Posted on 09/03/2009 2:33:24 PM PDT by kingattax
The Congressional Black Caucus -- alarmed by reports that President Obama may plan to ditch the public option and reduce the scale of health care reform -- is pre-emptively warning the president to express his "unwavering support" for the progressive provisions in his speech next week.
In a letter to Obama, CBC Chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee writes:
"[W]e are deeply concerned about the current discussions surrounding health care reform and the possibility that current components of the bill – such as a robust public option and myriad health disparity elimination provisions – may be stricken in order to lower its cost to about $500 billion."
Lee & Co. suggest that the 42-member member caucus won't back the plan if Obama goes squishy on the public option, a commitment to fund universal coverage, a commitment to equalize racial and income disparities in care delivery, coverage for U.S. territories and preventive care
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Bawahahahahahaha
The CBC is whackin Obama for going off the plantation! ROFLMAO
Oh now THAT is RICH.
O what a tangled web he weaves . . .
Black on half-black rhetoric...is that racist?
Does Lee realize that blacks would be worse off under Obamacare? How much higher are black rates of gun violence, diabetes, glaucoma, kidney disease, etc than whites? Obamacare can’t force doctors to work in decrepit inner-city clinics and hospitals. Most of them will simply leave the profession.
Those are some big words in that letter, who actually wrote it?
Re-distribution is the goal. They are re-distributionists first.
I thought Obamacare included race based decision making?
Obama be stuck between Iraq and a dark place
I’m not sure they would - suppose the healthcare bill contained a provision that gave doctors much higher fees for performing in urban areas - a lot of alien and minority and lower-income doctors might go for it...
Those 42 can go pound sand. From the clips I’ve seen from two of them in CA and another from MI and yet another idiot from GA, oh and the one from TX . . . I really don’t care what they tell Obambi and hope they get voted out but I’m sure their constituents will vote them in over and over again.
No, they can't -- yet.
Most of them will simply leave the profession.
That's a truly scary last resort.
“Black on half-black rhetoric...is that racist?”
Nope ... just a little bit ray...no cist, that’s all.
(sorry)
This means they will eliminate benefits provided to some people through their current insurance providers--it does NOT mean that those who don't have the benefits will get them. They will lower the playing field to all rather than raise it for all.
That's above her pay grade. Actually, she doesn't give a damn for the Black community. She's one of the "users". She's happy as long as they're subservient to her.
Barry, these are the kind of people who are going to show up in Pittsburgh and shatter every window in town during the G-20. Do you really want them aiming for your head?
I think that one reform that I would accept would be for the government to provide the preventive care. Preventive care really doesn’t need a physician calling the shots. The government could provide free clinics for immunizations, well baby checkups (heck, my grandbaby gets examined more by her pediatrician’s practical nurses than by the doc), pap smears, prostate exams, mammograms, general blood work-ups (cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL’s, LDL’s, sugar), urinalysis, EKGs, etc. I wouldn’t have a problem with that. PA’s and nurse practitioners could run the joints.
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