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"We are going to pass health care reform in 2009"
"I want us to remember where we were 3 months ago. We were in the middle of the worst recession of our lifetimes. I want you to remember what things were like in Jan and Feb. We were loosing 700,000 jobs and economist feared the second great depression."
"I want you to be clear about what we did in the stimulus. 1/3 went to tax cuts that are in being refected in the paychecks of 500,000 families in NH."
FOXPOLL: 83% rate current healthcare as good or excellent
RASMUSSEN: 60% against paying higher taxes
RASMUSSEN: 60% against paying higher taxes
"1/3 of it we have used to cut taxes for small business. Cut taxes on the investment that they make. Over 300 have companies in NH have qualified."
"Another 1/3 went for emergency relief for people bearing the brunt of the economy. We have extended unemployment benefits for 20,000 New Hampshire residents."
House Dem Bill: $500 Billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
Pelosi/Hoyer: Drowning out opposing views us Un-American
Pelosi/Hoyer: Drowning out opposing views us Un-American
We've made health insurance 65% cheaper for families that rely on COBRA while looking for work.
"We've provided assistance that saved the lives of 10's of thousands of jobs who provide essential services like teachers, police officers. Its prevented a lot of painful cuts in the states but also a lot of state and local tax increases"
"The last 1/3 has gone to investments that are already putting people back to work...These are good jobs that American needs done and by the way these jobs are being done by local small business...We already saw last Friday the job picture is starting to turn. Were starting to see signs that the investments are coming back. There is no doubt this help put the brakes on the economy. But we all know that this doesn't mean we are out of the woods..."
"Health insurance reform is one of those pillars we need to build up in that new foundation. 46 million Americans don't have health insurance today. But it is just as important that we accomplish health insurance reform for those who do not have insurance. Right now we have a system that often works better for the insurance company that it does the the American people."
"A recent report shows that in the past 3 year over 12 million American were discriminated again because of a preexisting condition...No one holds these company accountable for these practices."
(obam talks about how he holds this issue dear because of his mother being screwed by insurance compnaies.) "One woman testified that an insurance compnay wouldn't cover her internal organs because of an accident she had as a little girl. Think about it, that covers a lot of thing. No we will only cover your skin" *audience laughs*
- He talks about helping 300 small business with tax cuts and extended unemployment for 200,000 New Hampshire residents. My question is, aren't there a LOT more than 300 small business in NH? That sounds like it would be a ridiculously small percentage fo the small business. I would also like to know if those 200,000 people who are recieveing a little more money for 2, 3, 4 months longer would prefer to have saved that money and actually created jobs with a sustainable income.
"We've provided assistance that saved the lives of 10's of thousands of jobs who provide essential services like teachers, police officers. Its prevented a lot of painful cuts in the states but also a lot of state and local tax increases"
"The last 1/3 has gone to investments that are already putting people back to work...These are good jobs that American needs done and by the way these jobs are being done by local small business...We already saw last Friday the job picture is starting to turn. Were starting to see signs that the investments are coming back. There is no doubt this help put the brakes on the economy. But we all know that this doesn't mean we are out of the woods..."
- Yes, we are still deep deep in the woods, in a rabbit hole, tied up in the roots and slowly being starved to death by socialism.
"Health insurance reform is one of those pillars we need to build up in that new foundation. 46 million Americans don't have health insurance today. But it is just as important that we accomplish health insurance reform for those who do not have insurance. Right now we have a system that often works better for the insurance company that it does the the American people."
- I love how he is now referring to it as "Health Insurance Reform", yes Mr. President that's exactly what we need. We need to reform insurance , but I hate to break it to you but what you are proposing is health CARE reform. But it is clever to start calling it that since the conservatives have been using that to combat the current health care reform for a while now.
"A recent report shows that in the past 3 year over 12 million American were discriminated again because of a preexisting condition...No one holds these company accountable for these practices."
