Michelle Obama Announces Money for Health Clinics

I didnt know Hilary Clinton was going for Presidency!! Sounds like the funds are needed in the medical sector in the US!!!

We are in for one heck of a stoner when this bill, along with Cap and Trade hit the American people right in the wallet. We will have lost any control we had before it's over with. America is in serious jeapordy. Don't tread on me, OBAMA! I have the right to say NO!

I just heard that 6 Shriner's Hospitals will be closed. We need every bit of medical we can get in the Great USA.

Oh Great !! Now we've got Dum & Dummer & Dummy !

Another common sense move by this administration. Health clinics provide care much more cheaply for non-emergencies than the alternative of patients using emergency rooms.

Axey . ..

With 70% approval ratings from the American public . . . the first lady is well liked and well respected. Surprising given all that hate directed at her (and her husband) on boards like this.

===Posted by: Ryan C | Jun 30, 2009 3:39:03 PM===

As soon as she sticks her nose into political matters, her approval rating will take a hit. This is a "mark my words" moment.

"But if it eases your mind that only right-wingers hate MO then so be it. The reality though is that she doesn't have very many fans from any political group."

That must be why her favorability ratings are 70%+. Her unfav's are in the low teens.

Let's stay on topic. Uninsured and Medicaid patients in urban markets need these community clinics, especially in the economic downturn. Bush 1 and 2 also funded these so it's not the political hot potato you think it is.

Medicaid patients are 4 times as likely to use the ER than privately insured patients. Most of those visits are for non-emergent conditions so getting these people to understand that clinics are the appropriate place to receive care is logical and necessary.

"if it eases your mind that only right-wingers hate MO then so be it. The reality though is that she doesn't have very many fans from any political group. She's hates her county"

The hate spamming against the President and his wife is lame and repulsive. Same adjectives might be used for those doing the posting.

Some of you on this are SO hateful. Michelle Obama is being a helpmate to her husband. She is helping to explain his agenda. Now if she starts enacting law then I would say that some of the hateful posts on this site are warranted. But because she is merely explaining what the administration is doing, does not make her a policy person.

Oh and BY THE WAY did you all complain when Laura Bush had a press conference in which she scolded a foreign country for starving their own people.

Now I have NEVER cared for Bush but his wife was popular and if he felt it was effective to use her to expose the atrosities of another nation, so be it.

You don't have to be a right-winger to notice the first lady's hypocrisy. But if it eases your mind that only right-wingers hate MO then so be it. The reality though is that she doesn't have very many fans from any political group. She's hates her county and is a hypocrit. She tells other to settle for service jobs yet was able to achieve whatever she wanted and make $300K in this wonderful country she hates.

These urgent care facilities are a good deal. I use them when something comes up that doesnt warrant an emergency room call and cant wait a week for a doctor. Or when you know that its something that the general practicioner can't handle.

That said, I'm not opposed to supporting "urgent care" facilities. And by support I mean fund raisers, donations, tax deductions, more favorable traetment in the permitting and building phase and sometimes LOCAL and maybe STATE funding. NOT FEDERAL funding!

Michelle, spend more time tending your
"organic" garden. A person's got to
to know his/her limits. Harry Callahan
had it right.

holy wow! you would think that the first lady promised genocide for all instead of allocations for health clinics. So, somehow there's an unspoken policy that the first lady cannot have any substance on issues that affect Americans. It's not like she's writing the checks, or creating the policy. How partisan some folks are that they can't even see the good in expansion of health clinics. Better we turn into a third world country?

I guess I missed seeing her name on my ballot last November.

And, where is the watchdog media's protest. At least question her right to make such decisions and control taxpayer's money, instead of a puff piece like this?

The first amendment seriously needs to have some limitations and/or penalties attached to it - say, by allowing civil lawsuits for the privileged media's deliberate failure to inform.

How can Americans make informed voting decisions if they are deprived of the facts? Or, is that the plan?

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

"Isn't this the lady that took $300k for a job that was done away with when she left?"

Yes.

Why is the First Lady announcing the release of $851 million in recovery funds to support community health centers? She doesn't have the authority to release funds, is she trying to pull a Hillary, 'cause that didn't work out so well...

She's not really a health care advocate, either. When Mrs. Obama held that $300,000+ job at University of Chicago Medical Center she initiated a program that was basically a patient-dumping scheme.

UCMC came under fire for this policy of "redirecting" low-income patients to community hospitals while reserving its own beds for well-heeled patients requiring highly profitable procedures. Oops!

===What's the matter run out of talking points?

Posted by: Ryan C | Jun 29, 2009 7:21:10 PM===

No. Just pointing out one of the reasons for the high cost of medical care. Useless jobs for useless people.