I still don't understand the anger at this bill. This is not public health care, it is insurance reform.

This does not include a public option, allows citizens with private health care to retain their current insurance but with greater co-pays and they can now no longer be dropped due to illness. It now allows people to shop for more affordable health care in a centralized hub and they can't be declined due to past or current health issues. If you own a car, you have to have insurance.. as you own your body, you have to have insurance. When people go to the hospital and can't pay their bills, it gets passed on to those paying for insurance anyway with higher premiums or the tax payer.

We pay taxes for the roads, libraries, schools, public works, police, fire department, social security, medicare, medicaid, etc. All are "socialist". Yet this is where people draw the line?

Don't like paying for the health care for people on welfare? You already do.

Like I said, I'm not sure how many people have even read what the bill covers only assuming this is the public option they first tried to roll out. They passed welfare reform in the 90's with the tag "we'll fix it further later" and have never done so. The shitstorm this bill has caused will likely leave it unattended for decades.

In the end, even if this bill progressed into one with a public option, if it also provided a private option those with health care will not pay a cent more and those without it would finally have it, at expense to themselves.. though at much less expense than they would have paid for it separately. This is a bad thing? You don't think health of a country is one of the most important aspects of a first-world, industrialized nation?