Health Care Delays Obama’s Foreign Trip

Here’s an idea. Just do what you did for Israel, send Joe Biden, that went over so well. Just remember, Joe might need a lesson in bowing before going to Asia!

Good thought, Mr. Obama. We need you here to fight for us. Asia will still be there when we HAVE health care reform!

He can delay a trip for health care.
Why didn’t he delay all those trips he took last year for job creation. He still hasn’t worked on creating jobs. What is up with this guy.
People don’t want health care – they want jobs!!!!!!

the American people want the Congress and Obama to move off health care and onto JOBS. we do NOT want another vote on this payoff filled crxpulent bill…
and Biden taking Jill wiht him worked wonders for the Israel Palestine trip right? So yeah O planned to take spring break with the kids and michelle while Americans have no jobs and they fiddle away on healthcare as rome burns? shockah! not.
more interesting IMo will be next yr when congress takes their yearly break I want to see if Obama tries going to Hawaii with the family again,,,he didnt let the attempted bombing of an American aircraft stop his yearly break, what will he do next yr
the guy is not a fighter, IMO the deal with Pelosi and Reid was we select you over Hillary, you let us call the shots and lead on legislation
that has led the economy to the precipice of a cliff…
but he wants to eat his waffle…

“the First Lady and the girls will not be on the trip”
What a shame. We love our tax dollars to be used by DC elites for joyrides. Ya the country is in financial ruin, but come on, what about the children?

Huh – writes: “the First Lady and the girls will not be on the trip”
What a shame. We love our tax dollars to be used by DC elites for joyrides. Ya the country is in financial ruin, but come on, what about the children?
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But I suppose all the tax dollars that congress uses on their special “business” trips to tropical places is ok? I’m going to assume when you say DC elites you’re grouping ALL of congress in that circle as well? Your arguminet is weak at best.

With the polls showing that the majority
of people in this country do not want
THIS bill, they are like lemmings following Pelosi off a cliff. I have
gone from thinking these people are
incompentant to thinking they may be
insane. I keep hearing that the Republicans are standing in the way.
How great can this bill be if you can’t
get all the Dems on board without
strong arming, bribing and payoffs
promised. Want to blame someone for this
cluster, look in the mirror Dems. You
are drunk with power and not thinking
logically.

Let me get this straight, Obama had planed a trip to Indonesia and Australia for his kids Spring Break using taxpayers dollars. Now he is not going until Sunday.
Why is he going anyway? He should be working on jobs.

Obama is sacrificing his spring break to focus like a “laser beam” on jobs.
oops…I mean his legacy. ObamaCare.

This is just an intimidation tactic for the Dems to get this Obamacare (socialized medicine) bill shoved down our throats. He just doesn’t get it!! Pelosi, Reed and Obama have to intimidate everyone to get this done!

Vacationing in Indonesia.
Watching movies with his Hollywood friends.
Rappers posing for pics in the White House.
Obama loves the glamorous life doesn’t he?
While millions struggle to buy food, and save their homes, Obama lives it up!

Stay here Obama.
Let’s take a vote on OCare today.
The time for talk is over.
When it fails blame the Republicans.
Maybe Obama needs to come up with bigger bribes and incentives.

Mick writes: He’s got time to fly across country and read more speeches.
Why is Obama hiding from the press?
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Ah, and how is that hiding from the press? I’ve never read such petty jabs as I have on this blog this morning.

“ollie – You realize that any plans to create jobs will increase the national debt.” – Jackson
I guess you’re right Jackson if they are crappy government jobs.
You are dead wrong if they are private sector jobs. Those type of jobs decrease the national debt. Those are the “real” jobs that people want.
Do you think NoBo can apply a few brain cells and figure out something which helps the private sector, huummmmm?

At least his legacy will be one of healthcare for all…
Posted by: Jackson | Mar 12, 2010 10:51:47 AM
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Don’t you mean “huge debt” for all?

Noz – I thought you Obama haters didn’t want big gov in your lives. Go out and get your own job. As I’ve said before, go out and creat the American dream and make something happen. Don’t wait for a handout from the big ole scary gov!

