Axelrod: Obama Won’t Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike

The change he was campaigning about was actually the change from a dollar you will have left after the taxes he will need to impose for his grandiose plans. About 47% of us saw this coming. What were the rest of you thinking?

I don’t know why people want to trust the government with health care. If the government can’t even handle Medicare, and Medicaid, and even the food that comes into this country, why would they be able to succeed at healthcare.

public option is what the majority of people want. The Republican Party is going down in flames with this issue leading the way. The Republican Party will continue to shrink because family issues begin with having your health first then having a job. What ever happend to the saying “at least you have your health” the Republicans want to take that from you as well! Anything to make a freaking buck….

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This was the plan all along.. Tax hikes on everything we use daily.. everything we buy daily…and YOU knew of this and would never comment during the campaign

Its refreshing to have a president who does not let ideology get in the way of governing. I am no Democrat, but it was irritating that our last president did not adequately address our economic, environmental and healthcare problems because he would have to bend his ideology a little. The worse case was when Bush vetoed the children’s healthcare bill. Obama has a lot to clean up. Even if it means a few more taxes, I am glad he is actually doing something.

If this CAP and TRADE passes through the Senate, we will already be seeing a Tax on the middle class. With higher taxes on the Corporations, that is a tax to the middle class. “Everything” rolls down hill, people. At least “now” he is going to hit us all with something ‘called’ a tax. What did you all expect? What did you all expect?

Hey Mike, if Mexico’s heath care is so good, why don’t you go there and try it out. Company I work for has a plant in Mexico.. you don’t know what you are talking about.

“With higher taxes on the Corporations, that is a tax to the middle class. “Everything” rolls down hill, people.” – If everything rolls down hill where do the corporate profits go? When oil company profits go up does it result in lower prices at the gas pump or bigger CEO bonuses?

It is wonderful to have such an honest man in the White House. And, it is, after all, patriotic to pay taxes. Hope and Change forever. If it lives and breathes, tax it.

Yet another weasel way out of a campaign promise. I can always tell when Obama is lying – it’s whenever he sucks air in and expel it with a sound. I bet that he would raise taxes, and the MSM will do all the twisting and turning to enable this empty suit to justify the raising of taxes for those under $250K.

“Or, will he lower the standards here and more and more wealthy will go to these same places for health care?” – U.S. standards, by your own admission, are already lower for working and middle class folks in the U.S. That is why we have the lowest life expectancies and highest infant death rate among technologically advanced countries. Do you want U.S. healthcare to continue its downward slide in quality and increased polarization of access?

Mark, I can afford healthcare…I don’t make 250K+. It’s not the governments responsibility to provide health care to me and my family, it’s MY responsility to provide it for MY family. If you want to sell yourself and your freedom for free healthcare, then by all means, do it! Better yet, get free health care, get in welfare and live in government housing…and you’ll be free, right?

You liberal idiots don’t even know what is happening here. Your handing over your power and freedom to the government and doing it with a smile on ur face…disgraceful

“we don’t have the lowest life expectancies because of our healthcare system, but because our citizens don’t take care of themselves.” – According to the CDC and the WHO there is a direct correlation between life expectancy and access to quality primary care. Dont blame the victim of our convoluted health system.

“Mark, I can afford healthcare…I don’t make 250K+.” – So can I, but since I started working in the medical field twenty years ago I have seen folks with serious illness lose their jobs, then their insurance and then were dumped by their providers. Many folks are a couple of paychecks away from losing coverage for their families. And dont forget that the in the U.S. illness is a leading cause of bankruptcy. I have seen it happen over and over so I consider myself and my family lucky – for now.

How do you know when Obama is lying? Answer: his lips are moving.

