Privately, the White House anticipates health care reform will not be finished in time for President Obama's State of the Union address, scheduled for late January, early February. Bob Orr spoke with Politico's Health Care Editor, Craig Gordon. Plus; Unplugged Under 40.
The rich are the "nice".
Universal access to basic health care removes a burden from peoples lives and allows them more freedom to peruse their dreams.
megarational 2 years ago
The dead pay nothing. (referring to myself )
jsmythib 2 years ago
Wow I can get the rich to pay for me because I didnt try , or work hard enough! Thats great. I opt to sit on my ass and be supported by all the NICE people lol...what a joke...I choose option C- Void our government and rebuild it - It MUST be done.
jsmythib 2 years ago
Then, unless your are rich, you should favor the House version which finances more of the reform by tax on the upper income levels.
megarational 2 years ago
Take some hope from the fact that he is the only President ever to get even this far with health care reform, and the fact that he has always stated two of his governing principles: take the long view, and keep trying.
megarational 2 years ago
It seems that all of this stems from corruption of money- If our monetary system was sound - and it is most certainly NOT. We would not have most of the problems we do now. We would have been forced to make much better decisions. I do agree with you, although I think the problem starts a little lower than special interest/corporations etc- They are a symptom of the real distortion.
jsmythib 2 years ago
You are going to pay for health care whether you do it through private insurance premiums or taxes.
megarational 2 years ago
You'll never be able to limit their power or trust them until you remove the power of money over the election process & political system.
Good ideas: Publicly funded elections, a viable 3d party, & prohibit campaign contributions from corporations, unions, and deep pocket special interest groups. & find some way to curb deep pocket massive media propaganda campaigns, & somehow incentiviize news channels to provide unbiased meaningful analysis instead of just hyping controversy for ratings.
megarational 2 years ago
So the people that could not afford it before have less money now and there are millions more of them. Making a law to pay for something does not make that money appear in my pocket. I see pleasant changes to. The decimation of a ridiculously flawed system.
jsmythib 2 years ago
just in time to tax us with healthcare and cap and trade....oh and dont forget the hidden monetary easing tax! I cant blame all of it on Obama- But for someone who was going to fix everything he cant seem to do anything right. Im not leaving btw!
jsmythib 2 years ago