Obama on Healthcare Reform: 'The Stars are Aligned'

I don't see a problem with a universal healthcare system. I dislike when people call it socialized medicine to make it sound like something bad. This is the United States of America...hence the word United. We all need to unite together for many things, one of these things being Universal Healthcare. We as taxpayers pay for many things that we sometimes don't ever see or know about. I'd rather have Universal healthcare then pay taxes on all the things we don't know or see that really do not benefit us. Also healthcare doesn't necessarily have to be so expensive. insurance companies and healthcare providers, hospitals, etc. overcharge everything. Why should we have to pay hundreds of dollars for a pint of blood for example, or why do simple outpatient surgeries cost in the tens of thousands. why does medication sometimes cost hundreds of dollars. God forbid you're are unemployed or working few hours and are without insurance otherwise you may end up sick all the time or dying or paying for the rest of your life or in a bankruptcy because you can't get quality affordable healthcare for anyone. You know France as a great health care system, their doctors still make an excellent living, and they have some of the healthiest people in the world, oh and guess what they have a universal health care system. Univeral health care does not add up to socialism or communism or marxism or whatever you want to call it. Those are just terms used by people who want to scare you into not wanting a universal healthcare system. Please people do not fall for those types of scare tactics. I'm sure there is a way that will benefit everyone if we go to a universal healthcare system. Watch the movie SICKO and you'll see what i'm talking about too.

Guys, fixing health care isn't hard. People need to pay (high deductible and large co-pay) for their own medical procedures and drugs.

Of course, we all think we can get something for nothing and everyone in the health industry is angling for their piece of the pie (including Michelle Obama, the former hospital administrator).

When people actually have to pay for their medical procedures and drugs ... they got to think twice or actually have to charge their credit card that their banks like to give them like candy.

Socialized medicine should only go to the very, very needy (under 5 and over 80).

Is there any American born primary care physician still working in private practice? They must of dissappeared with the dinosaurs courtesy of our money churning medical schools, money grubbing insurance companies and federal buecracy (I mean job creation) to the a better place known as cosmetic surgery or volume clinics whack a patient express service like HMOs.

The math is very easy (we had baby boomers who made lots of money so we could subsidized retirees to have the best and most expensive (with the customary medicare ripoffs) medical care in existence. Now that these baby boomers are starting to retire with a life expectancy of 30 after medicare kicks in, there will never be enough money to provide the same standard of care unless (we print more money, we borrow more money from the Chinese and Saudis, raise taxes so there are no more jobs in the US, or ... let people pay a greater share of their own medical burden in forms of deductibles or co-pays.)

We live in the stomach staple (gastric bypass surger) society ... why pay the price of 60 years of healthy living, diet and exercise, when a 4 hour procedure can staple your stomach and fix your obseity.

President Obama's real agenda on Health Care Reform is to pay off his biggest supporters, government unions, who will get the lions share of the billions of tax payer dollars in President Obama's health care budget. President Obama's health care reform will require the hiring of thousands of government union workers who will be paid for by confiscating the wealth of the people. President Obama's health care plan will increase the size of government while shrinking the amount of health care services available to the people. This makes no sense except to the Democrats and President Obama whose only goal is to suck the life blood out of the people in order to feed their biggest supporters, union workers.

"Mondo-Did you ask a question at the on-line Townhall Obama had a few months ago?"

Nope. The email said I signed up at whitehouse.gov and I most certainly did not.

Did anyone else get this email? I'm curious to see where the White House might be mining for email addresses. I clicked the unsubscribe button on the bottom of the message, but it was a bit unnerving to say the least.

The stars are always in perfect alignment when the great one wants to spend a lot of money.. you don't need a telescope, just a checkbook.

They want to take "In God We Trust" from our money. "Then" Bamy comes out with words like this? You liberal idiots deserve this Bozo-In-Chief. All I have to do is figure out how to pay for his drunken spending. Of course, you liberals will all be part of the "Ruling Class" in the New World Order and not have to actually "earn" anything.

I'll believe it when I see it.