(obam talks about how he holds this issue dear because of his mother being screwed by insurance compnaies.) "One woman testified that an insurance compnay wouldn't cover her internal organs because of an accident she had as a little girl. Think about it, that covers a lot of thing. No we will only cover your skin" *audience laughs*
Gallup: 16% say Health Care is nations top problem
Rasmussen: 53% people fear govt more than insurance COS
WH site calls euthanasia for senior a myth
WH site discusses vets medicare and small business
Rasmussen: 53% people fear govt more than insurance COS
WH site calls euthanasia for senior a myth
WH site discusses vets medicare and small business
"Under the reform we are proposing insurance companies will not be able to deny poeple because of there history, period. They will not be able to drop your coverage if you get sick. They won't be able to water down your coverage when you need it. Your insurance company should be there for you when it counts. Not just when your paying premiums but when you actually get sick and it will be when we pass this plan."
"When we pass health insurance reform, insurance company will no longer be able to place an arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage your can receive and we will put a limit on out of pocket expense because no one in America should go broke because they get sick.
We will require insurance companies to provide routine checkups and preventive care, mammograms, colonoscopy. There is no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer in the front end."
"This is what reform is about. For all the chatter and the yelling and the noise you need to know this, if you don't have health insurance you will finally have quality affordable options once we pass reform. If you do have health insurance we will make sure that no insurance compny or govt bureaucrat gets in between you and the care that you need. And this will happen without adding to the deficit in the next ten years and we will do this by cutting out the waste and insurance company giveaways etc."
"Now before I start taking questions there has been a long and vigorous debate about this. Thats how it should be. Thats what America is about, that's why we have democracy. But I do hope we talk with each other and not over each other. Because one of the objectives of democracy and debate is that we start refining our own views because others have perspectives or ideas that we hadn't thought of before. But let's agree that we when we disagree lets disagree on things that are real not these wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to things that have actually been proposed."
"The way politics works sometimes is that people who want to keep things the way they are, will want to scare the heck out of folks. They will create bogymen out there that just aren't real. So this is an important and complicated issue that deserves serious debate and we have months to go before were done and years to faze in all these reforms and get them right."
"We have the American Nurses Association supporting us. We have the American Medical Association on board. America's Doctors and Nurse know first hand how bad we need reform. We have broad agreement in Congress on about 80% of what we are trying to do. We have an agreement from the drug companies to make drugs more affordable for seniors. We can cut the donuts hole in half if we can pass reform. We have AARP on board because they know its a good deal for there seniors."
"But lets face it, now is the hard part, because history is clear. Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform the special interest groups fight back with everything they got. They use their influence and political allies to scare and mislead the American people, they start running ads, this is what they always do. We can't let them do it again. Not this time. Not now. Because for all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary, what is truly risky is if we do nothing."
"If we let this fall in the past, if we keep the system the way it is right now we will continue to see 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day. Your premiums will continue to sky rocket. They have gone up 3 times faster than your wages and they will continue to go up. Our deficit will continue to grow because medicare and medicaid are on an unsustainable path. Medicare is slated to go into the red in about 8-10 years. I don't know if people are aware of that. If I was a senior citizen the thing I'd be worried about right now is Medicare starts running out of money, because we haven't done anything to make sure that were getting a good bang for our buck when it comes to health care. And insurance companies will continue to profit by discriminating against people for the simple crime of being sick."
"Now that is not a future I want for my children its not a future I want for the United States of America...some of you voted for me and some of you didn't, but here is one thing I gotta say, I never said this was going to be easy, I never said change was going to be easy. If it were easy it would have already been done. Change is hard. And it doesnt start in Washington, it begins in places like Portsmouth. With people like Laurie, who have the courgae to share their stories and fight for something better that's what we need to do right now and I need your help if you want a health care system that works for the American people. As well as it working for the insurance companies. I need your help knocking on doors, talking to neighbors, spread the facts. Lets get this done. Thank you
"When we pass health insurance reform, insurance company will no longer be able to place an arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage your can receive and we will put a limit on out of pocket expense because no one in America should go broke because they get sick.
