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Obama pushes national health care plan
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | June 27, 2008 | David Brown

Posted on 06/27/2008 6:40:56 AM PDT by socialismisinsidious

Barack Obama on Thursday used Pittsburgh as his stage to ask Americans for a mandate to implement a national health care plan if he's elected president.

"If we can't control skyrocketing health care costs, we'll confront a mounting moral crisis and a major anchor on the ability of American business to compete,"

Obama said the health care system's shortfalls hold back the nation and concern Americans more than any issue except soaring fuel prices.

"The key is that the American people have to provide a mandate for change in this area," Obama said. "We have to insist ... we're going to hold the president accountable. We're going to hold Congress accountable."

When the Clinton administration tried to get Congress to adopt a national health care plan in 1993, much of the business community and many Americans opposed the idea, but "a political realignment has taken place," he said.

"I'm expecting U.S. Steel and General Motors and other key industries to say we've got to get this done for our sake as well -- that this is No. 1 of our priority list, not something that's on a back burner," Obama said.

Obama's proposal would keep the private insurance system, but expand it by subsidizing premiums for people who can't afford insurance, based on a sliding scale depending on personal income. Government, businesses and consumers would share costs. A proposed National Health Insurance Exchange would monitor participating insurance companies.


(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: healthcare; obama; socializedmed; socializedmedicine; universalcare
"We spend more money per person on health care than any nation on Earth by a wide margin, and yet our outcomes are mediocre at best, when compared to other industrialized nations,"

Blatant LIE (among others)! And should Obama need health care where would he GO?



1 posted on 06/27/2008 6:40:57 AM PDT by socialismisinsidious
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To: long hard slogger; FormerACLUmember; Harrius Magnus; hocndoc; parousia; Hydroshock; skippermd; ...
Socialized Medicine aka Universal Health Care PING LIST

FReepmail me if you want to be added to or removed from this ping list.


2 posted on 06/27/2008 6:41:50 AM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: socialismisinsidious

Just remember: once it’s here, it’s here for all eternity.


3 posted on 06/27/2008 6:44:56 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: socialismisinsidious
"If we can't control skyrocketing health care costs, we'll confront a mounting moral crisis and a major anchor on the ability of American business to compete,"

Some folks say that the old National Socialists just couldn't have been leftists, because the industrialists supported them, and a lot of the rhetoric seemed to be about boosting business.

Well, here we have the most far-left member of our Senate, promoting the nationalization of the enormous health care industry and pledging to do so because it will help American business compete.

Fascism.

4 posted on 06/27/2008 6:45:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: socialismisinsidious

Obviously he doesn’t consider Canada and England industrialized nations. Cost would be shared by the govt, business and consumers? Unless I missed something, the only money the govt has is yours and mine - so that means we would be paying two-thirds. What businesses? Unless you have Green something in your name, you’re not going to be in business and the Greenies won’t cover people who smoke, drink, eat meat, drive to work instead of walk, are having a baby or planning to have a baby, are even one pound overweight, etc.


5 posted on 06/27/2008 6:48:09 AM PDT by Grams A
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To: socialismisinsidious
The elderly in the United State live longer than in any other industrialized country.

The median life expectancy in the US is lower than some primarily because of poor life-style choices involving the young. (Motor vehicle accidents, drugs, gang warfare, unprotected anal sex.)

6 posted on 06/27/2008 6:48:16 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: socialismisinsidious
Government, businesses and consumers would share costs.

That sounds fair. Let's split the cost three ways -- "government" money, "business" money and "consumer" money". Now where does "government" and "business" get their money in the first place?

7 posted on 06/27/2008 6:49:36 AM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: Grams A
the Greenies won’t cover people who smoke, drink, eat meat, drive to work instead of walk, are having a baby or planning to have a baby, are even one pound overweight, etc.

This is what national health care is about - controlling behavior. Yes, they are fascists.

8 posted on 06/27/2008 6:50:01 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Pharmaceutical companies will love this, guaranteed checks from the government.

BUT, everyone else from consumer to healthcare providers will HATE socialized medicine.

9 posted on 06/27/2008 6:50:10 AM PDT by Mrs.Z ("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
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To: socialismisinsidious

and medicare just cut my reimbursement by 16% this year. Dont be surprised when our care does become mediocre - the reimbursement is becoming not worth the long hours and amount of risk.
Next time you see more foreign medical grads flooding our healthcare system, you will know why
National health care could onlyh hasten the demise.


