Obama Urges Health Care System Overhaul

Pushing again to get the U.S. health care system overhauled, President Barack Obama is arguing that Americans must beware of 'fear tactics' that have killed such efforts in the past. (June 15)

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[BlackPantherChristie]

When you hear that 46 million people dont have health insurance, remember that this is technically correct but misleading. The more important question is, How many uninsured people need additional help from taxpayers? Health insurance competes with a limited pool of taxpayer funds. Just how much government debt does a president have to endorse before he's labeled "irresponsible"?

[moonphibes]

The plan may make you buy Insurance weather you want it or not. Could you go to jail if you don't buy it? When will they raise taxes on the middle class to pay for it? How about non-citizens? Should we distinguish between documented and undocumented non-citizens? Between those who pay taxes and those who do not? Remember that we are not talking about who should get emergency medical care, but instead who should get taxpayer subsidies to finance the purchase of pre-paid health insurance.

[robinhood2be]

US health system is ranked in the bottom 7 of all industrialized countries: Google it.Rush says nationalized Health care's Nazism. So Australia is Hitlerville for its Medicare system? Rush has demented logic.I've lived in Australia most of my life & it works.My autistic son would 't be the bright well adjusted boy he's today without it.As all people join it's cheaper & you get more than private.You can still go get private luxury extras if you want.Don't fear what you don't know.

[hellotommy]

Carol M. Browner, Obama's global warming czar (called Advisor now), was one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's "Socialist International" Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. The US economy is shrinking.

Obama takes Bush's inattention to the deficit to an art form. How can we pay for the Government to ruin healthcare?

Why is America ignoring this Marxist takeover?

[liveoutstanding]

The Pledge of Allegiance

I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[bishopm5]

No, I work for a living unlike 95% of the obama supporters that collect welfare checks from my taxes.

Also, My comment was directed to the clown that stated I worked at Walmart in which he didn't have a clue. So I don't know where you come in there on that.

As with most Youtube bloggers they don't a clue.

[ajack50]

one oof the reasons our schools are failing is the illigals in this country,we spend millions on educating non citizens,we print ballots in 10 languages,we let them utilize our emergency rooms and we are going bankrupt,just so libs can get their votes.

[ajack50]

if we had torte reform and competition across state lines we could insure all Americans,but these idiot libs want to insure illigal aliens because of the votes and nothing else,they are not compassionate they want to be re elected. leave our healthcare alone odumba!!

[onlyrey]

I would actually be very careful about health insurance companies not bankrupting a potential public option... look at it in this way, Medicare pays for the most expensive portion of the population (elder and handicapped) while insurance companies cherry pick and lemon drop from the healthy portion as they please. A public option insr. might end up with all the people that are rejected by private insurers; who are the most expensive and less likely to have resources...

[onlyrey]

There is no real competition because of a strange situation created by both insurance companies and hospitals. They both want to maximize profits at the expense of patients and tax payers. An operation that the hospital bills to you for 30K, insurance pays $10K for, same operation including profit in a European hospital is $5K. The insurance has a "network" discount of 66% that it uses to drive and new entrants competition out. If you go bankrupt (30K debt),the hospital gets the 30K from gov.

[92Looneytune]

Wait wait wait wait- what? Stop, backup, replay.

You are saying that because I am not respective of my income, that because I would rather waste it than save it, I am a "racist redneck scum."

Let me show you how absurd that sounds!

You are respective of your income. . . You teacher's pet insane goody two-shoes!