OUR COUNTDOWN TO FASCIST MEDICINE

Idiot: some people (responsible too) DID have savings and got wiped out. Ever think of that possibility? Could it be that such people had their health suffer in such a way that monies became depleted or lost their homes. Ever hear of medications that cost more than $500 per month? How irresponsible of them to have picked an illness and a time (of economic upheaval) that wiped them out. Should we sterilize such people so they don't propagate?

WTF are you on? Think!...Feel! And then try to speak!

The president’s remarks on his chosen subject, health care, were cautious and choreographed, hemmed in on one side by the calculations of his professional wordsmiths, on the other by the delicacy of negotiations with two houses of Congress.

He never detailed his own plan, or named a single victim of America’s broken system, and he spoke largely in the abstractions of blue pills, red pills, and legislative processes. It’s not easy to turn delivery system reform into a rallying cry for change, but at times, it was as if Obama wasn’t even trying.

His dryness was all the more striking by contrast with the press conference’s conclusion, when he suddenly re-engaged with a question that he’s spent much of his life mulling, race, in the form of the arrest of a black Harvard professor.

The appearance was striking by its absence of a move that’s long characterized Obama’s political career: When in trouble, go big. Faced with a crisis of confidence or with a political furor, he’s repeatedly shown an ability to rise above the storm, and to broaden the playing field, as when he turned a flap over his pastor into a meditation on race in America.

Now, facing his hardest test as President, Obama chose to go small.

In the bulk of the news conference, the president marched through a series of parries and recalibrations in his effort to steer a change in America’s health insurance system to passage this year. His goals were transparent, and defensive: He sought to reframe his plans as a matter of improving the lives of most Americans, not just rescuing the uninsured, and to remind voters that he’s trying to avert a health care crisis, not to provoke one.

And after a campaign that culminated with his call for “a new spirit of sacrifice,” Obama was at pains to claim that the only sacrifices would be unneeded tests and procedures.

Under his plan Americans are “going to have to give up paying for things that don’t make them healthier " and speaking as an American I think that’s the kind of change you want,” Obama said.

Though the press conference will not stand as a model of inspiration, it proceeded largely on the president’s terms. The press cooperatively devoted all but two questions to the White House’s chosen topic, health care, and Obama repeatedly tried to focus the country’s attention on the urgency of the need for health care legislation this year.

“The stars are aligned and we need to take advantage of that,” Obama said.

And the stars seemed similarly to have aligned for a classic Obama tour de force Wednesday night, with an issue poised at its tipping point and ready to be pushed past it.

Despite worrying signs " a slowing timetable, dipping poll numbers, and a growing sense of uncertainty " Obama stepped to the podium as his allies seemed to be retaking the initiative in the battle for a large-scale change to the way America pays for health care. His administration reached a tentative agreement Tuesday with conservative Democrats to create a commission with enhanced powers to rein in Medicare spending. And the White House political arm had found a groove in attacks on Republicans for boastful, macho talk about “breaking” the president and “killing” his bill " rather than helping American families stay healthy. (“You haven't seen me out there blaming the Republicans,” Obama said, despite his party’s full-throated attempts to do just that.)

But instead of shaking the rafters, he spent most of his hour just checking rhetorical boxes, with language so poll-tested and focus-grouped, it was bleached of life.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25320.html#ixzz0M5cSbqce

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Critics Question Obama's Assertion No One Would Be Forced to Change Health Plans

The government doesn't care much about customer satisfaction, doesn't care how its product is rated in comparison with others, and it doesn't have to show a profit, so there is no way that private insurance would be able to compete for long against a massive government program. Most especially since the President has inferred that he doesn't think private insurance companies should actually be making a profit.