Posted on 07/22/2009 4:32:25 PM PDT by kellynla
AT tonight's press conference, someone should ask President Obama why he's endorsing, and not threatening to veto, the 1,018-page House health-care reform bill now being rushed to passage: It breaks nearly all his core promises about health-care reform.
"If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything," Obama said on Oct. 15, 2008. "If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan. . . And we estimate we can cut the average family's premium by about $2,500 per year."
Both these solemn pledges, repeated often ever since and as recently as yesterday, are violated in the House bill. Its perverse incentives, plus the onerous regulations Congress plans to impose on employer-provided insurance, would cause more than half of those with employer-provided insurance to lose it -- 83.4 million Americans, according to The Lewin Group, a prominent, politically neutral health-care analysis firm.
And for those who do manage to keep their current insurance -- well, it won't cost $2,500 less, as Obama promised. Lewin estimates it will cost $460 a year more because of new cost-shifting from the government-run plan to private health plans.
That's right. The $1.3 trillion House health-care bill would cause millions of Americans to lose the insurance they have now -- while the rest of us would pay even more than we do now.
Most of those who lose their current insurance would be enrolled in Congress' newly created government-run health plan. The health benefits these Americans get would be decided by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, based on the recommendations of a newly created Health Benefits Advisory Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And as others have already predicted, the demise of Obamacare will be Hussein's "Waterloo"!
I sure hope it is defeated.... with the evilness of this administration, I don’t put any act beyond them....
The commie has a bunch of ringers in the house. I call it the capital softball team. I sure hope they do not go off script.
I’m watching the press conference. Obama is incoherent. The reporters there are sitting open-mouthed at his nonsensicle rambling, 6000 word answers.
My package through work cost me $2345 a year.
It is taken out before it is taxed, so I would have to pay at least a 10% tax of $235.
What the heck, are they going to PAY me to take their lousy gooberment health care?
I won’t watch one second of that liar - what is happening exactly?
exactly what happens when Hussein doesn't have a teleprompter to tell him what to say...
all this Bravo Sierra about what a “genius” this clown is, is just that...”Bravo Sierra”!
I'd have to see his college transcripts for verification...after I saw his BC! LOL
didn't watch the presser...not with MLB going on. BIG SMILE
>And as others have already predicted, the demise of Obamacare will be Hussein’s “Waterloo”!<
It is not over yet. He is pressing to get it passed and will stop at NOTHING to get it passed when they return.
It is the central core to taking over the people in a socialist fashion that he wants.
No, it is not even close to Waterloo ... he is just beginning to fight. He will now have time to buy, threaten and get signatures, mobilize ACORN and push people into corners.
We are in trouble.
As i said before this is NOT his waterloo.
Just now he sent out a message to the Obots.
Last week, Republican Senator Jim DeMint tried to rally our opposition by declaring that stopping reform would “break” President Obama. Instead, hundreds of thousands of you rushed forward to stand up for enacting health insurance reform this year.
Then last night, the President delivered a powerful prime-time address about why further delay is simply not an option, and even more support came pouring in. (Watch the highlights here).
Now, we’re on the brink of a major milestone in building this campaign: One million Americans publicly declaring their support for the President’s three core principles for health insurance reform this year.
Our goal is to reach the one million mark before Congress casts the first crucial votes as early as next week. This is just a first step of many we’ll take together. But it will send a clear message that the American people will not stand for playing partisan politics with our lives and livelihoods — and that we won’t settle for anything less than the real health insurance reform America so desperately needs this year.
Add your name to stand up for the President’s three principles for real health insurance reform in 2009.
Sign the declaration
(Link to http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hcdeclarations?source=20090723_email)
Adding your name right now will have real impact. Not only will you help us hit this key milestone, but we’ll run the signatures we collect in local and national newspaper ads and present them in powerful displays at high-profile local events across the country in the crucial days and weeks to come.
We’re so close to a million because volunteers all over the country are reaching out online, door-to-door, on the phone and at public events in their community. And every time a new supporter stands up with the President, they in turn reach out to others and the movement grows.
Less than three months ago, OFA launched our campaign for health insurance reform. In that short time, hundreds of thousands of Americans have joined in by:
* sharing a personal health care story
* calling their representatives
* going door-to-door talking with their neighbors
* calling neighbors in all 50 states
* publishing letters to the editor in local newspapers
* donating
* hosting or attending a local event, and much more.
For Republican leaders and special interests, the health insurance debate may be a political game. But for millions of American businesses and families, the cost of inaction is economic ruin and deteriorating care for the ones we love. Out-of-control health care costs are breaking the budgets of families, businesses and government — and every day that Congress refuses to act, 14,000 Americans lose their coverage entirely.
We’re working so hard in every part of this country because we understand — this is no game. Add your name to help us reach one million public supporters this week, and join in this effort to reform health insurance in 2009:
http://my.barackobama.com/reform
Thank you,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
watch the video. it is a personal message from the Kenyan messiah to the obots.
“this is NOT his waterloo.”
Steak dinner says it is. BIG SMILE
Semper Fi,
Kelly
PS I like my steak “med. rare”!
I hope I get the opportunity to buy it for you!
But I think over the summer recess that the MSM won’t be pissing people off, zero will work behind the scenes in typical Chicago thug style, bribing, threatening and cajoling.
meanwhile our side will lose steam or fragment itself.
I see all these people all worried about the abortion issue. I agree with it being bad. But i also see Obama giving in as a consessionto push the rest of the bill forward.
He will just add abortions to it later.
I’ll save up my appetite since I think your buying!
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