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  • LOL...OWNED

  • DON'T TOUCH MY MEDICARE!!!!

  • @KnifeSniper69 dont touch my medicare = means i dont want a black guy in the white house

    in the old days whites were not cowards to say the nigga word now they use code words lol

  • I loved watching the DOW go down while he was talking. I'm sure they were in no way correlated, but it made me laugh.

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  • GITMO still open, Don't ask don't tell still in effect and more troops killed in war than during Bush term and tripled the debt in 2 years to 14 trillion dollars Good Job Obama!

  • There is just honestly no defense for a comment like that. None. Republicans honestly do not know what they actually believe in because they consistently contradict their "beliefs" over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. I can't emphasize that enough! Honestly I really really can't.

  • hw ia MOEON REPUBLICANS WANT to do away with medicare

  • "Lets go and protest Socialism, but first I have to get my Medicare Card and Social Security Check." - A Tea Partier...

  • @bigjoshjames Because they don't know what it means. So, they just listen to what politicians tell them. It's quite funny because there are a lot of government programs that are socialistic, and there is nothing wrong with that.

  • @KDALove I know... and they say they "hate" politicians, but not the ones they support... even though the ones they support lie to them more then the politicians they supposedly don't support. GOD! LOL... it's such a vicious circle it's pathetic.

  • The lack of regulation and a government run system pretty much let insurance/health care companies run wild with their prices. A few hours at a doctor visit (most of the time spent waiting on the bed) costs enough to buy a used car. There is something seriously wrong with the system we have here and yet people are so into this "socialism" crap they don't see their own money being siphoned out by corporations.

  • Maybe Obama associating his program with Medicare isn't such a good idea. Medicare and the other entitlements are going to KILL this country's budget ... and Obama wants to emulate it (or something like it) for everybody? It's a shame that Obama can successfully use that woman's error to cover up his own.

  • NO GUBMINT RUN H'CARE. NO STALIN-HITLERCARE. Haha. These people are retarded. President Obama is right.

  • He's a genius

  • If you say so, duramax24. But at least he can spell "douche" properly, so I'd rather have him in the Oval Office than your ignorant ass.

  • He's not a moron, he's right.

    Medicare is a government run program. Always has been, always will be.

  • @xrockerchique17 A government program that is FAILING!!!!!! Medicare is a black hole, people put in tax money into Medicare and it turns into a mountain of debt.

  • He is not poking fun at-- this is an rediculous biased heading.

  • Moran.

  • whats a moran?

  • "Poking fun"? That's incredibly restrained. The lack of this kind of diplomacy is exactly why I could never be a politician.

  • Yours was better than mine...lol

  • The illegals alresdy get free care. We pay with our insurance money. Why do you think an aspirin is 20$?

  • that is so not true it costs that much bcuz thats what pharma companies set the price as not what the gov. sets the price as. As of now the cost of asprin or insurance has nothing to do with gov. it has to do with the insurance companies charging u whatever they want. Illegals do not get free health care either & they wouldnt get the nationalized healthcare it they are not citizens

  • Well there wouldn't be anything to poke fun at if these people weren't complete idiots.

  • Here's where the competition comes in play between an insurance company and the public option. A company in which you receive healthcare benefits through insurance companies will realize that the public option is a whole lot cheaper (which is apparently is what the white house is claiming) so obviously they are going to start putting people on that program rather than through an insurance company.

  • The problem with the public option is that when the government gets involved and competes with businesses, they are always going to be the ones who will be victorious because you can't compete with taxpayer money and more printed money. And that's what they public option is designed to do is to bankrupt the insurance companies, WHY? I'm not sure, why don't you ask GM or several banks that were bailed out, they are controlled by the government. Why do you trust the government as a business?!

  • They can compete if they decide to not use sick people for profit.

  • They aren't using them, they are putting them on a different program, which by the way is funded by your taxes even if you aren't on the healthcare program.

