Dean Backs Obama Health-Care Plan

Howard Dean supporting the plan tells one just how wrong the plan is. We cannot afford this plan; we can reform health care, and we can be responsible in what we do. Obama does understand that he can create a society totally dependent on the Government if he panders to Unions, provides health care and owns the productive capability once resident in the private sector. Dean's comments are asinine.

Yep, he would, that crazy son of a gun.

I've seen Dean a number of times on TV and he has no credibility as far as I am concerned. He practiced as an M.D. for "ten years" many years ago. I head him say recently that there would be no rationing of health care because when he was an M.D. "Medicare didn't tell me what I could or couldn't do."

This is just gibberish. Every physician who treats Medicare patients knows exactly what Medicare will or won't pay for depending on the patient. Responsible physicians recommend this test or that procedure but caution their patients that "Medicare won't cover this."

Dean is either lying or has gotten so old that he has very selective memory. In either cae, he makes an ineffective, highly partisan, and very shrill advocate for Obamacare.

the only thing Dean is good at is naming the states while being a raving lunatic. Shows you all you need to know about him.

I love how very little attention is being given to the stall tactics of the economic data. If we SHOVE healthcare through right this second we won't hear how bad the economy really is and the fact that a second stimulus is right around the corner.

What happens when employees have used up their 9 months of 35% cost of ARRA coverage and it reverts back to 102%.

Obama's not bending the cost curve and on top of that he's not creating jobs by hurting small businesses. No one is out there lending but rather holding onto their profits because they don't trust him. Employers aren't hiring even though the stock market is doing well in the last week to 10 days.

Maybe Dean can clue Barry in as to what is in HIS Socialist Plan. According to Barry he does not know. What comes to mind with this Radical in the White House and Lib Dem led Congress is Irresponsible, Criminally Irresponsible.

Many commentators, each in his own words repeating only one comment, an ad hominem insult followed by vacuous ideological assertions and concluding with unsupported factually false economic assertions. Sounds organized to me, and certainly far beneath the intelligence of the ordinary Post reader.

Ideally, the private insurers would like to insure everyone but cover no one. They would love to add 47 million uninsured at the tax payer expense but then using every loop hole to deny coverage. Welpoint made $2.4B profit in 2008 even during a tanking economy.

The only way private enterprise works for the public is through real competition. But what we have is a cartel of a few insurers that block new entrants from competing by making special deals with the government like the October ritual and Medicare re-imbursements.
See the Texas problem
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8137085.stm

There is NO WAY that legislators will level the playing field for new competition because they depend on the cartel's lobbyist money.

A public option is the only way to inject real competition. It will create a dual system like shipping where the post office does basic delivery for 44 cents and tries to upsell premium services like 2-day air against Fedex and UPS. It forces Fedex to keep reasonable prices for overnite delivery because their is always a somewhat slower alternative.

He tells it like it is :-)

THIS IS IT!

The healthcare reform bill released by the House Of Representatives is an excellent bill as I understand it. It's a bill with a strong, robust, government-run public option, and an intelligent, reasonable initial funding plan to cover almost all of the American people. It is carefully written, and thoughtfully constructed, informed, prudent and wise. This bill will save trillions of dollars, and millions of your lives. It is also now supported by the AMA.

This is the type of bill that all Americans can feel good about. And this is the type of bill that has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Rich, middle class and poor a like. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all other party affiliations. This bill has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of every American.

The house healthcare bill should be viewed as the minimum GOLD STANDARD by which all other proposed healthcare legislation should be judged. All supporters of true high quality healthcare reform should now place all your support behind this healthcare reform bill released by the United States House Of Representatives, as the minimum Gold standard for healthcare reform in America.

You should all now support this bill with all your might, and all of your unrelenting tenacity. This healthcare bill is a VERY, VERY GOOD! bill for all of the American people. Fight tooth, and nail for every bit of this bill if you have too. Be aggressive, creative, and relentless for this bill.

From this time forward, go BIGGER and DEEPER with the American people every day until passage of healthcare reform with a robust, government-run public option.

FIGHT!! like your life and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. BECAUSE IT DOES!

SPREAD THE WORD

Senator Bernie Sanders on healthcare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSM8t_cLZgk&feature=player_embedded)

God Bless You

Jack Smith — Working Class

To me, the health care issue is simple. It comes down to what you think about the future.

If you think there is a good chance you could lose your job or your health insurance plan if you get an expensive illness, you should be for public option health care reform right now.

If you think your health insurance and your job is guaranteed no matter what kind of illness you get, and that the insurance will keep you from going bankrupt, then you have a right to say we should wait.

