Huffington Post political reporter Sam Stein was a guest on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" today to discuss President Obama's latest effort to rally support for passage of his health care reform bill. Stein noted that the President, who has been telling Democrats privately that they will own this health care bill whether it passes or not, is finally practicing what he preaches by putting himself out in front of the public in an effort to get the bill passed.
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Joe is wrong-- that's just so wrong...and funny....
The American people have polled for the public option over and over. All all, they voted for change.
Not getting any though.
The people in the way are the President, the Senate, the Republicans and the Insurance Industry.
Better messaging is not what we need. Better leaders actually making things change is what we need.
90% of Americans should be shipped off into the heart of the Sun.
The last time America had a to pick between Al Gore and GW Bush. That's a choice?
Rermember - 'Garbage in, garbage out'.
Oh. And then the health insurance industry will begin to crumble, as insiders are predicting it will, due to their own hunger for ever-increasing profits and the increasing numbers of people with shrinking disposable incomes that will never be used for prevention or even deductibles. But it will all be too late to do anything about it, because the US will become engulfed in unpayable debt.
Only then will the inevitable occur: single payer health insurance. But we'll have to waste hundreds of billions before we learn the true lesson in all of this: the profit motive and health care are not compatible.
The senate bill is a massive give away to insurance corportations that will feast on massive Wall Street like profiteering as far as it can go. The CBO forcasts exploding budget deficits of 90% of our GDP by 2020, that is only one decade!
You still think this is a good bill, a mandite to buy insurance, a TARP like program to pay insurance like coverage for the poor, and NO PUBLIC OPTION to offer competitiion.
Obama and the DLC corporate whores love this garbage.
The American people will respond in Nov. if this gets by in the House or the Senate.
So no, this bill is not a giveaway to the insurance companies at all. For the first time in history it really regulates the insurance market, and it even mandates insurance companies to do what we pay them for: reimburse people when they get sick.
It's not because you don't DESTROY insurance companies that you're for them and against the people ... some Americans have to wake up, Bush is gone, you don't have to think in black-and-white terms anymore ... you may again try to actually UNDERSTAND things.
He has been the face of health care reform and has practically risked his Presidency on it.
The problem is that when the other side can make blatent lies in the media like "death panels" without being called out on it, there is nothing Obama can do, short of making up his own lies and saying think like "republicans don't care if you die because you don't have health care" which are always quickly called out by the "liberal media".
This man has been MIA for a year, especially on healthcare. Sure the early delays can be blamed on the senate, especially with conservadems controlling certain committees. But at some point, every delay was due to a complete lack of leadership by the White House. For them to mishandle such an important issue and piece of legislation does not bode well for the future.
On the other hand, he seems to have woken up, and realized that our criticisms were well founded. NOW, and only now is he doing what he was elected to do. About time.
Obama has carried this legislation on his back.
In at least ten different points over the last year, it has been declared dead, only to have Obama come in and bring it back to life, even at his own political peril.
At any point he could have pulled a Bill Clinton and threw his hands in the air and said it was too difficult politically, and then acted like a Republican for 8 years, but he has refused to do so and has risked his presidency on it.
I suppose idealistic nitwits like Anthony Weiner and Kucinich are the ones who have carried health care reform to you though, even though they have actually hurt and actively fought this legislation from obama's left.
Obama has done more to fight for health care reform than anyone in my lifetime.
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Why is anybody thinking about voting Republican? To everybody who is, you need your head examined. You have serious, serious issues, and I feel for your children being raised by someone who possesses no ability to discern what's good for them and what's not.
Obama was told not to try that approach by...Bill Clinton.
The timing and the framework are shaping up for a major shift. I see Plouffe and Axelrod at work.
if the comcast deal goes through we will see a drastric change at MSNBC.
The "liberal media" will let the other side run with blatent lies without calling them out, which makes it very difficult for anyone, even Obama.
How is this "practicing what he preaches"? I never liked him much - always thought he was kind of a con artist. But even I'm feeling had right about now.
And that's at a time when unemployment numbers didn't go down yet and when most of them don't really know yet what's in the bill ... .
Republicans know this. Their Waterloo is coming, sooner or later ... .
Kucinich is dead right about this bill. It gets a little from the insurance industry. It gives them a whole lot more on the backs of working people. It does not deal with the fundamental issue at all, except that Obama wants a "win." Sure, some good people think it should pass, but that's because Obama orchestrated a weak bill, and killed all the better options. In any event, this is not a time to praise Obama for boosting a cynical bill.
Modifying 17% of the economy is no easy feat. This is the incremental approach, not passing parts of the bill here and there. We are working our way to single payer.
How long do people think it will be before this country is ready to pass single payor? About another 25 years? Are you willing to wait that long for universal health insurance?
If not, get on board with Pres. Obama's START. If we don't start now, how will we ever achieve our goal?
The longest journey begins with a single step.
EVERYBODY: Call your Congress men and women today; ask them to support the President's plan. Let's make history by STARTing the long journey to a single payor system.