White House Health Care Summit Part II
Congressional Democrats and Republicans gathered at Blair House for a discussion on health care legislation with President Obama. He first announced the idea for this event during a Super Bowl Sunday interview with CBS news Anchor Katie Couric. Since then, the President has released a health care plan drawing largely from two bills passed by House and Senate Democrats. We heard opening comments from the President and congressional leaders followed by discussions on health care costs, insurance reforms, deficit reduction and expanding coverage.
spencerdev91 posted: 18 Jan at 11:46 am
Doesn’t matter if you’re someone who disagrees with the President, he showed (I thought) a tremendous amount of leadership here and I can’t see how anyone could see it any other way.
li4death54 posted: 18 Jan at 12:35 pm
@mightypensword I think this was pointless. I dont feel that any minds were changed in that room (as you can see now that it is Feb. 2011 and they passed it with no Repub. suport) So I dont like 7hrs spent getting nowhere, like Obama said we pay each of them 6 figs./yr.. I would love to see them spend this sort of time/effort making a bill on TV. I would love to watch that and see whom puts what in.
frankiegmh posted: 18 Jan at 1:18 pm
I understand that comgressmen and women have busy scheduleds but if you are naive enough to think they are spending long hours reading bills or conduction town hall meetings or doing anything in the intrest of the American people you are way off. They are busy, but their time is spent meeting with lobbiest and campaign contributers and doing what they can to make sure they get reelected not the work for the American people. 90% never read the bills they are voting on like this 2,400 page bill.
frankiegmh posted: 18 Jan at 1:35 pm
Wow, you are going to just give away $150 a moth?! I am glad to hear you are so generous and I encourage you to give as much as you can but please do not sit there and judge someone else who does not have 150 a month to just give away. How many people lost their homes in the last 2-3 years. How many people have gone bankrupt? Do you think most Americans can afford to give $150. They are trying force young people with no money and low paying jobs to buy insurance they can’t afford it.
frankiegmh posted: 18 Jan at 2:05 pm
No kidding! How can he sit there in front of the American people, many of whom work long hard hours I myself have either worked two jobs or worked full time and have attended College for the past years, and say that? I don’t see any reasons why they could not spend 7 hours a week doing this. I work a ful day and then go to school at night. I leave my house at 06:00am and somethimes don’t get home until 11:00pm 17 hours later and they can’t give us these 7 hours. God forbid they have a late night
HoneyMyGolden posted: 18 Jan at 2:39 pm
Do you think extending health insurance to children age 26 is for the poor? With the current unemployment rate this is a sham. Recent graduates who work part time do not qualify. Only if they DO NOT WORK at all. That’s because if the employer offers insurance, which is required by law with 50 > employees, they must pay out of pocket for far inferior coverage. Whose children take a year off after graduation? Whose children are working part-time to find work? Rich kids get quality health care.
mistersumthing posted: 18 Jan at 3:25 pm
can you imagine Bush or Sarah Palin participating or conducting this kind of thing? they’d be so lost
transending17 posted: 18 Jan at 3:32 pm
Hey I understood your point and to some ledger agree. But I think what the President was trying to say, is that because of the busy schedules of our House Reps and Senators who spend their days reading legislation, attending town hall meetings, and of course being on the house or senate floor if needed. They also have a number of other things going on. I dont think the President in anyway intended to make our elected officials in anyway sound lazy. But in respect to your comment I understand.
functionalchum2 posted: 18 Jan at 3:47 pm
Love the crazy doctor! Saw the show online at lastnightstvshows (.) com
unhappymatt1 posted: 18 Jan at 4:05 pm
Whats funny is that all these comments are made by the same 6-7 people.
foreyez posted: 18 Jan at 4:20 pm
republicans keep saying how america’s health care is the “best in the world”. maybe the doctors are the best, sure. but when you have 30 million people uninsured, premiums that cost more than any westernized country, and not caring for people with pre-existing conditions then please tell me how the heck is america’s health care the best in the world??
yesilike101 posted: 18 Jan at 4:41 pm
My daughter is suffering from 101 degree fever, you are telling me youre on a break!!!
To all parents, look into the eyes of your little girls and boys. Are you ready for socialized healthcare? 3-5 hours waiting time, toilet seats stain with feces, people coughing around your kids. Get the picture?
Welcome to assembly line medical services. Now serving patient #484888
Mommy, I am hungry. I want to go home. (3+ hours waiting , too much to endure for a sick child. Sincerely, Line Staff)
Aprilmax010 posted: 18 Jan at 4:54 pm
@bigdogphoto
The Goverment also is to come out the a ban on sport fishing.
