my taxes and then refuse to allow my money to be spent on legal medical proceedures that they have some religious objection to.

The revolution starts when the bottom 97% pitch in and buy better candidates than the top 3%

With the leading cause of bankruptcies in America related to health care costs and 528,000 Nevadans without health care coverage, we knew from the beginning that the final health insurance reform legislation had to be strong enough to cut costs, strengthen Medicare, and ensure quality, affordable care for all Americans.

We knew it had to stabilize insurance for everyone while lowering the cost of premiums for consumers and the national deficit for taxpayers.

And we had to stop insurance companies from denying health care to the sick.

The bill we proposed a few weeks ago does every one of these things - and the revisions being read right now on the Senate floor are even stronger.

The newest version will:

• Reign in costs even further
• Make care more affordable by expanding small business tax credits;
• Demand even greater accountability from insurance companies;
• Create more choice and competition for consumers.

All of these things will help lower costs for Americans, and will finally level the playing field between Nevada families and insurance companies.

There are some that believe the bill doesn't go far enough and suggest it should be stopped.

While I, too, strongly prefer a public option, I also know that this bill will make it easier for every American to afford to live a healthy life. It will ease the suffering of millions and ensure fewer die from diseases we know how to treat.

Be assured that this by no means is the end of health insurance reform, but only the beginning - and if we don't get started now, we might never have this chance again. This bill is more than worthy of support from Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike.

However, there are also those that believe this bill goes too far, and that it should be stopped. To them I say: the status quo is not acceptable.

Our broken system cannot and will not continue.

And I am eager for when President Obama signs this bill into law and we officially end the era in which insurance companies win only when patients lose.

All Senate Democrats stand shoulder-to-shoulder with President Obama and the American people who know that inaction is not an option.

This bill is about providing quality affordable care, protecting consumers' rights, strengthening our economy, and making the hard choices necessary to do what is right.

Throughout the many twists and turns of this process - while many have tried to knock us off course - we have stayed true to these principles. And that is why we will succeed.

Sincerely,

Harry

I cannot say strongly enough how opposed I am to the federal government picking up the full tab for the Medicare program, especially considering that if this bill passes Nebraska's subsidization turns permanent. That's not fair or right. As our generation gets older and sicker and inflation pushes costs universally higher, there's a good chance this cash cow ends up squishing us to fiscal death if we don't pay careful attention.

I also don't see what far-reaching reforms this version makes other than the stupid abortion side-show argument and freeing state budgets to spend on something that will probably end up more idiotic and less useful than spending it on state level medical reform.

My hope is that this bill dies a fiery partisan death until real reforms can be passed and enforced. Cost controls need to be installed industrywide in both the health care and insurance fields! Lawsuits and their awards have been ridiculous for decades and it does not cost $55 to manufacture a male urinal. Supply costs have to have a hard cap, for both the medical industry and patients. Strict limits have to be set for lawsuit awards.

Greed is why the health care system is in such disarray. That's why it will never be fixed either. Don't hold your breath.