  • No I'm saying that private health insurance could compete with the public option if they decided not to profit off of sick people. Insurance companies are ran for profit. They are not run to make sure everyone gets the treatments they may need. This is why we need to reform health care so badly. As the rates keep going up people are getting less coverage.

  • @taylor22222222 Because the USA spends far more per person on healthcare than countries with government-run systems, for results which are no better. That's why.

  • This is because when you have these asinine restrictions where Capitalism cannot function properly in a Capitalistic system it's only common sense that things are going to go horribly wrong. When doctors and insurance companies simply cannot compete (which they don't compete across state lines, and some even more locally) it's almost like a monopoly they have a price control...to some extent. That's what needs to be fixed in our healthcare system, not continue doing what we've been doing to it.

  • @taylor22222222 Sorry, but all the free competition in the world can't fix the problem of adverse selection. If you're truly interested in pooling risk then an unregulated market cannot do it. And the government can do it, for much less money.

  • How is the government going to do that with no money?Our government is so far buried in debt and one day we are going to eventually have to pay it back right, or is that something we just don't do anymore, you tell me.The way our economic system was set up was to get government out of the private sector, not back into it.If Capitalism is limited in a Capitalist-based economic system, then it will fail, and it has been. 17th, 18th and most of the 19th century were great, why isnt that so anymore?

  • @taylor22222222 OK that's another good question, but if you think about it, if the country *as a whole" spends less on healthcare to achieve the same result, that has to be better for bringing down the debt, right?

  • @Kavafy It's funny that nobody ever talks about our quality heathcare, despite the price, not cost...Because according to the National Intelligence Cancer Center of the UK and the Canadian Cancer registry (who everyone is comparing our system to) you have a less chance of survivability and success from a treatment if you get skin cancer, then you do in the US. And it's the same for breast cancer, kidney cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, leukemia...the list goes on and on.

  • @taylor22222222 They don't talk about it the WHO ranked the USA 37th in the world for its health system. The UK ranked 18th. If you spend more than twice as much per person and get that kind of outcome, your system needs reform.

  • What country are you trying to compare the US to then exactly? Everywhere I hear people debating and arguing about our healthcare system (which is broken, I know that) everyone is comparing us against either the UK or Canada. And what sort of rating is this system you're referring to, is it cost-wise, efficiency, survivability and success rates, what exactly is this system rating?

  • @taylor22222222 Good questions! I'm not trying to compare the US to any one particular country. I'm just saying that the US system performs worse than *many* developed countries with socialised systems. Not only that, but the US spends *much* more per person! Any capitalist could tell you that's poor value for money!

  • @taylor22222222 And for the information you asked for: for some reason YouTube won't allow me to post links, but Google "world health report rankings" and the first result that comes up is the one you want. You can see countries ranked by various indicators. I hope that helps. Otherwise there's the WHO's own website of course!

  • I remember when Obama made a similar joke about his so called "Stimulus" plan....people were concerned about his out of control spending and he quipped, "What do you think a stimulus plan is"..

    REALITY is there was no stimulus legislation....as less than 10% has been spent....How can you "stimulate" the economy with a stimulus plan that doesn't spend money?

    Obama's own words, betray him!

  • You know. YOU HAVE NOTHING ABOUT OBAMA TO HATE HIM. YOUR JUST A STINKIN REPUBLICAN. THAT WANTED SOMEONE ELSE

    NO ONE

    ON THIS EARTH

    CAN BE FREAKING HAPPY

    NO ONNNNNNE...

  • Have you ever considered that maybe the *proper* limitation of government can ensure that everyone can be freer?

  • The dow went from 6400 to 9100+ w/in 6 months of Obama being elected, whilst being in the worst economic downturn since the great depression, gareyt17.

    the stimulus worked. Give it up.

  • Oh, really. Well, the last time I checked the unemplyment rate is steadily increasing and the economy all throughout the US still sucks.

  • Yeah, I'm sure the stock market represents our whole economy. LOL!!!!!!!!!

