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Monday, August 3, 2009
Why Obama wants to rush through health care!
There is something that has been bothering me lately and it's the fact that Obama wants to pass universal health care as soon as possible!! The question is why? I know it's not because of the 45 to 47 million people without health insurance, which happens to be a common misconception. There are not 45 to 47,000,000 people without health insurance. In 2006, the Census Bureau reported that there were 46.6 million people without health insurance. About 9.5 million were not United States citizens. Another 17 million lived in households with incomes exceeding $50,000 a year and could, presumably, purchase their own health care coverage. 18 million of the 46.6 uninsured were between the ages of 18 and 34, most of whom were in good health and not necessarily in need of health care coverage or chose not to purchase it. Only 30% of the nonelderly population who became uninsured in a given year remained uninsured for more than 12 months. Almost 50% regained their health care coverage within 4 months. So the number of 47 million, which liberals and universal health care proponents love to throw around, is actually incorrect. This is one of the reasons why Obama and his followers in Washington want to push this bill through, so that the American people have no time to get the facts straight or even figure out all the provisions in the bill. John Conyers was even quoted as saying "I love these members who get up and say, Read the bill. What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you've read the bill." You see this is the problem. What is the alternative? Just voting on a bill before you even know whats in it? How can you vote on something you haven't read? Not to mention Obama has already broken his "sunlight before signing" pledge to post legislation for public comment on the White House website five days before he seals the deal. "When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as a president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government's doing" Obama has already violated that campaign promise from the time he rushed through the pork filled stimulus bill and he will continue to violate that promise throughout the rest of his term in office. Another reason Obama needs to pass this thing right now is because his pole numbers are slipping. In the July 30 report that came out, the Pew Research Centre reported that Obama's "Overall job" approval rating has dropped from 64% in February to 54% in July a 9 point drop. The poll also reports that Obama's approval rating on his "Job handling of Health care" has dropped from 51% in April to 42% in July, another 9 point drop. With his numbers slipping Obama realizes it's now or never. He will never get another opportunity to get national health care again in his presidency if he doesn't act now. That is why we must act now to try to stop this thing before they just push it through the house and the Senate, which they are able to do without even 1 republican vote. Call your Senators, your Congressmen, email them, whatever you have to do to get them to see that this bad for our country and has failed miserably where ever it has been tried!!!!
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I totally duplicate you on this.
ReplyDeleteI don't deny my instincts on things anymore after this guy got elected ..which I feared the heck out of.
It gives me hope when others are in the know.
Thank you. It's great to know that people are starting to wake up and realize what's going on here. Can you believe they are now calling us, "Right wing extremists" and "The mob" when we just come out to voice our opinion against this overhaul of the system?
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