Obama's Inexperience is Showing on Healthcare
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
In all my years covering Washington, D.C., I cannot recall a presidential administration that did a better job of stepping on its own toes with as much frequency as the current one.
Today, the president sought to reassure jittery liberals that his healthcare reform effort would indeed include a so-called public option. Conservatives and moderates have taken issue with that plank of proposed healthcare reform, fearing it would turn into an unending subsidy for anyone who cannot afford or chooses not to buy health insurance—and that it would be paid for largely by the middle class. According to CNN:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president could be "satisfied" without it. And Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNN's "State of the Union" that a public insurance plan is "not the essential element." ...
The move seemed to be a concession to critics, particularly Republican lawmakers who have assailed the idea of the government playing that kind of role. Yet it also stirred up frustration from those on the left who believe such an option is critical.
Earlier this month, President Obama crisscrossed messages with his treasury secretary on whether or not taxes were going up.
This is what happens when America elects a political neophyte to the most powerful office in the world.
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Obama Admits Taking 300 billion from Medicare Funding
Since when is it a lie that Obama won't harm Medicare when Obama himself says he will fund the new Healthcare system by using 300 billion dollars from the existing Medicare fund.
Medicare, by the way is set up for those senior citizens over 65 years of age; not 25, not 35, not 45, not 55. It also has been stated that the Medicare fund will be out of money in a short time of years. SO, the great brain Obama will shorten this time by giving out the fund to everybody, thereby having the whole country out of medical funding after Obama gets out of office so the people can't impeach him for hurting the welfare of the citizens of the United States.
Better get him out of office now, impeach him before he destroys the country. Obama, much akin to Al Gore, is taking credit for turning the economy around. At least he didn't invent the internet or come up with the Global Warming story that got Gore a Nobel Prize.
Let's give Obama a Nobel Prize too, or a gold star and then impeach him before he runs up the National Debt to the point where the United States goes into Bankruptcy.
As if you just noticed?
Inexperience, unqualified and fool are a very nice and gentle way to describe the countries biggest goof ever in politics, Obama!!
Healthcare Obstructionists are Mercenary Ruffians or Confused Medicare Recipecients
These staged townhall shenanigans are not representative of Americans.
A majority of American want healthcare reform. Our economy can't sustain the runaway cost of healthcare anymore and without any reform we all face using bankruptcy and emergency rooms to pay for our healthcare in the future. Small business won't offer be able to sustain offering healthcare, and the number of uninsured people will increase if we go for the obstructionist do nothing plan put out by Big Pharma and Big Health Insurance.
We just can't let for this wacko grandstanding misrepresent public sentiment anymore - put up by Big Pharma/Big Insurance who are out to protect their profiteering monopolies. Are you trying to tell me the LaRouche supporters, militias and Aryan nations folks protesting at these events represent America. These wingnuts are not representing the 40 million people without health insurance.
Yes Americana are anxious. More than half of some of these crowds volunteer the fact they're currently on Medicare - none of this debate would even effect them - they got their Public Option already. Lies about cutting Medicare brought out lots of concerned people, but their unfounded concerns were stirred up by lies and misrepresentations coming from right wing hitmen/lobbyists and their medical industrial supporters.
Dishonesty is the only language these sleazeball conservatives know.
Forget bipartisanship - there is no negotiating with these wack jobs anymore.
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