  • I had to go to the ER a few weeks ago due to a sudden irregular heartbeat and nausea with no known history of heart problems, just to make sure it wasn't serious. I don't do drugs or anything so I wouldn't expect that.The cost for my 5-hour stay where I saw a doctor for perhaps 5 minutes? $10,000!!!! They charged over $800 for a ECG! Hundreds more for "checkups" (nurses taking my blood pressure every hour or so) and other ridiculous items!

    WHOO INVISIBLE HANDS! UNREGULATED MARKETS HELL YEAH!!

  • I broke my collar bone 2 yrs back. It cost over $6000 for a few hours in the emergency room. As the evening progressed, I told them that my insurance was running out at midnight (absolutely true). They had me out the door in a half an hour after the past 2 hours of me just sitting around. The prospect of them not getting their money suddenly lit a fire under them. Sidenote: my expensive treatment culminated in them handing me a sling for my arm, something I came in the hospital wearing.

  • There is a great article in the Washington Post [on July 31st] about Doctors and their unnecessary tests.

    These Doctors are just robbing us blind.

    The "nonpartisan, independant" research firm [Lewin Group] being cited by the GOP during the Health Care debates, is owned by Health Insurer UnitedHealth, so you'll have to be dumb and blind to believe what they are saying.

    On July 22nd, the Washington Post had a good article on their association.

    Only the GOP will use this data.

  • aaa1232123, You're lying through your teeth if you think we have a free, unregulated healthcare market.

  • Of course people that have medicare are happy with it -- but how about those who don't?

  • You sir, are too light on the intelligence

  • And George "Dubya" was a fucking Rocket Scientist?

  • Yea when you privatize you get people like Halliburton employees charging me $7.50 for a soda in Iraq and pharmaceutical companies charging my grandmother $345 for her heart medicine.

  • MSNBC would be a godsend for you

  • And besides, if you invest wisely and pay attention to the market, you'll be smart enough to take your money out after having invested your payroll tax for 20 or 30 years before a financial meltdown! You're not gonna just sit by like a bump on a log dumbass.

  • Of course, the anti-privatization people will use fearmongering about the market and say "Well, what if they had their pensions in stocks during the financial meltdown? they'd lose their money." As if GOVERNMENT doesn't have any financial problems?? They're running FUCKING HUGE deficits and national debt, you blind fucks. SS is almost bankrupt, so to speak. They'll comprise a good portion of that $50 Trillion fiscal gap. How's that any better for our financial situation? It hurts us all.

  • 'Well, what if they had their pensions in stocks during the financial meltdown? they'd lose their money'

    That's not fearmongering, mate, that's common sense.

  • Now it's time to poke fun at the "don't touch my social security" folks. Make them save for retirement, as is the sensible way to go. I'm tired of them mooching off working taxpayers, and few people protest because they'll get their own SS eventually. "You paid into it" is the silly argument some use, as if SS is voluntary. Obviously we're FORCED through taxes to 'pay into' it.

    Privatizing SS was the absolute right way to go, but it was blocked several years ago. what a fucking pity.

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  • To an extent Medicare is govt run health care but irony has nothing to do with people not wanting the government to run all aspects of ones healthcare. Medicare is offered to people who are 65 and older or meet special criteria. Perhaps you shouldnt call others stupid when your own argument is, ironically, the same.

  • Not to an extent, Medicare is run by the government. Period. It either is or it isn't. And "not wanting the government to run all aspects of ones healthcare" wasn't the argument that was being made. The argument was she didn't want government run healthcare when she's on medicare which is government run healthcare. She's not making your argument she just doesn't know the difference and is opposing blindly. And your argument doesn't hold up either because if you like your plan you can keep it.

  • @xBlasian86x Your the idiot, Bozo. Obviously you are in the minority if you think this will fly.

  • @Bucfever40 Yes... I'm the idiot. I'm the idiot yet you don't know the difference between "your" which shows possession, and "you're" the contraction which you should have used.

  • @xBlasian86x That's right, "your" shows possession, and you possess idiocy!

    And if you want to get technical and split hairs over grammar, let's observe a sentence from the post I responded to...."And your argument doesn't hold up either because if you like your plan you can keep it." Seems like simple punctuation 101 learned in the 3rd grade, but you should have a comma (,) after the words medicare, either, argument AND plan. One mistake is understandable, but four? Bravo Einstein!

  • @Bucfever40 Touche Michael Alstott. I'm done debating this issue. You responded to a post I made a year ago. Universal Health Care & the Public Option both did not pass. It's kind of pointless to talk about it now. There are truths to both sides on this issue. You may know the difference but a lot of people who were opposing Gov't run healthcare were on medicare themselves.

  • @xBlasian86x You know something, your right...it was over a year ago, and I too sometimes get angry post from something I've long forgotten about, so discussion closed, and the fact that your response was pretty cordial, shows me I'm not dealing with the typical You Tube knucklehead that just wants to out-insult me, so gloves off, and lets just agree to lookout for the betterment of this country. And since your the only one that's figured out what my username means, I gotta give ya some props.

  • How 'Presidential' of him

  • You can't read the whole bill because they aren't going to finish writing it until it's passed. Contains "stubs" to be filled out later.

    What's been written so far indicates it will drive private insurance companies out of business.

    Unprecedented gov't access to your information.

    People above a certain age will have to receive "death with dignity" counseling every five years to keep their coverage. "Feel free to die off gramps, and save us the money."

    Soylent Green is people.

  • And you're full of it.

  • People who think this government-run healthcare program will be other than a costly fiasco, with inefficient rationed care, are misled for this reason: they take all the promises at face value.

    Has Obama: Ended the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Closed Guantanamo Bay? Decreased the national deficit? Expelled the lobbyists? Stopped warrantless wiretaps? He promised all these things, and did none of them.

    If the Democrats get their way, your taxes are going up, and the economy's going down.

  • Hey, Obama, I read the damn bill, did you get around to it? Liar, liar, mom jeans on fire!

  • i bet half that shit didnt even get read

  • Anti

    Christ

  • You're

    Nuts.

  • I wonder if all the ignorant hillbilly's would like to forfeit their Medicare and Social Security because they are socialist programs?

    What a bunch of idiots!

  • You have a choice, so stop pretending you don't.

  • you sound like that lady in the letter...

    you want choice... but you don't want more competition. You can still keep what you have... and those who want to switch to a cheaper plan, they'd be free to do so... whether it's private or public.

  • how ironic, the idiot complaining about socialized medicine doesnt even know medicare is a form of socialized medicine funded by a ponzi scheme on the american people.

    This is what you get from listening to talk radio all day.

  • I really feel like Pres. Obama has a wall of bullshit to deal with and for the most part he deals with it well.

    Having said that I just wanted to make the off topic remark that I think he's hitting the Just For Men because he looks years younger w/o all the gray. I like both salt and pepper Obama and just pepper Obama.

  • go get a life....

  • A leading psychiatrist says that webxsuccess is a fucking douche.

  • You heard it here, folks. A leading psychiatrist says so! He leads through anonymity, for to reveal his identity would be unreasonable!

  • People who'd rather put their trust in innuendo, rumors, unreliable factoids, and distortions of the truth deserve to be made fun of, because they clearly exercise selective hearing, and don't have the ability to get over their prejudices. I don't know how many times the President will have to repeat this very simple statement he made on the video so people can get it through their thick skulls...

  • Calm down, buddy. Enough with the labels.

  • They are mostly true, especially the lobbyist part.

  • No labels are true except those of classification. For example, "president." Obama is the president of the United States. That's a factual label.

    All others are those of opinion. They don't improve debate and they make the labeler look petty. Let's not act like children.

