• Eilan said on Nov 06, 2009....

  Damn right he was insensitive.  He should have been reading to schoolchildren.

• ALIENated said on Nov 06, 2009....

  I figure all the networks will be turning on Obama pretty soon. It is the way of the entertainment world. Saturday Night Live is already turning on him and beginning to poke fun at his do nothing regime. However, he has done a lot ... just not what he said he would do. He has taken over banks, taken over auto companies, and is about to take over and wreck our healthcare system. He knows he has to hurry. He has to some how negate the constitution (by declaring martial law?) before 2012 because everyone will have turned on him by then.

• curmudgeon said on Nov 06, 2009....

  And speaking of Government Motors, has anyone heard that Ford (the only Big Three automaker NOT to have taken ObamaDollars) has increased its market share?
  
  Just more evidence piling up that Americans elected a man who had no experience running anything.
  
  Oh - and if this train wreck of a health care reform bill gets written into law, look for Constitutional challenges to open up on it from the get go. The Federal Government cannot go around requiring folks to buy anything. The auto insurance analogy is bullshit. If you don't want to pay for auto insurance, all you have to do is not buy a car. Health insurance is a completely different matter. If you are required to "buy" something by the government, that is direct capitation - a Constitutional no-no.
  
  Change we can believe in, all right!
  

• stopmediabias said on Nov 07, 2009....

  I can't imagine what they are thinking with this healthcare bill.  They could get something small passed that would fix something and then use their friends in the media to help them laud it as historic healthcare reform.  But instead they come up with is mondo thing that creates over 100 new government agencies.  Now they are looking at a vote on Saturday.  What are they thinking?  Even if they manage to skim this threw the House it will never pass the Senate.

• dyingman said 13 days ago....

  There's a lot to clear up here.
  Y'all would do well to take it WashingtonMonthly.com.  If you get past the leftish tilt, he analysis the maneuvers of the Obama administration very helpfully.
  
  To that end, the House Bill is packed with liberal ideas that they can bargain away in negotiations with the Senate to produce the minimum package some of you seem to expect. 
  
  I envision wildly profitable health insurance companies that treat 95% of us at lower premiums because they drop our coverage the moment anything serious happens.
  
  When they drop us, we are forced into public plans that cost 10x as much per patient because that last 5% are, on average, 10x as sick.  There will be substantial howling about the extravagance of the public plan and why can't they save any money and blah blah blah.  Then the conservatives will look at the numbers and do absolutely nothing because the alternative is letting people die.  The public plan will make such a good boogieman to harp about spending that they'll secretly LOVE universal health care even as they vow to destroy it if only they get a congressional majority again.
  
  It's very wasteful, but less suffering is involved, so I'll go along with the corporate handout.  I don't like it, but I'm not sure the insurance industry will allow universal coverage any other way.
  
  Insensitive?  No, but I fear I agree that it shows something of a amateur hour feel to it.  Perhaps he could have not mentioned it at all?  That might have been even better.  Save it for a separate announcment?  Maybe cancel this one entirely?
  
  Meh.  He slipped up.  He should have seen this could play out badly.  He strikes me as quite canny most of the time.
  
   
  
  
  
  

• dyingman said 13 days ago....

  dang, spellcheck is NOT your friend.
  Anyone make out that malformed blathering of mine?
  
  

• ALIENated said 13 days ago....

  ... that last 5% are, on average, 10x as sick ...

  My kid was turned down by a major insurance company (the same company that covered us last year through my company when I was working). My kid went to the doctor maybe twice last year and once was a regular checkup.

• stopmediabias said 12 days ago....

  dyingman-Why exactly have insurance companies become the villian here?  I wish someone could show one single person who was buying insurance, had something serious happen and the insurance company dropped them to where that wasn't explicity spelled out in a contract.  The insurance industry is one the most grossly over-regulated industries in the world. 

  I'm starting to see a pattern here.  Gas prices are too high, the oil companies are the villians.  Prescription drugs, pharmaceutical companies are the villians. 

  The answer is not a government option, the answer is the government getting tort reform passed, helping private industries solve the problem of people who are uninsurable, and removing the fraud and waste from the system. 

  The concept of insurance works but when you start adding in taxes, fraud (some asshole hires a scummy lawyer to get him $50k for a minor whiplash) and increased healthcare costs associated with that fraud then we wonder why our healthcare system doesn't work for everyone and cost too much. 

• ALIENated said 12 days ago....

  I heard someone explain the reason that insurance companies do not cover people with pre-existing conditions. If they did, everyone could simply wait until they get sick or injured and then buy insurance.

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