President Hopes Health Care Reform Summit Will ‘Cleanse’ Health Care Reform Bill, Process

Wonder why a “clean process” involving the Chicago thugs in the WH and the Pelosi-Reidocrat Congress wasn’t just initiated last year.
Only after the Democrats lost significant political battles did they then suddenly concede that they should have approached it differently (or not at all).
Too late.

Obama plan ‘raises the percent of income assessment that individuals pay if they choose not to become insured’… Developing…
BACKDOOR FIX: ‘Funds will be transferred to the Social Security Trust Funds’…
PRESIDENT’S ‘HEALTHCARE’ PROPOSAL SUMMARY USES WORD ‘TAX’ 35 TIMES…
‘Increase in Fees on Brand Name Pharmaceuticals’…
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OBAMA LIAR>>>>>> ABC SILENT

I hope that the republicans and democrats come to the table with great ideas and stop this, “we will not agree to anything” attitude. People are losing thier homes, jobs and savings while certain individuals in D.C. play politics. The majority voted for change. As I remember it both parties said they were for change. What happened?

Just how much more time is going to be wasted on this dead issue, while nothing is being done to create jobs for people?
Create jobs for people, and that will help to provide health care for them, as well.
Obama is beginning to look like a total jerk, who can’t stand to address the real needs in this country, if it conflicts with his personal pet project, which no one else, really cares about.

Obama tops Bush at ducking reporters; No formal press conference in 215 days…
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Why is he hiding????????

“…not living up to his pledge as a presidential candidate to have the health care reform negotiations televised on C-SPAN was “a mistake that I made during the course of the year.”
But Gibbs said Obama had lived up to his pledge. Or at least, Gibbs deflected the question by lying out his arse.
When will HE go?

Healthcare reform should have been done months ago. But instead we have to piddle around with republicans. WHY??!!! These people have done nothing but obstruct and delay reform. Howard Dean was right when he said that Bush would have had HC reform completed by now. We need to get this done and over with and quit trying to save republican feeling. Do you think they would do the same?? Obama needs to get off the fence and start leading or he may have a democratic challenger come next election cycle.

Any Health Care Reform without Tort Reform as a Key element is a Waste-o-Time™.
If President NoBo wants to pass health care reform with Bipartisan support then he should incorporate the Republican Tort reform ideas.
Only if and when that happens will we have a chance to cut costs, something the American Public truly supports and is waiting for Washington DC to do.

SWALLOW: White House Warns Republicans: We’ll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation…
BACKDOOR FIX: Healthcare ‘Funds will be transferred to the Social Security Trust’ if necessary…
PRESIDENT’S ‘HEALTHCARE’ PROPOSAL SUMMARY USES WORD ‘TAX’ 35 TIMES…
‘Increase in Fees on Brand Name Pharmaceuticals’…
Broaden ‘Tax Base for High-Income Taxpayers’…
Orders ‘Comprehensive Database’ On Health Claims…
FORCED: ‘Raises percent of income assessment that individuals pay if they choose not to become insured’…
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Obama…. dictator?

BIGGER, BOLDER, MORE TAX, MORE DATABASE: OBAMA IN NEW HEALTHCARE BLOWOUT
—————————————- Thursdays meeting event is just for show.. OBama as his socialist band of thieves will Rahm this down the peoples throat….

WE DO NOT WANT “GOVERNMENT-RUN” HEALTH CARE. I bitterly resent what this party’s leadership has been doing this past year AND since 2006 when they took control of Congress. They’ve lied, deceived, contradicted and engaged in such actions as to be criminal. They’ve looked down upon the American people with such arrogant conceit and even went so far as to dismiss the millions who have spoken out against their policies. I do NOT believe nor trust anything they say. They say what we want to hear, for one purpose only: to get themselves re-elected. There can be only one response: Vote them all out of office! NO MORE! They all need to go in 2010 and 2012. We need to elect people who will work for us and not against us.

I hope Obama, Pelosi, Reid attempt reconcilliation.
Let them go against the will of the people and see what happens next.
Any Dem that votes for that should get the full wrath of the people.

Why does he ignore jobs to keep going back to health care?
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Why do the Republicans ignore jobs to keep going back to… doing nothing?? The House has already stepped up, as has the President.

PM: don’t you have something to do at the house, like get michelles mail or something?

WE DO NOT WANT “GOVERNMENT-RUN” HEALTH CARE.
Well then, you’re in luck as government-run health insurance isn’t on the table — rather, we’re talking about (1)state insurance exchanges where consumers can shop for quality products, (2)consumer protections assuring that insurers can’t deny people coverage and create a situation where only the healthy can truly afford health insurance, (3) a mandate to assure people have to purchase insurance and can’t wait until they’re sick, (4)subsidies so that the poor can afford to be among the insured, and (5) pilot programs that tackle the issue of medical inflation and escalating health care costs.

Obama and the Democratic leadership on continuing to bully through on this bill is infuriating.
By not moving on, these guys have forfeited any trust I can have on this issue, and I refuse to consider ANY other Health Care Reform bill that they might offer up.
And what do we get now anyway? Yet another back-room document, lacking any transparency and not even seen by our Democratic representatives!
C-Span needed to be in the room while this latest Frankenstein was being created, not in the few hours tomorrow where the finished beast parades around.
What an ugly farce. What an insult to the American process.
This bill died in August. It died again in November and again during the holidays and again in January in Massachusetts. I guess this time we need to put a stake through its heart and bury it at the crossroads.
KILL THIS ZOMBIE BILL DEAD.

oh, whiplash i guess. disability and a lawsuit I presume. That’s nice.

oh, whiplash i guess. disability and a lawsuit I presume. That’s nice.
Posted by: mjishernameo | Feb 22, 2010 2:05:13 PM
Those who presume typically sound like the know-nothings they are.
So, where is the Republican plan? Posted yet? No?
Meanwhile, let’s hope the admin has cleared up the messaging issue. Per Newsweek:
“When asked about Obama’s plan (without being given any details about what the legislation includes), 49 percent opposed it and 40 percent were in favor. But after hearing key features of the legislation described, 48 percent supported the plan and 43 percent remained opposed.
The NEWSWEEK Poll asked respondents about eight health-care-reform provisions that Obama and many Democrats in Congress have generally supported. It found that the majority of Americans supported five of those provisions, three by particularly large margins. Eighty-one percent agreed with the creation of a new insurance marketplace, the exchange, for individual subscribers to compare plans and buy insurance at a competitive rate. Seventy-six percent thought health insurers should be required to cover anyone who applies, including those with preexisting conditions; and 75 percent agreed with requiring most businesses to offer health insurance to their employees, with incentives for small-business owners to do so.”

So, where is the Republican plan?
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They’d better not be foolish enough to give them anything remotely resembling a “plan”. Obama has 51 votes, let him pass his own plan. He’s going to anyway.
Why is this man destroying the democrats? Foolish.

Up until this President, the “American process” was that almost everything was done behind closed doors.
Oh, I see, so Obama’s back-room tyranny is justified, since they all did it. In fact, he goes even better, and doubles-down on the closed-door thing
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Nonsense. This bill received more coverage that any bill in history. Versions were posted on the internet for all and everybody to examine, there were open public town halls, committees were covered on C-SPAN and so on . . .
This President is the FIRST to push things further into the open. Your failure to acknowledge that speaks more about your bias than actual facts – or the truth.

Nonsense.
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That monstrosity was supposed to be available to the public 72 hours before congress voted on it. The house and the senate. Remember? Senate republicans didn’t even see it 72 hours before they were to vote on it. Not even democrats saw the bill they were to vote on. Aside from Reid and a handful of his leftenants, the only people to see that bill were members of the Congressional Budget Committee.
CNN finally put them on the spot about their promises of transparency.
So, Nonsense.

Tierra says: “Some last minute changes were made, but the bulk of the bill was CERTAINLY available and had been for quite a while.”
What America knows about this bill is exactly why it failed to get through a supermajority DC in August, in November, and in December.
It is insane in its scope and misguided in its thrust, and if this federal enslavement is actually inflicted on the nation, generations to come will only have the Democratic Party to blame for the wreckage.

Yeah, y’all are right about that. Darn, my honest mistake could have just changed my mind about the whole issue. I’m starting to want my insurance company to go belly-up so I can buy from Obama’s company. Now 35% of this country -plus one- is in favor of this fiasco!

According to plumline
Posted by: smartlillena | Feb 22, 2010 4:39:35 PM
Yes, and while you’re there check out the polling on the public option, something “the people” clearly want as well as this tidbit on jobs:
“Senior Senate GOP aides tell me they think a handful of GOP Senators will end up supporting the Dem bill later this afternoon, getting it over the 60-vote hurdle needed to move to the next stage.
The bill that will be voted on later today is a slimmed-down jobs package that includes a one-year Social Security tax break for business that hire workers out of work for two months, as well as various other write-offs and funding for infrastructure projects.
That bill was introduced by Reid after he killed an earlier, fatter measure that had been negotiated with bipartisan support. When Reid killed that version, Republicans vowed that it wouldn’t pass, and as of yesterday, no GOPers had publicly said they’d support it.
Reid pushed forward anyway, challenging Republicans to vote against job creation, and now senior GOP aides say he may be on the verge of prevailing on today’s “cloture” vote.”
That would be a refreshing change of pace, as jobs are important. The Republicans haven’t given a hoot up till now. We all remember Eric Cantor’s ridiculous “magic pony show.” Sargent notes, Republicans could be gaming expectations, as nothing is too low for them (that last clause is my own addition).

I highly suggest that you introduce your Republican representatives to become familiar with thomasocgov. Maybe if they started reading the bills, they wouldn’t complain that they haven’t read the bills.

Posted by: smartlillena | Feb 22, 2010 5:19:09 PM
Looks like Brown plans to vote with the Dems on the jobs bill , and will release this statement:
“I came to Washington to be an independent voice, to put politics aside, and to do everything in my power to help create jobs for Massachusetts families. This Senate jobs bill is not perfect. I wish the tax cuts were deeper and broader, but I will vote for it because it contains measures that will help put people back to work.”
I commend him for that if he keeps his word. We need to break up this gridlock and finally move on jobs.

I see politics as usual. Point the finger. Poles and statics can be made to say what the person arranging the figures want then to say. The cost of any health care plan at this time will be too much. Once again get your heads out of the sand and think for yourself. It appears no one wants to think for them selves and just believe the garbage they are being fed.
Once again repair what is in place, Medicare, wait a minute that would mean everyone is wrong and no one wants to think. When someone says it can’t be done it means someone is lazy. With someone who knows what they are doing, not someone who is told what they are suppose to do, what is in place can be fixed and cost less in the long run. Using tax money constantly to fund something is mismanagement. Look at Social Security if you want an example. If it was run right the U.S. budget being passed would not make a difference. Right now it does and points out mismanagement by itself.
Hide the health care plan and get it passed. That would show stupidity on the part of Congress if they do that. To get a country of sheep being led to the slaughter it took getting people to go to the sciences for college and not liberal arts which made you think. As much as I disliked the action of students during the 60′s and 70′s at least they thought for themselves.