Comments on: Obama Administration Rejects Transparency on Healthcare

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:20:40 +0000

I am the mother of a severly multiply impaired child! In the list of quotes to our supposed reform there are many of those that indirectly already exist! We are a three person family surviving on one below average income. Our daughter doesn’t qualify for SSI, cash, food benifits, or any other available benifits besides medicaid, CSHCS! Medicaid covers 10% of her medical cost as a secondary to Blue Cross! However they threaten to cancel her 10% almost monthly! Not due to money but asset such as our home, life insurance on her father, and retirement for her father! What I am getting at with this is a couple things….. 1) There are many ways to save and cut our system to make it more cost effective such as the &25,000 dollars worth of equipment I have sitting in my garage collecting dust. My daughter has either grown out of it or can no longer use it due to her medical condition. Can’t someone else use it??? I mean that lives in this state or country! All this used equipment gets sent over seas because americans only get new! That is wrong!!! 2) For that 10%, which I am very thankful for, the government today already has access to all of our assets. Such as worth of our home, all of our bank accounts, our vehical worth, ect….. It is comming to a couple chioces Special parents have. Give your child up and the govenment will pay a foster family to maintain your child or become a foster parent yourself. Foster families in our state get SSI, cash assistance, food benifits, help making their house accessible and so on. My question is how is the govenment by forceing bilogical parents to give up their children considering this cost effective? While paying someone else to care for them or paying me to care for someone elses child! I could go on all day about HOLES in our system! One day my life will be dedicated to changing some of these issues! Today I am dedicated to making sure my daughters life is as good as possible! Which means her having time with her family and friends and enjoying her quality of life as she knows it!

Concerned Mother

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:42:29 +0000

In the words of MC Hammer, “Whoomp, There it is”

and

“you can’t touch this”

By: Cahil

Cahil — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:44:52 +0000

WAKE UP PEOPLE AND START THE REVOLUTION.

VOTE ALL OF THESE JACKA**ES OUT OF OFFICE.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS AND KEEP THEIR PHONE LINES TIED UP WITH YOUR ANGER.

By: politicalidentitycrisis

politicalidentitycrisis — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:47:22 +0000

But we can’t have that pleasant end until after the Obama term ends. I just might chose that wonderful, pleasant special cocktail over watching anymore of this debacle! LOL! No fair, if you’re gonna pass it in 2 weeks give us our please end order in 2 weeks.

As you can tell this is all hard for me to watch. I keep thinking, is it over yet?

By: CG

CG — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:19:02 +0000

JG, where is the transparency?? What about this promise: President Obama vowed that in devising a healthcare bill he would invite in TV cameras — specifically C-SPAN, that has not happened. Where are the actual White House visitor logs that full transparency requires of an honest president? I hope to see the transcripts of the meetings with the insurance and health care CEOs to expose this corrupt process, but I won’t hold my breath. Why does this administration act on obvious ethical improprieties only when legally threatened, and yet not completely comply by withholding the White House visitor logs? This is not what Candidate Obama promised! As a Democrat I am stunned by Obama’s arrogance in modeling the abhorrent behavior of Cheney and Dubya.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:14:41 +0000

Come on “American” do you still read the same Washington Post that was desperately trying to sell off-the-record access to administration insiders?

Why don’t you think a bit for yourself based on the evidence?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:11:18 +0000

That’s dead on Ani; thanks for the laugh !!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:09:31 +0000

So what now Bush is your “golden standard” ? Please; get serious. We all deserve better than this.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:06:19 +0000

“American”: Obviously you don’t even read what you post nor anything else.
Otherwise you would have noticed the sentence:

The list was released in response to a lawsuit filed earlier in the day by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, which had been denied access to the names by the U.S. Secret Servi

By: Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:05:30 +0000

But it made gugalooloo feel better:-)

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:02:51 +0000

Oh really? How so? How long do you think this bill was discussed/worked on/circulated? Not even Obama knows it…
And I seriously doubt you have a clue what all of it is about.

JULY 21, 2009
Obama “Not Familiar” With Key Provision In Health Care Bill

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/21/obama_not_familiar_with_key_provision_in_health_care_bill.html

By: Seattle Moss

Seattle Moss — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:57:04 +0000

How can anyone watch Madcow
At least we know that you love bottom feeding journalism.

Your a vet…I understand

How’s that animal tranquilizer working for you?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:55:46 +0000

Oh, really? How so? How long has this bill been worked/discussed/circulated for?

In one such conference call with liberal bloggers, a blogger from Maine said that he kept coming across articles from Investor’s Business Daily that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. If this was true, it contradicts what Obama has been saying all along about people being able to keep their own insurance if they so desire. What was Obama’s response?

Obama said, “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”

Barack Obama has been quoted as saying a number of times, “If you have health insurance, and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it. Period.”

Yet suddenly he is not sure if there is a provision in his own Health Care Bill that would outlaw private insurance?

You can hear the call for yourself here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/21/obama_not_familiar_with_key_provision_in_health_care_bill.html

By: CG

CG — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:53:19 +0000

Ani, great post! Thanks.
All of this is tremendously frustrating. Many of us remember precisely Hillary’s well-considered positions on creating jobs, real health care reform, the economy and how best to deal with foreclosures to turn things around, the environment, etc. Six months into Hillary’s presidency and things would have been drastically different, I am convinced of that. It’s unbearable to see how destructively mangled things have become under Obama’s incompetent and inexperienced leadership.

I sadly joked with friends this afternoon that with Obamacare there will be many a Dr. Deaths (Kevorkian) to rise from the rubble. A friend emailed a link to an opinion regarding swine flu and the population and considering this fall’s flu vaccination doesn’t include a strain to help resist it, and considering health care coverage for the uninsured will not be in effect until 2013, it lets a conspiracy theory take root or at least makes you wonder… scary… http://solari.com/blog/?p=3532

By: Ani

Ani — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:53:17 +0000

Not b.s. at all — Even if not taken literally — I think you can catch the drift. I mean geez, it’s a joke!

The point is, he is trying to ram through crucial legislation that will affect all Americans in record time. Leigslation that the whole of congress has not even read, that he does not fully understand and has not read either and that even he is admitting still needs work.

Get it now?