White House - "Putting Americans In Control of Their Health Care"

[TomCADem]

This is nice breakdown by the White House of what is in the bill. Still, don't be surprised by claims of death panels.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting

Over the past year the House and the Senate have been working on an effort to provide health insurance reform that lowers costs, guarantees choices, and enhances quality health care for all Americans. Building on that year-long effort, the President has now put forth a proposal that incorporates the work the House and the Senate have done and adds additional ideas from Republican members of Congress. The President has long said he is open to any good ideas for reforming our health care system, and he looks forward to discussing ideas for further improvements from Republicans and Democrats at an open, bipartisan meeting on Thursday.

The proposal will make health care more affordable, make health insurers more accountable, expand health coverage to all Americans, and make the health system sustainable, stabilizing family budgets, the Federal budget, and the economy:

•It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today. This helps over 31 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more.
•It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have.
•It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
•It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
•It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years – and about $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse.

[Clio the Leo]

1. kick and rec. NT

[IndianaGreen]

2. By keeping the blood sucking insurance industry in the game!

For a Democratic White House, this is as Orwellian as the crap we heard from the Bush White House.

[ProSense]

3. They were in the game for the top Democratic candidates, as none were advocating single payer. n/t

[IndianaGreen]

4. The two political parties are corporate whores at the expense of the people!

The power of the federal government will be used to force people to buy a defective product from the greedy health industry.

[ProSense]

5. Then stop pretending that all of this is a surprise. n/t

[cliffordu]

8. Blah de bla de blah de blah

300th verse, same shit as the first.

We got it. On to the next.

[TomCADem]

6. Romanticizing The Bush Years? Confusing Bush with Obama?

I don't know where to begin with these comparisons of Bush with Obama. They are just delusional.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Obama fits the Lyndon Johnson mold when it comes to warmongering

He could have cut and run, saving a lot of lives in the process, instead he chose to continue the senseless slaughter in Afghanistan.

When it comes to Obama's war dispatches, his rosy scenario about Afghanistan, he is no different from the Johnson White House before Tet of 1968.

[TomCADem]

10. We Are Extending Health Care Insurance To Afganistan?

I am trying to discern the relevance to the OP.

Or, are you just posting random attacks on President Obama? I just want to check.

[cliffordu]

11. Well....

:rofl:

[cliffordu]

7. That simply isn't true.

If you know that, stop.

If you don't know it, get a clue.

:hurts:

[Cha]

12. Rec~ It's going to be good help

to a lot of people and our economy..but, more importantly..saving lives.