Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, (D – IL) a congressional colleague of Barack Obama, was caught on tape during a speech, telling a cheering crowd of social activists that the Obama health care plan would eventually terminate every private health insurance plan in America and that supporters of the free market "have every reason to be afraid."

“I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will,” Rep. Schakowsky told the group of government-run health care supporters.

The government themselves have a pool they all throw into and no one makes profit off of it, why can't we get that too?

What people seem to forget is how these health insurance companies prey on their customers.
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If there is a procedure that could save someones life, who are they to say no, the person don't deserve the funding for it?

...I actually think that the tougher issue around medical care — it’s a related one — is what you do around things like end-of-life care …

… sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill is a sustainable model, is a very difficult question. If somebody told me that my grandmother couldn’t have a hip replacement and she had to lie there in misery in the waning days of her life — that would be pretty upsetting.

… So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right?

I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.

... you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance.