Coming Up on ‘This Week’: Kathleen Sebelius and Mitt Romney

“We speak of an American government, but it is in reality an Israeli goverment,whether it is the Pentagon, or the State Department or the CIA, you find that it is the Jews who have the first word inside the American government.Consequently they use America to execute their plans throughout the world”
-Osama Bin Laden, August 2000
George, can you ask your panel,’what is the difference between the rhetoric of Rev Wright, Osama and the guy outside the Holocaust museum the other day?’
How can our President and our First Lady sit in Rev Wright’s church for 20 yrs and not hear his hate speech?

NO ! NO GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH PROGRAM. THIS IS SOCILIZED HEALTH CARE AND OBAMA AND THE PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON ARE MOVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
OUR GOVERNEMENT CAN NOT HANDLE THE MANY PROBLEMS AS HAS BEEN PROVEN, OBAMA HAS DONE MORE HARM IN HIS FIRST 199 DAYS………..WE HAVE FAR TO MUCH OBAMA AND INTERFERENCE IN PRIVATE INTERPRISE.
NO TO OBAMA! NO TO HIS PUPPETS AND NO TO MORE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. IT IS NOT WANTED AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP TO OBAMA AND HIS RADICAL IDEAS AND HIS TRYING TO LEAD AMERICA INTO A SOCIALIZED COUNTRY. IT IS NOT GOING TO WORK !!! WE WILL STOP THESE ACTIONS OR THE ONES WHO VOTE FOR IT MAY NOT HAVE A JOB NEXT TERM.

You obama read what someone else wrote for you obama and are very incoherent.
Your the one obama that rushed through the ARRA(America Rape and Reaping Act) that has done nothing for
the economy. obamanomics obombed. obama you are the one that rushed
through bailouts for the auto industry when they should of filed
bankrupktcy in the beginning. you obama didn’t inherit elcrapo, you obama
caused 90% of the indebtness and we are sick of your foney rushing lies.
Patty , Maria and Doc you have to stop the rape of the United Staes
Taxpayers or your out in 2010. Its time to stop the horrendous spending
obama has instigated irresponsibility with his incompetence and Sol
Lewinsky foney methods. obama tactics didn’t clean up poverty and crime
in Chicago and his methods won’t stop the government doles on the National
Level. We are sick of the taxpayers be raped by irresponsible Senators
and Congressman that passed energy bill 3 years ago remember obama and
force banks to loan money to unqualified buyers. obama you need to learn to give a speech instead of reading elcrapo words somebody else wrote that
mean NOTHING.

Todd posted some challenges. How about some answers.
Our health care system is not broken. We have the best system in the world. The highest quality, and reaching the most people, even the uninsured. No, it is not perfect. While we need regulations to protect Americans from harm, one ofthe biggest problem with our health care is government involvement.
Next, look at Hilary care of the mid 90,s. The prospect of nation heathcare addedover 50% the the cost of insurance. The number of uninsured as claimed by the Clinton Whitehouse went from 20 million to 40 million. How many Americans will be without access to healthcare. I know I won’t be able to afford the premiums. Doctors will be so loaded down with paperwork they will have little time for patient care.
Finally, as I said before, it is strickly forbidden by the Constitution. And as a former military you should understand the truth that the roll of government is to control our lives, not protect freedom. That is why the Constitution was written to limit government. Nationalized healthcare is not an attempt to protect Americans, but to limit our freedoms

George, Don’t let Mitt say anything about socialist healthcare untill he agrees that we have lost our representative government and need to make changes to get it back.I have one vote, and I cannot quit work to monitor my representatives all day.But corporate lobbists have access to my Reps all day every day. Mitt, corporations exercising influence by putting armies of lobbists through out congress, have made these Corps. fair game and should be treated as an arm of the government since that is where they want to be. Example: Hand puppet Phil Gramm. How did that influence on Uncle Phil by the banks( Total Deregulation) work out???

According to Mitt Romney and George Will, there are hundreds and hundreds of health insurance carriers to provide plenty of competition. The problem is that they all aren’t national providers and aren’t licensed every where. In my area, Long Island, NY, I only have a choice of about a half dozen carriers and that is only because I have a “two-life” group. If I had no employees, my choice of carriers and plans from those carriers would be more restricted.
I love hearing from pundits that think they have the answers, yet don’t have the facts to support those answers.

Mitt Romney made the statement that there is plenty of competition among health insurers. Not in our area. The Pittsburgh area has a handful for small business as well as individual coverage. Last year a new insurer came into the area and as my benefit link said-the rates are as high as the existing area providers. All of them have stiff criteria as to who that particular company will even consider covering.There is no competition in this area. They have us by the throat and they all know it. Mitt Romney needs to get real with the average person in other areas of the country and get the facts. He is totally incorrect.

How can George Will say there is competition? Has he EVERY tried to get health care. What a joke. What a lame statement. Most plans will insure you and not cover illnesses like cancer. Give me a break. Try to do it in NJ.

The Massechusettes plan is hardly a proven success. Even now they are struggling with the cost of the plan.
That said, it’s also hardly a Republican plan. The majority party in the Massechusettes legislature was Democrat at the time the plan was passed.
Some facts: more people have opted into the plan than the plan planned for, so the cost of the plan is higher than expected by about 150 million dollars. The cost of enrolling people into the plan is actually lower than expected at around 2 dollars a head. So the problem of the plan has come down to (or back to) the problem of healthcare cost containment.
The success or failure of the plan depends on Massechusettes’ ability to contain healthcare costs — and the same could be said about the national plan. Without cost containment the plan will fail.
That is why there is an emphasis on cost containment in the current policy talks. That is also why, when Romney says that Massechusettes solved the problem that he is being political instead of honest. The Massechusettes plan is still few years away from being proven out one way or the other and there are a lot of problems that the Massechusettes plan still faces and so the outcome is less than certain.

George should have pushed the Massachusetts health care with Mitt Romney. It isn’t working because there is lack of competition. Unless insurance companies are FORCED to compete they won’t. I got so angry and listening to the same old Republican lies I had to mute him.
For those of you worried about socialized medicine try getting old with the current system. All your savings is going to go to insurance companies and their premiums. Yes there is insurance out there and yes you can get covered but everything you saved goes to pay the premium. We need a single payer system that allows the underinsured and 50+ person the ability to have an insurance policy that doesn’t drive you into debt. But then again isn’t that what all Republican plans are about. Take your money and leave you on the street.

Did anyone catch the comment by Ms. Strassel that perhaps a democracy in Iraq was the cause of dissent to autocratic rule in Iran? I thought this was a very controversial statement, obviously a thumbs up for the war in Iraq and the ‘Bush Doctrine’ … and also inaccurate.
Ms. Strassel, if you look at exactly how this dissent and this election played out, Mousavi didn’t gain any kind of momentum until late in the campaign and ‘dare I say’, to steal your line, that it was Obama’s reaching out, his willingness for engagement in the place of hard talk, and perhaps his speech in Cairo, which seemingly overnight got a LOT of young Muslims in those parts thinking progressively, thinking about a better way than constant war with the West… ‘dare I say’ it was this that sparked debate and got Mousavi his momentum. Had it indeed been Iraq, Mousavi would have been much more of a threat early on and throughout the campaign… which was not the case at all.

I think George Will’s comments about the uninsured this week were oversimplified. For instance, he indicated that a family making $75,000 a year could afford health insurance, when that simply isn’t true. Luckily, my husband works for state government and has decent insurance, though the quality goes down and the fight for payment goes up, along with the cost rising each year. But, my greatest concern is if we lose that insurance. When is was just my husband and I (before we had our son), and he changed jobs with a 3-month probationary period and we had to carry COBRA just for the two of us. We paid $800 a month for that coverage. $800 is more than our house payment, twice our car payment, more than any other bill. There is no way that our two-person household at the time making about $100,000/year, could have been able to afford $800 a month indefinitely without dipping into savings and retirement. My point — insurance is incredibly expensive. We were both raised that you don’t give up your insurance, so we would work hard to keep it no matter what sacrifices we had to make. But, I cannot imagine how much more expensive COBRA would be in today’s market and adding a child would just make it that much more expensive. Insurance costs need to get under control and unfortunately the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies and the medical industry (AMA and hospitals, etc) are all fighting for the biggest piece of the pie with little regard in how it affects the average American family’s ability to actually pay for it all. Sure I want the best health care available when our family gets ill….but, as it stands, the best health care available is not only expensive, but we have to fight for every dollar in insurance reimbursement and they have full-time staff people fighting against us. When Obama and others talk about a complete overhaul of the system, that resinates with me because we have insurance and still feel insecure about its future and our ability to afford it.

“But George was wrong when he challenged Romney’s statement. Obama also said:
“No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons.”
Both these statements were in the same paragraph of Obama’s Cairo speech with Romey’s reference occurring two sentences before George’s.
So what does Obama really mean?”
- Perhaps Obama means that we should build a consensus, come together as nations and decide. Perhaps that is what he meant when he said no ONE SINGLE nation should decide.

The air in D.C. must be heady stuff indeed because I listened this morning and heard a lot of high flying theories (based on hot air?) and absolutely nothing that has any meaning or reality to the lives of the majority of us.
After listening to Romney I could only conclude that he feels Reagan made a mistake when he did launch a pre-emptive attack on Russia. The perception of a big tented Republican party that he was trying to create was also unconvincing.
Brazile was waxing poetic about Iran’s possible move to democracy which was ironic to say the least given the way Obama kept Dubya’s repressive and controversial edicts in place.
And Sebelius was trying to convince us that contrary to all the polls and evidence, either we don’t want single payer or we don’t know what we want.
Seriously, you’re so far out of touch with the American people that its neither amusing nor entertaining.

So what does Obama really mean?
“Perhaps Obama means that we should build a consensus, come together as nations and decide. Perhaps that is what he meant when he said no ONE SINGLE nation should decide. “
So you think he was indirectly confirming that the United Nations has the right to “pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons”?
I think that what he really hopes for is what he said in the sentence between: “That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.” I just hope he doesn’t make the US the first nation to give them up because I think this is an unrealistic pipe dream.

The Republicans do not understand that it is not President Obama that wants a public plan. It is the PUBLIC! We have heard talk about “sweeping health care reform for the last forty years. It has never happened. We went from having health insurance through our employers to having NO health insurance through our employers, from having to choice to having NO choice, from having good health care, to having NO health care. We are sick of it. The costs and the premiums have only gone up year after year and our coverage has only gone down.
The only reason that the insurance companies and the corporate greed mongers are even talking to Washington about health care reform now is because they know if they don’tthat they will be on the outside looking in.
We want the same coverage that Congress and the Senate have. We deserve it. We pay for it. There is a way to do it, we just have to want to do it. People don’t have health coverage because they cannot afford it. The co-pays were too high, the coverage was indadequate and there are big gaps in the out of pocket non-covered expenses.
Your employer used to offer you a great plan, a good plan, and a bargain plan, now they offer you the cheapest plan, if they offer it at all. That’s why the system is broken. Fix it.