watch it: the 8/15/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
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All Obama has to say is: “No one goes bankrupt in Canada, England, or France because they get sick. Why do we let that happen here?” Or: “Sure, America has the finest health care in the world... if you can pay for it. Most of us can’t.” Or: “Any member of the Senate or House -- Republican or Democrat -- who opposes ‘government-run health insurance’ should immediately remove him- or herself from the government-run health-insurance program he or she currently enjoys, or be prepared to explain the hypocrisy.”
It’s not that hard.
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posted by Pollas (Sat Aug 15 09, 5:42PM)
I'd love to ask him, if the reforms are apparently so great then why have the members of Congress exempted themselves from having to fall under it as well?
This whole reform deal has just become so much rhetoric (from ALL sides), I say they scrap it all and start over from scratch.
posted by Victor Plenty (Sat Aug 15 09, 7:18PM)
Pollas, EVERYBODY is exempted from having to fall under it. The reform plan Obama supports is one that would add another option. It does not force anyone to take that option.
posted by Shadowen (Sun Aug 16 09, 12:50AM)
MaryAnn, you kinda remind me of an online blogger called Bartcop, in that he puts it so simply (or, more accurately, succinctly):
If the Democrats would just tell the damn truth and list the facts in plain-as-they-can English, they would have won pretty much every "debate" in the last six years.
posted by Victor Plenty (Sun Aug 16 09, 11:34AM)
Many of the same points in this weekly address are also covered in the President's article in the New York Times.
In recent days I have sometimes wondered how much of the economic growth in the 1990s came about, in large part, because of the lavish way in which the insurance and pharmaceutical industries spread around so much of their accumulated wealth to oppose the Clinton health care reforms.
If this conjecture is correct, I hope Obama's health insurance reform effort will have a similar effect.