Obama: Congress Might Drop The Ball On Health Care--But Either Way, Let's Shelve It For Several Weeks

And the American people will judge you in two years and this ridiculous stand-on-the-sidelines attitude. You are just as much to blame if it fails - if not more so. But keep living in your ivory tower with a private doctor following you around and your kids and wife having the best available doctors provided at the tax payers dime.

This is a signal that health care reform is over. The Republicans and Tea Partiers have won. Game over...

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I have just sent this letter on the White House website.

Dear Mr. President,
Although many of us who supported your campaign in numerous ways understand that the multiple crises you face make governing difficult, we are increasingly disheartened that health care reform is stalled on the 1-yard line. As you surely know, failing to get this done now will cause massive suffering for our fellow citizens for years or decades to come. We need your leadership to get this through, and the mechanism seems obvious: a House-Senate preemptive fix that goes through reconciliation (because a Senate supermajority is now impossible to get), and the House passing the Senate bill. We trust that you are exercising all possible influence toward this solution, the only viable one.

It may well be that the pivot to jobs and financial reform, both desparately needed, are a step toward HCR completion in order to work out the legislative details. But the absence of visible momentum on HCR enables the meme that it is at death's door, which can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Many of us still have great hopes for your Administration, especially in times of crisis. A more visible effort on this front would be important at this critical juncture.

Thank you for your efforts.

If Congress does drop healthcare reform altogether then I'd say our nation is officially ungovernable by its people.

Don't worry kids.... President Obama took the Health Care Bill to live on a farm. It's very happy there and has lots of room to run.

Duh, of course they will. They have all been bought and paid for my the medical industry! There is just too much profit at stake. Nevermind the sheeple.

Jess
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The audacity of hopelessness.

paraphrasing: "...where I'm sitting with Republicans,Democrats, and health care experts, and we go through these bills, walk through the ideas so that the American people can see and compare what makes sense." Must see TV ala Question Time. Put everybody in a room. Turn on the TV cameras and get to the truth about HCR. And hope that the media reports the substance of the bills and ideas, and the exchanges between Obama and the others in the room. Could be a winner.

If The House fails to pass the health care bill than Obama has not choice but to run against them.

The grape vine has been saying for months that the White House wants the Senate bill to be passed. The House just won't go along with their guidance.

The Democrats do not have your interests in mind. For that matter, neither do the Republicans. You will see lots of major reform crusades this year besides healthcare (jobs and finance at least) but none will be passed. I'm calling it now, this whole year is going to be whining about obstructionist Republicans. The senate is controlled by corporations.

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Franken Lays Out 'Pledge And Pass' Strategy For Health Care

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn) called on Friday for Senate Democrats to commit to passing amendments to its health care legislation through the process of reconciliation -- so that the House can then pass legislation of its own.

In a call organized by the pro-reform group Health Care for America Now, the Minnesota Democrat laid out what he called a "pledge and pass" strategy for getting a bill into law.

"If we in the Senate pledge to fix those top priorities right away through reconciliation... the House of Representatives should pass the Senate bill. The exact details of this process need to be worked out by the leadership and the president."

Franken also tried to alleviate some of the concerns of those who argue that the Senate legislation -- even with reconciliation fixes -- doesn't go far enough.

"Like it or not, the reality is that big pieces of legislation often need to be fixed after passage," he said. "Health care is a historic undertaking and this is no different. I think we have to stop letting the perfect -- and everyone has different definitions of perfect -- we have to stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good... Walking away empty-handed to me is just not an option."

In offering his preferred procedural remedy for health care's impasse, Franken echoed a emerging sentiment within the Democratic caucus. Sens. Arlen Specter (Penn), Max Baucus (Mont.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) Kent Conrad (ND), Jeff Bingaman (NM), Dick Durbin (Ill.) and others have all either endorsed or openly considered the idea of using reconciliation to change their bill.

There were some crossed messages on the call -- the person who preceded Franken, HCAN National Campaign Manager Richard Kirsch, advocated a slightly different legislative strategy for congressional Democrats.

As Kirsch sees it, the Senate would have to make reconciliation changes to its legislation first before the House would then vote on the entire package.

