Obama Threatens Reconciliation On Health Care Reform
A simple majority could pass most of the health care reform bill in the US Senate. That’s a procedure often referred to as reconciliation. President Obama today made a veiled threat to use that process should Republicans not come up with a way of covering more Americans for health care. The GOP proposal covers 3 million Americans. The current house/senate bills cover 30 million Americans. The President mentioned a month or several weeks as a time line. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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The latest …
The latest Commonwealth Fund report — which used data from “nationally representative patient and physician surveys in seven countries in 2007, 2008, and 2009″ — again ranked the United States dead last, compared to Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
“The report looks at five measures of healthcare — quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the ability to lead long, healthy, productive lives.
All have national healthcare systems.
@captainkill1 …
@captainkill1 Reagan trippled the national debt trying to get us out of a recession that wasn’t half as bad as the one Obama was handed! Oh yeah…and Reagan used a teleprompter too as do most politicians. I wonder if Reagan would have taken on the entire Democrat Congress by himself unscripted (no teleprompter) at their party retreat dinner on national t.v. in 1982 only to make them look like mentally challenged jackasses! We all know Obama did that to the G.O.P. lol!
@thesketchydude118 …
@thesketchydude118
Since when is FREE means Better
@7bikerboy7 : your …
@7bikerboy7 : your kidding right? The best teleprompt reader ever maybe. Reagan was the “great communicator”. He also set people free. Obama just plays golf and basketball. idiot. He won’;t last another 4 years. Everybody knows that. Everybody’s at him.
What a Great …
What a Great speaker and communicator. The best there ever will be
@thesketchydude118 …
@thesketchydude118 Glad you are better.. We have communists and marxists in our government working with Obama on a regular basis and they are using the healt care to get control..they don’t give a crap about us..don’t be fooled.. I don’t have insurance but I would rather take my chances than be under a dictator..I have had thousands taken off my bill in past..Hospitals have a plan to help people that don’t have money…they helped me
@Myaka2001 you cant …
@Myaka2001 you cant comment on our health care if you dont live here and i strongly disagree american health care is failing you are the only civilized country on the planet that cheats your own citizens on healthcare. For example last year i shattered my knee and tore several tendons in the states that wouldve cost roughly 5000 dollars here in canada it was free i was in the hospital in a bout a week or so and im all better.
Canadian healthcare …
Canadian healthcare failing.,overcrowded and failing socialized medical system in their country they have set up private membership clinics where, for $2,000 a year, patients can access well staffed and equipped clinics and avoid the long waits and compromised care of the public system.
@breeze787 I will …
@breeze787 I will be grateful my business has picked up.
I site 15% because those are closer to reality than the U3 labour statistics the white house reports. U6 numbers are much higher as they also include people who are unemployed who have stopped looking for work.
In my state the U6 number is 19% in Michigan it’s much higher.
@poisonapple16
and …
@poisonapple16
and what does poison say when that unemployment figure of 9.9% goes down to a reasonable 6%? Or has Fox News got you to drink their whine?
Oh yeah, you’ve already drunken the kool aide because you site the 15% unemployment figure which includes unemployed prisoners, the mentally retarded, children not of age to work, retirees, those working getting paid under the table and those of us who can sit on our butt and mann youtube sites, like, like YOU who don’t wanna work!
@breeze787 Oh In …
@breeze787 Oh In confident in the US.
Only 2.5 more years and we can have some leadership.
Until then we will have to live with 15-20% unemployment.
@poisonapple16 …
@poisonapple16 typical right winged conservative radical republidunk response pulling the “hitler card”.
Here try this left wing, progressive response on for size. Employment rises in 34 states. We’ve had 3 consecutive positive GDP quarters. GM has $35 billion in the bank. Auto industry is rehiring laid off workers? Boeing putting a new 787 assembly plant in South Carolina. Pepsico Chief has great confidence in US Recovery and Ford and Apple are kicking ass! God Bless the USA you dipshit!
@sewagedweller It …
@sewagedweller It was in point form; just like the message you sent me.
Fuck are you retarded.
If you would like to address any of those points you are fre too; if you can.
Somehow I doubt it.
@plynth2 And that …
@plynth2 And that is why I said you’ve fabricated a straw man argument becuase I never said F&F had anything to do with the others. (Yet we all know the current state of the economy is due to many such incidents). So based on that you either are delusional or deliberately lying. I don’t care which, but you are done.
@poisonapple16 hmmm …
@poisonapple16 hmmm , have dropped out from middle school ? no one ever taught how to build paragraphs properly? i have no idea what you talking about , starting with introduction sentence will help getting message across .
you, who don’t even know basic economic theory shouldn’t teach anyone ,should learn instead .
@sewagedweller
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@sewagedweller
First: NOthing
Second: Yeah it’s not like Kaddafy surrendered his nukes or anything. Oh wait he did.
3rd: The chinese, the russains, and basically anyone else that has more than 300 jet fighters.
4th: What am I your teacher? You have to pay me you leech.
5th: So what? How hard is it to blow up a mountain and put it on a boat?
@poisonapple16 …
@poisonapple16 Regulated instead of strangled? Obviously.
@Darkrift777
The …
@Darkrift777
The point I was making was that F&F had nothing to do with the others and that the others were the bigger problem on their own.
Then two days ago I was compelled to post the following:
@Darkrift777 It was I who said “heaping money on the wealthy with tax cuts and deregulation hasn’t helped the middle class to grow.”, I never said you said that.
You have a proclivity to assume I am putting words in your mouth. I am doing no such thing.
@Darkrift777
I …
@Darkrift777
I have been honest in my arguments. It is just your perception that I have been twisting your words or have been dishonest. For example, a couple of days ago I asked, Tell me what F & F had to do with derivatives, credit default swaps, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros., Bear Stearns, and AIG? I assumed you would answer nothing. Instead, your reply was, Did I say Fannie and Freddie was connected to Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros or the others?
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@plynth2 Actually, …
@plynth2 Actually, your straw man arguments are trying to twist my words into something I am clearly not saying. I am sick of your liberal dishonesty. If you had watched the news clips regarding the F&F deregulation meeting of 2004 then you would have some idea of what I am talking about. But you don’t want to learn any different. I don’t have the inclination to keep repeating myself with you either. Have a great day!
@poisonapple16 Try …
@poisonapple16 Try talking to your other ball – it might be smarter.
@poisonapple16
I …
@poisonapple16
I guess you learned that in school.
@poisonapple16
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@poisonapple16
You have a nice little ideology going for yourself there. The bad and stupid get punished and the smart and good thrive. Yeah, right.
To discuss only the investors fits nicely into your Pleasantville world. My world is aware that investors can take down the financial system which affects innocent, good, smart, people who lose their jobs, their savings, their homes and with it goes their hopes for their kids to go to college, or to pay for medical care.
@plynth2 And I …
@plynth2 And I disagree. Banks need to be regulated, not strangled.
@plynth2 It’s like …
@plynth2 It’s like I am conversing with one of my balls.
Hundreds of millions of investors would be affected; that’s how the game is played.
If you want your money secured there ia a money market account for that. IF you are going to risk your money in the market or in a fund that participates in the market you may lose it.
That’s the free market.
Don’t they teach you kids this in school?
If you want your money to grow it requires risk. The more risk, the more it will grow.