Obama Negotiates With Evil-Doers: The Healthcare Lobbyists

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Best health is needed by everyone. Ir must not be a commodity. When taxes fund a project or agency, it is called "socialistic." It's supposed to be non-profit because it benefits all Americans. When investors start a business, it's called "capitalistic," and its main purpose is always to MAKE A PROFIT, even when it harms people, like the tobacco industry. After the 1929 Crash, Congress should have used taxes to fund health care for all, but didn't. Instead, Congress used taxes to provide health care for military and dependents and Congress. All congress needs to do is to DE-PRIVATIZE medical care and let us have "socialized" medicine for all. I repeat that we also need to make Congress end all tax subsidy to religious people. They say they believe in
god and they must worship. Let them, but stop making all taxpayers provide their buildings, utilities, furniture, altars, organs, costumes, incense, candles, kneelers, bell ringers, holy books and hymnals, signs, parking lots, traffic control and all the merchandise in catalogs of "church supplies.'

auradawnveirs of CA 11:41PM August 08, 2009

If the canadian health system is so bad by so many, how come some polls show as high as 82 and 91 percent approval rating?

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andrew h. t. of IN 4:29PM August 06, 2009

Talk is cheap! Why not go visual?
Big insurance companies can be beaten only with unconventional approaches.
Unorthodox behavior, truth and humor are the holy trinity needed to break citizens out of the doldrums that leaves them in the dark, with few answers and even fewer dollars.
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Stan Cotton of CA 3:37PM August 06, 2009

"I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."
So why is Obama doing these deals in the backroom instead of being open to the public to watch? The WH has confirmed it was a solid deal, so where is the video of it? Seeing how Obama is giving massive pork to PhRMA (and who knows who else), it looks like it is Obama who is making arguments on behalf of the drug companies. Obama has been acting like a cockroach in trying to keep people in the dark about it instead of being transparent. On top of all this Obama has the nerve to call people astroturfers because they don't like his backroom lobbyist deals.

Dave of CA 2:19PM August 06, 2009

I am seventy five years old and I am really frightened that our new President is going to screw up my Social Security and my Medicare. I won't be able to survive if his "new deal" policies go into effect. Please Mr President, leave my Social Security and Medicare alone. You can make small special arrangements for those people who have fallen through the crack, but please leave the rest of us alone. Medicare and Social Security are not broken, so please don't try to fix them.
If anyone reads this, get ahold of your representatives and tell them not to vote for the Obama/Pelosi Hair-brained scheme before it is too late.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 2:18PM August 06, 2009

Obama will completely destroy the USA we CAN'T AFFORD HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE JUST ASK THE CANADIANS WHAT THEY PAY AND WHAT THEY GET

Elaine Myers of MI 1:16PM August 06, 2009

I feel all of Obama's deals will come into full disclosure on their own. GE Deals are now making headlines. Healthcare sure did give alot of donations to Obama. What deals will self disclose here?

Maria of WI 12:42PM August 06, 2009

would be for him or her to fully disclose in TV speeches the "deals" made with any lobbyists. What did the lobbyists want? What did the president give? What did the president get?
I like Obama for sure, but I can't say we've heard enough FROM HIM on the exact nature of deals made. Of course, they are not done yet, either.

Muser of NM 12:04PM August 06, 2009