Comments on: Sparks Says 'Yes' to Health Care, Davis Votes 'No'

By: Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:32:21 +0000

I agree with Glynn. Health-care is very important to people who do not have it or cannot afford it.

The abortion issue is just another minor issue that the GOP has always played on. Leave it alone! To each his own in time. We have enough to worry about without giving them the ammunition to fire on anything that they may find to throw things to their advantage.

They will pull anything and everything in this election in Alabama and national, due to the fact that they think they are the only ones who are smart enough to come along with any programs that will help the people. (Of which they never do).

That’s the very reason that they did what was done to Don Siegelman, because they could not stand the greatness and person that he was as a Governor and he was competition for them. Let’s show them and help with Don’s legal fees and help with more attorneys to get his name cleared and back where he belongs!

By: Glynn Wilson

Glynn Wilson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:15:42 +0000

Yes, I carried some stories about the abortion issue on the news page, although Kicinich didn’t mention that in his commentary in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

I say the left needs to leave the abortion issue alone. It’s too controversial to talk about funding abortions with federal tax money and could derail the entire plan. Let’s get national public health care passed the Senate now and when people see it working and the opposition is overcome, the system can be tweaked in the years ahead if it has problems.

It is not just about insuring poor and middle-class people who can’t afford the current over-priced for profit system. This is about fixing the national economy. Unless we get everybody in the system and get the costs of health care down, the economy will continue to hang on the brink of failure.

Poor people and middle-class people in Alabama need to overcome their false fear of the feds and realize they will be better off if everybody has access to health-care.

By: Lewis Odom

Lewis Odom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:30:20 +0000

I was deeply disappointed with Mr. Davis vote. One would think that of all the districts in Alabama, his would be the easiest politically to vote for the bill. I suspect that some of the liberals (Kucinich and Adler) voted no not only because of their preference for a single payer system but also because of the abortion amendment.

By: Glynn Wilso

Glynn Wilso — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:48:24 +0000

Kucinich wants a full-blown single payer health-care system that puts the private, for profit insurance companies out of business. So do I, but I realize that is unrealistic politically in the U.S.

Davis told the Newhouse press at al.com something nonsensical a few days ago, but they didn’t ask the obvious question: Where do you get your campaign money and could that have something to do with your vote?

By: Rowland Scherman

Rowland Scherman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:35:02 +0000

Did Davis give a reason? Dennis Kucinich did, and it was largely unreadable. No one would read it anyway. I believe Kucinich, by voting no (for some arcane reason), has scuttled what would have been a worthwhile career.

No sensitive or sensible man would vote no to health care reform. Davis must be controlled by, and take his orders from, some giant malevolent combine. That’s not the case with Kucinich. He just wanted to position himself in some weird way that only he, apparently, understands. Sad.