President's Weekly Address: Losing Insurance Can Happen to Anybody

[cal04]

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The President discusses a staggering new report from the Treasury Department indicating that under the status quo, around half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next ten years. He pledges not to allow this future to unfold: "In the United States of America, no one should have to worry that they'll go without health care – not for one year, not for one month, not for one day. And once I sign my health reform plan into law – they won't."

[msongs]

1. He's not gonna lose his effing tax payer funded welfare health insurance.....ever lol nt

[ipaint]

2. The new "the terrorists are gonna get you" only this time it's ins. companies

All that just to push through a massive giveaway to those same "terrorists" and keep the campaign cash flowing.

[Sky Masterson]

3. Maybe he is trying to get insurance to those who cant afford it.

I'm 43 and own a very small business and I'm uninsured.
This plan could help me a great deal.

[ipaint]

4. I'm 53 and have a very small business

and this plan won't help me one iota. I may have a little left over for my unsubsidized portion of the mandated part but that leaves me nothing for co-pays and deductibles. So I get to be poorer. And on the off chance my tiny business improves as we limp out of this depression in the next decade, every cent will have to be paid to insurance companies for overpriced bloated overhead, excessive profits and the money they need to buy off future democrats when the subject of further reform comes up.
So savings to get my teeth repaired...sorry the ins. vultures have first dibs on it, save a bit to help my kid with college expenses...sorry some corporate ceo has decided he needs that money, save to survive the next recession (6 since I was 18 and counting) sorry...the insurance vultures own it before it's even saved.

I am under no illusion the the middle class and their beautiful minds will ever wrap themselves around the idea that creating an ever increasing supply of wage slaves is not a very ethical or democratic ideal.

[Sky Masterson]

5. Hey I'm not in love with the bill or the public option either

I'd rather have single payer
I disagree that this plan will not help you or I one Iota.
Getting rid of caps and preexisting conditions alone would help millions of people.
Nothing is perfect but this bill is a place to start. It is something that can be built on and improved.
And if i can get coverage that i can afford out of it then it is a win win for me.

[ipaint]

6. I guess when folks like me say

I can't afford it, the middle class blinders go up.

My goodness, this bill isn't a start it's a finish, just like nafta and welfare reform.

Game over.

Let me know when the uninsured and underinsured, especially those whose lives are sacrificed to the corp ins. industry, are drawn from the "win, win for me" classes of society.

I won't hold my breath.

[Sky Masterson]

7. We shall see

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[ipaint]

8. You shall see, I do see. n/t

[Sky Masterson]

9. Good for you.

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[GivePeaceAchance]

10. I think the additon of WH.gov is good. A handy short url for people to remember...

basically he wants our input and to not lose touch with the elctorate. The right for 4-8 years will send him nonsense so who he really wants to hear from is those that elected him.