Obama announces Climate Change Accord

Over the past few decades, there has been an intense struggle in Washington between the lobbyists for the insurance industry and the interests of the American people over what has been called a Patients Bill of Rights a set of rules to protect Americans from some of the worst practices of the health insurance industry; rules to ensure that all Americans are getting the care they need from their doctors and the care they deserve from their insurance companies.

The last time a Patients Bill of Rights was within reach was roughly a decade ago, and it was supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, from Ted Kennedy to John McCain. It included the right to an appeals process so you could challenge an unfair decision by an insurance company before a third party. It included the right to choose your own doctor. It included the right to access information about what your health insurance plan means for you. And it called for a new level of transparency so that patients would know if their doctors had a conflict of interest when providing services.

Now, this Patients Bill of Rights never made it into law. It fell victim again and again to the same special interest lobbying that has blocked passage of health insurance reform for so many decades. But today, we are being given another chance to make it a reality, because each of these rights, and many more, are incorporated in the health insurance reform bill that recently passed the House of Representatives and in the bill that is currently making its way through the Senate.

Both the House and Senate bills would make it against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition or illness. Both would stop insurers from charging exorbitant premiums on the basis of age, health, or gender. Both would prevent insurance companies from dropping your coverage when you get sick. And both would put a limit on how much you have to pay out of pocket for the treatments you need in a year or lifetime.

Simply put, the ... Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[IntrepidGizmo]

Global Warming is a Lie !

[mark206778]

Thanks to all who put this child in office this boy is a disaster waiting to happen.He has made a fool of himself and our country.

[KeithTruth]

He's the annointed one? Who is he annointed by?

[1curt12]

a safer planet would be eliminating the us govt, who died and made them king shit. there economy is dieing so they create bs to gain controll, its all about controll. lets get of the side lines and overthrow the us govt, impeach them all. their self destuctive qualitys are killing millions of innocent ppl.

[civonamzuk]

Unfortunately, he is not a child... He's an obedient servant to the shadow world government (illuminati), witch is even more scarier, is it not?

[2Cremes1Sugar]

These "major economies" must be those "forty nations ready to roll, son!" "Like who?" "Like who? Who da f*&k said dat?" "...we got angland. Japan's sending play stations. Rigiddy Row is coming. Africabambod and the Zulu Nation."

If you're wandering what babbling is referring to, watch "Black Bush," a sketch by Dave Chapelle. This speech made me think of that.

[donohuee]

McCain would've been worse, don't kid yourself.

[eratsdrhode]

@southcarolinagirl09

If the world can be convinced that there is someone better to do such a job. I don't think there could be anyone better.

[eratsdrhode]

@evangrogers

Yeah, but you can't physically look at polluted air like you can a bag of garbage. If it was that easy they would have already done that. You simply can't track pollution very easily.

[SepticProductions]

OBAMA IS THE NEW MESSIAH!!!!

[chewbaca1989]

$cam going foreword. Privately funded for now (*via bank bailouts).

FIGHT LOCALLY, SCREW THE BUREAUCRACIES!