  • He took "donations" from health insurance companies and now the health care bills from congress suck a lot since Obama is letting the lobbyists write them. I think it is appropriate and unchildish to call him a lobbyist slave.

  • Because "slave" is a mature opinion? No. Grow up.

  • You are right Mr. Obama apologist let me rephrase that.

    Obama is influenced by the private insurance lobby too much and Obama himself is just as conservative as a moderate Republican.

  • I'm not defending anyone. I'm criticizing you for throwing around meaningless labels that bring down the level of debate. It's as enlightened as pointing fingers. Again, grow up.

  • damnit can we drink this beer already...

  • I feel sorry for Obama, having to deal with this bullshit.

  • hey can you get me an invitation for 133 C St. SE how much you guys pay rent there .saw a some putan going in there mmmm .doesnt the Senator for Oklahoma (Rep) tom coburn live there .need to pay him a visit and steal a beer from his fridge hahaha

  • republicans opposed social security opposed civil rights legislations opposed Medicare all things that we accept now as popular programs as things that had to be done in this country.. dont republicans want to get ahead on this issue .look back on this issue 20 years from now and say that they are in the right side of history for once?

  • If America lets Obama socialize medicine where will all the Canadians go?

    Can you believe Omoron stated today that we can enjoy our healthcare in our golden days. Have you read HR3200 pgs. 425-430? Its Soylent Green, so much for those Golden days.

  • Our government can't run social security, can't run medicare, can't run a quasi-federal postal service, can't run FEMA, and a host of other failing bureaucratic messes. We want these knobs to run healthcare now by creating a medicare-like system that is much larger than the one they can't manage now. This will work great. I am sure that they can even cut enough benefits from existing healthcare to cover the new cost. Right!?

  • OMG he's on the jerry springer set!

  • GROW SOME BALLS OBAMA! SINGLE PAYER!

  • It's amazing how we get incensed; sometimes I want to shout too...

    Now on what we all agree: as an American, I want all my fellow citzens to be healthy and afford good health care.

    So our task is: finding a way of making this happen. Pointing out how it won't work is not help!

    ¿xenos? the mutant

  • Love is the ultimate weapon, It can tear evil down and build civilizations up, Jesus did it..He Tore Evil Rome Down slowly and Built a Loving city after, sadly tho man corrupts what he began but that does raise the question what was Jesus? J F Kennedy ,,M. L King... Obama.....hahaha the truth

  • Reversed restrictions on stem cell research

    Appointed an assistant to the president for science and technology policy

    Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners

    Expanded loan programs for small businesses

    Extended and indexed the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch

    Expanded eligibility for State Childrens Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)

    Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners

  • Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq

    Sent two additional brigades to Afghanistan

    As promised gave a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration

    Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba

    Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program

    Released presidential records

    Now requires new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions

  • Created a White House Office on Urban Policy

    Supported increased funding for the NEA

    Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps

    Worked to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear

    Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees

    Pledged to weatherize 1 million homes per year

    Invested in all types of alternative energy

    Enacted tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars

  • From 0:15 to 0:20, he had the Ali cadence less the Louisville accent.

  • IIIJHUSSLEIII oh yea he did that in six months ...but its good stay asleep ....I been awake since a employee from Halliburton sold me a soda for $7.50 while I was in Iraq... its all about greed.....here some more stuff you can reply to ha-ha and there is still more to come we just started hahaha just let me know when you want me to stop the truth because you cant hold a candle to it.

  • ill say it again, this videos speaks volumes of the mindset of most "stupidly" acting americans that cant see their dick for their big ass dumb nose

  • After that letter, I guess Bll Maher was right....Americans are Stupid.

  • Look at the Background. It looks like he is in a comedy club.

  • It does kinda look like he's doing stand up just from that clip.

  • lol the brick background does it

  • Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors

    Confined interrogation techniques to those in the Army Field Manual

    Ordered a review of auto emissions standards.

    Met with GOP leaders of both Houses of Congress to improve the stimulus package.

