[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread raunchydog
Partial transcript: As we draw close to finalizing – and passing – real health insurance reform, the defenders of the Notice how Obama has shifted the discussion from health care reform to health INSURANCE reform. IMO the distinction is simply a weasel out of emphasizing health care. I suspect

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread raunchydog
This just in from Violet: The lid has been blown on Obama's secret deal with Big Pharma (doubtless one of many, many secret deals in this whole mess): the White House promised that healthcare reform would specifically exclude any option for Medicare to negotiate lower prices on prescriptions

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: I'm not a fan of the assholes at Daily Kos, but I dug one up that clearly shows how easily Obama can flip flop on the the public option. mcjoan says that Obama is for a robust public option and he believes him, but he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Partial transcript: As we draw close to finalizing – and passing – real health insurance reform, the defenders of the Notice how Obama has shifted the discussion from health care reform to health INSURANCE reform. IMO

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread authfriend
Pretty good AP article summarizing where things stand now and emphasizing the consumer protections that almost everyone in Congress seems to agree should be in the bill (and are in all the various versions that have been put together at this point):

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread WillyTex
Judy wrote: Pretty good AP article... If a bill does pass, the biggest winners are likely to be self-employed people and small-business owners and employees, who now have the most trouble getting and keeping coverage. Those working for big companies would only benefit indirectly; they'd

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Partial transcript: As we draw close to finalizing – and passing – real health insurance reform, the defenders of the Notice how Obama has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Partial transcript: As we draw close to finalizing – and passing – real

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Partial

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip We WANT to emphasize health insurance over health care. Health INSURANCE reform is *precisely* the right framing. All the health reform bloggers

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip We WANT to emphasize health insurance over health care. Health INSURANCE

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of raunchydog Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 9:46 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address Well, Obama does have beautiful

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-09 Thread raunchydog
...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of raunchydog Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 9:46 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address Well, Obama does have beautiful bed-room eyes. The immovable object

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-08 Thread raunchydog
Lots of rhetoric and diddly squat about a public option. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Partial transcript: As we draw close to finalizing – and passing – real health insurance reform, the defenders of the status quo and political point-scorers in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-08 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Lots of rhetoric and diddly squat about a public option. I think he's describing what he's pretty sure he's going to get, and not promising anything he's uncertain about. The provisions he lists are just crucially important.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance Reform: President's Weekly Radio Address

2009-08-08 Thread raunchydog
I'm not a fan of the assholes at Daily Kos, but I dug one up that clearly shows how easily Obama can flip flop on the the public option. mcjoan says that Obama is for a robust public option and he believes him, but he also reports that Obama is Open to Co-ops in Place of Public Option. He