Denbo writes: Don’t you mean “huge debt” for all?
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Oh get off the huge debt gripe. And Bush didn’t create any huge debt with two bogus wars? Another pointless complaint.

hank WRITES: Maybe Obama can get good health care in Asia–psychological help.
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Very mature!

There might be much more to this story. Has anyone considered that Obama cancelled the trip due to the recent military events in Indonesia? Maybe there was a threat to him? Or even something as simple as having outstanding warrants for parking tickets under his old name in Indonesia? Or the press accidently asking too many uncomfortable questions when he returns to Indonesia?

“Noz – I thought you Obama haters didn’t want big gov in your lives. Go out and get your own job.” – Jackson
Got my own job Dood.
I don’t want a Government Handout™.
I’d just like the government to stand aside and get out of my way.
btw, I don’t hate Obama but I am getting tired of waiting for him to show some of those smarts he supposedly has. He blew it on this Health Care Reform.
If he was a true leader he wouldn’t have played the “I don’t need Republicans to get things done” hand. A true leader would have included the minority party from the get go. If he had done that we’d have a bill with Tort Reform and Bipartisan support. We’d have a bill that would have a chance at controlling costs. We’d have a bill that would be passed already.
We, as a nation, thought we were voting for a guy who wasn’t interested in Red or Blue America. This guy, Obama, was supposed to be for all Americans. Someone who would work both sides of the aisle. So we made an apparent mistake and voted for the rookie.
If we had voted for the guy who had a proven record of working with both sides, John McCain, we would have had a Health Reform Bill long ago.
America, we made a mistake.

“Noz-McCain sang about bombing Iran. I see that as a major mistake. ” – Huh
Good Point Huh.
Gee, when are we going to get some decent choices for President?

Nobel PC Prize winner is killing lots of Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan–including lots of families with stray drone attacks.
I’m not sure Indonesia is feeling the love for Obama.

Hey Obama! How about a formal press
conference? You can run, but you can’t
hide.

Too bad Obama is hated by many in the place where he was raised.
How can that happen to the most famous Citizen of the World?
Posted by: kyle | Mar 12, 2010 12:34:24 PM
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As you illustrate, there are confused people everywhere – including religious extremists ready to show their ignorances and biases.

I bet this really irks Obama.
He can’t even enjoy the perks of being a celebrity president anymore without having to explain himself.
Can he still get away with datenights in NYC, golfing with fatcat bankers, appearances on Letterman, useless trips abroad with his family and friends tagging along, spending our money like Monopoly money.
Accountability is seriously threatening Obama’s good times.

how come we now have a lower standing in the world then with Bush???????
Posted by: Lizzie | Mar 12, 2010 12:53:36 PM
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That’s simple. We don’t.

“The United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll.
“It climbed from seventh place last year, ahead of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan which completed the top five nations in the Nation Brand Index (NBI).
“What’s really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States for 2009,” said Simon Anholt, the founder of NBI, which measured the global image of 50 countries each year.”

Wouldn’t it be great if the Obama supporters could offer up an argument that didn’t compare Obama to Bush, but instead compared Obama to his OWN words. You remember, all those pretty, well orchestrated speeches he gave during the campaign? IF Obama is as ‘above it all’ as some would like us to believe, then hold him accountable…to himself. Go back and see (or read) some of the words he has used over the years as a Senator, during his presidential run, and as president. To compare him to Bush, or any other president for that matter is unfair simply because Obama is Obama…his words, his promises, his policies, his agendas, are, well, his. Nobody else’s. If the argument is that Obama is so much better, so much a higher standard than Bush, fine, go with that. But prove it. Hold him accountable. The constant back-and-forth that what Obama is doing now is okay because ‘Bush did it’ doesn’t hold water. Obama promised a different Washington, a new era, a new way, hope, change…but so far it’s just been politics as usual.
By the way, why on earth would he (or anyone else for that matter) take 2 lovely daughters into areas in Asia that are immensely dangerous right now? Terrorism isn’t contained in one area. Those girls didn’t need to go to begin with, so I’m glad to read they aren’t going now.

