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Dem Reps. Discuss Health Care

March 4, 2010 10:40 AM

Congressmen Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) spoke with Bill Plante about President Obama's final health care push.

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by stormerF2 March 5, 2010 12:42 PM EST
2700 pages are too much,We need reform and about 4 items in the reform,it amazes me that it takes so much crapola to get a few things. Pre-existing conditions covered,Mal-practice tort reform,affordable coverage for every American(by competition from insurance companies),Acceptable price controls for drugs,Doctors,and Hospital stays. We need to stop Emergency room visits,when no emergency exists,Or at least charge everyone who visits the Emergency room a $20.00 fee.
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by DirtyDaug March 5, 2010 4:12 AM EST
We need just 3 things for the health care and not 2000 pages of bullchit.
1. Price controls on healthcare charges from doctors, hospitals and insurance companys.
2. To be able to buy the healthcare from whoever you want to.
3. To be able to get insurance regardless of pre-existing health.

If an healthcare bill can't give this without adding lots of extras the have nothing to do with healtcare its no good.
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by DirtyDaug March 5, 2010 3:44 AM EST
At a time when our country is completely broke Obama keeps on with trying to get a health bill passed. He should be working in other areas like jobs for the american people, now is not the time for this health bill. There has got to be a reason for Obama wanting to get this health bill passed, its something else besides health that Obama has in store for the American people. I don't trust Obama and most of the people of the USA don't trust Obama. Nothing he has done so far has worked but only put American deeper in debt. Who is this guy that calls himself Barack Obama, nobody knows as he has hid every record he has and spent lots of money doing it.
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by peregrine3 March 4, 2010 11:41 PM EST
Stupek lives in a C st townhouse worth one point eight mill and it is written off as a church. He pays 600.00 a month and says he doesn't know who the landlord is; he doesn't know where the money goes. Someones keepin this boy and its more than likely its The Family. Now he has a secretive religious/political group subsidizing his rent and the taxpayers subsidizing his health care. I guess we shouldn't be surprised he cares not about health care and is an alter boy for secretive religous groups.
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by wjksea March 4, 2010 9:44 PM EST
While the american people bicker and divide over partisan politics this is the reality not shown on the cable news dog and pony shows. People are fools for paying big bucks for cable interrupted frequently by corporate advertising. Cable for profit television is mindless garbage and endless false fights and controversy amongst the plutocracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYX28kzc5U


The following link is insight into the political harm feared by the republicans should healthcare reform pass under the democratic party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSrH3UE7YEY

Politics is sport for some but real lives are being affected by a system dysfunctional for the american people and highly functional for global corporate governments.
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by lowiron321 March 4, 2010 9:38 PM EST
The Repubs are Whining to stop a bad package so we will not have to whine later about having to put up with a bad package. our best hope is to hear some brave Dems start whining also
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by rightbehind March 4, 2010 7:32 PM EST
Looks like stupuck lied. Nancy was correct. The references stupuck pointed out were researched and there is "no" federal funding for abortion. This guy is hiding behind the unborn to protect the phony baloney health care insurance market. That bill will help a lot of kids.
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by jschmidt27 March 4, 2010 6:25 PM EST
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2010/03/04/the-obama-health-reform-bills-dishonesty-on-cost.html

At his press conference yesterday, Mr. Obama claimed that "my proposal would bring down the cost of healthcare for millions?families, businesses and the federal government." He said it is "fully paid for" and "brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next two decades." Never before has a vast new entitlement been sold on the basis of fiscal responsibility, and one reason ObamaCare is so unpopular is that Americans understand the contradiction between untold new government subsidies and claims of spending restraint. They know a Big Con when they hear one.

Any bill that counts 10 years of taxes but only six years of spending as a way to bring down the deficit is dishonest. Hopefully enough congressional Democrats will vote against this and start the process over again, in a more fiscally responsible way. As Ryan said to the president, "[W]e are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of healthcare, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."
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by jschmidt27 March 4, 2010 6:25 PM EST
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2010/03/04/the-obama-health-reform-bills-dishonesty-on-cost.html

At his press conference yesterday, Mr. Obama claimed that "my proposal would bring down the cost of healthcare for millions?families, businesses and the federal government." He said it is "fully paid for" and "brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next two decades." Never before has a vast new entitlement been sold on the basis of fiscal responsibility, and one reason ObamaCare is so unpopular is that Americans understand the contradiction between untold new government subsidies and claims of spending restraint. They know a Big Con when they hear one.

Any bill that counts 10 years of taxes but only six years of spending as a way to bring down the deficit is dishonest. Hopefully enough congressional Democrats will vote against this and start the process over again, in a more fiscally responsible way. As Ryan said to the president, "[W]e are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of healthcare, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."
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by RatPackSixGun March 4, 2010 5:54 PM EST
This issue has become political suicide for the Democrats. Passing it is done with fear of being skewered in November, not passing it alienates and isolates those members from the party marching orders..and party favors.

It's too bad that with two separate wars, with Afghanistan now longer running than our WWII commitment, and the economic morass becoming more acute, that the DNC has somehow fallen prey to the pan-socialist, pesudo-utopian and historically deleusional pipedreams of the radical minority left.

Oh well, pendulums swing, but this time it's swung too far.
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