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Tell Us What You Think: Obama Health Care Reform (With Video, Full Text)
September 10, 2009
Last night, President Barack Obama outlined his health care reform plan. If approved, the plan will impact every American.
You can read the entire speech by clicking here (pdf) or watch it
We want to know what you think about the plan. Leave your comments below in our comments section.
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39 Responses to “Tell Us What You Think: Obama Health Care Reform (With Video, Full Text)”
I watched the movie Last King Of Scottland again the other night.I was amazed at how Obama and Idi Amin are.You go right ahead and let him force it on you. You will not like what comes your way
I for one am opposed to Obama’s health plan. Before you jump for joy, or get defensive, I have to say that I am glad that Obama wants change. However, (this is my personal opinion based on what I have seen) when he decides on something (good or bad) he goes for it full force. If Obama wants this reform pushed through, unless America gets informed and does more than just “post” a blog on a website, he WILL push it through. Now (as we have also seen in the past–for more info listen to Glenn Beck who IS against Obama’s current health plan BUT also backs up what he says), he may change it after it has been passed. Honestly, we NEED some type of change. I agree that doctors shouldn’t profit rediculously (that is up for personal definition), but if they are not making a profit, where is their motivation to do more than just get a degree?? It takes more time, tuition, knowledge, etc. to become a doctor. A doctor who passes last in his class is still a doctor. If I am not mistaken, Obama was originally wanting to push this health care reform bill through in like three weeks? It took them longer to find their puppy and trainer… PLEASE, don’t let this be like when the “bailout” was being voted on… BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO TRULY CARE ABOUT THE BILL (for OR against it) SUBMIT THE FACTS, ARGUE YOUR CASE. I want to make an informed decision just like (I hope) anyone else. But I’m not talking about your personal opinion stated as a fact. This whole this is frustrating. Unless we come together and DO something to stop this…..
All I have to say is “Is it worse NOT having the a choice. Or having the Choice But ” It coast so much you can’t still pay Or your paying But the out of pocket is sky high that you either Eat or see the Doctor.
I have health issuess and I have NO INSURANCE. I can’t work due to the health issuess. I can’t get Disiabilty Cause I can’t afford to go see a Doctor cause I have no health insurance.
So I see a Government Plan as a choice to see the Doctor. I also see the Insurance Companies in the Past not giving Citizens No Choice. I say yes to health care Of ANY KIND.
Does this mean that those that have paid for insurance for years will now get it free like millions of people, or will we continue to pay just so others will have insurance? How fair is that? I pay for insurance and have less coverage than those that get services free, is this the American way? We live in a “give me something for free” society, so why change now?
Katie thinks it is good because she is a typical liberal. Take from me and give to you is their way of thinking. She wont be able to list good points because she knows someone will refute everyone of them.
Katie,
Please explain how this is good for the U.S.? If it passes the way it is now, I’m dropping the coverage for my employees and just pay the fine. 8% fine is less then the 11% I pay now.
The government programs they run now are all broke. So I am sure they will do the same with health care. No government run health care. And any one who thinks that is will be differnt is a fool.
If its so great, why isn’t Congress going to be using it? Is the President and his family going to be using it?
IT stinks.You know why? obamanation is a skunk.!!!!!!!
It stinks, you know why? obamanation is a skunk. !!!!!
And while he’s working on health care reform…… what about the promises Obama made about creating new jobs? My husband hasn’t had steady work since November. Oh! That’s when he took office!! This whole thing is sickening to me! My small business is being taxed to death. We can’t afford COBRA or any other crappy insurance they try to push on us!
Since everybody will have health care, do ya think they’ll stop poisoning us with their cancer causing preservatives they pump into our food?
I’m votin for ohbummer again . All he needs to do now is take away all those useless guns and give me a retirement plan and he’ll have hit the trifecta.
I never liked going to the doctor anyway.
THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION DARRYL!!
just some light reading on topic to consider:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080108082944.htm
http://www.livescience.com/health/080108-health-care.html
YOU ARE TAKING CARE OF THE NON-WORKING NOW! THEY JUST GO TO THE E.R.
