I agree with Obama that something has to be done about the situation, and we must not continue to let the insurance companies run amok. If nothing is done at the government’s level, the citizens will continue to suffer in terms of healthcare.

Just look at this amazing Obama’s speech. All his speeches are amazing and pure. I remember how my college professor had compared his speeches with Martin Luther King ones. These two are the best in these roles, I am one hundred percent sure about that. Talking about health care reform - I fully support Obama on this one. It is not good when uninsured people are taking instant payday loans just to pay for their medications and hospital bills. It shouldn’t be like that. We must make something like European health care model: health insurance costs are included in the salary as simple mandatory taxes. Let’s hope that Obama’s historical health care reform will change our health system and we will forget about bad times.

I don’t agree with those people who are skeptical about health care reform or Obama himself. I think that he is the ONE. He is a man who can change everything. He is the only one who really cares about something and who is trying to help us. His speeches are not just bunch of populist ideas. He is telling something that really makes sense. Just have a look at the insurance rates in our country now. They are terrible. I have got a bill from my local Louisiana insurance company yesterday and what I have saw there, have just blown my mind. 1000$ dollars for my family insurance. Such rates are really crazy and don’t tell me that it is a normal situation. I don’t know where I must get some money for my children education and I can’t even think about some sort of holidays at summer. It is a real craziness. This health care reform can change everything. People must understand that rather than just telling that these changes are unnecessary. Think deeper and look in the future. After 10 years you will understand how amazing and important this reform was. I will repeat one more time: I believe in Obama and in his political decisions. Thanks for the great quality video of this speech by the way.

What do you mean by   a   progressive   agenda ??

  define what a progressive is or stands for

    is that what Obama is ??

yeah commune, I know what a reactionary is. It’s a person or group who REACTS (emotionally and ideologically) to everything without any cognitive action. It’s stupid people who react to superficial bullshit before they even attempt to figure out that it IS bullshit.

cyrena, do you even know what a reactionay is? Read Bakunin, reactionaries are also considered the middle ground “liberals” who are willing to sell themselves to corporate interests as long as they score a few political points. Get an education please.

By falken751, March 21 at 2:54 pm #

I thought Truthdig was a very good website. But judging from the letters above, I see it is for the ignorant to cry and complain.

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You are so very, very, very correct here falken751, and it really is a tragedy, since Truthdig claims to be a progressive website. (or a website advocating a progressive agenda.) How ironic is it that most of the comments are from reactionaries?

I thought Truthdig was a very good website. But judging from the letters above, I see it is for the ignorant to cry and complain.

saige makes on key point about all of this.

Most of us will have less money because we give more and more of it to the health insurance industries.  This means that the disposable income that we will have available to fund progressive political campaigns will be less.

Meanwhile, these corporations will have millions in new profits and lots of new mandated customers.  Thus, they’ll have more money to give to politics.  And conveniently, the Supreme Court just removed any restrictions on their doing so.

What this means is that this Democratic bill will make it much harder for any progressive politicians to mount a campaign to improve this bill like the Democratic spin line of the week is saying they will do.  And the representatives of these health corps will be fat and loaded with lots of corporate money to make sure that the next round of ‘health reform’ screws us and benefits them even more than this one did.

Meanwhile, if this bill passes the health insurance industry will run amok with the Democrats blessing for the next four years until the proposed reforms kick in.

Apparently the $30 million these corporations gave to Obama last time, plus the millions more of they gave to other Democrats only bought them four years of running amok.  If they want longer than that, they have to pay more.  Conveniently, the four year period gives them two more election cycles to give millions more to politicians.

The main purpose of this bill seems to be to encourage ever higher political donations from the ‘health’ sector.  The fight is over which party will rake in this money.

Saieg, wtf are you talking about? Obama is giving the insurance companies MILLIONS of new customers, by force! The man is a corporate sell-out. Pretty amazing how a good PR campaign can brainwash people.

This is not about President Obama but how the insurance companies are breaking us all. I don’t have money to do anything because I give all my money to the insurance companies. President Obama has his healthcare, he is fighting for the American people to have healthcare. Americans cut off their nose to spite their face as we fall further and further behind in this global economy. The “Good Ole Days” are gone and the “Ole Boys Network” is gone forever. Let us join President Obama.

Obama is such a cynic, spewing this crap while he prepares to hand the insurance companies millions of new customers by force.

hello. i do not swallow phony unemployment figures,
biased polling figures, nor laughable obesity
figures; yet i be bloated. this will complete 48%
government control over the United States economy. i
am too comfortable to reach for the remote. let the
socialist take over the whole economy. what could
possibly be wrong with that? burp. excuse me, my
behavior may need adjustment- (got any fries with
that?) but this government is pumping up the
population. yeah, i can eat them curly fries, if you
put enough salt on ‘em. hey, when are we going to
eat? this government back room carpetbagging is
making me hungry. burp. just so long as the
government don’t close Wallyworld on Sunday, i can
always change the channel. hey, get me sumthin’ to
wash down these fries. will this bill pay my taxes?
aint that what the CBO figures claim? in 2 decades
over the next 6 years government mandates my buttocks
and pays my taxes. what the government intends to do
with my buttocks i have no idea. some kind of health
care new botox reform. socialism only works with
world control. energy is the baron commodity-  could
be behind this government takeover. could be what put
him in power in the first place- outlandish profits
crippling the economy up to the beginning of the
progressives run to the big house. burp. they are
biting off the hand that feeds them. hope this change
is what they want. since when is it a job to get
something to eat around here? got a cigarette?