Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

Obama's presidency = A continuati­on of the cruel & avaricious policies of Bush-Chene­y
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

The only way this HCR will be improved, will be to vote in more Dems in the House and the Senate.

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While the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party tells constituen­ts, "If you want liberal/pr­ogressive policies from Obama and Democrats in Congress, you have to get liberals/p­rogressive­s into Congress", in fact, Obama and the Democratic Party's machine have worked to prevent liberals/p­rogressive­s getting into office on a broad-base­d scale and with a scheme that has included:

Chucking the successful 50-state-s­trategy (that got Obama into office and a filibuster­-proof Senate with 60 in a Democratic Caucus in 2008),

Deactivati­ng the Obama campaign's OFA operation, which was the email list that directed 13 million activists across 50 states to spring into action on any issue, 

Sitting back while the Republican Party drove ACORN (the most successful and legitimate Democratic voter registrati­on operation) out of existence; 

By supporting Blue Dogs and Non-Democr­ats in the 2010 mid-term primaries and general election:

*      Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter.

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over (barely) progressiv­e Democrat Joe Sestak.

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over (not progressiv­e) Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressio­nal seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island).

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek.


What real Democratic president does this (and what real Democratic Party allows him to)??

By getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.

Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping it. Citizens have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our participat­ion in this democracy at this most basic level, state primaries, and supercede our choice for his own, is an abuse of the process and a powerful message about Obama's contempt for the People's role in a democratic government­, our voices and our choices.

Voting Obama and all of the incumbents out of office is the way, and we got a good start on it in the midterms.
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama, with Pelosi's and Reid's compliance­.  

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia­tion anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly­) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.  Just three weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

Who do you think just wrote that tax cut legislatio­n preserving Bush's tax cuts for the richest?

Please, let's not go through this id!otic BS again -- Presidents write legislatio­n all the time.
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama, with Pelosi's and Reid's compliance­.  

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia­tion anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly­) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.  Just two weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

Out of Obama's mouth two weeks ago, on the furor over his deal preserving Bush's tax cuts for the richest:

"This is the public option debate all over again. So I pass a signature piece of legislatio­n where we finally get health care for all Americans, something that Democrats have been fighting for for a hundred years, but because there was a provision in there that they didn't get that would have affected maybe a couple million people, even though we got health insurance for 30 million people, and the potential for lower premiums for 100 million people, that somehow that was a sign of weakness and compromise­."

This is 'SMACK YA IN THE SIDE OF THE HEAD'-stuff coming out of Obama's mouth.

Obama didn't get health care for all Americans -- He sold insurance policies on behalf of insurance companies using Americans' money.  Over-price­d, lousy insurance policies, at that.  Having insurance doesn't mean getting health care.  BIG DIFFERENCE­.

And there are no cost controls in what Obama got.  And it didn't do anything about the fact that 19% of our gdp is tied up in an employer-b­ased monopoly system.  Ending employment­-based insurance was what everybody wanted.   

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Three weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

And Obama's legislatio­n leads to  eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all ab0rt!ons.

Then once the legislatio­n passed, Obama then appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulation­s.  A fox in charge of this chicken coop.  And with Obama's other budget cuts, like the freeze on federal employees wages, enforcing regulation­s isn't likely.  

To date, Obama has issued waivers to 110 corporatio­ns, allowing them not to have to comply with the healthcare legislatio­n.

This guy's a real piece o'work.
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

A caller on CSpan three weeks ago asked Richard Wolffe, who was out plugging his latest book written from his special access to the Obama White House, if we're ever going to get a public option to keep costs down.

Wolffe makes it clear that Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats never had any intention of going with a public option or expanding public healthcare in any way (although Wolffe is mistaken when he says that Obama never ran on supporting a public option).

Not only did Obama campaign on "a public option", he campaigned on single payer, universal health care.

Here's a campaign ad featuring Obama himself.  See the part where he says he has a plan to "cover everyone'? That's 'universal coverage'. There's even a graphic in the ad that says "The Obama Plan - UNIVERSAL coverage for all Americans"­.

Obama ran against mandates, and criticized Hillary for them in her campaign promises. Here is Candidate Obama on mandates.

Here again -- Obama campaigned on public option.
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