Posted on 03/03/2010 9:43:25 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The White House released these excerpts of President Obama's prepared remarks on health care, to be delivered around 1:45 p.m.:
“I don’t believe we should give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care in America. I believe it’s time to give the American people more control over their own health insurance. I don’t believe we can afford to leave life-and-death decisions about health care to the discretion of insurance company executives alone. I believe that doctors and nurses like the ones in this room should be free to decide what’s best for their patients.
The proposal I’ve put forward gives Americans more control over their health care by holding insurance companies more accountable. It builds on the current system where most Americans get their health insurance from their employer. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Because I can tell you that as the father of two young girls, I wouldn’t want any plan that interferes with the relationship between a family and their doctor. ...”
“So this is our proposal. This is where we’ve ended up. It’s an approach that has been debated and changed and I believe improved over the last year. It incorporates the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans – including some of the ideas that Republicans offered during the health care summit, like funding state grants on medical malpractice reform and curbing waste, fraud, and abuse in the health care system. My proposal also gets rid of many of the provisions that had no place in health care reform – provisions that were more about winning individual votes in Congress than improving health care for all Americans. ..."
“At stake right now is not just our ability to solve this problem, but our ability to solve any problem. The American people want to know if it’s still possible for Washington to look out for their interests and their future. They are waiting for us to act. They are waiting for us to lead. And as long as I hold this office, I intend to provide that leadership. I don’t know how this plays politically, but I know it’s right. And so I ask Congress to finish its work, and I look forward to signing this reform into law.”
this will be Obama’s “jumped the shark” moment.
Same ol’ song nobody’s buying.
“I literally can’t take any more of this BS.”
I know what you mean. This has got to stop. My brain is going to explode soon. Nothing the federal government touches turns out well or on budget.
No, the American people want government to get out of their lives and pocketbooks!
Funding state grants on medical malpractice reform. What the feak is that. Handing out more money to trial lawyers?
It’s definitely not tort reform.
***I literally can’t take any more of this BS***.
Perfect timing for the Socialists in government to shove any bill through.
When Americans are in high anxiety about national crises and personal havoc; i.e. having or keeping their homes, jobs, safe automobiles, protecting their children, surviving treacherous weather. It’s difficult to drain the swamp when you are up to your arse in alligators.
This is satire, right?
“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
OBAMA does not have a guaranteed win...he is going against the tide of public opinion. If he had HAD the votes to do this in July, he would have done it...he DIDN'T.
PLEASE FOLKS, DO NOT LET THE BASTARDS WIN!
“I don’t believe we should give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care in America. I believe it’s time to give the American people more control over their own health insurance. I don’t believe we can afford to leave life-and-death decisions about health care to the discretion of insurance company executives alone. I believe that doctors and nurses like the ones in this room should be free to decide what’s best for their patients.
BRAVO SIERRA!
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THIS BILL IS GOING TO DO!!!!!!!!
Wasn’t it Adolph Hitler who said: “the bigger the lie the more believable it becomes”?! Now it’s become another motto of the Democrats!
Lenin, Castro, Alinsky, Mao, Hitler.....Democratic Party always attracted to miscreants and deviants like bees to honey.!
Hey, O. You put that lipstick on this pig and now you can kiss it.
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2462963/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
The problem is the Republicans said to start with a blank piece of paper,they then offered in cremental ideas that could be implemented,tort reform ,buying health insurance across state lines,expanding health savings accounts.They did not suggest adding them to his 2700 page,2 and a half trillion dollar monstrosity of Government take over and Welfare program!
NO GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM PERIOD!
The problem is the Republicans said to start with a blank piece of paper,they then offered in cremental ideas that could be implemented,tort reform ,buying health insurance across state lines,expanding health savings accounts.They did not suggest adding them to his 2700 page,2 and a half trillion dollar monstrosity of Government take over and Welfare program!
NO GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM PERIOD!
“I don’t believe we should give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care in America.”
Meanwhile, back on mother Earth, the legislation he is pushing will intentionally do just that - extend control of “health care in America” to bureaucrats in the Federal government. He lies with such a straight face, he must be a sociopath.
I am so sick of his mouth running and running lie after lie.
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