Take a daily tour of Wally Mart World…. and take a good look at the size of the people shopping there…. there appears to be a lot of very well fed people in our county who could less about their health until they need it…. and these hoggers really DONT want to spend their candy, soda, beer, and cigarette money on healthcare… they would prefer that the Government TAKE the TAXPAYERS money and rpovie to them at NO CHARGE………

Barack Obama’s pledge = I lied and I DONT CARE – I WON – and my koolaid drinkers still love me

Resident Obama is destroying America – just so the Democrats can lock in political power for themselves.
He cares nothing about Americans, he only manipulates the naive ones as useful idiots to achieve his evil ambitions.
And now, David Axelrod tries to slowly turn up the boil on the kettle that will eventually cook the American taxpayer to death – hoping that Americans will hardly notice when they are paying 50% of their incomes just to satisfy the greedy spending whims of a Marxist dictatorship.
Obama’s Marxist policies are creating a hostile and punative environment for businesses, industry, and the middle class that will kill jobs, and destroy America families – permanently.
Obama the Marxist dictator must be stopped by any means possible – or else America will be so crippled in the near future, we will have no possible escape from our doom.
Don’t tread on me, Obama!

BO lied to gets votes.. and its OK… his pledges are worthless, the media’s heartthrob can do no wrong…

If there going to be a tax hike forget the trillion dollar universal health care insurance plan. It should be dead on arrival.

Too many middlemen and too many lobbyists. It is business as usual. Change is for the birds.

I get the impression that Obama thinks that those who make 250k+ are not hard working, and deserve all the punishment they can get. 250K is NOT wealthy by any standard, especially if you owe from 100,000-200000 in student losns and have several children who will need college eventually. You are not eligible for any breaks of any kind, and I imagine that his health care will be directed solely to those making less than this amount. Never mind if you went to school for an extra 8 years , and work 80 to 100 hours per week to make this amount. Eventually there will be no incentive to excel or work hard, just settle for mediocrity so the government can take care of you as they see fit.

Just to add to the commentaries… I was posted to a job in central Europe for 5 years and was on the local socialized health care system. I paid $2 for a doctor visit and got impeccable care and attention. I had minor surgery once and paid about $300 for my private room for 5 days. The surgery was done in a state of the art surgery theater by highly skilled doctors and nurses. The insurance I had picked up the tab for everything. Yes, my employee and I paid into the plan but it is a nominal cost.
I was surprised to learn that in the US the cost of simply administering a private insurance plan (costs having nothing to do with doctors, machines, hospitals, etc) increase health costs up to 20% compared to a single payer insurance program like Medicare – which is what we need more of. For example,
1. Private Health Insurance profit & management expenses increase health costs up to 20%;
2. even Medicare Advantage plans increase costs by 13% (ex. Kaiser);
3. but Medicare cost increases are only 3%!
It’s staggering to realize that administrative costs of private insurance plans (ex. salaries of CEOs) have driven health care costs to exorbitant levels since the 1980s compared to Medicare which is an existing single payer plan whose administrative costs are so much less.

