Highlights Of The Health Care Reform Summit

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1. John Young says:

   February 26, 2010 at 1:38 am

   She is good.

2. romeo says:

   February 26, 2010 at 3:12 pm

   During the health summit today, Obama related one of his formative experiences with an insurance company; in this case, it was auto insurance:

   OBAMA: … You know, when I was — when I was young, just got out of college, I had to buy auto insurance. I had a beat-up old car. And I won’t name the name of the insurance company, but there was a company, let’s call it Acme Insurance in — in Illinois. And I was paying my premiums every month. After about six months I got rear-ended, and I called up Acme and said, “You know, I’d like to see if I can get my car repaired.” And they laughed at me over the phone.

   Because really, this was set up not to actually provide insurance, what it was set up was to meet the legal requirements. But it really wasn’t serious insurance.”

   Got to give credit where credit is due, Joe Biden makes up much better stories than Obama

3. V says:

   February 26, 2010 at 3:39 pm

   Doesn’t sound made up, sounds like our president got his car insurance from The General.

4. romeo says:

   February 26, 2010 at 3:47 pm

   V.

   a. he claims he was rear ended, so it would be the other driver who was at fault and who’s insurance was paying.

   b. They may have laughed when he suggested they spend thousands repairing a car that was only worth hundreds before the crash but this makes him bad at math not Acme a bad insurer.

   c. he is supposed to be the supper smarty, didn’t he read and understand the insurance paperwork he signed. Didn’t he know what coverage he was buying?

5. V says:

   February 26, 2010 at 3:51 pm

   a. depends, my dad was hit from behind while he was in reverse (a car tried to scoot around him). In Delaware law that’s his fault.

   b. Maybe, but we don’t know how much damage (maybe not thousands), what if it was just a bumper?

   c. he was just out of college, even if he is a super smarty, most 21-22 year old kids don’t know how adultish things (like car insurance, 401ks) work yet. I just signed whatever car insurance thing my folks told me to. I thought we were supposed to like presidents who were “just like everybody else”.

   This sounds like a plausible story. You immediately assuming it’s made up is sillier than half the crap you post in here. Next you’ll question Malia’s menengitis.

6. a.price says:

   February 26, 2010 at 3:57 pm

   ladies and gentlemen. Today we observe the conservative sheep.
   Notice how it uses talking points to draw nonsensical parallels to insult politicians it has been to told not to like. Here it is trying to deny the common practice used by insurance companies of trying to evade payment… even to victims who are not at fault. It usually reverts to this tactice when it realizes facts, and grown up arguments will no longer serve it’s needs.

   a fine specimen indeed

7. pandora says:

   February 26, 2010 at 3:58 pm

   I was rear ended by someone without insurance. So… it ended up with my insurance company.

8. just kiddin says:

   February 26, 2010 at 4:13 pm

   The republicans were well rehearsed for the summit. If you count the times they each said “we need to start over” as they looked down at their talking points memo, you could throw up at the hypocrisy of it all.

   These legislators democrats and republicans are the “elites of the country”. Notice they kept Anthony Weiner, Dennis Kucinch and others who have been fighting for health care (the public option and single payer) out of the debate. Oh lets not muck up the elites on both sides and their talking points with some real cost savings? Lets not have Weiner and Kucinch telling the American people that single payer would cover not only medical, but dental, mental health, long term care, vision etc. Oh no, that might give the “people” some information they need! Real health care reform, real cost savings will not come from these plans and forget the corporate owned republicans and blue dogs who have taken millions in campaign contributions to taut the insurance companies point of view. Even if the Senate bill passes and the House fixes it, it still will not cover, dental, mental or vision care. When Slaughter talked about the woman using her dead sisters teeth, I thought about all the disabled in this state and the country who are having ALL their teeth pulled out because the State has decided “they dont have the money”. What a farce it all is. People in the industrialized nations who have a single payer system must be looking at the stupid ass idiotic dumb Americans as a bunch of fools.

9. romeo says:

   February 26, 2010 at 4:18 pm

   V I assume you mean Sasha.

10. V says:

    February 26, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    I did romeo. Go to hell.

11. romeo says:

    February 26, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    V

    I assume you are refering to this minor controversy:

    Barrac’s speech 9-10-09:

    When our youngest daughter, Sasha, was diagnosed with meningitis when she was just three months old, it was one of the scariest moments of my life. And we had to have a spinal tap administered and she ended up being in the hospital for three or four days. And it was touch and go, we didn’t know whether she’d be permanently affected by it.

    Michelle speech on 9-18-09:

    I will never forget the time eight years ago when Sasha was four months that she would not stop crying. And she was not a crier, so we knew something was wrong. So we fortunately were able to take her to our pediatrician that next morning. He examined her and same something’s wrong. We didn’t know what. But he told us that she could have meningitis. So we were terrified. He said, get to the emergency room right away. And fortunately for us, things worked out, because she is now the Sasha that we all know and love today, who is causing me great excitement.

    3 or 4 months old? Hospitalized for 3-4 days vs a pediatrician and ER visit?

    Speeches written for them and given 8 days apart and no one bothers to compare and see if they jive.

    Like I said, Joe makes up better stories (although this was one of Obama’s better ones, if only Michelle hadn’t set the record straight)

12. just kiddin says:

    February 26, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    Chris Hayes writes in the Nation today. “CPR for the Public Option”! “The cadaver is twitching and kicking, threatening to push its way out of the casket”. Twenty four Senators have now signed the letter to Reid pushing for the public option. If the dems are going it alone, what is their excuse for not including it?

13. pandora says:

    February 26, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    Romeo obviously doesn’t have a mate… or children. Their stories, however, compliment each other. You also have no clue about meningitis. It’s not a take two aspirin and call me in the morning situation. But since you’re a Republican/conservative you’re to be forgiven. Science just isn’t your strong suit.

14. romeo says:

    February 26, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    ok pandy, I guess in progresive land:

    having meningitis = not having meningitis… they’re complimentary

    a trip to the ER = 3or4 days in the Hospital… they’re complimentary

    me, I’m and oldfashioned sexists, I expect Dad to get some of these details wrong and be corrected by Mom… I don’t try to bend reality to make the two stories equal. (wouldn’t it be easier to blame it on the teleprompter?)

15. pandora says:

    February 26, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    Oooh… I hit a nerve! I love it when I do that.

    The stories mesh… except in La La Land. And a trip to the ER doesn’t mean she wasn’t admitted to the hospital. Geez, you’re scraping bottom here.

16. V says:

    February 26, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    I hope romeo gets a horrible disease. A really awful one, that makes him have to stay in the hospital. And then I want him to get better so years from now, when he’s relaying it to someone who doesn’t know the story and he doesn’t get every detail exactly right (because it was kind of a while ago and a traumatic time) THEN I get to accuse him of making the whole thing up for political gain. That is going to be super fun.

17. Unstable Isotope says:

    February 26, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    When my husband had appendicitis, we went to the ER. The ER then admitted him to the hospital. This is common if someone needs more care, like Cheney when he was having a heart attack.

18. V says:

    February 26, 2010 at 6:04 pm

    Really UI? Wow the same thing happened to me last year when I had appendicitis! That’s so weird since we’ve already established and ER and hospital are mutually exclusive.