Weekly Address: President Obama Calls for Real Health Care Reform

by Bethany on July 4, 2009

The President makes clear that as Congress works through health care reform legislation, it must include fundamental changes that lower costs, ensure Americans have choices, and establish access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans. But what we cant welcome, the President says, is reform that just invests more money in the status quo reform that throws good money after bad habits. (public domain)

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spudaso July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Hey Dipshit, How …
Hey Dipshit, How about you pay for your health plan and i pay for mine , To with your socialist sesame street approach to everything.

billerjason July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Agreed with …
Agreed with ctpolitics2008. If emergency room care is free, why would anyone not go to the emergency rooms. There has to be screening and the whole point of an ER is that there is not screening. Obama is just going to turn away all his enemies and allow all his friends and family. Is that equality?

Ilovelucyclassics July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

stop ing …
stop ing talking about it and do it,

redbaroniii July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Obama is such a …
Obama is such a jerk..

ctpolitics2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

The answer to this …
The answer to this problem is economics 101. Obama skipped this course. This is a supply and demand problem. Tort reform will address the supply side of the equation. Tort reform will protect healthcare professionals and result in more access and lower costs. It will also eliminate unnecessary tests and treatments. Eliminating free emergency room healthcare to illegal aliens will address the demand side of this issue. How much do 25 million illegal aliens effect costs for the rest of us?

casper18nyc July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

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djoe1961 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Hello Barrack, You …
o Barrack, You say we can’t afford the current direction we are headed . What is the cost going to be, if you get a plan sent through? I appreciate your openess, and in fact do admire your coming to youtube to address an issue that has to be worked on. What is wrong with single payer thoughts? Why not a flat tax on all people, based on their income??? If you make 10 grand, you pay .1 percent…period???? That is simple, to say, and understand. What say you, sir?

clairebreedlove26 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

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SonofCimmeria July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

How will we pay for …
How will we pay for this? Easy.
Getting rid of all the for-profit insurance companies will save billions. No profit should be in health care. Business owners won’t have health insurance expenses on their income statements. We’ll cut spending in the military budget as well as getting out of our senseless wars. Yes, the president’s plan is to give a public option, which is acceptable, but I have a feeling it will be so popular that the insurance companies will go away. And good riddance!

ohkeepa2009 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

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search THE OBAMA DECEPTION on youtube.
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know the truth that the media doesn’t tell you.
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FluxCapacitor2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

AdrianneES
We will …

AdrianneES
We will pay for it by ending the wars, repelling the Bush tax cuts for the top 2%, cutting out the pork, cutting out the no bid contracts, bring back PayGo and just cutting out the government waste.
Also without the burden of for profit health care on our employers and small businesses we the middle class can compete on the world market.

KonanAoi July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

I’m canadian… …
I’m canadian…thanks guys… -_-

gttv10160 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

screw canada
screw canada

ninjanerd8 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

1. Come to Canada. …
1. Come to Canada.
2. See how well we live.
3. See how good our healthcare is.
4. Go home.
5. Shut the up.

AdrianneES July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

how are we going to …
how are we going to pay for this

stephenkingrocks July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

the one whose …
the one whose parents met in Russian class, the one who studied Saul Alinsky, the one whose boyhood hero was Frank
Marshall Davis. Figure it out yet?

Sadier888 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Don’t worry, …
Don’t worry, Americans are finally appearing to get smart and are for universal health care! Bon pour vous americains!

BloodMoneyConglomera July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

The Obama health …
The Obama health care plan is just the Mitt Romney plan, which was vetted by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. This means even Obama’s plan is a give-away to the insurance companies

The only real reform is universal single-payer health care, as provided by H.R. 676

Democratic Sen Max Baucus, who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, received hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance companies and drug companies in the last 2 election cycles. That’s why single payer is off the table

FluxCapacitor2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

I think if someone …
I think if someone could get this site running it would be worth millions in advertisements, and help the American people take their government back.
Let me know what you think.

FluxCapacitor2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Campaign Reform


Campaign Reform

We need someone that can set up and run a campaigning web site that Politicians can use to campaign without having to take lobbyists money. I was going to keep this idea for my self but it can be called My Vote and it can be set up like My Space but it can have poling tabs on the issues. Each state can have a tab and each politician can have a bio of how they voted on the issues.

FluxCapacitor2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Dont let the …
Dont let the insurance lobbyist propaganda machine and a few wing nuts brainwash us, its not about whats best for you its about keeping the money flowing in. You think the ultra rich power base in Washington will feed us the facts about their cash cow. NO they get cash for votes and the guarantee of a fat corporate job if they get voted out for going against the people.

FluxCapacitor2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

I know it is hard …
I know it is hard to handle the frustration of being in the monitory, but over 70% of Americans want a public option sorry.

FluxCapacitor2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

So conservatives …
So conservatives need to look at the total cost of the health insurance industry and stop the fear mongering and intimidation

FluxCapacitor2008 July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Health insurance is …
Health insurance is the number one reason US businesses are uncompetitive in the world market. Conservatives think just because your employer pays your health insurance its free, wrong. The cost of insurance is passed on to you and me with every thing we buy, $3000 dollars on a new car just to cover worker health insurance, and soon they off shore jobs to get around health care for workers and good bye job and insurance.

123lovegun July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Chap2: I think the …
Chap2: I think the hospitals,doctors and congress.Should hold a hearing,too discuss the problems. they are having with the cost.Before they going passing any bill.Before this becomes a bigger mess

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