A Stand Alone government health care plan is the best option for the SHEEPlE
of the United States.
Corporations are not fans of the SHEEPLE. Their only goal is to make their CEO’s billionaires and show profits to shareholders.
Over the last three decades the competitive landscape of health care has been dramaticly reshaped.
Larger companies have swallowed up smaller ones. Then the larger health care carriers merged into still larger corporations. What these take overs and mergers created was a non competitive environment. A market place where large companies could dictate who, where, when, how much premiums and benefits SHEEPLE could have.
Before calling your Senators, SHEEPLE need to know more about how their current private sector, for profit health care plans work.
Every SHEEPLE should know the meaning of words and phrases such as;
1-adverse selection
2-gaslighting
3-not medically necessary
4-moving the ball slowly
5-HMO (Health Maintenence Organization)
6-PPO-(Preferred Provider Organization)
7-In Network
8-Out of network
9-Co-pay
10-covered illnesses
11-not covered illnesses
12-incontestability clause
13-CSA
If you do not know the meanings of these phrases and accronysms, you do not have enough knowledge to make an intelligent decision on the new health care issue.
Sheeple’s opinions are mostly formed along party lines or sound bytes heard or seen from talking heads, like Keith Olbermann or Rush Limbaugh.
Given no competition, and no outside oversight, private sector Health Care Insurors have run amuck.
Health premiums consume a full 20% of a companys income. Each year the premiums go up while the co-pays, deductables and covered services go down. (Read higher premiums for less coverage.)
For those SHEEPLE who watch elected officails like John Boehner, slam their hands on the podiums and declare the Federal Government isn’t going to tell me what doctor I can or can not see. Or, what drug I can and can not use.
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH….
SHEEPLE, keep this fact in mind, the next time you see that kind of gradiose behavior from a politician, understand this they have the same insurance he does not want you to have. Private sector insurance companies dictate which doctors you can or can not see. Only they aren’t saying it in exacly those terms. Any SHEEPLE can see any doctor he or she chooses to see. But, if the doctor is not in your HMO or PPO
you will have to foot the entire bill. No negotiaed costs for service, you’re only a SHEEPLE, no negotiated costs for tests, you’re only a SHEEPLE. Coverage only applies to doctors who are enrolled in your particular plans and have accepted reduced fees for service.
Sheeple, it always amuses me when I see or hear about SHEEPLE such as yourselves vote against your own best intrests. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or a sound byte taken out of context from Keith or Rush.
WE THE PEOPLE need to take back all the rights that we have lost due to collusion between our elected officials and the CORPORATIONS that run our lives.
Many politicians are in the pockets of CORPORATE AMERICA. They pay politicians to vote against your best intrests.
The CEO’s making 10′s of MILLIONS in salary each year. Not to mention cheaply priced stock options and other retirement perks. These are the people our Senators and Congreeman seek to appease with their votes. And you SHEEPLE really believe they serve your best intrests. Get real SHEEPLE. The sound bytes, and hyperbole surrounding Health Care has nothing to do with you and everything to do with politicians assuring themselves of campaign funds from corporate sponsors and getting re elected.
A stand alone, government health care plan, is the best option for WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. Put aside your fears and differences and focus in on one issue. Read, or got to WE THE SHEEPLE* coming soon to a website in your town. No sides. No name calling. No partisanship. Just a place to go and learn what is really good for all Americans. Bottom line is CORPORATE AMERICA runs our GOVERNMENT. The Government will create competition in the market place. It’s not a free lunch or hand out to the poor as many politicians would have you believing.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE. THE INTERNET HAS GIVEN US A VOICE. AND A MEANS TO COLLECTIVELY HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD.
Now more than ever before, WE THE PEOPLE, can bring change and a better life for all SHEEPLE.
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I have to agree with most on here Impeach this stupid dumb arrogant Marxist Leader or so called leader.He is worthless,and he is a waste of tax payers money itself. He is discusting to watch,read ect. AMEN George he is your GOD not mine

Axelrod is fairly adroit at bending what Obama said during his campaign to get himself elected,and what he now says because folks voted for him based on that campaign …and has been elected.
..which way is the wind blowing, Mr. President?…and please, no more of the “we must be united in what we do” routine…..it is tiring, and doesn’t cover YOUR mistakes!!!

The Democrats have no new ideas,it’s the same as always Tax and Spend.the Democrats will crash and burn in 2010 elections no matter what propaganda ABC and the rest of the bias liberal news media put out.

“The Democrats have no new ideas” – I am not a Democrat, but all I have heard from the Republicans on the health reform issue is: “No, No, No.” Our health system is broken and dysfunctional and needs help now, not political grandstanding.

We need to impeach Obammer and get him out of office. I never liked Bush and voted for Obama, but I’m already sorry for that. Just hope I get another chance to vote and hope to vote him out of office if he is not a dictator then.

WilliamMcgill….of course liberals want the “government public option, unfortunately, they expect the working middle class to pay for it for everyone, Sorry dude, the middle class has had enough with the liberal tax and spend agenda. Unumployment is about to go way up, because conservatives will stop working to pay for this and let the liberal agenda die for lack of $$$$$

William McGill, you don’t understand. The vast majority of Americans do not want this crap sandwich. “Public option” is government-run health-care (Why do liberals have to disguise their socialist agendas with nice-sounding names anyway?) Do you really want bureaucrats in Washington making medical choices for you and your family? I personally do not care if the Republican Party shrinks (They ARE shrinking because they’ve abandoned conservatism, not because of the reasons you stated). I was not a Bush supporter except on national defense. This isn’t about GOP vs Democrats anymore

“conservatives will stop working to pay for this and let the liberal agenda die for lack of $$$$$” – I am not a liberal and I plan on still working. Dont let ideology get in the way of doing the right thing. Our medical system is a leading cause of bankruptcies and, compared to other developed countries we have the lowest life expectancies and the highest infant death rate. I want the health reform to work because our current system is deadly to those least able to take care of themselves.

