September 29, 2008 
I honestly are very surprised. I don’t think anyone of us wants there to be a bailout, but I have to talk about the fact that I am shocked that it didn’t get approved. In healthcare, we have already seen an impact in terms of less preventative care, less compliance / adherence, and this will only make things worse.
Ideally, the government shouldn’t be involved in private enterprise, but I also hope that the government can stop the bleeding across all markets. Job losses and loss in savings or retirement accounts will be a massively depressing one-two punch to many people. Not to mention the tax it will be on the government in terms of unemployment and the tax on the healthcare system in terms of uninsured.
And, with little liquidity in the credit markets, people can’t be as entrepreneurial to start their own businesses, and they don’t have a lot of access to credit to move or live paycheck to paycheck.
I know it’s not a healthcare issue, but without a stable economy, it’s going to be hard to take on healthcare reform.
Enabling Healthy Decisions 
You wrote that without health care reform its going to be hard to deal with health care reform. As long as health coverage is the sole focus of health reform, it will never be solved. People are under-insured becuase the cost of healthcare is so expensive. It amazes me that the cost of health care services are never mentioned. It’s always blamed on insurance. To be fully covered, people must give up purchasing food or housing to pay the premiums. Today, even if you pay the premiums there is no guarantee that it will cover all the services the doctors say you need. Premiums are high because covered expenses are high. If a disease doen’t kill you, the cost of health care will., or make you go bankrupt.
You don’t want a bailout, but you’re surprized the bailout wasn’t approved. You should be glad the government finally followed the will of the people.