Liberal nutroots are excited again, even if Congress is not. Even the liberal El Lay Times, while fawning over their man, wonders how the Democrats plan to pay for their health care plan.
Finally, Dr. David Gratzer writes in Forbes Magazine that nothing really has changed... Since Clinton tried pushing as similar plan through in 1993!
Still, the president's comments about the savings available in Medicare were disingenuous, as was his assertion that a new tax on insurers would lead them to "provide greater value for the money" instead of simply passing the cost on to policyholders.
Obama will have to come up with a more complete approach to paying for reform as the legislation moves forward. He claimed the plan as his own with this speech, but he left some of the hardest questions unanswered.
The President (yes, Obama this time) told Congress that "our collective failure to meet this challenge--year after year, decade after decade--has led us to a breaking point."Indeed. Read the entire article here.
Has it really?
When President Clinton conjured similar fears about pink slips and millions losing coverage to Congress in 1993, 15.3% of Americans were uninsured. In 2007, the percentage of Americans without insurance was...15.3%.
A solution to this problem is needed, but the fact that it hasn't grown worse is a sign that Congress has time to think, and little reason to panic.
3 comments:
Good post Silverfiddle and Obama showed the world what a coward he can be and how divisive HE IS for this country and it's only been 7 months!
Imagine what a clusterfluck this land will look like in 2012 if he stays in office for the duration>
I'd sure like to see the left fight a civil war with rocks and other green weaponry when they march up to 100,ooo armed to the hilt patriots standing up for the constitution taking this country back from the certain Obama abyss that awaits us all...
Wouldn't you? lol
The percentage stayed the same but the population has. So, the number of americans has increased that doesn't have insurance . Also, that doesn't reflect the current econimic climate in America.
There are other truths in what both sides are saying. We can't pay for it and there needs to be cost control. Why do you need to build new big hospitals and expand all the time. WE-COMSUMER PAY FOR ALL THOSE NEW IDEAS!!!!
I suggest that everyone pays cash for health care because you will be first in line. Then those that with non-goverment Health Care will be next and last but not least-Goverment Health Care.
I guess the Doctor's office is a business insitution and hospitals are the same. The business of keeping us alive. This is not a simple answer and who knows where things are going to end up.
Yeah, Ray, the left would cower and piddle down their legs like an inbred European if they were really confronted by righteous right like that gigantic crowd that marched on DC yesterday.
You've got a point Ron. If everybody were faced with the true cost of health care, that alone would lower costs. Combine it with other conservative ideas, and we'd really have it under control
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