I think their intent is to destroy America (and I voted for this moron)
sorry……

“Middle America Screw you” – If you think the neocons have any more concern for the middle class think on this: They fooled us into privatization of retirement and look what happened to our 401(k)s. We bought their line on “free trade” and 30 years later our manufacturing plants and jobs are all overseas. They fooled us into sending our sons and daughters to Iraq and look at the result: No WMD, huge profits for Halliburton and 3,000 dead Americans. Now tell me: Who “screwed” who?

I’m gonna leave this country rather than stick around for this brave new world agenda. Obama can find some other fool sucker to take my place.

They say those who can’t teach become adminstrators, now we got a community organizer who is going to take our money and make sure that no one has anything left. The govt. has never run anything well. Even wars get messed up. So does anyone really expect the govt to run health care, they can’t run the post office, amtrack, and now they are car company owners, bank owners, and soon health care owners and add cap and trade, there will be no one who will want to work to make money. We will become dependent on the govt for everything.

There are MILLIONS lazy good for nothing people in this country who take advantage of the system on a DAILY basis… YOU know who you are…. I have NO sympathy for those type people…. they could care less about spending their own money buying health care…. they WILL take every penny of taxpayer dollars that the Government gives them…… while they spend their money on the FUN stuff….. WallyMart and the Dollar stores are full of them…

“The govt. has never run anything well.”
- See my post at 16:47.

Well, I don’t care if we have to kill off the old people who are going to die in 6 months. What is the difference. Just so long as more people have healthcare…

“I sure don’t see many supporting the administration’s plans.” – Good point. Perhaps its because no one likes more taxes, I sure dont. I already send the IRS a couple of grand a year, But what I do like, thanks to the Ag Dept is being able to sit down to a hamburger and being reasonably sure its not full of rat dung. I also like knowing my meds meet minimal standards because the FDA is on the ball or being able to call the fire dept because my house is on fire. There is a role for government when it comes to public health and right now our health care system is in crisis (I will wait a minute for a reply, but Ive got chores to do. Have a good day!)

A suggestion for Obama would be, clean up the Medicare program and we will have what this country needs.
I don’t know what or who wrote the manual he is using to govern this country with but it smells like a Chicago written program.

I see all these comments, but where is the truth of the issue?
It appears that Obama is allowing Congress to write the health care rules.
All anger and comments should be directed toward Congress, right?
However, I do thinks we should have a public option in the mix.

“Compared to the way private insurance companies work, Medicare is a paragon of efficiency and compassion.”
LOL. If Medicare were run as a business and didn’t have taxpayers to cover its massive losses, it would have ceased to exist many years ago. Medicare substantially underpays doctors for services who subsequently are forced to make private insurers cover the difference. That’s a fact.
Efficiency? It’s efficient to swipe a credit card to buy something too. It doesn’t mean there’s money there to pay the bill. In Medicare’s case, why would they care? They can always tax us more to pay for their limitless “compassion”.
$55 TRILLION in promised obligations. Let that sink in. This is the “efficiency” of government.

Explain to me how it is possible to fight two wars without a tax hike? Unless of course you borrow, borrow and continue borrowing from China. I would much rather increase revenue by taxes than by borrowing. That is what Bush did and that is why we are in this mess. At least Obama is a realist and not afraid of unpopular choices. Taxes don’t scare me. The deficit doesn’t scare me. What scares me is having the U.S, in essence owned by foreign powers. Thanks to Bush we may soon be eating every meal with chop sticks.

What did you Obama supporters do to my country?

