Again--this video shows how woefully indaequate the people who are trying to make changes to the healthcare system in this country really are.
I wasn't shocked by what the fact that they want to do away with private healthcare - its easy for them to act like the big insurance companies are villains, while accepting their campaign donations at the same time (HYPOCRITES). United Health Group was one of the biggest contributors to the Democrat's Convention in Denver.
I was, however, shocked that they truly have no idea what they are doing and their complete and utter indifference to just how many people in this country actually work in the private health insurance industry. If they want to do a failing economy in, this will put the nails the coffin. Who will employ all those people? The states? The federal government?
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He is such a liar. He isn't for single payer. His plan has nothing to do with single payer...it's nothing more than letting the insurance companies executives regulate even more of the health care industry. I read the whole thing...it's really a terrible mish mash of baloney that has nothing to do with "universal" health care. God the lies out of his mouth.
This is going to cause the shyt to hit the fan and no its not universal health care its just another mess. The people are never going to accept this and the Reps all need to remember next year is another election year. I see the Republicans in control of both houses next year. What Democrats are left will be the Blue Dogs that vote against his plan.
Thanks for reading the whole thing, Alice. You are braver than I am. I think this is just a game that Obama is playing to pretend that he's doing something the Dems are expecting, and, as usual, he's lying through his teeth.
I don't see in the video where HE says that this will eliminate private insurance. There is no way in HELL the private insurance industry would allow that.
I was a GREAT system, where everyone is covered. Is that too much to ask?
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JustTheFact, Thanks. Quite illuminating. As I have just spent about 3 days mired in the healthcare plan, I AGREE!!! It will kill the Insurance industry.
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I want to know what the pay off is to him for slamming HR676 OFF the table. At his so called question and answer session he didn't have ONE representative for single payer even in the room and the one person who tried to ask about it was escorted out...more like strong armed.
This is such baloney. Then we have the fact that he has got more contributions from the insurance industry than any other candidate and I see a little pay to play going on here. He basically screwed with HR676 so he could reward his donars and THEN tries to call "health care reform" which it is nothing but, a little of this and a little of that. PLUS is IS cutting medicare and medicaid to pay for it.
A lot of progs are super hot mad over this and at Pelosi too. For taking the one bill that everyone fought for, for so long totally off the table and Pelosi is callous about it.
This whole thing is a sick joke. I mean leave it to Obama to create a bill that the left and the right do not want and then try to shove it right on through whether it will work or help anyone or not, all for his own self aggrandizment!