We Can't Wait - Today's Number - 50/50

[quiet.american]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/by-the-numbers?utm_source=numbers50-50&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=healthreform">Health Reform by the Numbers:



If you’re an American under the age of 65, there’s roughly a 50/50 chance that you will find yourself without coverage at some point in the next decade.

President Obama first highlighted this staggering figure in a weekly address from this past September and detailed how, in our broken health care system, losing insurance can happen to anyone. At yesterday’s rally, the President reminded us of just how fragile the status quo really is:

Part of what makes this issue difficult is most of us do have health insurance, we still do. And so -- and so we kind of feel like, well, I don’t know, it’s kind of working for me; I’m not worrying too much. But what we have to understand is that what’s happened to Natoma, there but for the grace of God go any one of us. Anybody here, if you lost your job right now and after the COBRA ran out …

So let’s just think about -- think about if you lost your job right now. How many people here might have had a preexisting condition that would mean it’d be very hard to get health insurance on the individual market? Think about if you wanted to change jobs. Think about if you wanted to start your own business but you suddenly had to give up your health insurance on your job. Think about what happens if a child of yours, heaven forbid, got diagnosed with something that made it hard for them to insure.

For so many people, it may not be a problem right now but it’s going to be a problem later, at any point. And even if you’ve got good health insurance, what’s happening to your premiums? What’s happening to your co-payments? What’s happening to your deductible? They’re all going up. That’s money straight out of your pocket.

So the bottom line is this: The status quo on health care is simply unsustainable. We can’t have -- we can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.

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At the link, there's also video of the entire Strongsville rally from yesterday
http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/by-the-numbers?utm_source=numbers50-50&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=healthreform

Transcript:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-health-care-reform-strongsville-ohio

[Cha]

1. Anything can happen and usually

does so if people need insurance at an afforable rate..they should be able to get it..

Thanks for bringing these numbers to the BOG, QA~

[quiet.american]

2. You know what, Cha - I think many are apprehensive about just what "affordable" means.

If there's anything in this whole process that I think has been really, really, really missing is, is Congress/the President's idea of affordable, what the rest of us think of as affordable? If some definitive calculation could have been given up front, I think people would have found a reason to strongly support HCR much earlier in the process.

But, I'll say this, in the six years (can't believe its been six years already!) since I've been an Obama supporter, Obama has struck me as "staying real." So, I have confidence that affordable will mean affordable. (I sure hope it will after I've been all over this board championing this thing!) :)

[Cha]

3. Yes, I believe affordable means

affordable and it will be a solid foundation for even more afforable..Teddy's Dream is coming to reality.O8)

[quiet.american]

4. Speaking of the Liberal Lion, in a way, I'm glad he did not have to see this vitriolic process.

Not that he wouldn't have gone charging in!

But I'm glad we at least did not have to see a hundred threads a day trashing what would have been his efforts through this process.