Here comes the truth. The middle class will once again be asked to shoulder the burden of new programs coming out of Washington. We need to throw all the bums out including the biggest bum of all in the White House and start from scratch. Congress and this administration are draining the life blood from our country. Obuma and his campaign promisses what a joke on the people. Still out there worshipping the ground he walks on? Well be careful because you will soon be taxed on the ground you are walking on.

William McGill, I don’t believe you fully understand that Obama is Democrat and they are the ones wanting to raise taxes. The man blasted McCain for wanting to raise taxes to pay for health care and promised he wouldn’t raise taxes. Well middle class look out here comes the tax hike from the man a majority voted for.

I liked Obama when he was running, but now I just despise his policies. The guy really thinks he is on some kind of spending spree. Oh well at least he might be better than Bush. He can at least articulate a complete sentence.

What a surpise now he would be ok with taxing health care benifits when a year ago it was the devil of a plan, just like a year ago he basically he said hillary was stupid for trying to make healthcare mandatory now its okie dokie.

Margaret Thatcher said it best:
“Socialism is a grand idea until you run out of people to pay for it…”
The “rich” that Obama and the Democrats in Congress are so anxious to soak also happen to be the people that own businesses which, in turn, employ people.
So lets do some simple math. People get laid off during recessions because employers (the “rich” people) have less money to pay salaries. So by raising taxes on these people and giving them even LESS money to pay salaries, this is going to somehow “create” jobs?
Must be the “new” progressive math.
This plan works so well that the USSR is now the most powerful nation on earth. Oops, that’s right they no longer exist.

Wasn’t “Read my lips, No new Taxes” Bush Sr’s downfall? Think Obama will suffer the same fate?

I work and have health insurance. I don’t want to be taxed to death to pay for deadbeats that refuse to carry their own weight. Parasites will evntually kill the host.

Anyone trust our elected officials with more of our money? They have screwed up social security, medicare, etc. Do you really think they can handle health care for us? They are all idiots/liars/cheats! AND we elected them.

“Okay, someone please name the country which has a single-payer, health-care system the equal to U.S. medical care.”
- I can’t name one that is equal, but I can name several that are better. According to the CDC and WHO every technolologically advanced country with a national health plan has longer life spans and lower infant death rates than the U.S. Now here is one for you: Name one private nation-wide insurance company that offers reasonably priced insurance to those with a serious pre-condition.

I notice how ABC put the video about Iran on it’s first page instead of Axelrod admitting that new taxes are coming for everyone.
Just another attempt by the MSM to protect Obama and his lies.

Just one more LIE in an administration that can’t stop spending or lying. Did you hear the one about them being transparent, but nobody gets to read the legislation before they vote on it, or the one about no more pork, never mind the Stimulus or the 9000 ear marks in the Omnibus bill. We are deep in debt adding what is likely to be close to 2 Trillion this year alone, and a minimum of a trillion a year for the next 10 years and we haven’t had the big bail outs yet. Medicare, Medicade, and Social Security are all Busted. Not only will current revenue not cover the cost, congress has spent all the extra they were suposed to put back in the trust funds. Now congress wants to spend 800 billion on a make believe global warmning disaster, never mind that the earth has been cooling for 7 years, and 1.6 trillion on health care. Any body addding all this up. We won’t be able to pay the intrest much less an even basic saftey net. Well I may be wrong about the trasparency thing, I think I can see the disaster coming

What with the uncontrolled spending that President Zero and his band of thugs is doing on an almost daily basis, it should come as no surprise that he is considering raising taxes on the middle class. Now Zero’s healthcare program will add yet another 2 or 3 or 10 trillion (depending on whom you listen to) to the bill. We can begin to dig out of this mess in next year’s mid-terms, then finish the job in 2012 by sending the community organizer back to Chicago.

So what’s the alternative? Move to Canada?

all the federal employee’s will be exempt from the health care they are trying to pass, they will still have their cadillac insurance and the tax payers will still be paying for it. Isn’t that something?? Why is everything he does have to be right now, because he doesn’t want anyone to be able to read it. He expects congress to just rubber stamp whatever he wants.