We will require insurance companies to provide routine checkups and preventive care, mammograms, colonoscopy. There is no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer in the front end."
"This is what reform is about. For all the chatter and the yelling and the noise you need to know this, if you don't have health insurance you will finally have quality affordable options once we pass reform. If you do have health insurance we will make sure that no insurance compny or govt bureaucrat gets in between you and the care that you need. And this will happen without adding to the deficit in the next ten years and we will do this by cutting out the waste and insurance company giveaways etc."
"Now before I start taking questions there has been a long and vigorous debate about this. Thats how it should be. Thats what America is about, that's why we have democracy. But I do hope we talk with each other and not over each other. Because one of the objectives of democracy and debate is that we start refining our own views because others have perspectives or ideas that we hadn't thought of before. But let's agree that we when we disagree lets disagree on things that are real not these wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to things that have actually been proposed."
"The way politics works sometimes is that people who want to keep things the way they are, will want to scare the heck out of folks. They will create bogymen out there that just aren't real. So this is an important and complicated issue that deserves serious debate and we have months to go before were done and years to faze in all these reforms and get them right."
- Um last time I checked both sides of the aisle had a fair hand in creating fear and slandering the oppositions views. Sarah Palin and her views have been assassinated in the media by the liberal.
"We have the American Nurses Association supporting us. We have the American Medical Association on board. America's Doctors and Nurse know first hand how bad we need reform. We have broad agreement in Congress on about 80% of what we are trying to do. We have an agreement from the drug companies to make drugs more affordable for seniors. We can cut the donuts hole in half if we can pass reform. We have AARP on board because they know its a good deal for there seniors."
- I love how he said he had AARP on board because just last night David Cerner, AARP Legislative Policy's Director said on the O'Reily Factor the AARP rejected the idea that AARP and the Government was aligned.
"But lets face it, now is the hard part, because history is clear. Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform the special interest groups fight back with everything they got. They use their influence and political allies to scare and mislead the American people, they start running ads, this is what they always do. We can't let them do it again. Not this time. Not now. Because for all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary, what is truly risky is if we do nothing."
"If we let this fall in the past, if we keep the system the way it is right now we will continue to see 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day. Your premiums will continue to sky rocket. They have gone up 3 times faster than your wages and they will continue to go up. Our deficit will continue to grow because medicare and medicaid are on an unsustainable path. Medicare is slated to go into the red in about 8-10 years. I don't know if people are aware of that. If I was a senior citizen the thing I'd be worried about right now is Medicare starts running out of money, because we haven't done anything to make sure that were getting a good bang for our buck when it comes to health care. And insurance companies will continue to profit by discriminating against people for the simple crime of being sick."
"Now that is not a future I want for my children its not a future I want for the United States of America...some of you voted for me and some of you didn't, but here is one thing I gotta say, I never said this was going to be easy, I never said change was going to be easy. If it were easy it would have already been done. Change is hard. And it doesnt start in Washington, it begins in places like Portsmouth. With people like Laurie, who have the courgae to share their stories and fight for something better that's what we need to do right now and I need your help if you want a health care system that works for the American people. As well as it working for the insurance companies. I need your help knocking on doors, talking to neighbors, spread the facts. Lets get this done. Thank you
Rassumusen:
68% of American's with health insurance rate their coverages as Good/Excellent
53% of Americans now oppose Health Care Reform while 42% favor.
68% of American's with health insurance rate their coverages as Good/Excellent
53% of Americans now oppose Health Care Reform while 42% favor.
- I have to admit and give Obama props for his speeches. He certainly knows how to deliver a well read speech and his cadence is certainly appealing. I once saw a body language expert talk about the way politician deliver speeches and they compared Obama with a fire and brimstone preacher.
- This is definitely not a cross section of the American people. Tickets were passed out by politicians. The audience is incredibly tame and the questions are softball pro-health care reform questions.
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