Thread: 5 Questions Obama should (but won't) answer tonight...

The government can't even properly manage social security or medicare, yet they want to run all of our health care! haha.

patrick

Originally Posted by P-funk

The government can't even properly manage social security or medicare, yet they want to run all of our health care! haha.

patrick

agreed.

Number 5 is retarded.

Originally Posted by busyLivin

Below are the top five questions Sen. DeMint would like the president to address:


1. If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the rush to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit that you haven’t fully read yourself?

2. You have said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit. But, independent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office contradicts both claims, saying it will raise costs and increase the deficit by $240 billion in the first ten years. What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBO’s?

3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?

4. Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible, but this week you said that opponents of your plan are “content to perpetuate the status quo, [and] are, in fact, fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.” Which specific elected officials will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo, and is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 Blue Dog Democrats in the House and the moderate Democrats in the Senate?

5. Yes or no question: Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that, under your plan, they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions?

All great questions except number 4, not really a point to ask that one. Number 5 would be tricky, but I hope abortions aren't covered by this plan. As pro-choice as I am, I don't think making it easier/cheaper to get an abortion would be a good thing for the country. Although, there would be no way to do that through rational means, what if someone doesn't believe in getting treatment for cancer, do they get to dictate where their money goes?

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Number 5 is retarded.

Why? a significant portion of americans do not want their tax dollars going to pay for abortions. The idea of getting proper healthcare is an admirable goal. (i don't think obamas plan is the way to do it) but the point of voting is to decide where your tax money goes

Because you can't please everyone all the time. Should other people be able to dictate, what they choose there contribution goes towards for healthcare?

I don't want to put it towards breast cancer research, cause well, I will never have that problem.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Because you can't please everyone all the time. Should other people be able to dictate, what they choose there contribution goes towards for healthcare?

I don't want to put it towards breast cancer research, cause well, I will never have that problem.

However you would like to allocate 70% of your funds towards penile enlargement research.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Because you can't please everyone all the time. Should other people be able to dictate, what they choose there contribution goes towards for healthcare?

I don't want to put it towards breast cancer research, cause well, I will never have that problem.

no you can't please everyone all the time. but you have to please enough to get your bill to pass.

Originally Posted by danzik17

However you would like to allocate 70% of your funds towards penile enlargement research.

Like I care about a big cock. I ain't about pleasing her... as long as I get my rocks off

Originally Posted by busyLivin

3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?

Fact check.

The Lewin Group is wholly owned by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation's largest insurers.

More specifically, the Lewin Group is part of Ingenix, a UnitedHealth subsidiary that was accused by the New York attorney general and the American Medical Association, a physician's group, of helping insurers shift medical expenses to consumers by distributing skewed data.

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Research Firm Cited by GOP Is Owned by Health Insurer - washingtonpost.com

In other words, it is not a nonpartisan and not considered independant from the topic at hand.

Originally Posted by bandaidwoman

Fact check.

The Lewin Group is wholly owned by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation's largest insurers.

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Research Firm Cited by GOP Is Owned by Health Insurer - washingtonpost.com

In other words, it is not a nonpartisan and not considered independant from the topic at hand.

Oh Snap!!!!!! Citatiowned!!!

Originally Posted by bandaidwoman

Fact check.

The Lewin Group is wholly owned by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation's largest insurers.

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Research Firm Cited by GOP Is Owned by Health Insurer - washingtonpost.com

In other words, it is not a nonpartisan and not considered independant from the topic at hand.

Yup, the Devil is always in the details.

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