Do you think the President of the United States, the Senate and House should come back to Washington now to fix this cancer clinic crisis?

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  • Kjburke - 11 years ago

    They should return to DC and resign as a group. No one down there is concerned about the people of the US. Just about their re-election chances. Disgusting.

  • Kjburke - 11 years ago

    They should return to DC and resign as a group. No one down there is concerned about the people of the US. Just about their re-election chances. Disgusting.

  • Linda - 11 years ago

    If the seqester can cause problems like this, I'm terrified what ObamaCare will do.

  • Carolyn - 11 years ago

    I'm just wondering if any of these cancer patients or family members being denied chemo treatments are Obama supporters. I know these people will defend him no matter what. I would love to know if this will finally shine the light and show them what he is really all about, or if they will still blame George W., earthquakes and the doctors or aliens?

  • bob mead - 11 years ago

    How can a 2% cut bring about 30% of patients not receiving treatment. The numbers don't add up. Sounds more like sequester "pain" that Obuma was going to extract on the people. How about the yearly increase from year to year being like 5%. The numbers don't add up. Money has to be there for people to get treatment.

  • Carolyn - 11 years ago

    I'm just wondering if any of these cancer patients or family members being denied chemo treatments are Obama supporters. I know these people will defend him no matter what. I would love to know if this will finally shine the light and show them what he is really all about, or if they will still blame George W., earthquakes and the doctors or aliens?

  • Lucille Heckl - 11 years ago

    Why are the President and the Congress concerned about Korea nuking us when they are set to torture the cancer victins on Social Security by denying them treatment. Shame, shame. I'm 79 years old and it never occurred to me that our government would be so cruel. How did this happen? Is there anyone out there that can help us? Shades of Hitler, eh? So very sad. Greed and power seem to be winning in DC. Voting has become a big joke. Maybe someone should tell each of them to go the "switch" off the tree so they can be smacked.

  • carolyn - 11 years ago

    I know that the republicans are not angels. However, they cannot put a gun to the Prez's head. Remember, they offered him flexibility on the sequester cuts so as to cut the least important things such as conferences, ineffective programs, duplications, ect. The Prez refused to take that option. Everyone knows that the reason was political. He wanted as much visable pain as possible hopping that the Republicans would be blamed. His goal to hurt as many and as painful as he could has been accomplished. If you blame the republicans, you obviously don't pay attention to the daily smoke and mirrors that this Prez so artfully projects. The other problem is that Congress can go back to Washington but for what? Everytime the Republicans pass a bill, (over 25 now), Harry Reid tables the bill and won't even debate them. Like I said, Repubs aren't angels but Harry Reid and especially Obama are just the opposite.
    Obama needs to quit vacationing and campaining and get his azz back to work and put out a budget!!!!!!

  • Marie - 11 years ago

    We need a commentator with a heart of compassion, who would organize and lead a million man march in Washington. Our government has become so corrupt, all they do is think about themselves and not the people they work for. The mass is being stomped on by the government elite.

  • JD - 11 years ago

    First....the latest fiasco concerning cancer drugs can be blamed on all the sheep like morons who voted for Obama, not once, but twice. Second, blame the Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court(Roberts) who had the chance to squash this crap of a Pelosi "affordable health care bill" when he had the chance. Fine or tax...which one? Hey Pelosi...I have a can wrapped in aluminum foil....drink it and find out what's in it.

  • Richard H. Leiter - 11 years ago

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  • JoAnn - 11 years ago

    President Obama is a waste of skin! He is a cruel person, but life is a boomerang. He will find out someday. Maybe I'll never know about it, but one reaps what they sow.

    Congress is a group of self-centered selfish incompetents. They are playing games with people's lives.

    I am a cancer survivor. The fear that the cancer will return never really goes away.

    My hope is that they all get what they deserve!

  • Barbara Ayars - 11 years ago

    In the morning call EVERY SiNGLE CONGRESSMAN about the denial of chemo meds to seniors on Medicare. Stay in that phone all day. Call them repeatedly. On Monday get into your car and pay your local idiot's office a visit and use terms that make him or her understand their future in politics is going to be very short lived. An administration that blackmails and holds any segment of the population hostage to get their way is childish, and flatly evil. they so need to be gone. You have a mouth, a phone and a voice. Me too, but I also have cancer. No two bit political whore is going to get off without a severe tongue lashing from me. These are sinister people. And they are unmasked. Do your job, people. Be heard!

