Just sent two emails (health care)

[fadedrose]

Sent one to the White House Correspondents' Assn. and asked them to do a better job in Health Care Reform than they did in their reporting prior to the invasion of Iraq (told them to hang their heads in shame on that one). I asked them to keep asking questions as to why Howard Dean hasn't been chosen to represent plain consumers, and not to give up till they get REAL answers.

Also sent one to the White House inquiring about Dean's highly visible non involvement in Health Care Reform and why they are expecting the demons who caused the health care disaster we have now to "fix" it.

[vaberella]

1. I think you're approach is off.

But whatever... From my knowledge HD met with the Pres...as to the what happened in the course of that conversation is still yet to be determined but Dean seems to be pushing and supporting O's plan for a public option.

[fadedrose]

2. I know that posting in DU isn't going to help,

but maybe if enough people called and emailed the White House and TV stations, something might happen. Worth a try.

[vaberella]

4. I have...but I'm pushing my position on a public option.

I get the feeling Dean is actually advising the Pres on the dl about this. To see Dean supporting the Pres on this and redefining single payer a bit is interesting.

Listen carefully to what he said on Rachel Maddow's show last night. He even said that the Repubs are against it and O mainly mollifies the Repubs with talks but goes his way in the end. I think that's whats going to happen with the health plan which Dean is in support of.

[fadedrose]

6. Call it feminine intuition

but I have the feeling that Dean is advising the President too, but since he's "so" for universal health care - at any cost - they keep him under wraps - was going to say "in the closet," but that's no doubt somebody else.

[vaberella]

7. Hah..

Agreed. It was like Dean was speaking in code and yet not. That meeting with Rachel Maddow was great to get an input. And most people thought Dean sold out single payer people when he redefined it. That says to me that him and O made a pact on how to sell this. Dean gets the single payers on board and they pass a public option that opens the door for a single payer outcome. The plan is set to basically take down the insurance companies and Dean has a good relationship with O. He'll be sure to take out all of the problems. There's a lot of deals going on and from the way Dean was talking and has been talking compared to the past. I get the feeling he's in the "know" of something and it could have been when Dean was being pushed as HHS. He's basically better where he is and not part of the system when you think about it.

Dean gets to us and yet his stuff is getting done in the political sphere. O can basically depend on Dean being his HHS to the public in a way. I hate to say this but I seriously think that Obama is the most tactile strategic President ever.

[fadedrose]

8. I agree with all your comments, and

believing, it's understandable that Dr. Dean seems to have so much confidence in President Obama and that things will go right. I have often thought about his unwavering confidence when everything seems to go against what he's saying, and our "feeling" seems to explain everything. :) :)

Also, I wouldn't be buying any health insurance company stock at this time, or pharma stock either.

The President has no qualms about firing people who make mistakes - the plane in NY, the General in Afghanistan, Rick Wagner, or taking on the greedy bonus takers from the bailed out companies.

Beware you greedy sons of bitches, the President's watching you. Remembering Tony Soprano and that Sunsu's (sp) war book that Dr. Melfi recommended to him, "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Maybe that's why all those phonies were at the White House yesterday offering to help and we were all cringing....I think Obama has things in hand.

[truedelphi]

3. Those emails of yours sound wonderful.

Kudos for banging the drums on this issue.

But <sigh> since it is the insurers and the major hospitals with the advertising bucks, you won't see many editors at newspapers asking reporters to look into SIngle Payer Universal health Care. They don't wanna bite the hand that feeds them.

Same with the TV news people. The atrocities befalling middle class and lower incomed people due to the outrageous health care and insurance practices should be headline news every night -- but all those HMO and hOspital ads sure prevent coverage of those items.

Our media is as bought out as everyone in Washington. Through blackmail, the revolving door, or whatever.

[gblady]

5. I did, too....

I sent an email to the White House stating my concerns...
campaign promises vs what appears to be happening now...
my disappointment that all were not invited to the table.