    Did an interview with Al Arabiya TV, improving our reputation in the Arab/Muslim world.

    Called every leader in the Middle East.

    is this shit spam or what hahaha ..

  • (My bad on the typing skills... I was typing real fast!!)

  • Ordered a review of auto emissions standards.

    Met with GOP leaders of both Houses of Congress to improve the stimulus package.

    Did an interview with Al Arabiya TV, improving our reputation in the Arab/Muslim world.

    Called every leader in the Middle East.

    Named George Mitchell special envoy to the Middle East. Mitchell is already on the scene.

    Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors

  • As promised appointed at least one Republican to the cabinet

    Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspended taxes on these benefits.

    Won approval of the second $350 billion *before* taking office.

    VP Biden already made his first foreign trip *before* taking office.

    Ordered the closing of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

    Ordered a pay freeze of his top staff.

    onfined interrogation techniques to those in the Army Field Manual

  • oh IIJHUSSLEII you forgot that he also

    Ordered stricter controls on lobbyists in government.

    Ordered compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.

    Got most of his cabinet confirmed.

    Made family planning advice more available to women in Africa.

    Met with top business leaders, who endorsed his plan.

    Geithner put limits on lobbying from bank who receive TARP money .

    Signed equal pay legislation

    Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes

  • Please, for the love of God, give us a Canadian-style healthcare system.

  • Great talking point. I love how he pointed out the medicare woman's idiocy in it. What's even more ironic is that that is the typical conservative opinion on healthcare that you hear..lol

  • COOL STORY BRO

  • COOL STORY BRO

  • I think you're onto something MrHelldogger.

    Dope, booz, and pussy is JUST like a middle-age woman suffering from cancer, and going into extreme debt due to high medical costs...

    *slow clap*

  • What kind of a retard would compare the need for health care to dope, booze, and pussy?

    You, stupid, STUPID motherfucker!

  • an oxycontin addict with a porn addiction.

    Rush Limbaugh, is that you? lol

  • when you comment, my BS detector goes off.

  • Then you should probably recalibrate it.

  • but it just went off again! ;-)

  • LISTEN UP

    Without health care, no LIFE.

    Without health care, no LIBERTY.

    Without health care, no HAPPINESS.

    REAL PATRIOTS support Universal Health Care!!

  • Great Comment

  • thx! :-D I think it really clarifies the issue.

    Feel free to cut n paste it wherever!

    it's a good quick retort to all the lies & propaganda going around.

    Conservatives r always wrapping themselves in the flag. Let's make them live up to their rhetoric, or expose their hypocrisy.

    WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

  • Yeah lets retort these lies!@

  • Not really... its an anecdote.

  • he shoots, he scores!

    ;-)

  • Don't turn my medicare into socialized medicine!!!

  • dont touch my healthcare plan. its very naughty of you to do that!

  • Is it just me, or does the President look like he's doing stand-up comedy???

    that brick wall behind him doesn't help...

  • This is stand up.

    The emotional and intellectual level of discus some places in this country is a joke

    faux news and Palin?

  • stop fondling my Medicare. Stop it!

  • lol

  • Well said Obama its pitifull to watch these idiots suck up the politics bullshit, fed to them by corporations, and blindly support shit that hurts them.

    Why the fuck would you not want health reform. its so fucking stupid not to want to pay less

  • "...can't sort out the myth from the reality."

    More like can't HEAR the TRUTH from the DIN of the BULLSHIT WE ARE IMMERSED IN DAY AFTER DAY!

    Keep denouncing the Un-American Propagandists of the Rightwing Talk-show "Infotainment" industry!

    Fascist media Multinationals like NewsCorp have destroyed the ability of an "Informed Electorate" to effectively Govern Ourselves...and for what? Viewer share and Advertising Profits?...!!!

  • lol - People are so blindeed by ideology, they can't see what's right in front of their noses.

  • sorry but um, he was dead on there. the simple fact is that if you want to piss off old people, mess with ther