"A bill can be passed without having to have these 60 votes. The whole 60 votes [thing] is crazy. There is nothing in the constitution about 60 votes," said Kirsch. "Through [budget reconciliation], a lot of what's in that final compromise can still be passed. That would mean that both the Senate and House will pass a budget reconciliation bill and then the House will pass the Senate bill."

"It is totally a matter of political will," Kirsch added. "It is not a matter of procedure. It is up to the Democrats to exercise their political will... and it up to us to help provide the energy behind that."

GO AL!!!

Listen, folks, the president is displaying the lessons he learned last year. Lately, he has been displaying a new a style of leadership: call it reasoned, confrontational leadership. For Republicans, this means he will be in their faces dropping truth bombs for the nation to see and hear. For Democrats, this means he will be dropping truth bombs at their feet to force them to move and fix the nation's problems. This is a risky style of leadership, but he has learned that charm does not move these people.

Nothing will get done. Obama said today time should be taken to pass health care, the final death keal. The people no longer matter, they don't need our approval any longer. Our voices are meaningless.
We have lost our civil liberties. First thing Obama did when he took office was expand NSA spying powers. The rest of the world was talking about his cute children and pretty wife.
Thanks to the supreme court, we now have lost our voice in the election process, which was corrupt enough before their ruling.
Nothing will get done that will help the people, only the corporations.
Health care is dead because it never really lived. It was political theatre to keep people believing something was being done for us. All the real deals happen behind closed doors with corporate leaders. Truth, there is no money left for the people, we are now the world's largest debtor.
There is money for the endless unwinnable wars, contracts for the big corporations at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Every empire has been wiped out by wars, ours will be no exception.
I live in California, our roads are rutted, our businesses are going broke, there is no money for education, health care or anything else that might help us rebound from this mess. Nancy Pelosi, who lives in San Francisco said no money from the Feds to help our crumbling economy, but give billions for war. A decent education is becoming impossible to attain, costs went up another 34% this year!
How can we compete?
How can we recover?
The answer is simple, we won't.
Look at the idiots representing this country! Harry reid, the wimpy old maid in pants, Pelosi, a joke, Obama......not an ounce of gumption in any of them. Bureaucrats in power at the beck and call of corporate rulers, that is what they are, and they are not serving the people. They don't need us any longer.
This country is finished.

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Obama cannot hand off any failure to pass healthcare reform to Congress. He ran on it as a signature issue and he has shown NO leadership on real reform at all. First, he cut deals with the Insurance Co's and PHARMA that directly betrayed the bullet points of his campaign and constained Congress's ability to even realistically debate certain avenues, then he did NOTHING to direct the debate toward the things Americans indicated they wanted in poll after poll. He took both the corporate and hands off approach allowing all the egos and payoffs to Congress to ocur unchallenged. Even if we get a Bill, it will be his failure that we did not get a FAR BETTER BILL.

For myself and my family, having a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress has changed nothing, sorry to say. We gave quite a bit in donations to Obama and other Democrats in 2007-8 but I cannot imagine any of us will ever give another dime to a politician.

Congress has already 'dropped the ball' on health care reform.

Item 1:
 “A mere seven months ago (that would be around June 2009), The New York Times/CBS poll found that 72% of Americans ‘supported a government-administered insurance plan—something like Medicare for those under 65—that would compete for customers with private insurers.’”

Item 2: As of February 2010, no single payer health care reform, no 'government option', mandated premium payments to private sector insurers, tax money to private sector insurers, stipulations making it legal for insurers to spend only 80 cents of every 100 cents on actual health care while spending 20 cents of every 100 cents on lobbying, 'sympathetic' candidates, CEO bonuses, 'administration' and fighting your claim for treatment.

Item 3: Virtually no one (other than those who created the sop for themselves) want this insurance industry bailout to pass.

Question: Who 'dropped the ball on health care reform?

Answer: Obama and Congress. But I would have to finger Obama primarily, as he would not support true reform. With health care, as with the financial bailout, Obama only wanted to go along to get along with the corporate raiders, pushing taxpayer and middle class money into corporate coffers.