Why the rush to pass health care legislation?

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pdf

Here is the bill that the House's Energy and Commerce Committee approved on a 31-28 vote. It is 1018 pages long. Only 7 congressmen have signed the pledge to read the bill. How many of the 28 who voted for it have read it?

Why is there such a rush to pass this monstrosity that is probably loaded with more lard for special interests that you can cut out with a chain saw. According to one poll "more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services and only 6.8 percent are dissatisfied."

Why can't we just pay to insure the Americans who are uninsured?

Here is a counter to Rich's blather about the superiority of Canadian and European Health Care systems. http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

A quick synopsis:

Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.

Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.

Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.

I believe that most Americans do agree that our Health Care system is not broken like Barry says and we must do everything we can to stop this play by the Elites in the Democratic Party to take control of another large portion of American society. If the Federal Government is so great at managing programs than why is it that our own government is now saying that Medicare will be bankrupt by 2017 and Social Security by 2037? That the programs will ultimately go bankrupt is clear from the trustees' reports. On pages 201 and 202 of the Medicare report, you will find the conclusive arithmetic: over the next 75 years, Social Security and Medicare will cost an estimated $103.2 trillion, while dedicated taxes and premiums will total only $57.4 trillion. The gap is $45.8 trillion in today's dollars. Looks like our government can really be trusted to manage large programs. Hey Barry, tell Timmy to keep that money printing machine running overtime!