#1 medical care system is FRANCE .THE UNITED STATES IS # 37, many 3rd world countries ahead of the US. . BY THE WAY– THEY ALL HAVE A GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE .
I hope Obamas health plan passes. That way all the well to do folks who work hard can buy me health insurance. I need it cuz all I do is sit on my porch and smoke all day. I tried that job thing and it did not work so well for me. So, anyway, thanks hard workin folk from all us not so hard workin folks.
Darryl, I opposed Social Security and Medicare when it was implemented. I knew that once the Government got their syrupy fingers onto this money that was supposed to be for retirement, they would make a mess of it just like everything else it tries to manage. We were forced into the plan and paid into it for many years. I would have rather invested my own dollars and not rely on the Government. So, to answer your question, no, I don’t want it to end NOW, since I’ve had to factor it into my retirement plans
We do not have the best medical care in the world . You must be misinformed if you think that. Check it out, you will see. We need correct information !!!
I think Obama just wants to get SOMETHING through that says “Health Care” on it. Then he will appoint a “Health Czar” to implement the program. The “Czar” can do whatever he/she wants to do since there is no oversight. So, buckle up, my friends, it is gonna be quite a ride.
Obama and his crew have decided that “seniors” are the problem. In 15 years, the number of folks over 65 will double. In that same time period, the number of folks over 85 will triple. Everyone knows that seniors are sucking up the lions share of health care. Now, if we can just figure out how to reduce the number of seniors, there will be plenty of health care for the rest.
I don’t think that most of the people in our area and around the country are very informed. Do you know that both the countries north and south of our borders come to this country for their heath care and why is that, Because we have the best Health care in the world! Oh bye the why they have the same Goverment Health care that they are trying to push through for us. If you think that there is a long wait for a doctor’s appointment now just wait ti’ll they add another 47 million people to the mix. The goverment will also decide if you can be seen and what for and if you qualify for some procedures base on age and you health problems. I think I have said enough even though thats just the begining of the problems with this bill.
Others may come to the US for speical healthcare but the US doesn’t have the BESTof healthcare system. The US ranks behind others, whom doesn’t have a for profit healthcare system ( for far far less money). Profits should not be made off healthcare, lifes depend on it. The only doctors that will be lost is the one’s that work for profit only ( those we can do without). Many many doctors are for this change.
How about including the congressional members in this plan and elimanating their special care. Ya I didn’t think so. If the social medicine works so well around the world, why do they keep coming to the US for care?
How many doctors will the US lose because of the pay?
Illegals, only have to go to the emergency room now to get free healthcare or anyone else for that matter. We as taxpayers pay for this! Insurance companies pay for abortions ( you share in the cost for it ). So those excusses doesn’t get it. We as tax payer have only one way out — that is for healthcare as we know it to change!! I would not call other industrializes nations as socialism — commuism! Just because they have a government run healthcare. We are the only industrializes nation to not do so, and it is costing us dearly. Please don’t buy into the insurance companies lies. THINK FOR YOURSELF!!!
It matters little what the President says about the proposed bill NOT for the
aliens here without being legal in our country, or that federal funds will not be
used to pay for abortions. The fact is the ACLU will take these issues to the
courts after the insurance bill passes and have the courts order these items
changed. Afterall, the Constitution and Bill of Rights do not apply only to U.S.
citizens but to all peoples within our boundries.
As for Sen. Joe Wilson and his outburst during the Presidential address, he is
probably in favor of the heathcare legislation as he did more, by his outburst,
to pass this bill than all the liberals in congress put together. Sad but true.