To compare him to Bush, or any other president for that matter is unfair simply because Obama is Obama…
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Nonsense. There are basically two choices – Democrat or Republican.
Anyone with even a touch of wisdom would be comparing the two rigorously.

It won’t hurt that bad to say Obama has made mistakes and is not living up to his own standards, and by doing that, you would seem a little more credible. Right now, you’re in the groupie section.
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Everybody makes mistakes . ..
Regardless, there are basically two choices – Democrat or Republican.
Anyone with even a touch of wisdom would be rigorously comparing the two – including the mess the country was left in by the Republican Bush administration.

We need jobs to pay for health care.
If instead of wasting money by paying private insurance with taxes Congress and President Obama were to open Medicare to everyone for health insurance, put it under the laws that private insurance operate under and the average individual payment was what the retired pay now there is a national healthcare that works. The following is an example with Medicare paying 100% of a doctors office visit with only the retired people paying Medicare. Now if you increase the amount of available money by each person paying $110.00 each retired person pays each month, you do the figures it appears the available money would be in the trillions at a cost of each citizen of less than one third what they would pay under the heath care plan the Democrats are trying to push through.
There approximately 300 million people in America. If each person goes to a doctor for an office visit and pays $200.00 for that visit (This is probably double of an average visit cost). The cost for those visits is $60,000,000,000.00 (60 billion dollars). There 57 million retired people paying $110.00 a month on Medicare. That is $75,240,000,000.00 (75.24 billion dollars). Now if you add everyone making Medicare payments the amount paid in is much higher. This means with only one sixth of the population paying Medicare for health insurance there is over 15 billion dollars left over after everyone had a office visit for the year. How many of the 300 million people actually visit the doctor in a year?
Do you want to pay tax to support BIG BUSINESS or pay for affordable health care?

When is Obama going to start working on jobs? The jobs bill that passed is for unemployment benefits and some tax incentives for companies. It does little to create new jobs. All we see from him is his new ways to spend money that our great grandchildren will have to pay off.

Posted by: tierra | Mar 12, 2010 1:51:17 PM
Trying to have a legitimate conversation with someone led so easily just isn’t worth the time.
Posted by: Shoe | Mar 12, 2010 2:22:24 PM
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You gave up . . . oh well. Doesn’t mean I won’t be watching your comments for legitimate, or ridiculous, points.

Got to get some more backroom deals in!

Obama is nothing more than a man child. He and his administration have become the worst thing ever to happen to the Greatest Country ever. The man child and his misfits must be removed ASAP! I no longer have and trust nor respect for Obama and his gang.

Can’t wait for Nov. to see “our” Copenhagen/Pelosi loving Congressman from Mo. become a private citizen. He appears to love those backroom deals. Rev., one word of advise-get those African-American voters from downtown KC to vote, otherwise, you are toast! See you in 2012 Claire.

Obama seems to embarrass himself each time he goes overseas. Perhaps he strays too far from the teleprompter in chief.

Obama is not the problem here it’s Congress…Obama is actually a good man…he just has people that work for him that he can’t actually fire that aren’t doing their jobs…Who wouldn’t want Obama as a Husband, Brother, or Son? I mean really, people need to look at the big picture. All he wants to do is what’s right but he can’t because of greedy politicians that run our government.

tierra, how would you know what the economic situation was in this country?-unless you come here for the health care you can’t get in your riding.Hey, did you like Gibbs’ sweater today?I hear he left it on the Chesterfield.By the way,Reagan was President a quarter of a century ago.I know this are slower north of the border,but you are getting ridiculous.

concordia,what veterans benefits? I distinctly remember Barack Obama advocating that veterans should pay for their own service related medical problems-don’t you remember?He said something to the effect that since veterans were volunteers,it was their own fault if they got blown up.Surely you remember-don’t you ever watch John Stewart?As far as saving us from another great depression,it was the banking system that was in trouble and it was saved by the TARP program-a program entirely conceived,executed and managed by the Bush administration.As I recall Obama was a Senator then.Finally, don’t tell me how great he is for veterans when he can’t even take the simple time to learn how to pronounce “corpsman”,even though the first person he would see in the White House Physicians office would be an HM: a “corpseman”As far a his grades-are you implying that they were bad?

