Posted on 05/08/2010 8:23:07 AM PDT by yoe
U.S. President Barack Obama says March's health-care reform bill already is improving millions of Americans' lives.
In his weekly address Saturday, Mr. Obama touted the first benefits of Democrat-backed legislation that narrowly passed through Congress earlier this year.
Mr. Obama says the entire health-insurance industry has agreed to stop canceling the coverage of people when they get sick, ahead of a September deadline requiring insurers to do so.
Mr. Obama also says a new federal office, the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, will help states stop insurance companies from "gaming" (exploiting) the health-care system. He says his administration has prevented one company, Anthem Blue Cross, from raising health insurance rates by 39 percent in the western state of California.
The opposition Republican Party's weekly address dealt with the most recent piece of major legislation in Congress - the financial reform bill.
The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, Richard Shelby of Alabama, criticized the bill for overlooking the mortgage giants known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The U.S. government's takeover of those firms in 2008 was an early milestone in the global financial crisis.
The U.S. Senate has been debating a complicated reform bill aimed at protecting consumers from abusive financial practices and ending government "bailouts" of troubled sectors of the U.S. economy.
The House of Representatives passed its own version of financial reform in December. If the Senate passes its bill, both versions must be combined and voted on again before President Barack Obama can sign financial reform into law.
#10) "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
Then of course never forget the Holy Grail of Obama, Holder, and Emanuel, their credo is #13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.........(Rules for Radicals)
Read carefully Obama's remarks....research if you can - for facts.
Someone please, please pull Alinsky’s foot out of Jack Squat Barry’s arse......
Tell a lie as long as possible and soon it becomes the truth.
He says his administration has prevented one company, Anthem Blue Cross, from raising health insurance rates by 39 percent in the western state of California.
and as a result they dropped their physical therapy services from 50 visits per year to about 12. This will cost me an additional 4000 this year. Or stop my physical therapy.
Thanks.
Obummer: Health Care Reform Already Working (Alert - another load of B.S. hits)
Yes It is true!
I had cancer, polio, dermatitis, infected spleen, glaucoma, asthma, colitis, halitosis, endoncrinosis, pseudobirthocertificatitis, loquatio-infecetion, cardioenfarction- but now I am completely well after hearing Obummer`s healing words!
It is truly a miracle!
Who needs a doctor when you have such a powerful faith-healers as Rev. Wright and Rev. Obummer!!!
Yes, and once we eliminate the profit incentive from private insurance everything will be fine. What's missing from this debate is the fact that insurance companies are not required to insure anyone or even offer their product. Once Obama makes it impossible for them to do business they will simply redeploy their capital to some other business. Then how do we afford healthcare, after all insurers do not provide it, they are a risk transfer mechanism.
My insurance company stopped covering my wife’s sleep apnea diagnostic. Half way through the program. Now she’s been diagnosed but can’t get her on one of those sleep machines unless we pay for the rest of the diag, about $4000 for one more sleep study session.
Up is down. Black is white. Left is right. Nothing is something. I believe nobama. He is the most intelligent. All praise nobama!
Photo of a (then) unknown "community organizer" Obama teaching a class in Alinsky techniques to ACORN employees.
” Who needs research...Just show people the riots in Greece with the captions “This is our future if we don’t stop Obama’s policy”
Folks, we have a
W I N N E R
Yes, thanks to Obama and the Democrat Party for driving corporations to rethink carrying health coverage at all.
“Obama: Health Care Reform Already Working (Alert - another load of B.S. hits)”
Someone take away his shovel!
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