Obama tries to regain momentum in health care debate (Straight from Associated Press)

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Obama tries to regain momentum in health care debate (Straight from Associated Press)
Date: 2009-07-19, 7:39AM PDT
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Obama tries to regain momentum in health care debate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama appealed to Americans on Saturday to back his ambitious revamp of the U.S. health care system, seeking to regain momentum amid growing worries among lawmakers over how to pay for it.

...Reforming the United States' $2.5 trillion health care industry is Obama's signature domestic issue, but he is running out of time to get the enabling legislation passed this year. A delay to 2010, a congressional election year, could make it harder to win a final deal.....

Which is why the Congress is trying to ramrod this 1000-plus page overpriced monster down the throats of the public before the summer recess.

...This week, the legislation advanced in key committees in Congress, but Obama was dealt a blow when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said his plans would not contain the spiraling costs of government health programs...

The administration quickly rejected this, saying the CBO had failed to take into account the savings that would be achieved through separate legislation.

WHAT savings? Nationalized healthcare is going to cost 1 TRILLION dollars just to get rolling.

Republicans charge the massive new spending and "job-killing taxes" in Obama's plan threatens the country's economic recovery.

"With a shaky economy and the need for new jobs, the last thing the president and the Congress should do is impose new taxes on America's small businesses," Senate Republican whip Jon Kyl said in the party's weekly radio address.

..."New taxes on small business would cripple job creation, especially jobs for low-wage earners. It would empower Washington, not doctors and patients, to make health care decisions and would impose a new tax on working families during a recession," Kyl said.

Obama said this was not true. "I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade."

BULL. Now Obama claims to know more about economics than the CBO?

...He said opponents of healthcare reform "warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine, or government-run health care with long lines and rationed care. That's not true either."

"I don't believe that government can or should run health care. But I also don't think insurance companies should have free rein to do as they please," he said.

President Obama is a liar and a fool. He is trying to get YOU to swallow a bill with an amendment by Charles "Slumlord" Rangel that will STOP the creation of new private insurance options. That's how the Gub-Mint will "compete" with private insurers... by creating a MONOPOLY.

Thanks for voting stupid last November, Democrats.