“As far a his grades-are you implying that they were bad?
Posted by: Nephron | Mar 12, 2010 3:30:37 PM
I’m saying it doesn’t matter as long as you keep saying they are, and asserting bad stuff!!! Who CARES what’s true??!! Just put it out there, and focus on stuff like the corpsemen thing because THAT is totally what matters!!!! Never mind the successful aspects of ARRA or that Obama was instrumental in helping with TARP?!? Good grief, I’m clearly saying that all of the progress in the realm of science and stuff does NOT matter because as long as the Republicans aren’t in power, the status quo is in GRAVE DANGER!!!And we are a CHRISTIANIST nation– science is irrelvant!!! What will happen if incomes STOP declining?? I don’t know and I don’t want to. Equity and progress and a sustainable future for ALL Americans is malarkey!!! Libruls aren’t real!! They can go to any other civilized nation for affordable universal health care!! Why does America need infrastructure and health care and alternate energy!! We are exceptional– we don’t have to prove it. We KNOW it!! And Michelle??? Good lord, why does she care about obesity? We have the right to be fat, gosh darn it??!
(Tierra is right about veterans benefits but all that information is making her think too clearly. Obviously she’s NOT a Republican– beware of her information. Being informed leads to turning librul!!)

Obama puts renewed focus on job creation
Obama Turns Focus to Job Creation
Obama pledges renewed focus on jobs
Honest to God, how stupid do you have to be to be a Democrat? How galactically stupid do you have to be to believe Obama or Pelosi or Reid or any other Democrat?

“why is he so totally focused on the health care reform?”
It’s a Trojan horse. Obama himself said that it’s only the beginning. Democrats would institute a public option and starve out private insurance. Democrats are pure liars.

tierra – typical of the Obama and Peolosi and “Rahm it”
And the threats and “chicago polictics” go on….
Bart Stupak -
Now, in the debate’s final hours, Stupak says the other eleven are coming under “enormous” political pressure from both the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). “I am a definite ‘no’ vote,” he says. “I didn’t cave. The others are having both of their arms twisted, and we’re all getting pounded by our traditional Democratic supporters, like unions.”
The arguments they have made to him in recent deliberations, he adds, “are a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”
And the politics of the issue are pretty rough. “This has really reached an unhealthy stage,” Stupak says. “People are threatening ethics complaints on me. On the left, they’re really stepping it up. Every day, from Rachel Maddow to the Daily Kos, it keeps coming. Does it bother me? Sure. Does it change my position? No.”

.Do you deny that Obama advocated that veterans should pay for their own sevice-related care?
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Pay attention to reality . . .
“Veterans would see an expansion of health care coverage and benefits under President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget blueprint released Thursday that calls for a 10 percent increase in spending to $53 billion.
The federal budget would boost programs for 5.5 million veterans getting prosthetics and care for vision, spinal cord and women’s health issues.
Programs targeting homeless veterans also would see an increase.
To eliminate long delays in health care after veterans are discharged, the budget calls for more funding to help the Department of Veterans Affairs retrieve electronic medical records from the Defense Department.
The budget also expands eligibility for veterans’ health care to over 500,000 veterans by 2013.”

Tierra, your posting is 100% accurate.
I brought this point up a while ago.
I realized the major diffrence between MSNBC and FOX. The commentators on MSNBC speak to their audience as if they are adults and understand poly sylobic words. Beck and company are usually screaming scaring their viewers with lies using mostly monosyllabic words. Red states which are the majority of the Liarcons base use more welfare and government aid than blue states. Are the people living in Missisippi or Alabama electing folks who vote against their best interests? Yes. Why? Redisricting has secured the seats of the professional politicians who couldn’t lose a dime in a sea of silver.
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Speaking of jobs tierra,do you have one? What is the unemployment rate in the Maritime Provinces?Why are you so interested in the affairs of a country that you can’t even vote in?Fashion File,Pembina institute-nobody in the USA has even heard of these Canadian items yet you feel free to drop them into notes as if an American would care.Unlike you I am an American taxpayer-I see waste of MY resources on a scale never before seen in the history of my country.

