Rude people at Senator Feingold listening session mostly about health care

           Went to Senator Feingold's listening session the other day and I wasn't surprised by the turnout but I was surprised at how rude many of the people were, most of them retired.   They would ask Senator Feingold a question and when he tried to answer, people were constantly interupting him by shouting so he really never was given the opportunity to respond to most of the questions. There is no excuse to behave this way towards a republican or democrat, period.   Grow up people!

           It's interesting the difference between this health care debate and the lack of one when the prescription drug plan was passed in 2003.  There were many rules bent, arms twisted and influence of companies that time too.  What party was in the majority?  I guess it must be ok to cover the old peoples drugs, but not ok to cover the uninsured in this country.  It must be ok to spend $400 billion over 10 years for that but not ok to make sure that everyone can at least count on having health care. Oh, they can just go the emergency room.   

           There are other arguments like the government can't do anything right.  If that's the case, why don't all those old people give up their medicare.  Why don't they lead the way.   I'll bet that won't happen.  The VA system has never been allocated enough money to take care of our veterans properly but they are the one of the only hospital systems in this country to have completely electrionic medical records.  Why doesn't Aurora, Pro Health and all the other private hospital systems have this ability.  It sure can't be because they're not charging us enough. They sure are building plenty of capacity with all of those new buildings going up everywhere.  Pretty soon, we'll have a clinic and a drugstore on every corner. Remember that our medical costs are some of the highest in the country.  Just wait until we get the bill for all the health care costs related to the war in Iraq.  Over 30,000 wounded, many with servere trauma, head injuries, missing limbs, and the like.  Lots of people talk a lot a about respecting our veterans but no one has a clue of the total cost for the next 30-40 years and no one is willing to budget for it or pay for it.

           The current health care bill shouting match is a sad day as the democrats are not listening and compromising as much as they should and the republicans are digging their heals in.  I think most of us could agree that insurance companies should not be able to deny coverage to anyone, we need tort reform,  we need to be able to negiotiate better drug prices for medicare( this is currently prohibited but the VA can do this),  remove the anti-trust exemption that the health insurance companies enjoy, and that the lifetime cap on health care should be raised.  I believe that our health care system whichever way it goes is unsustainable until we all have a serious discussion and compromise to bring costs under control.  Thanks.