Comments about ‘Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care’

This health care reform bill is ridiculous in all facets of its plan - and how exactly will it be funded with a government who doesn't already have enough money to fund what is already out there? The rest of us who work for a living don't have more to give! We can't squeeze a penny any tighter. And what about the pork barrel? Oh, it is ok as long as more than one state benefits? Come on Americans we have to be smarter come November with our voting!

u no wat i think that u shoudnt be askin for votes if u can do it ur self>>>ok so atleast try")

I am begging this White House to let this one go and for the love start focusing on the unemployment problem!!! We need to get people back to work. I cant wrap my brain around why they wont let this go and focus on what the majority of Americans want! Obama really is this nations biggest disappointment EVER!

Yes, please.

Lets say you need a new car so you go down to a dealership to pick out a new car. But the salesman will not let you see the car. He insists you buy it RIGHT NOW, sight unseen and says if you don't buy it right now, you are an obstructionist. What would you do? This is exactly how the salesmen (Democrats) are acting with this Obamacare. We are suppose to buy this sight unseen right now without anyone being able to read the fine print or understand what we are buying. Only a fool would buy this!

There is no solution with Health Care; this is a mandatory insurance policy that is against our Constitution and against our freedom of religion to trust God, not man. It gives us more bills, not better health.

It is counter-productive. It requires God allow some incident that we get an insurance check for. It is God's law: That which you sow, you shall reap." and "That which you fear shall come upon you." The Bible says, "You are saved by faith." Without faith, you are not saved from this controlling insurance bill that brings in things God has warned against.

God warned against debt, interest, insurance, covetousness and seeking riches and honors. We are going the wrong way and destroying the world. Our employment lifestyle creates all the world problems; a garden paradise lifestyle would solve them quickly, fairly, and easily. We can take back our nation by telling President Obama we want God's solution and the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20 as written in full, for our nation. God fights for us when we want Him. We are saved by faith in God's words.

I hope this Healthcare passes. Now, on the other side of the coin. Tom Harkin, Barack Obama, and assorted left-wing activists are asking a simple question this week as if it is the most profound question ever asked: If Republicans are so sure passing health care reform will doom the Democrats in November, why not help them pass it? If you ask this question without any sense of irony, you have so far removed yourself from reality that we might need to commit you. Let me ask it another way if the Democrats were so sure the War in Iraq would doom Republicans, why not go all in and help escalate the war? Because lives are at stake? Is that why? Well, same with the GOP helping the Democrats pass health care. We don’t want the blood on our hands. We will not help pass bad legislation just because it helps us politically. There are greater things at stake such as freedom, individual liberty, and the American ideal. The free market system should be above politics. The GOP will not help the Democrats pass health care reform because passing health care reform will mean no re-election.

I HOPE healthcare reform passes. On the other side - Tom Harkin, Barack Obama, and assorted left-wing activists are asking a simple question this week as if it is the most profound question ever asked: If Republicans are so sure passing health care reform will doom the Democrats in November, why not help them pass it? If you ask this question without any sense of irony, you have so far removed yourself from reality that we might need to commit you. Let me ask it another way if the Democrats were so sure the War in Iraq would doom Republicans, why not go all in and help escalate the war? Because lives are at stake? Is that why? Well, same with the GOP helping the Democrats pass health care. We don't want the blood on our hands. We will not help pass bad legislation just because it helps us politically. There are greater things at stake such as freedom, individual liberty, and the American ideal. The free market system should be above politics. The GOP will not help the Democrats pass health care reform because passing health care reform will mean no re-election for them in 2010.

'...this is a mandatory insurance policy ...' - 9:43 a.m.

I thought goverment insurance would be an OPTION. You can still keep your overpriced private health insurance. They will drop you once you have too many claims anyway.

No, the mandate is that everyone should have SOME type of health insurance. Not what kind. Like cars. If you own a car, legally, you MUST have some kind of car insurance.

Because, up until now:

'Cars were important. People, were not.'

Sure, we need to fix everything else first and fix health care last.