Some levity, on Halloween, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassly don’t need to wear masks. They’re two scary looking old codgers.
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Nephron, as a vet? How did you feel when the private for profit after care centers had mold, rats, and open electical lines that killed wounded soldiers after they received the best care possible by the Governemt run Walter Reed hoepital? Got anything to add? Did you know Bush did not include deaths caused buy IED’s in the tragic death tolls? Why do you think he excluded them? You’re a vet? You should be mad as helll.
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Nephron, Bush ordered Viet Nam era body armour, and Hum Vee’s that did not protect our troops. Why? beacause he wanted to keep the costs down. Please don’t even go down this path. Now you’re saying the un necessary deaths are ok, since it’s fixed. What!! All the un necessary deaths caused by Bush/Cheneys lack of funding is OK?! You’re the father of many? BS!
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My bet is the healthcare bill isn’t much about health at all…….there is a reason we’re not “aloud” to see it, then when we do, from what I”ve see, it will be taken care of accordingly. I just thank God that acorn is banned from Ohio……bloggers, you really need to go to biggovernment, bigjournalism and fox new, you really don’t learn much here do ya?

The White House has compromised democracy to favor a elect few.
Posted by: EPU | Mar 12, 2010 6:59:46 PM
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Get real. The President has consistently scored around 50% approval rating for the past severals months.
Bush was under 30% approval, Cheney down around 11%.
Forget the Republican right nonsense.

Posted by: Noz | Mar 12, 2010 7:25:21 PM
Not at all Noz.
A substantial number of people oppose the current legislation – BECAUSE IT DOESN”T GO FAR ENOUGH – they want single payer, or at least public option.
Yet these people are included in the ‘oppose the legislation’ numbers!

tierra;
get real? is that the best you got? Go to Rasmussen Reports and look it up if you care a shred about finding out what Americans think of this bill.
This is how liberals react to facts: “get real”, “nonsense”, “not true”, “uh-uh”.

Obama is in a hurry to pass OCare and start collecting taxes–he’s desperate for some spending money.
Health care benefits for Americans?
That can wait a few years.
Do Obama’s backdoor pals at Big Pharma start profitting right away?

What part of NO does Obama and the dems not understand? None (0) of the democrat bills in congress addresses the real issue of healthcare cost. Medicare costs more than was projected to cost and now it is breaking the back of all taxpayers. Surely no one believes we can sustain another big entitlement program. Of course if they cut medicare it can eliminate some of the old people. Now IF Obama were really serious about cutting the waste and fraud in Medicare BEFORE taking on more people to the entitlement programs, he might get somewhere. But let’s keep in mind when we turn over our healthcare or anything else to the government, the employers or the unions we give up our freedom to choose what healthcare, doctors or hospitals.

History has been pucntuated by periods of great moment. One such was Europe in 1848. The revolts that swept Europe were without immediate broadspread consequence but influenced subsequent great movements such as in the principles at the foundation of our own country.
I think that 2010 is also such a time in history. The limits of centralized power of government will be fully explored.
Unfortunately a much greater force, the National Debt, will soon overshadow all. There is a great tidal wave of debt that will soon wash over our enconmy. No one will esccape the consquences, not one.
What will you do?

“When you break down who is opposed to the current bills, you find a per centage who favour a stronger bill with a public option – they don’t think these go far enough.
When you combine people who support the current bills with people who would support bills that go further towards a public option you find you have a substantial majority of the people.” – Posted by: tierra | Mar 12, 2010 7:17:25 PM
COMPLETELY WRONG and Off Base!
The majority of the people want Tort Reform which isn’t in the current bill at all!
The majority of the people are center leaning right.
The majority of the people do not want another entitlement program especially the “Government Option”.
tierra, be careful, you are starting to look foolish.

