[We are experiencing audio sync issues on youtube; this speech can be viewed properly at Vimeo www.vimeo.com White House Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann deparle took questions in a live online chat via Yahoo! News and Twitter the day after the Presidents Address to Congress. September 10, 2009. (Public Domain)
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April 10th, 2010 @6:27 pm
I am a republican and I am pissed off at what happened to my insurance rates. Dam the republican party that works for the interests of the insrance companies. Instead of representing the people who voted for them.
I am voting demoract in the next election. Fuck the republican party and the insurance companies. Dam them to hell
April 10th, 2010 @7:18 pm
This Health Plan is a scam for attaining our money that we worked our butts off to recieve!
April 10th, 2010 @7:39 pm
You (and other low-income families) could probably sign up for Medicaid. Whether you do or not, in an emergency, you or your son would not be turned away. If you can’t pay, the taxpayer picks up the bill (Medicaid).
April 10th, 2010 @7:58 pm
I’m sorry, but a tax credit isn’t going to help low income families cover the costs of anything. I make $8 an hour and average a 40 hour week, between lot rent for my mobile home, lights, water, clothes for my son, car insurance, gas for my car, groceries for the week, and other random expenses here and there… I know for a fact I couldn’t even afford to pay $1 a month for health insurance! Tax credits sound good and look good on paper, but to low income families they are nothing but a joke.
April 10th, 2010 @8:45 pm
We need to make people healthy, we do not need more health care. We need health not health care. Our processed food is killing us, pestacides and herbacides are killing us. Health care is talking advantage of this, they are treating us not curing us, there is no money in the cure.
April 10th, 2010 @9:44 pm
we don’t need more government health professionals….we need people actually producing things people need….
April 10th, 2010 @10:23 pm
just give me resonable private health insurance geared to the individual….not companies…not employers….it will bring competition to the industry….thats what we need…not a FUCKING public plan….
April 10th, 2010 @10:36 pm
COBRA is a fucking JOKE! why do you think people will pay what their employer was paying for heath care when they are just trying to pay their bills…???? HELLO!
April 10th, 2010 @11:04 pm
bullshit….
April 10th, 2010 @11:12 pm
I never said believe anything the government says, i said its good to hear what they are thinking.
You can then decide if they are genuine or not from their words and actions
April 10th, 2010 @11:24 pm
by your fears we shouldnt vote anyway since none of it matters.
Is that what your saying?
That american should just have a 0% voter turn out because its all useless?
I guess your for going straight to the revolution, having a civil war again and maybe after it we will be in power again because the rich people will have been killed or run off?
Do you believe that?
April 11th, 2010 @12:03 am
Damn… thank you!!! Someone who understands what is happening…. You get it! The rest of the nitwits arguing R v. D don’t have a clue… which is why this country is so screwed. And the problem is NOT Obama… it’s CONGRESS… they are the people you nitwits vote in year after year… get rich and screw us.
April 11th, 2010 @12:45 am
You think “news” from the govt. is NOT distorted? Unreal. Please, do NOT believe everything you hear, and even less of what you read. Oddly the govt never discusses WHO is writing these plans… if any of you think it’s actually members of Congress, you people shouldn’t even be allowed to vote. There hasn’t been a bill written by a member of Congress in 40 years. The CORPORATE INSURANCE lobbyists are writing this crap… why do you think there is NO FREE TRADE and allowance for competition????
April 11th, 2010 @1:15 am
Quoting the govt. from the plans being proposed, a middle class family with a $40k annual income will pay an estimated 13% of their gross income annually PLUS be responsible for 1st $5000 of annual costs PLUS co-pay, AFTER which insurance would kick in. Also, members of Congress would be exempt from participating in these plans. Regarding the nitwits who argue Republican v. Democrat… you are all losers. Divide and conquer… learn it. It’s the game Congress and the Feds play.
