Obama Vows to ‘Deliver on Health Care’

I think it's pretentious to have a book when he did. It's as if he expects to be special and treated as such.

@Marilynn

I respect your position on single payer health care, but if we kill this now, folks with pre-existing conditions will not have protection for a long time, the un-insured won't have some semblance of an insurance option and no foundation for a stronger government option will be available.

As the quote goes "we can not let the perfect be the enemy of the good"

Current, They are working overtime to not have a decent affordable plan, Plus if you don't have insurance they are planning to fine you.
Read Matt Taibbi's article.

http://current.com/items/90915896_sick-and-wrong.htm#90917730

"I could write better." LMFOA!!!!!!

I could.

If you really think that was a good speech I feel sorry for you.

and BC---terrible sarcasm. But nice try.

Middle School molded me to be more sarcastic than necessary.

you really are "special" jammer

I'm sorry I don't spend my time attacking someone in a single thread over two reporters......it was like the both of you were hitting your face against the wall and enjoying it.

Jammer loves to have the last word. Just watch.

Or the last sentence, which should contain the word 'arrogant'.

That is the same thing they said when Clinton give his speech to congress on this same issue and did America get it then?

jamme........dude, why do i feel like i need to waste my time?
is it sympathy? forget it........ you trolmiester.

BHO could have farted and you would swear thats the greatest thing you have ever heard.

Word!

You do realize you didn't have anything constructive to say! I realize your goal is to make a more balanced current.com (from what I've been told) but acting like that will not help your cause.

There is no difference between this and what comments have been made thus far.

As long as I read crap responses as I have....I'm not going to make an effort either.

I mean if the President can't make an effort to unite anyone....why should anyone else?

If you want "balance", then post the stories you want to see. That's how Current works- it's ran primarily by the users. If the majority of users on Current.com are liberal, Current.com will lean liberal, plain and simple. If you want "positive" stories about religion or republicans, or a parody of democrats, post them yourself. It's really very simple. Again, if you want a change on Current, you are going to have to actually DO something, not just whine.

@J_Jammer -- to be quite frank, when it comes to the homepage, we work with what we have. what we have is the direct result of community contributions. if stories lampooning Democrats and speaking positive about Religion were to be submitted (and gain traction), they could be featured right up there alongside some of the other content on the homepage.

if you take a look at the people whose content tends to gain popularity, they don't strictly contribute comments, or a single article to the site. they are active in groups daily (even moreso, hourly), they contribute several articles a day, and they take the time to promote their articles in other places (like facebook, twitter, etc.). doing this helps increase an item's views and comments, and in turn helps make it more popular.

as DeliaTheArtist points out, there are Conservative and Republican focused groups on Current, but neither have been very active. membership is low, and submissions are very low.

i know you do not want to have a room full of people who all share the same ideas, but that's how our site works. we have given our community the tools to create groups and gather people to discuss, collect, and share stories around a shared set of interests.

it's up to you what you choose to do with it.

let me know if you have any further questions,

mario
online community

Looks like things got a little out off topic here. I've cleared out some of the posts that were more personal in nature, if you have any questions about this please feel free to email me.

Yours,

-Ben

compared to jammer...........i think i sound like Morley Safer.

It's people like you that really are the reason the country is divided.

That comment proves your part in it.

doctrine of exclusion

I like the original name. These United States of America. It was changed to THE after civil war 1. The change was subtle but the meaning profound.

that annoys me too. i'm guessing he wanted to make his point without the hype. the first few times he was mentioning the limitation of the public option.

im guessing he's going to make welfare benefits include healthcare. i think its a good idea. the burden of uninsured emergency care has to be paid for anyway. that is how the medical industry has been off setting its costs onto the insurance corps (nonprofit or not).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-lessons-from-history_b_279389.htm...

control and power?

"I've never understood how people are impressed when any politician gives a speech they didn't write in the first place. "

You know Obama does write his own speeches! It's a fact! But I guess facts aren't your strong suit.

liberty for all, right on.

current89,

You are either delusional or you love Obama so much that you refuse to see facts.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84756

If you actually believe Obama sits down and writes all his speeches you are a bigger sheep than I thought. He can barely read them off the teleprompter, let alone develop them on his own.