How a poll is worded makes a huge difference. When Americans are asked about the individual elements of health care reform, they are overwhelmingly in support of it. Honestly, who wouldn’t want the descrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions to stop, or pricing those over 50 right out of the insurance market to be illegal and who wouldn’t want individual Americans to pool together to get better insurance rates as a group?
Folks, remember that the insurance industry has spent over 8 million dollars, your premium dollars in fact, to fight this health care reform bill.
That fact alone should tell you this bill will be good for the American people.

I suspect Pelosi will start foaming at
the mouth and howling soon. She is like
a rabid animal. Have they all gone insane
in Washington?

Posted by: Nephron | Mar 13, 2010 12:00:54 AM
Nephron, how do you account for medical costs in McAllen, Texas?
And what do you recommend be done in conjunction with tort reform to address overutilization (as it continues to occur even in states where tort reform has been put into place), to ensure patient safety and to reduce medical errors?
It isn’t a complete solution to the many ills in the system.
I think the Obama and Dem proposal is more comprehensive, and Obama has pragmatically agreed to look at tort reform.

He made more foreign trips during his first year (10 trips involving stops in 21 nations) more than any U.S. president before him.
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There was a LOT of repair work to be done – and it’s worked . . .
“The United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll.
“It climbed from seventh place last year, ahead of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan which completed the top five nations in the Nation Brand Index (NBI).
“What’s really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States for 2009,” said Simon Anholt, the founder of NBI, which measured the global image of 50 countries each year.

Poor irritated Gibbsy. “It’s not a vacation,” but it just happens to be during his kiddies’ spring break. Mommy and kiddies are coming along at taxpayers’ expense, but it’s not a vacation. Right.
The One, Michelle Antoinette, and the Little Ones need to stop jetting all over the world and stay home.

Obamacare does nothing to reduce medical costs, it steals money from MEDICARE to support and increases the deficit in the MEDICARE system by $500B. It is a shell game and a fraud. November is coming and we are going to fix Obama. He is a dangerous individual who refuses to listen to the majority of Americans. He is a egotistical radical narcissist and it is time to neuter him.

Sorry for the typo
That should read.
The number one factor of out of control health care costs is due to medical malpractice.

Hey, Haters Obama care is near!

What doesn’t this Socialist Administration(OBAMA,PELOSI,REID)understand,the AMERICAN people are truly against this bill.Obama do everbody a favor,after this bill fails,will you please stay in AUSTRAILLIA. You are the biggest SPIN DOCTOR this country has ever seen. GOOD RIDDENS!!!!!

From CNN: NEW YORK (Fortune) — A few nights ago in the historic Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Mo., President Obama reassured a crowd of Senator Claire McCaskill supporters that health-care reform wouldn’t just be good for their health, it would be good for the health of the country: “I said at the beginning of this thing we would not do anything that adds to our deficit,” he said to the clapping audience. “This plan does not do anything to add to this deficit. And that’s how we should be operating.”
What he didn’t discuss was what kind of accounting he was using to generate such applause lines. And the answer to that sheds new light on whether the nearly $900 billion measure really delivers the savings — or, as many fear, does exactly the opposite.
The issue is critical, because America is hurtling towards a debt crisis. On March 5th, the Congressional Budget Office released a report stating that the federal debt will grow far faster than the president is predicting, reaching a staggering 90% of GDP by 2020. That’s comparable to the load now crippling Greece. In a decade, says the CBO, one dollar in six of federal spending would go towards paying interest almost equaling expenditures on Medicare.

Anyway Obama delayed his trip to his Indonesia (where he grew up in his younger days) and also Austrailia (sounds like an important trip he really needs to make huh) – so he could campaign for this reform bill. Lets hope it has the same effect and is as popular as when he campaigned for elected officials in the governors races. Obama is effectively campaigning for all the democrats in Congress this week LOL – cant wait to see what the November polls look like.

In all seriousness, Obama’s trip to Australia was not going to be a vacation. How typical of the media to try to portray it as such. I’m there right now and the media here has painted a different picture. Aussies are in no way offended. We’re actually wishing Obama the best. While many Americans are opposing national health care, they fail to see how much of a benefit it really can be if it is done right. National health care will be much different to what Medicare/Medicaid is in the US now.

this is only for vote related…..then delay