President Obama's Weekly Address: The Immediate Benefits of Health Reform

[mucifer]

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It's a start :) Hopefully, in the coming years they can improve on this.

[Tippy]

1. K&R....

[greiner3]

2. If he can pull it off;

Id never play chess with him!

[liberation]

9. Well, as a Chess Master Mr. Obama makes a great Checkers player

I wonder if "n-dimensional chess" is XXI-century speak for "the emperor has no clothes." It has a more sci-fi ring to it, and I take kids these days are not taught classic fables in school so...

[TankLV]

3. Feh - the immediate benefits of INSURANCE COMPANY WELFARE ACT!!!

sorry if I don't get excited...

[SHRED]

4. "Hopefully"

That is what we said when Clinton signed NAFTA.
Remember?


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[icee]

5. Simple request. It makes no sense for me to continue to expound

on having read Obamacare and having interpreted my findings of it as a downright disaster. However, let me ask this. Should Obamacare pass, wait one year and tell me how satisfied you are with it. Are you getting what Obama said? Have your costs been controlled? Has your employer raised your premiums, or actually began premiums where none existed before? Have your drug costs gone up? Is it easier or harder to get to see a physician? Try and keep records.

[mucifer]

6. yeah I'm curious about it, too. Wait and see is pretty much all we can do at this point.

[icee]

8. My wife and I are additionally getting our affairs together in case

we have to split a bottle of Xanax with a Mint Bailey's chaser. We got the idea from the people next door who are older than us who are doing the same thing with different ingredients. Good luck to you mucifer.

[gateley]

7. I still don't think I'll benefit, but I'm happy for those who will. I agree with

Obama, gotta take the first step.

[liberation]

10. The number of steps are not the issue when you are walking the wrong way...

Although they may be useful in finding out how far off you went down the wrong path...

[Mithreal]

13. +1

[denimgirly]

11. Remind me again how Premiums dont go up w/o cost control?

Pre-existings will cause premiums to go up ... no question....the tax credits to reduce costs will get bigger and bigger so Insurers get richer while we indirectly are paying for them (our taxes). Yes, over the years a plan will be in place to control how much the premiums are allowed to go up but lets be clear it does not say that it WONT go up...so instead of a yearly 40% hike...you can expect instead a 10%.

This plan is poorly thought out and without at least a public option then in 10 years we will revist this again.

[SandWalker1984]

12. Why are we tolerating this sham?

The insurance corporations never bailed out Wall Street -- it was we, ie the single payer American taxpayers.

It is not the private, military contractors that finance the exhorbitant Pentagon military budgets, nor is it the private insurance corporations -- it is us, ie the single payer American taxpayers.

If we, ie the single payer American taxpayers, are footing the bill, then we have the constitutional right to receive what we want, ie representation.

What a majority of Americans want is a true public option like Medicare for all. If the brain dead Neanderthals on the right want private corporate care, let them give up their Medicare and go buy insurance in the private market, while the rest of us get Medicare part E (for everyone) without parasitical profit driven insurance corporations getting between us and our health care affordability.

Forcing Americans to spend a trillion dollars they don't have, on something they don't want, with the threat of fines or imprisonment, without a job guarantee to pay for it, is not only insane, but also totally un-American.

Orahma is a liar, a fraud and the only change he has given us is "chains" we can believe in. I'm sorry he suckered me into voting for him. It won't happen again.


ps: For those that are infinite optimists, they promised to fix NAFTA after 6 months and 15 years later it is not fixed and is still destroying jobs of the middle class and the value of our dollar. Your chances of Congress "fixing" the HCR bill are about as good as the odds of NAFTA getting fixed. Wont' happen.

Welcome to 3rd world, corporate slave Amerika.

[Plucketeer]

14. Thanks for saving me the keystrokes

If there's a smidgen of "hope 'n change" in this charade, it's certainly not for the people. I'm proud to say that Obama was my last choice from the field of hopefuls in '08. He's vindicating my intuition - step, by disheartening step. And merely for being able to hang the bronze around his neck, for health care.

[SHRED]

16. I hear ya

[CONN]

17. yep \n

[grahamhgreen]

18. If he really intended to 'fix' the bill, wouldn't he have listed the fixes in his address?

Instead, we get a rehash of the same old sales pitch, with no promises of any policy fixes to come; there will be none.

[grahamhgreen]

15. His first sentence is incorrect. It does not give us more control - it forces us to buy private

insurance. We will not be able to opt put. This is not more control it is less.

I also don't understand why he thinks giving trillions to big insurance will make them more accountable - they will take the money and crush what little reform is in the bill.

They can't deny or drop coverage - but they can jack up your rates 400% (per year?)!!!

I'm sorry, but if this bill fails, they will be forced to work on HCR very soon, whereas if it passes they will pretend it's done.

In the end He failed to mention the public option, expanded Medicare, or what 'fixes' he will be fighting for in the near term.

Grade: F (FAIL)