--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: <snip> > Today on ABC's This Week Obama denied making people pay > a penalty if they don't buy mandated health insurance is > a tax on the middle class, dissed those who can't afford > insurance as a burden on those who can afford it
In fairness, he said those who CAN afford health insurance--or would be able to under the reform provisions--but choose not to are the burden. See the portion of the This Week transcript posted as an update. > and dissed supporters of the public option calling them > ideologues. This was also updated after a review of the video: "[Update II: After watching the NBC MTP video, Obama's statement about getting beyond ideology was general; it was NOT make in specific reference to the public option.]"