The New Administration did not wait for the stars to be aligned before handing Pakistan a check for 5 billion dollars!

I work in healthcare and let me tell you one of the biggest cost cutters we could make - get the gov't regulations and paperwork OUT OF HEALTHCARE.

One person entering a nursing home on Medicare must have a form called an MDS completed on day 5, 14, 30, 60, 90 and every 60 days after that. This form is about 10-15 pages long and most nursing homes have to hire 1-2 fulltime people JUST to complete these forms.

Also in order for a nursing home patient to have their rehab stay covered by Medicare they have to spend 3 nights in the hospital which increases hospital costs, which the hospitals have to pass on of course.

As a facility we have to pay for our Joint Commission Survey team.

We are required to have a Masters level social worker supervise the social work which in most facilities consists of a questionairre about likes and dislikes social history etc. (Absolutely NO reason to have a Masters level social worker when a Bachelors level is actually overqualified to complete the form.)

I would say that gov't run healthcare (Medicaid, the Veterans Healthcare and Medicare) STINK!!!!!!!!! If you are a vet and you are sick and want to see a doctor that day you have to go up to the VA hospital and wait for HOURS!! and then after you finally get in, you have to go wait at the pharmacy for hours. It is insanely ridiculous. and if you want to just get in for a check up you have to call 6 months in advance.

There was a doctor who wanted to just charge $30/month a person and then they could see him anytime. The gov't said he couldn't do that because it amounted to him running an insurance company and they needed to regulate that.

Instead of taking over healthcare the gov't needs to GET OUT!!!! and costs will go down.

The problem is that the social programs which we the taxpayers pay for are not in line with the Constitution. The liberal judiciary has decided that the Constitution is a living document and they can interrupt it how they desire. Yes the Constitution is a living document but the founders put limitations into it to allow for changes as conditions changed over the years, it was called amend the constitution in accordance with Article five. The constitution is very specific as to what Congress has the power to spend money on in Article one Section eight. Anything outside of this is in violation of the Constitution unless the constitution is amended using the procedures of Article five. Although Congress is authorized to spend funds on the general welfare of the United States the word welfare in today's context also means organized efforts on the part of public or private organizations to benefit the poor, or simply public assistance. This is not the meaning of the word as used in the Constitution as originally penned by our founding fathers. The Constitution was meant to be a document which could be amended but our founding fathers realized that it should not be too easy to amend so they inserted the requirements of Article five which requires the consent of two-thirds of the states to make a change. Congress needs to read the Constitution and follow the provisions of Article one and Article five instead of trying to make it look like the modern day communist manifesto.

"The stars are aligned..."

I thought he was talking about Hollywood.

RATIONING? Everyone seems to mention this scare tactic. Fact is that there is nothing wrong with rationing! In fact the current system, or lack thereof, RATIONS healthcare. It simply rations healthcare based on how rich you are, where you live, and how many plantiff lawyers live in your area. In others words, by the price (distorted somewhat by government programs and insurance companies).
Ideally we should have a universal system that "rations" healthcare more rationally. No more $10 bandaides or bactine wipes to make up an illegal alien who never paid anything or a lawyer who sued a good nurse! No more HMOs or Insurance Companies denying care on a technicality for someone, or business, whose paid them for decades!

Mondo-
Did you ask a question at the on-line Townhall Obama had a few months ago?

Interesting. I just got an e-mail from President Barack Obama. It states:

"Good afternoon,

You are receiving this email because you signed up at WhiteHouse.gov. My staff and I plan to use these messages as a way to directly communicate about important issues and opportunities, and today I have some encouraging updates about health care reform..."

It goes on to say that they are going to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill by July 31. Yadda yadda yadda.

The only problem. I didn't sign up to receive this information from the White House. Did anyone else get this?

The stars are aligned (according to him) because he is living in a dream world and smoking something.. for sure.

Health care bill before the end of July per NP. This will be a massive bill and one that will probably not be read by every congressman again. I guess we will never get to see this bill before it is signed into law like others. All the bull sh t about getting a health care bill this year and not one mention of when it would go into effect. Not impressed and loosing confidence.