  • coppertopfarm - 11 years ago

    Just to be sure everyone understands, the 716 BILLION that Obama/Sebelius took from Medicare was DOUBLE COUNTED (Enron-style). When they claim that they "extended" the life of Medicare, they are counting the 716 Billion in that. THEY ALSO ARE COUNTING IT AGAINST THE COST OF OBAMACARE. Can't do double counting. Just a piece of how dishonest this whole thing is. Lots of game playing going on.

  • Karl - 11 years ago

    This affects everyone's elderly parents , grandparents and the disabled. Solution; EVERYONE (dems & republicans) STOP all donations and fundraising functions until they get back to work and fix this. All news stations should participate and spread the word every day until its done.

  • Karen Wolf - 11 years ago

    Obamacare should be defunded immediately. This is a perfect example of what government does. They pass something for the sake of getting it done and do not know anything about what it will cost and it will work. We need a better system, but why not start with the waste and fraud. This bill will add so many IRS Agents and Navigators, that that in itself will goes billions of dollars.
    This President and his Democratic Senate had better get their rear ends back to Washington and stop this disaster NOW! We pay him and them to work not to take holidays, continue to campaign, and push his personal agenda instead of what is good for the entire Country. They all need to be replaced. Look how they have run anything they started, and you want them to run your Health Care. Big BIg Mistake.

  • coppertopfarm - 11 years ago

    In the case of Obama - BACK TO WORK??? When has he BEEN at work? Campaigning is more fun for narcissists who crave the adoring crowds. work? with Republicans? Naaaaah.

  • Ronnie - 11 years ago

    get rid of all they don't deserve to be in control .who want us to crook who don't give a darn we the people can only do it its time to stand up and impeach the weak

  • Ronnie - 11 years ago

    I think it is insane and horrible how they can let people go with out cancer treat,net.they should be hold accountable and if people die they need to face the consequences and go to Jail.How many deaths is it going to Take How many patients are going to freak out how many congressman Senate president vice president are going to get on the Job and quit the greedy sick ways they are Doing They could care less if the seniors like me die.we are at the end of our wits and it was true grandma getting thrown off the cliff

  • Barbara Hancock - 11 years ago

    We NEED to get rid of Obamacare completely and start over with a carefully thought out plan to service everyone using ideas from the top 3 or 4 countries who have successful programs like Singapore. It's NOT too late to stop Obamacare--according to information on today's Foxnews website. Our people need to rise up and be forceful with their feelings and with their Congressmen. A majority of people were against Obamacare in the first place!

  • Tom - 11 years ago

    As and 84 year old I have seen Obama's plan played out in dozens of countries. Break the economy by giving freebies to ignorant people to buy their vote. Dumb down the education system to the lowest common denomination and destroy religion and morality. Once the economy is ruined the people turn to their government masters for food and shelter. Then the politicians seize control of every facet of government. All of this is done with the complicity of the media including naive, so called "conservative" commentators such as you who cannot bring themselves to say outright that Obama is a communist Muslim. Enjoy the new world that you are helping to enable when the American Hugo Chavez takes over.

  • jANICE DILLARD - 11 years ago

    I would double-check Ted Okon as I suspect he is on Obama's side. The 2% cut should not have an effect since the cut is on an increase anyway. I also suspect that this cut is just like cutting out the WH tours. I would certainly check out Ted Okon's alliances.

  • Vonnie Bittikofer - 11 years ago

    While it is a no-brainer that these politicians are doing a poor job and should return to rectify this, "we the people" can still rally together as a community to help one another. A group of politicians will never do it for us. A group of women in my community joined me in 2005 and we have helped over 250 women with cancer and other health issues. Some of the "deserved" angry energy most of us feel could be used as fuel to help ourselves and our own communities.

  • kay - 11 years ago

    This is another reason to impeach Mr. Obama!!!!!

  • Bruce Shaw - 11 years ago

    I agree with Annette Dimesky . Now lets get some term limits on these Jackels and there benefits and see who really wants there job.

  • Betty lowrey - 11 years ago

    Do i understand correctly that the Washington elite, our go ernment has a different health plan than we taxpayers do? Isnt that highway robbery , the rich taking away from the poor? Perhaps they will understand when they face cancer, God forbid, as we have. God bless you Greta

  • Dale O. Peterson - 11 years ago

    Yes, they must come back and do their job. I do not have cancer but I go to the cancer center to get infusions for a blood problem. I go there tomorrow for my next infusion. I do not know what I will face. Will it be denied. If so I will be in trouble.

