There is an endless supply of Obama promises to reform medical care, he only recently changed his plan when it was clear the people were not responding to his scare tactics.
But, he has such a hardon for his socialist agenda he is not listening to the American people again when they say they are happy with their insurance too. Most people expect to pay for what they get in life, healthcare has a cost.......imagine that, lol.
Smart to a degree, but still not what the people want. The people have spoken, most are against the Government takeover of healthcare, will the elitist Obama listen?
Boring?
I find it exciting that the American people have stood up so powerfully to fight against big Government. You can litterly draw a line on his approval ratings and show his decline is directly linked to his trying to force this plan on us even thought we do not want it.
Let's look at it this way, Obama has massive charisma so people will tend to like him even if they hate his policies so his personal numbers going down fast are a good indicator, but a much better indicator is how poorly the average American rates the Congress. If they were crafting something the people wanted and doing a great job in fighting the Republicans, then why are the approval numbers for congress so very low?
Obviously the people are unhappy with a bunch of liberals who refuse to listen to the people who voted them into office.
Better informed than the elected officials who have not even read the bills obviously.
They are not ignorant just because they do not buy the lies Bender.
You know as well as I do that there are no solid numbers anywhere to be found. According to the 2007 census
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthin07/p60no235_table6.pdf
There were around 37 million Americans without insurance, and another 10 million illegals in America without insurance.
Talking about Americans only (Taxpayers should not be paying for illegals)
9 million uninsured make over 75k and can easily afford insurance but they "chose not to" buy insurance that is available to them.
8 million make between 50k and 74,999, again, they should be able to afford insurance as well.
So off the top you can take 17 million people off the 37 million list because their not having insurance is completely voluntary.
The crazy numbers come in with the remaining 20 million and most of those are already on public assistence and receiving medical care but they are on government care, not private insurance so they get to add them to the totals.
I believe the real number is around 5 to 10 million who actually "need" help but trying to give some understanding and even making an error in favor of the Liberals in an attempt to give them the benefit of the doubt, clearly at best they can claim is 15 million who have nothing, no kind of healtchare and that is really giving them a lot of understanding.
I do not see why we need to rip apart 20% of our economy to help 4% of the population.