Yo! @libertyforall

REad the damn article

"Jon Favreau has the worst and the best job in political speechwriting. His boss is a best-selling author who doesn't really need his help, having written the 2004 speech that catapulted him onto the national stage. At the same time, the same boss also happens to be capable of delivering a speech in ways that can give his audience the goosebumps."

In addition, the top of the article says he's his editor. Thanks for the source that proves my point.

current89,

Apparently you didn't read all that well......

"But Barack Obama is more than a little busy campaigning across Iowa and New Hampshire right now. So it was Favreau who led the team that wrote Obama's victory speech in Des Moines last week—a moment that prompted the TV pundits to drop months of skepticism about Obama's candidacy to make breathless comparisons with the Kennedy era."

Every single President has a multitude of speech writers. They don't have just one person working on them. If you think the President actually has time to sit down and write all his speeches you are delusional.

It was a very good speech.....I feel that our President reassured most Americans who are serious about health care reform..Our Country needs more good People like you and your Community, to support our President.

You kiss your mom with that mouth? Are you so stupid that you cant convey your point without lowering the value of this sight and everyone on it. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants and creed of slaves. Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; its force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. The people of the US are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the people who pervert the constitution. Read a book and get a clue. We don't want to hear from you until you have something meaningful to say.

They are all incompetent clowns.

It's not surprising given that the status quo enriches Republicans and Democrats alike. How profitable is public health care for politicians? Not very.
Both rake in piles from the industry and neither really want a public option, except for the progressive Caucus and a small handful of Senators such as Bernie Sanders and Sheldon Whitehouse.
Certainly nor Rahm Emanuel, you can bet.
Until there are strictly publicly funded elections, and their are many political impediments to such a scenario, corporations will control all domestic and foreign policy forever.
Thom Hartmann pointed out that an annual tax levy on every American of an extra 10$ on your personal income tax would provide close to $4,000,000,000.00 in four years to pay for a quadrennial Presidential election. Double it to 20$ and you could probably cover the Congressional elections as well.
*That* might more resemble a democracy, unlike the current arrangement which is untenable. As long as the corps maintain a stranglehold on American politics, a state of quasi-fascism will prevail. As it stands today, voting is almost a joke, particularly Congressional elections. The traditionally low turnout is unsurprising.

The other big problem America faces is it's current radical Supreme Court, but that's another discussion.

Thanks for that profound statment. Im ready to start thinking.

RonPaul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron Paul Nice guy. Fiscally retarded.

Why, because you keep what you earn?

"Why, because you keep what you earn?"
Because you cannot have a nation or a society without taxes. It's not possible.
Do you want your city contracting Blackwater for police and fire services?
Do you want everything in your state and nation to be for-profit with no regulations or oversight? Ron Paul's Utopia is hell on earth. I don't buy into the libertarian wet-dream.

That was exactly what your President said- we are for freedom and thinking for ourselves- but sometimes we need to put things right- greed is a powerful drug-
Honestly, this last quarter the CEOs of health insurance co. received bewteen 9-30 millions dollars- I believe ETNA CEOs got the highest at 30 million- now cool if they were making stuff or if when after 20-40 of paying them (insurerance) everyone got the full service and no one who was dropped very suddenly or denied anything the doctor said- cool. But, no that is blood money. There is allot of money involved in this. My Doctor said that their Physician Group studies show their pay has flatlined over the last ten years and that with reform there will be aprojected 400 billion dollar surplus in the healthcare.
Freedom is never being denied healthcare when you are sick. This is too important to let the lies continue.
Greed is a crazy thing- and if you listen to those at fox, or hate radio- they are owned by Rupert Murdoch and he is not an American. But, he is doing all he can frighten people and then he makes alot of money. and takes down people goodness and honestly by speaking untruthes and vulgar lies. Sigh, I know you think I am some fool who is letting the man get me- see I think that about you- and on one as stated above- I know and love my country and my government it all of us together- cable fake news is UnAmerican and they are making allot of money to lie . Cause Americans are awesome. and that means you too. Keep the Faith.

beingwoman,

You are correct in speaking out against Faux News. However, do you sit back and worship CNN and MSNBC? I would find that quite hypocritical.