Wake up America! The government already pays 40% of the cost of medical care. Yet takes in no premiums to take care of this. We as tax payers, pay for this. The amount of people whom have insurance are dropping everyday —- the companies that we work for can no longer afford to pay the high cost of insurance(so they say). That means that the government will have to pick that up, there is no end in site! We as tax payers will have to take care of this. Wouldn’t it be better if the government was able to get some of it back in the form of a premiums for healthcare coverage. We as tax payers should QUIT following parties lines and start thinking for ourselfs!! After all the parties are not looking out for you. We may have insurance today but what about tomorrow, if the company you work for drops insurance coverage, could you afford to pay for it??? WAKE-UP AMERICA
On the get a job and get your own coverage idea; we have allowed a free market capitalism to over take some of our basic principals within the country (issues with monopolizing markets and driving out small businesses as one example) to the point we have companies free to go to the cheapest labor market no matter which nation that is, so just getting a job isn’t enough any more. How many decent paying jobs are in the area down there? I know in Charlotte about 40% of the architects are laid off, most for nearly a year, and I only know 2 people who have even gotten an interview. Most are trying jobs in restaurants and other service industries, and making less than they need to live on. The economy will eventually come back, but I’m afraid with our global market and our push for the cheapest price in the market we can get we have pushed most jobs overseas.
We are at this very time allowing China to take the lead in alternative energy systems while we continue to debate about drilling more off shore wells or drilling in a hostile environment in the arctic region. China has been producing solar panels for electricity at such a rate that they have drove the cost down by nearly 50%. If we don’t take a determined lead into the future of energy, we will get left behind; some historical scholars say one thing that did not allow the past empires to survive was their clinging to the energy type that made them strong allowing the next world power to capitalize on the next energy source.
So we want to avoid all social programs with health care: does that mean everyone agrees to end the social system for veterans and medicare? And there is that other socialist/communist program Social Security (most get out more than they put in, so it is a social program too) should be stopped too?
The bigger issue to me is not whether the fore fathers meant for such programs or their ideal was to be strictly adhered to for Thomas Jefferson (often quoted on the small government side) actually had the idea we would all be living in an agrarian lifestyle, which isn’t even logical today. How humane is our society when we have so many, mostly poor, and espeically women and children, falling through the cracks, and what about the abuse of the current system where insurance companies deny coverage, cut off coverage prior to full recovery or worse yet, drop people who need treatment. Our current system is anything but a pure free market system. We allowed our larger corporations to gain too much control on the markets they operate in (any farmers think Monsanto is working in their best interest by copyrighting seed and gaining a tight control on that market???) and now we have a society with a diminishing middle class, an enlarging of the lower class.
I think the health care plan may not be the most efficient plan (efficiency and fairness of coverage is another debate such as having fire and police services only in areas that can economically support them or full coverage with some areas being subsidized by the larger population areas) but do we remain the one of the worst countries in the industrialized world in health, along with quality of life and education?
Socialism….. Communism! — I agree!
We’re already paying for the people who don’t have or can’t get insurance now with sky high policy rates. And the rates will only get worse. I agree there has to be a more equitable way for Everyone to get health care, I just don’t know how it could or should be done.
Socialism….. Communism!
I have a really good health policy now, one that every doctor loves to take. There is a specialist that I go to that does not take Medicaid or some “lesser” insurance policies. If I want to see him, it takes 2-3 weeks to get an appointment. If we all have equal health insurance, how long will it take to get an appointment now that everyone can get in?
The Constitution guarantees all of us an equal opportunity, not equal outcomes; I wish that the “bleeding heart” liberals would get that fact straight! The mindset today is that if some poor soul can’t afford something, let’s just give them one. Where is the imteus anymore to get out there and work your tail off to improve your lot in life?
I do not see how it will be possible to do this health care reform/program and not raise our national deficit. The money needs to come from somewhere and it will come from other subsidized programs that are barely getting by as it is. I do not believe a word that comes out of President Obama’s mouth. And I totally believe that once he has sold the people on this idea and has signed the bill, he will change the guidelines, BUT it will be too late. In closing all I can say, is God bless America, PLEASE!
I’m with that senator Joe Wilson that yelled at him — YOU LIE!!!!
I think it is a good idea. I have a problem that costs about $200,000 a year, and everybody paid for my health insurance it would help. I can’t get a good insurance now because of my pre condition. I just have a crappy policy that pays a little bit. I had to file bankruptcy because I could not pay the hospital and drug store.
I get off my tail each and everyday to go work to get paid and get health insurance. Everyone else should get a job and get insurance.