Funny how he can reverse positions like this and there is no media outcry, and the silence from the Dems is deafening. If this were a GOP president, they’d be demanding impeachment for going back on a campaign promise. Hypocrites, all of them.

If health care is so great in Mexico, why are our hospitals and doctor offices filled with people from Mexico looking for treatment?

obama lies again – I will be glad to see his voters get the shaft that they have foisted on the Real Americans

sorry i am not an American and i don’t quite understand about your health care issues,but i like your president

No where in this story do you see that Obama’s democratic proposal to tax healthcare benefits will have a clause that exempts unions from any tax until 2013. What a blatant sham!

McGill – O’Bama is planning to take over your health care, increase middle income taxes (which he said he WOULD NOT DO), has taken over the automobile and banking industry and you are complaining about the REPUBLICANS???!! Get a grip, guy. It’s not the Repub. who are ruining America…it’s YOUR guy!

OBAMANOMICS!!!I can’t believe this!!! My son made $1,873.00 in 2008 HIS TOTAL TAX….1,472.00 It’s true!!! if you want his turbo tax form post a blog to tell me how to post it…
(He is in paramedic school and works part time and expedites once a week at a local sports bar and grill.. When he filed he owed nothing;he just received notice of his tax and penalty with interest!!!)

Sir Axelrod: We knew this before. Sorry you were chosen to declare this late news.

If Obama had a pre-election plan for the econoy, why was the stimulus cobbled together?
If Obama had a pre-election plan for the car industry, why did it require such dramatic measure to save?
Same with banking, why are they still failing?
If Obama had a plan for energy, why did it require buying off politicians to go along?
If Obama had a plan for Iraq and Afganistan, why is he still using GWB’s?
If Obama was going to change Washington, why are scandals regarding Dems still not being investigated?
If Obama was going to change dialogue with Iran, why are they saying he is just like Bush?
If Obama was going to “spread the wealth” why are only his cronies making big money?
And you would trust this man with your families health decisions?!

Oh Austin , come on ” public option is what the majority wants” ? I don’t think so. People want jobs and this great economic engine in the USA ressurected. A vibrant economy creates competition and demand for workers and perks like health care and retirement as enticements . Why don’t the new brains in washington go back to the legislature and work on undoing some of their legislation that drives businesses out or into the ground. Things like out of control workers’ compensation programs and overregulation.I’ll never forget the great friends of Labor Bill and Hillary that threw the loggers out of work in the west for the spotted owl’s well being. It turned out by the way that the former head of green peace said the study was bogus and the logging never hurt anything.

“”One of the problems we’ve had in this town is that people draw lines in the sand and they stop talking
to each other. And you don’t get anything done. That’s not the way the president approaches us. He is very cognizant of protecting people — middle class people, hard-working people who are trying to get along in a very difficult economy. And he will continue to represent them in these talks,” Axelrod said”
HEY, I do NOT recall anyone in this country running around forcing Obama to keep hammering home that line about 95% of Americans not having their taxes raised throught the campaign.
Over & OVer & Over again we kept hearing it. So NOW, because he wants to keep jamming his agenda down our throats without givign anyone time to really understand the REAL ramifications, He IS going to BREAK that ultimate promise that HE made.
(of course if your a smoker, he has already broken his promise to you!)

But, then again, I am an idiot….

Inflation plus tax increases = you have less money with an even lesser value.
Enjoy it people.

Hmmm, several things. If you do the math, will taxing everyone who makes over 250k pay for everyone’s healthcare ? So, your going to tax the less than 5% of the upper income population to pay for the other 95%. I don’t think it will be enough money…do you ?
Secondly, if I don’t have a house, or a car, will the government give me those things too ?
If Edward Kennedy was subject to the healthcare he and Obama supports, would he be alive today ?
Most people would have excellent healthcare if they had jobs, that way they can have the group coverage most of of us know and like. It’s like Democrats to punish achievment in business with high taxes, rather than encourage companies to make money to hire more people.
As my favorite woman Margaret Thatcher said. “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

PLEASE! PLEASE! Everyone call or email your senators and congressmen Tell them you are watching their voting and if they vote for the cap and trade and the socialized healthcare, you will actively campaign against them when its time for their re-election. The senators have not voted on the cap and trade bill. Do it now!

