Chambliss: Obama Must Show 'Humility' in Speech to Congress

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) said today President Obama should be humble when he addresses Congress Wednesday.

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[Bolgernow]

Being a member of the "Birther" movement, & Tea bagger who has shown absolutely no class or respect towords Obama now Chambliss demands something he never intends to give in return. Fuck you redneck...

Public option now!

[moregravyplease]

You're totally misrepresenting the President's position; he HAS stated, clearly, that single-payer is his favored solution. However, he has also acknowledged that single-payer isn't supported by a majority in either house of Congress, and because of that FACT, the President has expressed a willingness to consider other proposals.

The 'public option' is not a stealth single-payer plan. Fact is, EVERY country that has 'national health care' still has private insurers, so quit your fearmongering.

[GretchenDawntreader]

I'm done here.

Obama wants health care reform. Health insurance giants pay congress to vote in their favor, they pay lobbyists like Dick Armey to make astroturf groups like Freedomworks to stir up this sense of threat, that the industry is the victim of some government plot, how seniors will be killed by democrats, how Obama is a nazi, how the census will be used to deny care to republicans...and they got their money's worth because people like you want to know why Obama wants to hurt Humana

[CommonSenseJoe]

I want reform more than anyone else. The problem is that the President does not want reform, he wants a takeover. Besides that, he needs a takeover. Medicare is going broke and he needs to get us all on the government plan to cover it up.

[CommonSenseJoe]

Then you are willing to admit this is not about reform! Good, you are on the road to recovery then.

[GretchenDawntreader]

it is about the uninsured, and also their mistreatment of the insured.

Reform.

Unfortunately, the total concession-based bill that Grassley and Backus cooked up in deference to their lobbyist contributors only delivers more premium payers to the insurance industry, while not reforming the industry at all. so if you don't want to see reform, you should love what's happening in the senate.

[CommonSenseJoe]

You continue to avoid dealing with the actual proposals of the President.

I am defending nothing. I am stating nothing but facts. I have bought and paid for my own health insurance for decades. I know when I am being lied to. If the problem is that insurance companies are not paying valid claims, that is fraud. They should be prosecuted and fined.

Nothing is this reform is going to change that practice though. It is going to lead to high premiums and loss of coverage for many people.

[GretchenDawntreader]

takes the whole insurance industry and turns it upside down?

Good.

What we should have done to the banks instead of rewarding bad behavior with $700B.

[CommonSenseJoe]

I am not say any of that. What I am saying, which you are avoiding, is that what President wants is the elimination of health insurance, not reform.

I thought this was about the millions of uninsured people, not the insured people.

[CommonSenseJoe]

Let's assume that most insurance companies are screwing their customers and not paying claims. What doesn't reform deal with that?

Instead, it takes the whole insurance industry and turns it upside down.

[GretchenDawntreader]

I mean, seriously...your defense of the indefensible industry practices, it's either that you have a vested interest or are a large investor in Humana or something, or the less flattering position of "I've got my coverage and have yet to experience any problems, so if other people can't get coverage or have been screwed by their insurers, nothing should change because that might affect me and my streak of luck."

[GretchenDawntreader]

You...must work for an insurance company. You think they are perfect and benevolent.

I take it then (by your 4 points) that you support:

1. cutting off coverage if people get very sick and need large claims

2. huge deductables

3. only insuring healthy people, or denying coverage for sick people

4. pricing out or dumping people who get sick, who need coverage the most.

What you're saying is we should protect insurance companies so they can make money by only covering healthy people.