Republican list of thinsg to do, in order of what is imprtant to a Republican:

1. Start a new war
2. Tax cuts to the rich
3. Do away with Social Security
4. Do away with Medicare
5. Tax cuts to the rich
6. Buy everyone a gun
7. Send all non white people back to where they came from.
8. Give the rich a tax cut.
9. Start another war.
10. Pass a law that says Global warming is a lie.
11. Let big business pollute the air we breath.
12. Take money from the poor and give it to the rich.

and you will never see this on the GOP list:

Get health care for the people of the US.

I to HOPE Healthcare Reform passes this weel, with or without the GOP hogwash, so worried about getting re-elected in 2010.

1 -- in every six dollars in the U.S. economy is spent on health care today. 1 If we do nothing, in 30 years, 1 out of every three dollars in our economy will be tied up in the health care system. 2 Skyrocketing health care costs aren't just crippling the U.S. economy -- they're emptying the pocketbooks of American families. If we do not enact health insurance reform, individual and family spending on premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs could increase 79 percent in just 10 years. 3 1 is just the latest number in 'Health Reform by the Numbers,' our online campaign to raise awareness about why we just can't wait any longer for health insurance reform.

Let's get it done.

Sincerely,

Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director, White House Office of Health Reform

Hands down, the most popular form of health insurance when applying for an Organ Transplant?


Medicare.

In the previous 8 years, did we even have this conversation?
Nope.

RE: Brother Chuck Schroeder | 9:44 a.m. March 15, 2010

In the past year, citizens across America have made their opinions clear regarding ObamaCare. The President's health care proposal is a deeply flawed plan that should be scrapped entirely in favor of a truly bipartisan approach that pursues step-by-step reforms. It’s absolutely alarming Charlie Crist disagrees and has said he would not scrap this bill and process. Again and again, Governor Crist has clearly demonstrated he can't be trusted to go to Washington and stand up to the agenda of President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. At this critical moment in the health care debate, Charlie Crist has said he would be doing exactly what he did with the stimulus undercutting Republicans and looking to cut a deal. If I were in the Senate today, I would be a voice for scrapping this process altogether and starting anew. The differences between me and Charlie Crist can’t be clearer. Going down this road will also make clear that the poetry and promises of 2008's campaign have completely evaporated and given way to the dark side of Washington's politics as usual.

Thank you President Obama.

President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it would make preventive care cost-free and close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage.


Us seniors needs to be reassure either though him or/and the AARP as well.

And to add to your analogy, not only do you have to buy it sight-unseen, but you don't get to drive it for at least 4 years, although you are required to start paying on it as soon as it is signed into law.

If the uninsured are in such desperate, dire straits, why can't we come up with a solution that benefits them immediately? Because this isn't about insuring anyone. This is about Obama and his massive ego and legacy. He could care less how it benefits or destroys the country. He really hasn't even been involved it the creation of either bill. He just wants a footnote in the history books that he was able to do it. Unfortunately, the history book will tell this in context of him being the biggest goat of a president ever.

C'mon Obama! Get real!!

P.S. I voted for the man and regret it every day.

I don't want lip service. If there isn't a bill and it is not written out forget it. I don't want some Pres. saying this or that, I want it spelled out in black and white to read. I don't trust those trying to pass H C.

This isn't about healthcare. This is about Obama and how he wants to be remembered. Clinton wanted his likeness to be added to Mount Rushmore. Obama wants to be the president who changed healthcare for all Americans. Those who have had a "hand out" for years see this as wonderful, while those of us who have paid for our insurance and our choice of doctors and preventative care know what this is. It's socialism. Let's take from the rich who are supporting this country with their taxes and let's tax them some more. That way they will pay lawyers to hide their incomes and those of us who are stuck in the middle are REALLY STUCK! No to Obama's healthcare plan. No. No. No.

CAUTION! I wouldn't trust anything Obama says. He is a Political Pied Piper who will promise anything to get the votes he wants to promote his right wing agenda in an eventual full government takeover. Everyone needs to look past the rhetoric and be willing to recognize this man for what he truly is!

The democratic health reform is a TRAVASTY to our current health care system.

Mark my words, your quality of health care will go down and your premiums will go up!

We need to have health reform, but not Obama's way!!!

Let's start over..........make some reforms that is bipartisan and work on the rest in bipartisan committees!!!

Why strap our children and grandchildren with this HUGE debt????