Obama warns against health delay

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Source: BBC News

US President Barack Obama has called on Congress not to delay the passage of healthcare reform.

"Now is not the time to slow down" reform efforts, he insisted.

His call comes after a group of Senate moderates asked for more time to consider reform proposals, in a bid to achieve a bipartisan consensus.

Mr Obama has made it his priority to overhaul the US healthcare system, and expand coverage to the 47 million Americans without health insurance.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8156977.stm

[Downwinder]

1. Single Payer is catching up.

[madrchsod]

2. to bad it`s a flawed healthcare reform....

if i can hold out for two and half years i`ll have medicare. ya that big evil government health care that`s going to kill me....

[Downwinder]

5. That's Single payer,

with a three hundred dollar plus per month assist.

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3. Remind them that including corporate insurers at all is already a compromise.

These fucking Congressional jellyfish don't know when they are in a position of strength. And I didn't vote for Obama and Congressional D.s and give them lots of money for a fucking bipartisan consensus. Those people are so busy negotiating with the enemy that the prospect of victory never occurs to them.

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4. Here's my e-mail to Harry "Limpdick" Reid.

"We want the House bill on health care reform. We want to be able to buy into the same system you get. We voted for Democratic Victory, not bipartisanship. The Senate should adopt the House bill and pass it immediately. Screw the Republicans and the blue dogs. Insurance companies need to remember that the House bill is already a compromise. We really should have enacted a British style system. The insurers ARE the problem. Including them is inefficient and only prolonging the problem. Frankly sir, I had hoped the Democrats would have been much more aggressive on this issue."

[MarjorieG]

6. So if we delay, really a ploy to stop reform, we don't care about bi-partisanship.

Hogwash. This by Dems who don't want to make a reform decision, or disappoint lobbyists.