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Obama may have to wait for health care passage

World Jul. 23, 2009 - 03:15AM JST ( 5 )

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WhiteHawkJul. 23, 2009 - 10:30PM JST

Obama may have to wait for health care passage

Good. It'll give him time to read the massive and unnecessary catastrophe.
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RomeoRamenIIJul. 24, 2009 - 12:42AM JST

Obama can't even get his health care bill passed with a House and Senate majority.

Looks like it's more difficult for Dear Leader to get Americans in step to march down the path to great and glorious socialism than he first imagined.
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WhiteHawkJul. 24, 2009 - 06:15AM JST

zurc, would you like to answer Senator DeMint's questions about Obama's health care plan, since Obama won't? It would give you a chance to contribute something relevant to this debate.

1. If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the rush to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit that you haven’t fully read yourself?

2. You have said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit. But, independent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office contradicts both claims, saying it will raise costs and increase the deficit by $240 billion in the first ten years. What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBO’s?

3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?

4. Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible, but this week you said that opponents of your plan are “content to perpetuate the status quo, [and] are, in fact, fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.” Which specific elected officials will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo, and is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 Blue Dog Democrats in the House and the moderate Democrats in the Senate?

5. Yes or no question: Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that, under your plan, they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions?
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hworta269Jul. 25, 2009 - 12:37AM JST

This bill will economically enslave Americans through the world's highest tax rates, put the private healthcare industry largely out of business or working for the government making penneys on the dollar they make now and a hundred million Americans would lose their current insurance and have to go on the government HMO which will suck. In glorious Europe people literally die waiting for appointments at their glorious state run hospitols wich by the way are running massive debts.