Posted by pinepienaarinfo on 16th, 2009
President Obama criticized insurers for running advertisements critical of Democrats’ attempts to reform the health system. Obama has made his push for a health-care reform bill that extends insurance coverage and cuts costs his top domestic priority.
The “discredited” report paid for by the industry that found a healthcare bill pending in Congress would raise insurance premiums for consumers. Pelosi pointed out.
President Obama received a boost this week when a Senate Finance panel approved its version of a reform measure with the support of Republican Senator Olympia Snowe
“Don’t let them fool you. We’re going to get this done. We’re going to fight for it,” he said at a town hall meeting in New Orleans. “This is when the insurance companies are really going to start gearing up,” he said. “Their stock went down when the Senate Finance Committee voted out that bill. Now they’re getting nervous and, by they way, they have been wildly profitable over the last decade .House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Obama
Health insurer stocks were trading lower on Thursday afternoon. The Morgan Stanley Healthcare Payor index fell 1.8 percent while the broader S&P 500 index was higher
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Posted by pinepienaarinfo on 9th, 2009
The president’s speech to Congress Wednesday contained a variety of simplifications and omissions in laying out what he wants to do about health insurance.
OBAMA: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future. Period.”
OBAMA: “Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.”
OBAMA: “The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” One congressman, South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson, shouted “You lie!” from his seat in the House chamber when Obama made this assertion.
OBAMA: “Don’t pay attention to those scary stories about how your benefits will be cut. … That will never happen on my watch. I will protect Medicare.”
OBAMA: Requiring insurance companies to cover preventive care like mammograms and colonoscopies “makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives.”
OBAMA: “If you lose your job or change your job, you will be able to get coverage. If you strike out on your own and start a small business, you will be able to get coverage.”
OBAMA: “There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage.”
Has this man got it tuff, to assure and inspire a nation that things are O K – while keeping a firm hand on the budget.
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