    I was in medical management for 24 years and am now retired. I have watched the Government ruimed has ruined the system, that was never that broken. All it has done is drive up the cost of medicine, made Doctors say that "it's just not fun anymore to practice medicine." Doctors are being penalized on their fees to the point there is noadvantage to continue to practice. Just get ahold of some Medicare Explanation of Benifits and see the gravity of the situation. I watch mine and quite frankly feel embarassed what their fees are being cut. It has to be impossible for Doctor's and Clinics to budget. And it just gets worst each day now. More cuts, more regulation. It is a disgrace. The Government has no business being involved in medicine, at least to the extent they are now. I could go on and on but won't.

  • Sharon Roof - 11 years ago

    The President took over 700 billion dollars out of Medicare to start with just to get this monstrosity started! I'm sure that has a big impact on the cancer treatments too. We need to get rid of this stupid Obamacare and instead work on reforming laws to limit Doctors and hospitals from charging three times as much for insurance policyholders. A "private pay" patient pays much less.

  • Mary martinez - 11 years ago

    As a senior citizen, I can only voice how disappointed Iam in our elected officials. I hope and pray that they will search their hearts and start doing the right thing for the American people. Thank you Greta for all that you do in your program. It is appreciated.

  • CONNIE HILLER - 11 years ago

    Obama, said he wanted sequester to hurt,as much as I disapprove of his policies and his way of getting what he wants,I never thought he would endanger cancer patients . I think he would do anything now,wasn't it enough that he has ruined our economy,healthcare and now cancer patients.God help us!

  • Stephanie Wilson - 11 years ago

    I'm so afraid

  • Cheryl Murray - 11 years ago

    Greta,
    Why didn't you challenge your commentator on the 2% Cut - The 2% cut is to the increase in the budget. The fraud far exceeds the 2% cut to the increase in the budget to this program. Shame on you. We rely on you to tell the truth.

  • Gus - 11 years ago

    The U.S. is a third world country now!

  • Stephanie Wilson - 11 years ago

    Maybe what we need is a million people march on Washington to get our point across about Medicare and the elderly. I know that the way things look I will have to go to Holland so I can be euthanized. This is what I see in my future with this president. I am already on borrowed time now and I am sure the liberals would love to see me gasp for air, I heard the President when he said the old will have to die so the young can live a healthy life. God, What has this country become in such a short time.

  • Jim - 11 years ago

    Maybe it's going to take a family member of one of those idiots in Congress to have cancer before they understand the needs of the cancer patients.

  • Arthur Jackson - 11 years ago

    Impeach, arrest, trial, convict, sentence, allow appeal, then hang the following to start Obama, Pelsoa, Reid, Feinstien, shoot Biden with a shot gun. Then arrest all those elected officials that violated their oath. That is all of them

  • Linda Shafer - 11 years ago

    It's unconscienable! Imagine how many chemotherapy treatments one presidential fundraising trip on Air Force One would fund. This is a government without mercy.

  • Everett - 11 years ago

    I want the polititions to go back to work but that may cause more trouble than good! No real progress on problems assigned to congress, cut wages and benefits....

  • Dottie Dunlap - 11 years ago

    The president needs to get off his "campaigning" and fund raising , propose a budget, and get to work for the American people and Provide funding for cancer patients on Medicare by refusing to send money to foreign countries. It is time to put Americans first.

  • Dorothy Peel - 11 years ago

    The elected officials should be in Washington working for the people who elected them. This just proves we need term limits.

  • Mary Sonta - 11 years ago

    ENOUGH OF THIS .... THEY WORK FOR US AND I AM SICK TO DEATH OF THE FREEDOMS WE ARE USING...THIS WHITE HOUSE IS NOT A FRIEND OF SENIORS, CHILDREN, ANYONE WHO WORKS AND PAYS TAXES! I am sick of this administration ... Cannot wait for them to go...

  • Mary - 11 years ago

    A golden opportunity for the conservatives and liberals make a positive impact.

  • Lana - 11 years ago

    Shame Shame on the President, Senate and House for not taking care of the American people.

  • dot - 11 years ago

    This country is going to Hell in a hand basket. We have all let this happen. WHY???????

  • Susan - 11 years ago

    I wonder if one of the cancer patient was someone in their family what would they do???? The federal government has no business in healthcare.

  • VaConservative - 11 years ago

    Doesn't matter what I think. They will do what they want.

  • Annette Dimesky - 11 years ago

    These elected officials should be subject to the same medical standards that they have imposed on the American public. If this were the case, this would not be an issue.

  • Virginia - 11 years ago

    Wonder who the 16 idiots are so far.

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