"This Isn't About Politics. This Is About People's Lives."
President Obama's weekly address starts making the health care reform case he should have started making in March.
In the end, the debate about health insurance reform boils down to a choice between two approaches. The first is almost guaranteed to double health costs over the next decade, make millions more Americans uninsured, leave those with insurance vulnerable to arbitrary denials of coverage, and bankrupt state and federal governments. That’s the status quo. That’s the health care system we have right now.
So, we can either continue this approach, or we can choose another one – one that will protect people against unfair insurance practices; provide quality, affordable insurance to every American; and bring down rising costs that are swamping families, businesses, and our budgets. That’s the health care system we can bring about with reform.
Full transcript here.
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I acknowledge and somewhat agree with your contention that this is the argument the president should have made "in March." However, I must disagree to a certain degree - for if he had made the argument in March, and not again, it would have been forgotten by now, and of no use to the current effort.
So now is the time to say these things, and say them loud and proud, and keep saying them till the floor vote comes up. Or till the cows come home, whichever comes first.
Too many Americans are too stupid to remember since March. And too many more are too stupid to remember since last Friday. So let the Preznit KEEP SAYING IT.
I am so despairing of the future of America, when stupid fucks like the ones you call Paultards actually even HAVE a voice in this country. I know, freedom of speech and all that - but I'd support a constitutional amendment taking freedom of speech away from fucktards.
Yeah, I'm kidding. But not by much...
I agree with Rich. The President and all sane people like us who oppose greedy insurance and pharma companies, and who want universal coverage, MUST keep being heard until we get the decent health care reform this country has needed for far, far too long!
Forget Insurance. Any plan that depends on insurance mandates only enriches insurance companies and their shareholders: investment banks, investment syndicates and investment trusts. Some of us can't be insured. No company will ever, nor would it have in the past write coverage for many citizens. We have dioxin in our systems; survived cancer and are not disabled using Social Security parameters.
I asked an actuary ... "If premium limit is not a factor, where would basic medical, major medical and catastrophic lifetime at statistically modal coverage be priced?" His answer, "$100,000.00 monthly; any futurity of an individual so aflicted is statistically unstable and any outcome is insecure. No one will write this, because no one can afford this. The probability of catastrophic onset in 90 days is highly positive."
There is only one pair of options that is humane: Public Option or Single Payer.
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