Blog - Obama's Speech

Public Option + Cooperative = Bi-Partisanship

For us to break the stymie of health care reform we need to start looking at our options as being feasible contemporaneously. Would it not be our better interest to enact legislation so that both sides of the isle are represented ? It would allow both sides of the isle to be
an option. People will then make their own minds up as to which, if any, to select.

I look forward to a decent respect to the opinions of all my fellow man; Lest we expend Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Sincere Regards

Roland D. Menard III

This doesn’t change anything for me. I have politely written to my congressman and the White House weeks ago and neither responded. One simple question: if I work for a large corporation with thousands of employees, whose bottom line is profit, why wouldn’t they switch to a cheap public option? Obama said there’s nothing in the bill to require me or my employer to change to the public option. That is not the same as his original promise that if I like my current insurance (which I love), I can keep it. He can’t guarantee that, so leading people to believe otherwise with clever word play is deception, is it not?
Does the tax credit work for people who have no income because they refuse to work, like my 29 year old brother? What about the guy who has been looking for work and has no income?
If they’re wrong and it does drive private insurer’s out of business, where do I get care if I don’t like their plan?
I’m listening…any answers?

He spoke for what 48 minutes? He said absolutely nothing new or enlightening about H.R. 3200. When he began to spell out how it will be paid for, he summed it up with the idea that about half would be paid for with savings from fixing inefficiencies in the system. Sigh. Nothing but rhetoric and trying to whip peoples emotions up. No substance whatsoever. Although his key purpose was stated “I will not back down”. Essentially I will cram this up your hole because I think its good for you. Rep Joe Wilson’s comment was inappropriate but highly accurate. Promises are being made that cannot be guaranteed. To have some one else provide healthcare for you is not a right. This little 48 minute waste of time was a pep talk and no more. Not an iota of substance in the whole speech, and a down right lie about not signing something that will add one dime to the deficit.

Not one word in the speech about the terrible care Americans take of themselves – the rampant obesity, the awful diet, the lack of exercise.

It was just one more example of promises to everyone that nobody will be hurt, nobody will pay. It’s not quite so blatant as what GWB did, but a step in the same direction.

The just way to handle health care insurance is to have every American on the same footing – able to apply for health insurance from a single provider with higher premiums for obesity, smoking, motorcycle riding, etc., all the things that are known hazards and result in extra costs for everyone – a simple system where one and all have the same standards applied and there is NO PROFIT in the insurance in itself.

It isn’t going to happen. We are going to trade one complicated byzantine system for another.

CB

I am confused by this from the speech: “Now, let me be clear. Let me be clear. It would only be an option for those who don’t have insurance. No one would be forced to choose it, and it would not impact those of you who already have insurance.”
Is he saying that if you have insurance, say through your employer, that you won’t be eligible for the govt plan? So…I can not elect to take the insurance my employer offers, then I am “eligible” for the govt plan? So essentially, everyone is eligible for the plan? If that’s what he’s saying then why confuse everyone with saying that “It would only be an option for those who don’t have insurance.”, why not say that everyone is eligible to elect the plan?

Why make health insurance mandatory? I don’t understand the logic here. He claims that we are forced to pick up the tab for people that don’t have health insurance….we are? I thought that one of the main reasons for healthcare reform was b/c people couldn’t afford healthcare insurance so if something did happen to them, then they are faced with huge medical bills. When have you heard of uninsured people having their medical bills paid for by the govt?? Also, likening health insurance to auto insurance just doesn’t make sense. First of all, only people that drive have auto insurance, secondly and most importantly, drivers have auto insurance b/c it insures the payment of damages to the OTHER people in the event of an accident if you are at fault. If I bite someone’s finger off, my health insurance isn’t going to pay for their hospital visit.

Why does he have to say we need to grow up and stop the name-calling, yet repeatedly he has been so butt hurt by people disagreeing with his “ideas” and flat out calls them “liars”! He is the one guilty of the accusations, we are only guilty of speaking our minds about what WE as a people know is best for us, which is a freedom given to us before BO was even thought of! If he thinks, that while on his power trip, he can TAKE AWAY OUR BASIC FREEDOMS, then we need to strip him of his power instantly and give it to someone fair, whether Dem or Rep, someone who will not threaten people to get them to listen, and will also listen to others! We don’t need the middle school games, we need a competent president!

I think Congressmen who oppose the socialist agenda of this president ought to speak out out turn at every opportunity they can, if they cannot, then we have totally lost our free speech. It seems likely Obama and the Left will pass a mediocre health care bill with so many loopholes, that essentialy it will tell the American people, “Here is your socialized medicine, like it or not” Here is the beginning folks towards a slippery slope into socialism and State control of our lives. Speak out against the socialism of this administration, become the bully and play their game. For Obama is the true Bully in this country.