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Yesterday on "ABC-TV" (better known as the all Barrack channel) during the "network special on health care".... Obama was asked:
"Mr. President will you and your family give up your current health care program and join the new 'universal health care program' that the rest of us will be on?".....
(bet you already know the answer)...
There was a stoney silence as Obama ignored the question and chose not to answer it.... in addition, a number of Senators were asked the same question and their response was..."We will think about it." And they did.
It was announced today on the news that the "Kennedy health care bill" was written into the new health care reform initiative, ensuring that that Congress will be 100% exempt !
This should speak volumes to all of us. so, this great new health care plan that is good for you and me... is not good enough for Obama, his family or Congress...??
We (the american public) need to stop this proposed debacle asap!
This is totally wrong !!!!! If you agree please email this to your friends .... If not plan to suffer with the Obama health care plan ....for free.... while our self-serving politicians make sure that they take care of themselves and their families at our expense.
Originally posted by Dreamwatcher
Reading all the debates about this provision and that provision can be confusing. The bill was drafted that way on purpose.
I mentioned in a different thread, that all that needs to be realized is that congress, and all federal employees for that matter will be exempt from this "Health-care" plan if passed.
To me that speaks VOLUMES about this plan, and should cause a serious doubt in all minds, even if one has a difficult time understanding the bill itself.
David Scheiner, an internist based in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, has a diverse practice of lower-income adults from the nearby housing projects mixed with famous patients like U.S. Sen. Carol Mosely Braun, the late writer Studs Terkel and, most notably, President Barack Obama. Scheiner, 71, was Obama's doctor from 1987 until he entered the White House; he vouched for the then-candidate's "excellent health" in a letter last year. He's still an enthusiastic Obama supporter, but he worries about whether the health care legislation currently making its way through Congress will actually do any good, particularly for doctors like himself who practice general medicine. "I'm not sure he really understands what we face in primary care," Scheiner says.
Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
I thought it was a health care plan for low income earners that can't afford private health insurance? How could Obama refuse it when he's not even eligible?
Originally posted by PieKeeper
Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
I thought it was a health care plan for low income earners that can't afford private health insurance? How could Obama refuse it when he's not even eligible?
Exactly.
Everyone is so quick to jump the shark and go "Hey, Obama doesn't want it, must mean it's rubbish." No. I'm sure the Obama family has health care that they are already satisfied with. The new health care system being proposed is for a public option, mostly for those who don't have/can't afford health care.
Originally posted by nixie_nox
I love how many posters scream that they shouldn't have to pay for someone else's health care, yet (even if it is remotely true which no one has provided proof yet)
if Obama doesn't provide the utmost quality care, they scream.
If proof of this statement isn't provided soon this thread needs to be yanked.