Obama's Patients' Bill of Rights: One Important Right is Missing, Thanks to Corporate Spin and Fear-Mongering

2. there wasn't a workable majority in the Senate for a public option neither. Obama longtime thought there was (and rightly so), until Liebermann flip-flopped.

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I don't know where you got such an idea about lack of support for single payer, a public option, or Joe Lieberman.



Joe Lieberman says, "Obama never pressed me on public option"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/21/lieberman-obama-never-pre_n_399355.html

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/02/22/public-option-dramatically-more-popular-than-senate-bill-so-obama-pushes-senate-bill-without-public-option/



If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics.



Obama insisted that Joe Lieberman caucus with the Democrats & keep the chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee chairmanship over 81 percent of Democratic voters who wanted Lieberman stripped of the job if he joined with Republicans to block health care reform (compared to only 10 percent who thought he should retain it). http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/12/democrats-want-lieberman-stripped-of-chairmanship/31807/



Barack Obama, the first black man to convince more people than ever before in the history of this nation to put him in the White House, went MIA on populist issues as soon as he was elected. He is a corporate t00l.
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Obama's Patients' Bill of Rights: One Important Right is Missing, Thanks to Corporate Spin and Fear-Mongering

For some of the reasons already stated and more, insurance companies will deny patients, because paying fines is cheaper than paying for treatment.
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Having insurance, even Medicaid, doesn't mean getting affordable quality medical treatment.



States must share the costs of Medicaid, and the states are broke. Most states are constitutionally required to balance their budgets, so what that means is that they will cut Medicaid services.



Here are just a few of what was in the news just today:



No Medicaid money may mean more state cuts

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/no-medicaid-money-may-560035.html



States Struggle As Congress Fails To Come Through With Extra Medicaid Money

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/June/29/Medicaid-money.aspx



Medicaid extension failure would create $121 million budget hole for Iowa

http://iowaindependent.com/37842/medicaid-extension-failure-would-create-121-million-budget-hole-for-iowa



NY governor says legislature must deal with Medicaid deficit

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65S5H220100629?type=domesticNews
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Obama Planning Major Immigration Reform Push As Arizona Lawsuit Nears

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I don't support Obama's immigration reform, but your charge that illegals are getting back more than they put in is bvllsh!t.



You need to step back and look at the entire picture, not just of the US, but also the entire world. You need to look at your own conspicuous and wasteful consumption, and how that's causing the problems that are visiting us here at home and other people in their countries.



And then look at how your voting for Republicans has been against your own best interests -- Because for the last 35 years, it's been Republican policies that we've all been living under.
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Kerry, Lieberman Willing To Scale Back Energy Bill To Get Republican Support

Why isn't Obama and the Democratic leadership threatening Lieberman with loss of his committee chairmanship to support REAL energy reform?
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Kerry, Lieberman Willing To Scale Back Energy Bill To Get Republican Support

The Kerry-Lieberman bill is heavy on coal, nuclear, gas and oil, and chump change for green sustainables. Nothing for infrastructure towards green sustainable energy.



Dylan Ratigan and Jon Hofmeister: "Obama Has No Plan To Get U.S. Off Oil"



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Petraeus Supports July 2011 Timetable, Sends Faint Signal On Strategy Change

Where were you when Obama was running for president.

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At the time when Afghanistan was relevant with regard to 9/11, when the US military let Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda escape from Tora Bora over the mountains into Pakistan, Candidate Obama talked about his having supported the war in Afghanistan.



Candidate Obama's talk about Afghanistan was always framed in terms of the past. And Candidate Obama was always equivocal about what he would do as president, because "nobody can predict what conditions on the ground and in the world would be like after 1/20/09".



Obama left it up to listeners to infer whatever they wanted, believe whatever they needed to believe about him in order to get their votes.



Now we know that Obama is an agent of the Establishment Elites.
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