Comments about ‘Hugging cancer patient, Obama pitches health plan’

there can be no true health care reform and costs will continue to rise unless there is tort reform, and there is no way on earth BO, a lawyer, will do anything to reduce the flow of our money into lawyers pockets. that's why he offered no specifics when talking about reducing doctors' and hospitals' liability, then he can't be held to anything. slippery, that one is.

by making health care government funded, he opens the US treasury to attack and rape by trial lawyers through the health care system.

Ahhh... that picture just warms my heart. Obama is such a nice person. He is going to make sure government takes care of us all.

You know, there ARE worse people in this world than Barack Obama. Even if you don't believe it.

Hey Debby Smith(cancer victim) when your through hugging the POTUS......head down to the Obama Healthcare DMV, collect your number and take a seat....and you won't need any REAL money, as you won't be seeing any REAL Doctors!

Your right. I can think of two or three.

I don't think anyone is arguing that the DMV is the most efficient thing, or that government doctors are better than private doctors. But, in case you didn't know, some people don't have anywhere else to go, and even a DMV would be a vast improvement.

Tort reform is NOT the answer. In the area of medical malpractice it is simply a way letting the doctors bury their mistakes with little cost. At least the lawyers share the money with the victim.

Wow, Obama is at it again. I wouldn't have invested 5 cents in the stock market this year, but Obama invested for me! He made me and all tax paying Americans a shareholder in the most bankrupt institution on Wall St, GM! Based on his lousy advise of the past, I will not accept his lousy advice on how he is going to fix anything in the future! Healthcare DMV? Closer to the truth and makes me want to puke!

Show Obama the door to his national library, his welcome has expired.

Haven't we about had enough of this slippery politician who lacks both the courage and the honesty to take a position and hold to it? Our only chance of preserving our nation and our way of life is to create a landslide in the off year elections in 2010 bigger than the republican takeover of 1994. The citizens need to flex our muscle and throw out the incumbents on both sides of the aisle. Maybe this will get their attention and they will start to serve the people again instead of protecting their own power at all costs.

You cannot compete with the government. Just look at utilities. When the government enters the market it is impossible for the private sector to compete with the resources of the government.

When at last the President finally mentions the real culprit -- cost -- he fails to detail any plans to deal with it. It's like he's never really thought it through.

I bet in this forum in a couple of hours, we could come up with a comprehensive list of effective ways to reduce health care costs. Why can't the White House do that?

Looks like this is a bunch of people that are comfortable watching the Fox hate network. Seems they are happy with oppression and massing of wealth to the priveledged few holding the sources of production. Such a shame since a great part of the readers here are struggling themselves. Makes me wonder why people are comfortable struggling while the privledge few takes all of the wealth. Wake up sheep, stop regurging the crap and educate yourself.

That hug alone has probably cured her cancer. Now if Caterpiller would just start hiring again. Nice going Barry!
And I thought I was voting for JUST a Community Orginizer!

Not necessary when Obambi has an unlimited source of tax payer wealth.

The object of Government healthcare is not to control cost's, but to control lives.

And "The Obama Snake Oil" sales pitch continues.
And the hapless fools say; Take my money, Take my money!

Thanks...just woke up! I see a President out of control and millions of people hurting and its getting worse before it gets better......whose fault is it? With CNN reporting the Democratic supermajority in DC, its time for Lib finger-pointing and Bush blaming to end. Obama and his boys are now accountable and in 2010, 2012, we will show them the door!

Obama is right that quality of healthcare needs to be rewarded over quantity. Unfortunately his solution of a govt. run insurance plan (i.e. expanded medicare) to compete doesn't address this issue. Rather it decreases doctors compensation ultimately leading to doctors ordering more procedures to increase income, decreased availability of procedures, longer wait times for procedures, etc. (sound like socialized medicine to anyone?)

Insurance for all is going to happen (as much as I disagree that healthcare is a right). We need to focus on making sure that healthcare isn't run by the government as they have yet to prove competency in running anything. People need to own insurance (that they can take with them from job to job or when they get fired). Govt can subsidize this like food stamps for low income families. Giving people to option to insurance accross state lines would help.

Obama knows there are problems with our healthcare system, as do all of us. His solution only worsens the situation. Lets think this through. There are other options, unfortunately the media is so in love with Obama that his is the dominant option and he can do no wrong in their eyes.

This man is an IDIOT...tax and spend taken to a new and frightening height. He has never created a dime of his own....yet knows all the answers regarding how to spend ours.....what is wrong with this picture?

OBAMA = ONE, BIG, AWFUL, MISTAKE, AMERICA.....! He is a radical....extreme radical....!

BobP, when doctors order numberless needless tests to avoid the possibility of a negligence lawsuit, it raises the cost for us all, whether they get sued or not. that has nothing to do with the occassional mistake, but everyday practice. No health care reform will work without tort reform.

Interesting how you say the lawyers "share" the money with the victims, as if it was the lawyers' money to begin with. I think that's indicative of the attitude of the trial lawyers - they don't see the victims as victims or even as people, they see them as revenue opportunities.

Tort reform is the ONLY answer. I know I deal with this day in and day out. physicians are concerned about protecting themselves and their liscenses that takes years and years to earn. Have you all watched TV lately every other commercial is on how lawyers can earn money by going after doctors. I looked at several web sites as well and they are sickening. Lawyers will doing anything to make money and become rich. But I cant blame them its a thriving area to go into because no matterr what they get a share of the money. They know Physicians will just SETTLE because they dont have time to fight nit picky cases. Half of the patients dont know anything happened to them or realized they were suffering until a lawyer told them they were. This is the ONLY WAY PERIOD.