Just out today: Wall Greens will not take any NEW Medical precription because they are losing money on them.
Aprilmax010 posted: 18 Jan at 5:46 pm
New: The Bismarck Bribe
Dealmaking for Obambicare votes can involve matters either inside or outside the bill. The unveiling of the reconciliation bill today closes the window on the former, but not before one last outrage was performed:
A new element, included in the plan issued on Thursday, would give a specific right to the Bank of N Dakota to issue federally subsidized student loans, meaning that it would be the only lender remaining outside of the Education Depts direct-lending system
bigdogphoto posted: 18 Jan at 6:02 pm
Pelosi just stated we need to pass the bill to see what’s in it. The very heart of the Republic is now in jeopardy. A singular,specific,proposed bill has very specific requirements for compliance/passage with the recording of members votes in both houses. No policies have ever been enacted without the passage of specific statutes. This is the greatest Constitutional crisis in our nations history, no laws, just tyrannical rule.
bigdogphoto posted: 18 Jan at 6:05 pm
The unconstitutional implementation of this process is effectively imposing Marshall Law. We are looking at collusion between separate branches of government to conspire to circumvent the law. This is lawlessness of the highest order! Patriots be prepared!
bigdogphoto posted: 18 Jan at 6:30 pm
I just heard a promotional piece encouraging New Yorker’s to support the soda tax, that’s right…the soda tax!
So, if you support a soda tax, you will make fat people skinny, ailing people healthy because you empowered the government to take more money out of your pocket! I thought doctors encourage healthy choices not the IRS?
Tell BO to stop smoking and the obese Surgeon General to drop 50 pounds and then come talk to me about a soda tax!
bigdogphoto posted: 18 Jan at 7:27 pm
How sick in the head are these people? Do you see how many useful idiots buy this shit?
The utility company wants to put a “smart meter” on my house, the Feds bought my mortgage, what’s next? I need government to tell me what light bulb I can use, what toilet I can use, what temp to set my thermostat, what car I can drive?
This is about centralized power and control, not health care. Read the Constitution to your children and vote out all progressives before all liberty is eroded.
tishhead posted: 18 Jan at 7:50 pm
here is why i say your side thinks everything is fine with health care. you were in charge of everything for 6 years and no one even proposed ANYTHING to fix it. it wasn’t on the radar. even now, the repubs haven’t offered any serious plan. their only so-called proposal, according to the CBO, would actually increase the number of uninsured.
i wish obama HAD proposed single-payer. he didn’t. he still leaves the system in the hands of insurance cos, just more regulated.
usam1981 posted: 18 Jan at 8:36 pm
@tishhead No, we don’t believe everything is fine with healthcare. We just believe that this will not fix the problem. Name one program that the government has run well without running it into the ground. They spent social security, they bankrupted Medicare and Medicade, and they barely run the Military right, thank God for our military leaders on that fact.
tishhead posted: 18 Jan at 9:27 pm
actually, you can’t prevent any deaths. you CAN delay them, which we do a lousy job of considering our resources. and what is your explanation for our infant mortality rate? i’m sure you have one because it can’t POSSIBLY be that the anyone does anything better than the US. unthinkable.
your side believes everything is fine with health care. as premiums go up 20-30 percent a year and more coverage is dropped and denied, you guys keep running on that platform.
usam1981 posted: 18 Jan at 9:43 pm
@tishhead Who says we get lousey sesults. The Democrats that is who, no one else. If you look at studies, you will see that, if you take out deaths caused by old age or traffic accidents, we jump back up to the top of the ladder in the health of our nation vs. the other countries. Those are deaths you can’t prevent. Your statements are lies, simply because the people who you got your information from are pathological liars.
iiiphoto posted: 18 Jan at 10:27 pm
@timefordifference = funny thing is most people are actually happy with they’re elected officials. -And incumbents usually win…
tishhead posted: 18 Jan at 11:13 pm
interesting, all of my statements are lies, yet not a wisp of a thread of a molecule of evidence behind that. if you are maintaining that no one who pays premiums has gone bankrupt from health bills, good luck with that. a towering mountain of evidence says otherwise.
one of the huge things dragging down the prosperous country is health insurance. we pay the most of any industrialized country as a whole and we get lousy results. nice deal.
bigdogphoto posted: 18 Jan at 11:41 pm
Oh really,
I can give you plenty of examples of hundreds of thousands of dollars paid out to people I know for health care. All of your statements are lies. I want to live in the free prosperous country my parents left me and leave the same country to my children.