April 11th, 2010 @1:45 am
One very basic economic fact that is NOT being discussed, while lobby and interest groups write these healthcare proposals (See: Apollo Group) for Congress (which go unread by most members) is… FREE MARKET. Why has there been little to no discussion regarding opening up the system, allowing choice and competition, allowing OUR SYSTEM to work? I’ll tell you… Congress loses a power base.The insurance industry lobby has it’s greedy little fingerprints all over these “healthcare proposals”.
April 11th, 2010 @2:21 am
I live on country where healt is run by the governament .i pay hire taxes plus if i dont have a private insurance i will be death before they see me. No one should ever belive the governament . They are corrupted. And sould not have the rite to tell people wat to do . The only way you can aford to pay for heath is gething every lawyer dump on ocean.
April 11th, 2010 @2:38 am
schnauzer
The people who are making the decisions do not even work in health care, Democrats and Republicans. They are more concerned about the lobbyists who send them on expensive “conferences” and getting re-elected. Their world of insurance is paid for by the Federal Government and is the best one could by. I see if fraud can be put out of control then billions could be save. When consumers report fradulant claims “someone” needs to listen and act on evidence.
April 11th, 2010 @3:30 am
You can’t judge theories to be true or false until you learn some basic economics. They insulted my intelligence with those obviously false theories first. I’ve been aware of those old theories since I started reading history, but you don’t seem to be aware that those “theories” you been spouting are straight out of the Communist Manifesto. You should read (C.M.) and see, then if you really want to learn about the economy read Economics in one Lesson by Henry Hazlit(it’s longer than the C.M.).
April 11th, 2010 @3:44 am
The Medicare/Medicaid programs and Soc. Security have needed overhaul for at least a decade, attempts always meet resistance from citizens, rumors abound, as with this health care reform debate. But eventually the overhaul will get done and some kind of health care reform be passed. In general these gvt. programs work and are popular. Their financial problems are not the result of ‘corrupt government,’ but of changing demographics, rising health costs and borrowing from the trust fund.
April 11th, 2010 @4:16 am
True, politicians of all parties sometimes do things that are ‘politically motivated.’ No surprise there, and democrats aren’t the only ones. However, the country does have serious problems, health care acess and cost being a large one. And the President and Congress are trying to work out how to solve these problems. The plan aims at best to cover all citizens and for all to pay into it who have means. It’s not about ’solidifying voter base,’ but about solving a major problem.
April 11th, 2010 @4:52 am
One person’s experience is just that. To really understand much about economics, a person needs, in addition to personal observations, quite a lot of reading/listening to discussions by various people who have studied the field. Calling ideas of economists ’stupid theories concocted by politicians’ is just hurling insults again. If you aren’t knowledgeable about theories you can’t know if they are ’stupid.’
At this point we must agree to disagree. I’m looking for constructive discussion.
April 11th, 2010 @5:07 am
so wait wait wait… after “reform,” getting healthcare if you couldn’t afford it before, is now required “or else”?
Um… right… thanks but no thanks barry. I don’t feel I should be forced to get coverage if I choose not to have it. This is almost as retarded as making it required to get car insurance for a car you don’t own.
April 11th, 2010 @6:06 am
You have no grasped on how the economy works, yet you claim it can’t be learned with one easy lesson. A lot of people grow up knowing how it works just from their modest experience from buying and selling things. How economy works hasn’t changed since people first started trading things. Stupid theories concocted by politician to get you to give your money and freedom up is nothing new either.
You really don’t know how good your insurance is until you let the unaccountable government take over
April 11th, 2010 @6:33 am
Yes, but then I can actually read.
I wounder how many American citizens were aware of the evil and deceit behind the new healthcare bill. This new bill made RFID microchip implantation law through the healthcare system. In 6 months time, All/any American citizens will be required to have an RFID microchip surgically implanted within thier bodies in order to use the healthcare system. Amazing!! I beleive we all need to come close to Jesus Christ and build a relationship with him, our saviour, and look to him for redemption.