And yes, you are a fool to let "the man" control anything in your life.

you must be one wealthy guy to be so secure in your judgments about your own medical future. lucky duck, let's just hope those terrible circumstances citizens face everyday, like speaker pelosi referenced, don't happen to you

The vouchers you speak of put federal dollars in the hands of private insurance companies.

The reason private insurance companies suck so bad is because they are for profit.

Where's the reform in sending federal dollars to inefficient companies that suck at providing services?

Why not just put that money towards Medicare for All?

I guess I don't care whether we have to waste some federal dollars in the process. As long as a large portion of uninsured Americans can get insurance at an affordable rate, I think it's worth it.

"this plan doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of passing..... "

Well Dante (a famous philosopher) says that the 7th level of hell freezes over. So maybe it does

did that guy just delete all his comments? i was rereading the speech to lift quotations :(

HAHAHAHA you think YOUR paychecks are chopped up? well welcome to civilization, boy, if you ever want the US to progress as a country you're going to have to learn to stop being a slave to your wages. its called a community, and if you'd like to live in a nice one without someone begging for money for their daily expenses every filthy, dilapidated block, i suggest you learn what it means to give back. without the very minimum that we contribute to taxes now, i wouldnt feel safe going outside. if you want to deny people the capitalist imperative of HEALTH, you know to FUNCTION ECONOMICALLY and HAVE A JOB, then get used to the homeless, drug addicted, and those fallen on hard times just piling up outside of your elitist mansions.

Hit the REPLY button. Your wasting valuable real estate.

I was on my iPhone at the time. I didn't have the option.

You didn't watch the speech did you or else you didn't hear, those unemployed or now experiencing a catastrophic health problem without insurance will be able to get medicaid. Seek some help for Stockholm Syndrome hunzedog.

That is the way it has always been done. It's a law that you have to give "equal time" on the public airwaves.

i don't know if you knew this, but obama is NOT a leftist- maybe in crazy conservative america, but if you think he will ever give a real speech to the left, you must think we actually have a diverse political party system! ha!

Last quarter in July 09- health insurance CEOs receieved their quarterly bonus- 9-30 million dollars- I believe ETNA CEOs got the highest each receiving 30 million dollars- and how- deny deny deny. And after paying for 30 years and not being sick--oops and IF you are not rich you will loose everything. over 50% of all bankrupties inour country are because of illness. We rank 37th in World Organization Healthcare because though we have the means to heal- the insurers choose not to let us. So infant morality is the highest in the industrization nations. Canada is 30th- Itlay and France are the best. And the Phsyicians Group did a study and with reform there will be a 400 billion dollar surplus in the health industry. A while back the car insurance was going through the roof it was made mantory to carry car insuracne but if you could not afford it the government had one to buy - so where are all the government run car insurance companies?
This has to happen or we will fall as a Nation.

Private insurance companies make a 3% profit. That is an extremely small profit when put beside profits made in other industries. I'd be willing to bet corrupt politicians are making far more than a 3% return on a yearly basis. When did people grow to hate capitalism?

"several polls that have Americans' disapproval of his health care plans over 50%" ... do you have some links or sources for that?

All I have to say to you is get some help for your Stockholm Syndrome mgerlach22.

no actually the majority of Americans DO want a public option. yea, what are your sources?

I don't know where you are getting this from but it is not the truth- it is more like 38% are supporting Pre. Obama
and then there is 34% who do not and then 23% who are not sure because there is so much mis-information out there like you saying 50% are against healthcare- and I am sure because too many of my friends do not have insurance, or were dropped or not enough and so millions of Americans are dying, suffering going to work while being treated for cancer- this is immoral.
and I know my America is good, honest and not cruel and bullying their way.