10 posted on 06/27/2008 6:51:18 AM PDT by Mom MD (The scorn of fools is music to the ears of the wise)
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To: socialismisinsidious

Think of how many government employees will be required to keep track of waiting lists with 100 million people on them.


11 posted on 06/27/2008 6:51:26 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Mrs.Z

During epidemic conditions, people won’t receive treatment because of unlimited demand and reduced supply of servicers.

Same thing under socialist health - unlimited demand (because it’s “free”) and reduced amount of doctors (due to price fixing).


12 posted on 06/27/2008 6:51:44 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Think of how gov’t employees can put themselves at the front of those lists, or those who properly grease them.

Rand: “The Aristocracy of Pull” in Atlas Shrugged


13 posted on 06/27/2008 6:53:21 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: socialismisinsidious; freekitty; oswegodeee; ncfool; Clintonfatigued; Free ThinkerNY; ...

Hussein Obama, his racist wife, and Soros the puppeteer want America to be a dictatorship run by them and their Liberal thugs. Health care, food, the air you breathe, everything handled out to the American people by them according to their rules and dictates. Their priority in conjunction with the MSM is to destroy and take away the Second Amendment and then it’s life and death by their rules. The sheeple are going to wake up and find that they are no longer free and America, as we knew it, gone. Your children and grandchildren will be slaves to Liberals. Yes, it’s that bad, IMO.


14 posted on 06/27/2008 6:55:04 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: socialismisinsidious
You think health care is expensive now, wait'll it's FREE!

How can he imagine it costing less when everything the government touches spirals out of control?

15 posted on 06/27/2008 6:56:13 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: MrB

Healthcare - Democrat solution = RATION
Energy - Democrat solution = RATION
Income Disparity - Democrat solution = RATION


16 posted on 06/27/2008 6:56:41 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

Fascist solution to everything - reduction of YOUR lifestyle, while WE continue ours.

It’s about increasing the difference in lifestyle between the elite and the commoner.


17 posted on 06/27/2008 6:59:18 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: socialismisinsidious

I once flew home from the Bahamas with three broken ribs and a punctured lung to receive health care in an American hospital rather than go to the local outfit.

I hurt like the dickens, but I was taken care of as soon as entered the ER. Got a room in no time afterwards, and was released four days later under my own steam - so to speak.

If our health care is so rotten in America, why do people from all over the world come to America to get treatment for life threatening or chronic illnesses?

National health care is destined for failure.


18 posted on 06/27/2008 7:00:48 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Mrs.Z
Pharmaceutical companies will love this, guaranteed checks from the government.

Drug companies have mostly ceased to exist in countries with "free" health care. Price-fixing by the government doesn't allow for R & D expenditures. That's why almost all new drugs come from the US.

It's similar to what happened in the US with the creation of the ICC. The Feds ran the railroads into bankruptcy, then nationalized them as the only way to keep them running. Similar to what Greyout Davis did in California with the power comapnies.

19 posted on 06/27/2008 7:02:35 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: theDentist
Keep in mind Obama's comments on Capital Gains taxes --

He would up the Capital Gains tax, even if it caused revenues to decline.
He would up the Capital Gains tax, even if it caused the economy to slow down.
Why?
Because upping the Capital Gains tax just seems more fair.

So, you think he might be concerned that increased government control will increase the cost of health care? I'm pretty sure Obama isn't losing any sleep over that possibility.

20 posted on 06/27/2008 7:02:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: socialismisinsidious
U.S. Steel and General Motors???

What decade is this, anyway? Does Obama think that these companies are representative of American business in 2008? GM is almost out of business and US Steel today employs fewer than 50,000.

21 posted on 06/27/2008 7:03:56 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Peace is Not The Question.)
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To: RexBeach

These socialist and fascistic policies have been pushed since the beginning of the 20th century (obviously taking real root under FDR). The government has gained an exponentially larger portion of our rights every year and is replacing them with “rights” that don’t exist. They blatantly ignore the Constitution and the philosophy of limited government that this country was founded on. Everyone knows that when government expands, liberty contracts. Anyone who has read anything written by the vast majority of the Founding Fathers would know that they would be absolutely ABHORRED by the amount of control this dwindling Republic asserts over its people. And what have these welfare type policies gotten us? Trillions of dollars lost and NO improve in the quality of life. Arguably it has made America worse especially when looking at the cultural impact of the nanny state and the poverty that “anti-poverty” programs create. America is supposed the land of the free and the home of the brave. However we are rapidly losing freedom and becoming less brave to stand up to it. Most Americans now believe through some twisted logic and distorted reality that Universal Health Care will actually make society better. They are sadly, sadly mistaken.


