--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Judy Stein" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> 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.]" >
It's good to know Judy isn't partial when it comes to calling someone out for fudging the facts or fanciful thinking. I'll admit to putting a little spin on Obama's wiggle out of Stephanopoulos trying to press him that paying a penalty for mandated insurance is a tax. Instead of owing up to the fact that such a penalty is a tax, Obama shifted the focus of the conversation saying that people who don't buy into it places a burden on the rest of us. It pissed me off. IMO the burden on all of us won't be the people who don't buy mandated insurance. The real burden on all of us will be mandated insurance without a public option that allows EVERYONE to choose it. I'd like to see him wiggle out of a question about a public option asking why it doesn't include everyone. Would Stephanopoulos have confronted this issue? Not a chance.
