Obama hosts health care forum

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President Obama opened the doors to the White House today to discuss how to fix the worlds costliest health care system. More than a 100 people from both sides of the aisle convened, including doctors, patients, insurers and business owners. The summit focused on reducing and containing costs while expanding coverage. In his opening remarks, Obama said that in order to create jobs and rebuild our economy, we must address the crushing cost of health care. The U.S. spends $2.4 trillion a year on health care, yet an estimated 48 million Americans lack coverage. The president added that making investments in reform now wont add to budget deficits in the long term but is one of the best ways to reduce them.

Keeping his focus on the issue of health this week, Obama announced his picks to lead his health care team. He nominated Kathleen Sebelius, the governor of Kansas, to lead the Health and Human Services Department. Nancy-Ann DeParle has been selected to lead the Office of Health Reform. Deparle was a part of the Clinton presidency, working in the Office of Management and Budget and the Health Care Financing Administration. Sebelius has been a strong supporter of universal health care and was Kansas insurance commissioner before she became governor seven years ago. Obama had originally chosen former Senator Tom Daschle to cover both positions tapped by Sebelius and Deparle, but withdrew his name from consideration over tax issues.

In a visit to the U.S. this week, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the world is facing an economic hurricane that can only be addressed by global cooperation. Brown met with President Obama at the White House where Obama assured him that the special relationship between the two countries was as strong as ever. They agreed that a joint effort to tackle the economy is required. The Prime Minister also spoke to a joint meeting of Congress and outlined measures to reignite financial growth. He called for global rules and standards for accountability and transparency that would apply to banks everywhere. Lawmakers like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell responded to Browns address saying he posed an interesting question about how far international cooperation could go, but added that the U.S. is working on its own economic problems now.

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[missantiquetractor05]

woooah. what an idiot!

[TranceID99]

Oooooh it must be soooo nice to live in RepuKKKe fantasy land: "we didnt have problem with the economy before the marxist took the house"

And BTW, you LOST two wars, Obama is gonna win them.

Were WMD ever found in Iraq? No

Was Bin Laden killed?? NO!!!

PWND!!!!

Bush was a moron incompetent president.

We will take care of you with universal health care, but if you FEEL like that is stealing from you, ALL THE BETTER. Unhappy repuKKKes/racists, theres NO thing bad about that!!!!

[cman152cman]

yea you have no sence at all. Under bush we won the 2 wars witch obama is fucking up, we didnt have problem with the economy before the marxist took the house and senate over dumbass. Tell one thing obama has done good. o you cant ha ha stupid lib

[TranceID99]

this type of moronic reply is why u lose elections ....

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[papp531]

you really need to go bury your head in shit!

[papp531]

what a dirtbag!

[TranceID99]

cont;d

3. Oh wait, now you gonna tell me that very soon you TOO will be a millionaire, so you're just protecting your future earnings? Yaaaaah RRight.

Even if, are you gonna be such a lousy millionaire that you can't even spare the extra 3% for your fellow Americans? Oh wait, you worked SOOOO hard for that 3% so you just can't let it be taxed? Right? With Americans like these, we don't need enemies.

RepuKKKes are TRAITORS, the lot of them!

Its always ME-ME-ME first, country third. Or fourth.

[TranceID99]

What I wanna know is why poor whites wanna protect the taxcuts of the superrich:

1. Trickledown is not gonna happen, hasn't happened in the last 30 years. Only time of prosperity was UNDER FUKKEN BILL CLINTON.

2. it makes no sense for the rich to invest in america, so they invest in China. jobs buh bye!

3. Oh wait, now you gonna tell me that very soon you TOO will be a millionaire, so you're just protecting your future earnings? Yaaaaah RRight.

Even if, are such a lousy millionaire that ....

[TranceID99]

Yah, it's widespread in repuKKKe circles, like yours. Bush completely fucked this country up, he made you take it up the ass for 8 years and yet you feel the need to defend him and Palin?? Just coz some imaginary babies gets saved.

That's repuKKKes for ya:

Their willing to kill while your in the womb, but as soon as your out, you can rot in hell for all they care.

And yes we are very happy with Obama. Better that than the huge shame you feel when you see $aranarah palin!

[papp531]

Do you know how to read and absorb what your reading?Read your Messiahs own books then come back to defend him or join him?at least we will know what your all about!!