22 posted on 06/27/2008 7:12:52 AM PDT by djsherin
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To: djsherin

My late father was a physician. He has been dead for many years, but he did live to see the beginning of Medicare. I asked him what he thought of it. His answer: “It is socialized medicine and will fail ultimately.”


23 posted on 06/27/2008 7:26:41 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: socialismisinsidious
And should Obama need health care where would he GO?

Cuba, of course!

24 posted on 06/27/2008 7:26:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: djsherin

My late father was a physician. He has been dead for many years, but he did live to see the beginning of Medicare. I asked him what he thought of it. His answer: “It is socialized medicine and will fail ultimately.”


25 posted on 06/27/2008 7:26:53 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: socialismisinsidious

Obama should change the name of the Democratic Party to the Socialist Party. It’s not democratic, and it is socialist.


26 posted on 06/27/2008 7:29:02 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Those you mention are worse than a group of terrorist because there is not a damn thing we can do about them.


27 posted on 06/27/2008 7:41:53 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Its already here for some of the animals.
All public servants have free health care paid for by the dwindling number or worker bees, many whom cannot afford healthcare.
And we have the parasite class which has free health care paid for by worker bees. The only ones who dont have healthcare are the worker bees who cannot afford it.

I use to be against a national healthcare plan.


28 posted on 06/27/2008 7:43:56 AM PDT by winodog (We have been set up for Hillary)
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To: socialismisinsidious
And should Obama need health care where would he GO?

Canada, Cuber, or Venezuela are my guess < /sarc>

I trust government health care to succeed the same as the social security system - not at all. They may as well call it social medical care and let it fail just like SS is going in the tank now.

As Rush has said on many of his shows, "If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free".

29 posted on 06/27/2008 7:44:41 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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To: socialismisinsidious

Obama is an odd combination of ignorant and a liar.
I HAVE THE HEALTH INSURANCE I CAN AFFORD!

The constitution does NOT guarantee MY standard of living to every citizen!!!

Is Obama going to have his buddy Rizzo, buy everybody the same quality house he bought for Obama?


30 posted on 06/27/2008 8:11:58 AM PDT by G Larry (Fight B.O. with RIGHT GUARD! Vote McCain!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

They are so Hitler like.


31 posted on 06/27/2008 11:18:47 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty

Avoid the “Hitler” reference, but call leftists what they are:

FASCISTS.

They SQUEAL when you call them that, but it’s easily defended. They are totalitarian collectivists that brook no opposition to their agenda.


32 posted on 06/27/2008 11:20:33 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: socialismisinsidious
My solution to rising health care costs: Throw all trial lawyers into the ocean.

That advice is free of charge.

33 posted on 06/27/2008 11:26:21 AM PDT by oldvike
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To: ExTexasRedhead
I agree. It is that bad and they've been waiting a long time, laying the foundation, dismantling this society for the ripe time.

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” 1945 Norman Thomas,1 Socialist
34 posted on 06/27/2008 1:27:51 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: BenLurkin

Ha, of course. Just like Uncle Teddy.


35 posted on 06/27/2008 1:36:12 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: winodog

When you think about all the people taking from the system and not paying well that tells you how good of a system we actually have. But medicine is at its breaking point...can’t keep piling on and not expect Atlas to shrug. Jump on the socialized medicine bandwagon but don’t be surprised when the wheels fall off.


36 posted on 06/27/2008 1:41:56 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
"...Soros the puppeteer..."

Soros owns Progressive Insurance. Just thought you'd like to know ............. FRegards

37 posted on 06/27/2008 6:47:29 PM PDT by gonzo ("Shall Not Be Infringed" - The SCOTUS got it right ... for now ... FRegards)
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To: socialismisinsidious

I realize that as well. I did not change my stance without much reflection. I have just met way too many people who dont have to pay because they are more equal then other animals and I am one of those less equals. It is unfortunate that it has come to this but the bleeding heart liberals will succeed. They get closer all the time and they get more and more people on their side every day.
The party that I have voted for all my life finally got to sit in the leader chairs in all three houses and they failed miserably. My American birthright and status as a citizen of the greatest nation on earth is being tossed in the dirt and left to degrade by corrupt egotistical, power and money hungry parasites in DC who are not governed by the same laws as myself.


38 posted on 06/28/2008 8:57:38 AM PDT by winodog (We have been set up for Hillary)
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