"Of course it will- and if recent history is any indicator, there will be a little less than 10 hours to review this 2 trillion dollar swindle."

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I agree with you there. The stimulus bill passing broke a promise of allowing 5 days online to view it before signing. But we'll see if they make that mistake again. Especially on something this important.

"Gosh, if we're all lucky, this health care legislation will be as effective as the "immediate" stimulus has been!"

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Stimulus is starting to work a little. The most recent unemployment rate came down for the 1st time in months. One of the few entities that are hiring right now are gov't and prvt companies getting money from gov't.

"Wow, Barky sure ain't wasting time, is he? Now he's going for control of 1/8 of our economy with this health care grab, which goes along with:"

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Health care costs are already 1/8 of our econony as is. If nothing is done it will grow to 1/5 of the economy in the near future. If he wanted to control it, he'd write the legislation himself instead of letting congress do it.

Control of Banks and Finance
Control of Heavy Industry
Control of Mass Media (Tapper and a few others excepted)
Legislation for loyal youth groups (G.I.V.E.)
Funding for political policing (billions for Acorn in so called stimulus bill)."

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Not true. Acorn has to compete for stimulus cash just like every other prvt. organization.

"Top all that off with control of mining and energy via Cap and Trade towards the end of this year, and you've got a fine running start on facism in America."

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Come on now. All Cap and Trade does is make industry pay for the pollution you and I breathe. Some of that money would go to customers as rebates or tax cuts to offset the money those companies try to pass to their energy bills.

"All this, from a stuttering dummy whose only previous job experience was to negotiate asbestos removal from public housing."

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I'll take that previous job experience over that of a failed wannabe oil tycoon or washed up B movie actor any day.

After reading this.. I may need a Long Island I.V. .. maybe a double.

The Bush administration put gov't into bed with banks and autos. They spent social security trust fund money and borrowed huge amounts from China to pay for the Iraq War adding to the nat'l debt. The Clinton administration failed to reform healthcare when it would have cost fair less to do so. The Reagon administraion failed to keep up with the maintainence of the nations infrastructure. The Carter and Nixon administrations failed to get the country off foreign oil leading to 2 Iraqi Wars having to be faught over it.
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Bush put strings on Tarp and Automakers requiring certain adjustments or they would be allowed to through normal , court monitored reorganization.

Obama clipped those performance strings for the unions, added strings and threatened banks, funneled hundreds of billions overseas to rescue euro and other banks, and proceeded to pour almost 3 trillion borrowed dollars into these programs.

The GM and Chrysler co. have received almost 100 billion. The investors and retirement fund owners were forced to give up their ownership rights under threat of ruination by Obama. Banks were blackmailed into forgiving debt for these automakers. Obama forgave the debt of taxpayer dollars and then handed the companies, wrapped with a bow, over to his union supporters as payback for past campaign help and an investment in HIS future campaigns.
All supposedly to save the jobs, save the jobs, the network of jobs lost would be horrific and damage the economy.

GUESS WHAT!
The unions got their billions in taxpayer dollars through Obama, they now own the companies, so now they plan to leave the Michigan plants, close them up and send the jobs to mexico, and all the economic damage of those jobs going away, as we were told will now appear and be massive.

Autoworkers are protesting today, but I doubt we will see the networks carrying this part of the story.

But hey, the union leaders really made out and Obama will be set for campaign cash for a while.

Don't you think with all the threats, blackmail, and intimidation imposed on the banks, Obama could have stipulated that the Unions keep the jobs in America before he gave them the companies?

Anyone who thinks this is about jobs and the economy is not paying attention.

THE JOBS WILL BE GONE ANYWAY. THE ONLY BENEFICIARIES OF THE STIMULUS/BAILOUT ARE UNION LEADERS AND OBAMA.

THOSE SCREWED BY BILLIONS INCLUDE RETIREMENT FUNDS, INVESTORS, AND THE TAXPAYERS.

WAKE UP