To me, the health care issue is simple. It comes down to what you think about the future.

If you think there is a good chance you could lose your job or your health insurance plan if you get an expensive illness, you should be for public option health care reform right now.

If you think your health insurance and your job is guaranteed no matter what kind of illness you get, and that the insurance will keep you from going bankrupt, then you have a right to say we should wait.

Posted by: tinyjab40 | July 21, 2009 5:32 PM

I don't agree. Even if you thought your job and health were secure, why would you (or anyone) not want there to be another option available? Especially an option that will not discriminate based on an existing condition? I don't get the uproar over the public OPTION. Obama has said repeatedly that if you like your current insurance, nothing will change for you. So the only people that will see a change in their healthcare are people who don't currently have insurance and want it, and those that currently have it but don't like it. What's the problem again?

Delighted to see Hilary knee-capper Howard Dean relegated to speaking to a few dozen college kids at a time. I hope his book is a big fat bomb.
Irrelevant, used like a cheap ho and cast aside, Dean did more than anyone to prevent valid primary votes from Florida from counting as they should have toward HRC's election. It was a criminal offense and we Floridians recall vividly his role in the theft of our votes. We deplore him and we curse him.
Happy to see him get some karmic payback, and be ignored, overlooked and exiled from the D.C. scene he helped pollute.
It gives me great faith - what goes around really does....come around.

As always, Dr. Dean is correct.

Rock on, Dean

SHOCKER!

NM Moderate has stated the whole healthcare issue in the fewest possible words:
"The only people who will see a change in their healthcare are people who don't currently have insurance and want it and those who have it but don't like it. What's the problem?"
The problem is those who want the poor to die a quickly and painfully as possible and those who want the insurance companies to get as rich as possible as quickly as possible.

In my opinion the Fed Gov has an effective medical care program. Medicare works well. Why not have a health-care program for everyone if they so choose. Insurance companies & Max Baucus aside, let the people of the USA have some relief from the insurance companies that rule peoples options on health care.

the washington post is now CENSORING posts here???

is that because i disagree with the president and his socialist agenda???

gargoyle and NM Moderate are WRONG.

If given an uneven playing field, the government will absolutely CROWD out the private plans that 70+% of American are satisfied with.

Its not just the Lewin Group that says so its the Mayo Clinic now.

When you undercut prices and don't pay taxes on a public plan that's 19-23% less than a private plan can attain you'll see the healthy migrate to the public plan and the sick, scared to move stay on the private plans and that will be the end of private plans as we know it.

if you wanted to have every private carrier have rates equivalent to medicare or the public plan (medicare plus 5%) then you'd find less and less docs and hospitals so that's not the answer either.

WAPO do NOT CENSOR THIS POST.

Obamanation spells the death of capitalism as we know it. He is without a doubt making a power grab to socialize our country and make us all dependent on the Government. It's obvious that his relationship to Wright and Ayers has influenced his socialist agenda. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves at this prospect. They fought against government oppression and won our independence and freedom. We Americans are ounce again called to duty to fight against this recent assault on our way of life. This assault is called the Obama mandate, i.e. the obamanation.

OBAMA never ran a business large or small. He never served on any Senate committee involving health coverage or finance, or the economy in the short time he served at all. He is in short a socialist with a bent to use fascism of one party rule to jam a bad program down our throats.
Who says this is a bad plan. MAYO CLINIC THE LEADING HEALTH CARE FACILITY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
"A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said Monday that the American people would be "losers" under the House's health care proposal, joining the growing chorus of critics the Obama administration is trying to fend off as the debate intensifies from Capitol Hill to Main Street.

Minnesota's not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, which Mr. Obama has repeatedly hailed as offering top quality care at affordable costs, blasted the House Democrats' version of the health care plan as lawmakers continue to grapple with several bills from each chamber and multiple committees.

The Mayo Clinic said there are some positive elements of the bill, but overall "the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for patients."

"In fact, it will do the opposite," clinic officials said, because the proposals aren't [R]patient-focused or results-oriented. "The real losers will be the citizens of the United States."

All day, Republicans took aim at Mr. Obama's weak spot as surveys showed that his poll numbers were slipping on the issue. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele charged that the president's plan amounts to a "reckless experiment," dubbing it "socialism."

"He's conducting a dangerous experiment with our health care," Mr. Steele said at the National Press Club as the RNC started an ad campaign, which will run in Arkansas, Nevada and North Dakota using similar language.

In the Senate, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican considered key to grabbing some bipartisan support, warned that the House call to raise taxes on wealthier citizens and, therefore, some small businesses to fund the $1 trillion overhaul is a non-starter."