President Obama Hosts a Health Reform Town Hall in Ohio
March 7th, 2010
NOTE: the audio on this instance drops out at around 15 min. Please visit vimeo.com for the full video. President Obama holds a town hall focused on health insurance reform in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The President addresses how health insurance reform is essential to our financial security, and explains how his plan will benefit all Americans, including those who already have insurance. After his opening remarks, the President takes a variety of questions from the audience, including questions on Medicare and health education . July 27, 2009. (Public Domain)
you don’t know what you’re against you just don’t like him. people like you are the reason why this country is in the shape its in.
you mean this wonderful , beautiful human being! Dont you jus love Obama??
WE LOVE YOU OBAMA!
FUCK YOU OBAMA
Wow he wore a tie…… “This isn’t about me” “but I and I and I did and I did and I said”
Hows it feel to be a dupe Obama voters?
why doe s the truth hurt! you cunt boy!!
@irishsean2 Fuck you
He sure is a snake oil salesman but your attitude sucks. Why use that name?
Anyway it was reported that 30% of the crowd was a White House invite and 70% was done by the collage. Not sure how they choose the crowd but those are the facts.
This guy “dun” lost his mind.
this nigger should have been a snake oil sales men! Hes has plants in th e crowd and brings in his own crowd!!
Do you know what the so called “free-market” is? It is you, and it is jermico007, and it is me. It’s everyone. All it really implies is that people are free to interact and trade with each-other. The “free-market” is voluntary, it is mutual.
You cannot have a free market when there is a violent institution forcing people to interact, or forcing them not to.
The government just takes what it wants, or you get thrown into a state rape room. How enlightened. How civilized.
Sure the state CAN provide services (as a monopoly, participation with which is enforced with threats of violence) but the question of whether they should is much more complex, and the answer is relative to each individual and their preferences.
Anyone who understands how economics works, can see why state services are destructive. It squashes diversity, disrupts the equilibrium of pricing, and under-serves the market.
Don’t project YOUR preferences on EVERYONE by force.
Now that scares me. You cannot be so blind as to not see the violence inherent in the system. What do you think the police are? What do you think the military is for? This is a state monopoly on the use of violent coercion.
There is overwhelming evidence of state violence, there is no question that this is a fact.
If you are so ignorant as to be unaware of the fundamental basis of your political system, you are unqualified to be making prescriptions for social change.
Violence and threat? I don’t believe that.
The State can provide health care and it should!
this is a SMALL example of how Government phucks EVERYTHING up. HMOs is a nother example. Your Stalinist Democrat GOD ted kennedy WROTE the HMO bill!!! how is that working out for ya. HMOs was created to help REDUCE THE COST OF HEALTHCARE!!!!!! IT FAILED!!!!!
The thought was that if just government made some rules that the evil Insurance companies had to follow that would reduce cost… well guess what. a year after HMO became legal, healthcare cost rose 800% and 500% over the next five years
You as a free man should be able to either choose MY services for 20 or 30 bucks or go to the hospital and pay 1500-2000 dollars for the same damn thing. Government FORCES you via Regulation to take the high priced one because my business would not even Exist because of law and regulation. If I screw up and your cut gets infected I can be held liable ONLY if I was reckless and disregarded safety Procedures. and because of LAWS i would not be able to give you antibiotics.
ie Regulation, makes it impossible for people to practice medicine. Tort laws, Education requirements, Degree requirements, Internship requirement, Payment Requirements, Patient requirements, Medical Requirement and mandates. If I know how to clean stitch someones cut because of Military Training or community College textbooks or whatever, I cannot BY LAW open a small shop to provide cleaning and stitching of wounds unless I had so many years of Training as required by law.
there are TWO (2) pilars to freedom, Physical Freedom and Financial Freedom. You cannot make an arguement that if we paid 100% in taxes but got everything we wanted freedom. By definition the entity that pays makes the rules. Freedom is ABSENT of these financial rules. as for Free Markets to which I know you know nothing about based on your last post, if something has to be created then it is NOT a free Market. Competition already exists within the market but federal Rules
Yesm, but WHY do you believe that? And WHY should everyone in society be forced to do what you believe is right, via threat of violence?
Sop projecting your personal value judgments onto people with force.
I am all for global free access to health-care, but I’m not so stupid as to appeal to the state to provide it.
The state is terrible at service provision, because it is a violent monopoly. Achieve your aims through voluntary interaction, not death threats, that is the only sustainable way.
Yes, when the government takes peoples money it is extortion, it impinges your freedom.
How would you like it if your neighbor forced you to hand over a % of your income at gunpoint every year? It’s no different, the state is just a group of people.
Are all Americans capitalists?! God, that’s sad.
So you think that your freedom is taken away from you because you have to pay more in taxes. You still have the choice to get treatment in the private hospitals. And private hospitals vs. public hospitals will create competition and secure your beloved free market.
I believe that the State should control services like health care or child care. But people still have the right to choose their own doctors and schools. the only difference is that you don’t have to pay for it. But yes there will always be a private sector as an alternative to the public one, but that just improves the quality of the treatments. All I’m saying is that Unviversal Health Care is necessary for those who can’t afford insurance.
” We have to do what businesses and families do — we’ve got to cut out the things we don’t need to pay for the things we do” BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAA Yeah, right. This fool asks his Cabinet to cut costs in their departments by $100 million — a whopping .0027% and has the nerve to make comments like the above? I can’t wait to see him get voted out of office. His own VP said he wasn’t ready and that the country would fare better under McCain!
Simple understanding of economics and all this is well understood. But asking a liberal communist to read or understand the principles of freedom and a free market is like holy water to Dracula!
Both socialism and communism empower the state to control lives and the distribution of wealth and scarce Resorces. Both systems disincentives the ability to create wealth and/or profit which ensures a limited supply at a low cost and that makes rationing manditory and usually will only go to A. The government and officials, or the rich and well connected. Liberals rail on this yet their policies creates the very scarcity In which liberal reject