WHEN OBAMA SAID THE “ENERGY BILL WILL DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE COST OF ELECTRICITY,” HE BECAME A ONE TERM PRESIDENT. ACTUALLY, I THINK HE HAD ALREADY ACHIEVED THAT MILESTONE EARLIER. I THINK THAT THE SENATE HAS SUDDENLY REALIZED WHAT A DISASTER THESE “FEEL GOOD” BILLS WOULD MEAN TO OUR WELL BEING AND TO THE ECONOMY. GOOD FOR THEM.

Rachel Ray said when we elected Obama “the country sucks a little less” and that Obama lights up a room with his smile. If the libs would stop being so mesmerized with this guy and start paying attention to WHAT HE DOES, maybe they’d view him differently. It’s not how good he sounds, it’s what he actually does. Beware!

It would be interesting to know how many commenters against a public insurance plan either work for or profit from health insurance investments.
With the U.S.’s healthcare rated 37th in the world despite the fact we spend more than anyone else, something is drastically wrong with the current situation. With 47 million Americans without health insurance and millions more underinsured, the time is now for a public health insurance option.

Are we really all victims? Your choice.

Just chant a few thousand plagarized (from Communist Cesar Chavez) “Yes we can(s)!,” and click your heels together and all will be well.
After all, this is the “Messiah’s” work. Mere mortals should not interfere with Robin Hood economics communicated by the teleprompter oracle in an Il Duce pose, even if some heretics perceive it as just the second coming of Jimmy Carter.

Nationalized health care plan = RATIONING of health care. Don’t believe it? Ask any VA patient. The VA system is microcosm of socialized medicine.
So instead of limiting care due to cost, get ready for limiting of care due to flat out refusal. If you don’t like it, you don’t have many other options under a single-payer system.
Keep drinking Barack’s kool-aid, people! If you don’t think health care in this country can get any worse, guess what….
It can.
Don’t tread on me

If all the countrys that have a form of socialized medicine can make it work there. Why can’t it work here?
If it is the nightmare it’s detractors claim. Why don’t the countries htat have it vote it out
Most of them have the freedom to do that. do you know of any that have/

I can hardly wait until EVERYONE even the middle class are paying extra taxes.

The following two eminently reasonable, efficacious and effective actions, would provide far more than the projected $2 trillion over the next decade to pay for fixing the financial problems of our health care system and would have “something in it for everyone” except, perhaps, the trial lawyers; and even they wouldn’t have significant grounds for complaint:
1. Cutting costs of Medicaid and providing access and good care for everyone in need: Allow doctors a tax deduction for the care they provide to Medicaid patients. Controls , of course, would be necessary. Currently, doctors eat their Medicaid losses. To completely solve the problem, provide the same benefit for hospitals. The tax revenue lost would more than be made up by the savings gained by federal and state governments and would therefore be revenue positive. It would bring a measure of satisfaction and even happiness to patients, doctors, hospitals and government.
2. Vastly reducing the costs that result when doctors resort to defensive medicine practices: Disallow, as evidence for malpractice against a primary care provider, the act of NOT ordering a test or procedure and NOT referring to a specialist. Controls would be necessary i.e., cut off the protection after the patient has been seen for the same complaint, say, over a period of three weeks. Primary Care doctors could be paid much more for their cognitive skills so they could spend the extra time necessary for optimal use of their cognitive skills. This would largely bring an abrupt halt, at the fountainhead—Primary Care— of the enormous cascade of unnecessary tests, procedures and referrals that inevitably commence when a doctor orders tests based on his/her perception of the need to prepare a paper trail in the event of a medical malpractice suit, warranted or not, rather than effectively practicing by using their cognitive skills and ordering tests, procedures and referrals accordingly. A recent editorial in the NYT reported that economists recently estimated that $700 billion a year is wasted on unnecessary tests and procedures. If you do the math, you’ll see that this alone would pay for the new health plan and leave a lot left over.

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