Obama Strikes Back

With growing opposition and increased tensions mounting at town hall meetings, President Obama spoke out in an effort to defend his healthcare reform proposals. Chip Reid reports.

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[Cidique]

I simply can't believe USA is so scared of a government-based healthcare system. Why? Denmark has one of the worlds best healthcare systems in the world, and is funded by esentially the taxpayers.

How is it a bad thing, that if you get sick, and a healthcare company denies you aid, you won't end up without any of help? How?

It saddens me, that Americans work against this so vividly, yelling "Socialist commie!" How's socialism bad?

[dkkght46]

Obamanomics: The federal deficit climbed higher into record territory in July, hitting $1.27 trillion with two months remaining in the budget year.

July deficit totaled $180.7 billion, more than 177.5 billion economists had expect. The imbalance will total $1.84 trillion, more than four times last year's record-high.

Obama owns it!

[LordKaisen]

Every business exec or doctor I've heard about explains that the program would actually be beneficial and save the nation some bank. So either someone is outright lying here or nobody wants to hear the truth.

[richiefranklin76]

There were just as many paranoid Conservative retards back in the early nineties as there are today.

Hell I'll bet you idiots were screaming about Socialism all the way back when the Government ended racial segregation.

Or when those sickening bastard Liberals pushed for *Gasp* the right for women and minorities to vote and own property.

And all those good ol' southern boyz thought Clinton was a Commie fer sure.

Never mind that he later led us to the first budget surplus in decades.

[Motorcoach1]

we don't need health care by the goverment we need the goverment to enforce the laws that are already on the books and outlaw lobbiest and pandering. I see from the people in Cananada that the systen is not working for them very well when it comes to major operations. We have a system lets fix that one before we rewrite the health code and start capping health managnemt services that run the cost up. Stop and start thinking people , THINK ! you want a communist state then you have nothing !

[Stingerbillion]

I don't care about the price tag on healthcare, i care about everyone getting coverage. If his plan helps 47 million people including my family, then why not. I don't see Republicans coming up with any solutions. And you being a college educated history teacher has nothing to do with whether his plan is logical or not, its about the people who are currently struggling while insurance companies and republicans are enjoying their profits.

[hint0122]

no, they were Communist states

[hint0122]

I am a college educated history teacher, and I dont support this plan. we cant afford it.

[hint0122]

obama is as close to socialism as you can get

[hint0122]

then you pay for it

[purechaos2000]

Turns out so far that most of the lies about health care and the protests are coming from..... The media, the congress, and the Obama administration...

Wow.. the press and politicians are lying.. What's new?