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(3) The President said, literally scores if not hundreds of times during the campaign, that under his plan “if you like your health care coverage you can keep it.” Do you accept that his current “clarification” of his position, that the government will not directly deny anyone access to their current health coverage, is what he meant all along? If it is, why didn’t he just say that? Or was he lying all along?
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DrSteve on June 25, 2009 at 2:19 PM

What this means… “if you like your health care coverage you can keep it,” unless your health care coverage leaves you. With a public option that is exactly what will happen. It is impossible for a private company to compete against the government which has no profit motive, can impose taxes, or print money none of which the private company can do.

She is either a “special needs” student who keeps getting on the internet without permission in which case no one should be taking her seriously. Or, she is simply a shill for a socialist program that is the death knell for health care in the US in which case no one should be taking her seriously.

AnninCA on June 25, 2009 at 2:21 PM
We’ve lost 7 hospitals in LA in 5 years. We seriously must address this issue.

Then admit that ILLEGAL imigration is the cause of the failures. Closing the border and deporting those who HAVE NO RIGHT to be here is how to fix that problem. It’s WELL documented that illigal imigration is the PRIMARY cause of hospital closure.

The losses are directly due to the uninsured problem in this area.

No, the losses are due to illegals FLODDING the hospitals and NOT paying. They don’t have insurance because they can’t LEGALLY work here. The show up in the emergency rooms pregnant with their anchor babies or their latest gunshot wounds KNOWING they wont be turned away and leave hospitals with the bill. Kinda like congress and liberals usually do to the rest of us.

I personally support a mandated plan. You want ER services?

I support a MANDATE of you not speaking anymore because you have ZERO knowledge about buisness, insurance, finance, capital markets, or anything else like the moron in chief!

How about THAT for a mandate, not to fun when sombody ELSE makes decisions for you IS IT?

Buy the federal public option plan on the spot. You don’t? Drive to the border.

Oh but wait, Isn’t YOUR idiotic liberal plan “free” healthcare? It’s supposed to SAVE money so where do you get this “pay for it” attitude unless you KNOW it won’t be free and Odumbo is just lying as usual.

I’m into solutions on this issue.

Lying to us won’t earn you anymore credit than Odumbo has. You are NOT interested in actual solutions, if that were the case Pelosi and her band of merry idiots wouldn’t have BLOCKED every single attempt the Republicans made to SOLVE the problem for the past eight years!

No sweetie you have no interest in “solutions” you only have and interest in FORCE by any means neccassary to get YOUR way.

Don’t libs consider having more than 2 kids to be bad, because it puts undue stress on the environment, their carbon footprint gets bigger and they tend to use up more resources?

Are libs for nationalized healthcare?

Seems to me like the libs have a death wish, and are self eliminating…

1. Non-profit coops introduces a new form of administration. I like the concept, but I wonder if we can really implement it effectively…
AnninCA on June 25, 2009 at 2:31 PM

So does the so-called public option. By this logical construct (to avoid a new form of administration,) we should do nothing – leave the system as it is.

In many ways, that sounds like a good plan.

A recent study of a Texas hospital showed that 11 patients constituted the majority of charges to the gov’t.

All were for chronic diseases, which went untreated.

They all ended up in emergency care, running up millions of dollars in costs.

AnninCA on June 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM

Once again, your information is wrong.

“Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients.
“What we’re really trying to do is find out who’s using our emergency rooms … and find solutions,” said Ann Kitchen, executive director of the group, which presented the report last week to the Travis County Healthcare District board.
The average emergency room visit costs $1,000. Hospitals and taxpayers paid the bill through government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, Kitchen said.
Eight of the nine patients have drug abuse problems, seven were diagnosed with mental health issues and three were homeless. Five are women whose average age is 40, and four are men whose average age is 50, the report said, the Austin American-Statesman reported Wednesday.”

No chronic diseases, sorry.

Apparently The American People do not think it is as much of a crisis as Obama and his minions media fluffers do.

kingsjester on June 25, 2009 at 1:49 PM

Fixed.

I was watching the College World Series last night.

fogw on June 25, 2009 at 1:30 PM

Congrats to LSU! Or as the late Justin Wilson called them, “LUS”.

I watched the first season of Dexter instead.

jennifernaz on June 25, 2009 at 1:33 PM

Hey!!! Me, too!!!

Healthcare for all and everyone must use the same single-payer system…except for politicians and their families. Our politicians must have private options so that they can investigate possible improvements to the nearly perfect system of nationalized healthcare.

No energy. All energy is bad, even wind energy requires that the placement of mechanical devices be installed that will ultimately displace the habitats of creatures. Energy costs will skyrocket soon enough, so no one will be able to afford it anyway, so we need to return to a pre-industrial society that is no longer dependent upon energy consumption/production. As an added benefit, our climate will return to normal and we won’t suffer undue warming/cooling.

