Town Hall Debate - Health Care: Should health care be tre...

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Question: Senator, selling health care coverage in America as a
marketable commodity has become a very profitable industry. Do you
believe health care should be treated as a commodity?


SEN. OBAMA: Well, you know, as I travel around the country, this
is one of the single most frequently asked issues that I get, is the
issue of health care.


It is breaking family budgets. I can't tell you how many people I
meet who don't have health insurance. If you've got health insurance,
most of you have seen your premiums double over the last eight years.
and your copayments and deductibles have gone up 30 percent just in
the last year alone. And if you're a small business, it's a crushing
burden.
So one of the things that I have said from the start of this
campaign is that we have a moral commitment as well as an economic
imperative to do something about the health care crisis that so many
families are facing. So here is what I would do.
If you've got health care already, and probably the majority of
you do, then you can keep your plan if you are satisfied with it. You
can keep your choice of doctor. We're going to work with your
employer to lower the cost of your premiums by up to $2,500 a year.
And we're going to do it by investing in prevention. We're going to
do it by making sure that we use information technology so that
medical records are actually on computers instead of you filling forms
out in triplicate when you go to the hospital. That will reduce
medical errors and reduce costs.
If you don't have health insurance, you're going to be able to
buy the same kind of insurance

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[bolt767]

Obama well be Jimmy Carter 2

[Kenyjacks]

When I look at McCain the words Old and Rickety come to mind. If Palin weren't his running mate I actually considered voting for him. But I'm deathly afraid of the Palin administration.

[shakabroma]

Neither candidate answered her question. Should it be a commodity? Insurance companies do nothing for humanity

[hadenufnow]

Kill the 3000 pg Illegal TAX & JAIL Trojan Horse Mandate Bill nobody wants..

Kill the bill..

Vote em out.

Nobody wants it..

[IBERJEN]

It's called work harder.......

[throwshoesatobama]

you have predicted right.

here it is 10 months later and Obama with his obama care plan is quickly becoming Carter 2. His ratings are dropping like this poop of a health care plan he is trying to crame down our throats.

[aviomaster]

60.000.000 at least . people do not have Health CAre Coverage ,, and they are financing F-22 which costs 200.000.000 $ ,,, Abolish Income tax , close all those bases around the world , shrink goverment , bring troops home , and tax Health Coverage. THaT is simple way.

[johnrehman]

I totally agree as an American!

[aviomaster]

Health CARE in USA ,,,  is bullshit .