No military. Shut it all down and bring all of our troops from around the world home and then decommission all of the branches. The whole ‘war on terror’ is a big lie and a farce anyway. Besides, if we have to Mirandize combatants its too dangerous anyway. Better to just stay at home and not get any of those angry nations upset. If we just kept our noses out of everyone elses’ business, no one would bother with us so we don’t even need a military.

Government controlled businesses. The government is the only one that will look out for us. Those greedy businesses only care about the bottom line and will do anything to make a buck. They don’t care about their employees, making safe products or keeping our environment safe. Only the government will look out for the citizens and environment properly. The US Government is like the biggest company in the world anyway, so having state-owned production of all goods and services will be easy to handle. Oh, and its not like the PotUS would be the CEO of these companies, they’d just appoint people to those positions like ambassadors or cabinet members.

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are excellent examples of how well the government handles taking care of the under privileged. Sure, there aren’t any actual funds available in any of the programs, but the government can be trusted to make good on all of it because they have a constant flow of funds coming in from all of the jobs they create and support. This would go hand-in-hand with the government control of businesses, they could hire as many people as they needed to keep employment numbers high, taxes flowing and production rolling.

Removal of term limits for the PotUS. If the people find a historic figure that runs the country better than anyone else ever could, why should we be forced to remove them from office because of some little (outdated and wrong headed) Constitutional Amendment? We just get the SCotUS to redefine the meaning of 2 terms to be a more ambiguous period related to the expected lifespan of the average American citizen (or occupant of the US).

On demand abortion and/or assisted suicide, without limitations.

Prior to the deconstruction of the military, all enemy combatants (freedom fighters) captured on the battlefield should be first Mirandized and then transported to the US where they will be given automatic US citizenship and then released upon their own recognizance after their court date and court appointed lawyer have been secured.

Guns are too tempting for fundamentalist, radical, bible-thumping right-wingers who are knuckle-dragging, mouth breathing, racist, hate mongers. So, we just ban guns completely and outlaw the practice of certain religions that have proven to be vile and hate inciting, like Christianity.

I am beyond party affiliation. They are all self-serving corrupt party hacks with few exceptions. Writing to any of them results in a standard party talking points letter. In the end they compromise(fold) like cheap houses.

I do not have much faith in the future of our country. It will be up to the states to exert their rights and protect its citizens.

Oh yes, AnninCA. Tuff break.

Perhaps California, should address their problems, and solve them. This isn’t the problem of states, who chose to run their governments responsibly. I feel for the people of California, but this isn’t something that other people, in other states should pay for. Your elected officials did this to your state, so maybe elect more responsible legisilators, and fix it yourselves.

capejasmine on June 25, 2009 at 2:28 PM

Perhaps we should give California BACK to Mexico

Whatever happened to that Obama campaign line that ‘computerizing medical records’

Great idea, having all those medical records under the “care” of a government agency. Several weeks ago, I received a letter from the Commonwealth of Virginia. They informed me that I’ll need to watch my credit extra close for the next year or two. Seems that someone hacked their system and they have no idea what information was compromised, but it involved prescription records, social security numbers, etc. Gotta love that government efficiency!

As Obamacare started running into trouble in Congress, some on the Left — like Stanley Greenberg and Nate Silver — started begging Pres. Obama to get out and sell, sell, sell a government takeover.

One of the funny things about Obama is that while all his promises come with expiration dates, those promises are normally delivered before large groups and with teleprompter in place.

When confronted directly with questions, he doesn’t have that Bill Clintonesque ability to just flat-out lie to someone’s face. So every once in a while, when he does get confronted with tough question in a one-on-one situation, his lack of BS skills sans teleprompter results in the truth slipping out when he can’t figure out a decent way not to answer the question at all.

It may not make him look any better by telling Jane Strum the truth while at the same time admitting he wouldn’t let his family survive just on government-run health care, but in a way, being a hypocrite like that is better than flat out lying to people about what wonderful care their elderly parents are going to receive from Uncle Sugar.

…I’ll be at every teaparty demanding that every single govt employee be out of taxpayer benefits programs.

Completely unrealistic and you do realize that our military are government employees.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/michelle_obama_booze_binges_barack_livid/celebrity/66873

Didn’t Bill Clinton just make a speech about us all forming a more perfect union….yeah that’s not as easy as it looks Bubba.

What’s worse? We know what lobbyists support them. Without fail, those blocking reform are backed by medical lobbyists.

This is just not going to work out well for them in the end.

AnninCA on June 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM

You’re a paid astroturfer, aren’t you? C’mon, tell us. We’ll still read your crap, I’d just like to know.