Obama on the healthcare bill. Sell it, yo.
http://advocacy.barackobama.com/healthcare/campaigns/18/call_scripts/59/call_sessions/new
President Obama’s full Q&A with Republican leaders in Baltimore, MD.
Peter and Megan told me about this today. It’s very much worth an hour and seven minutes of your life. The video isn’t all that thrilling, so clean your apt while you listen or something. He more or less skewers all the talking points that have been leveled about the budget and healthcare reform over the past year in one hour. This shouldn’t be a rare treat, this is how it should be done.
This isn’t for not seeing a doctor until the last minute. This study is of people being admitted for emergencies like falling off of a ladder or getting into a car crash. Despite their best intentions (and I believe a lot of anti-reform people are generally afraid of the costs and are not just defending a corrupt insurance industry), those fighting against a public option are fighting to kill people. The economy is in the toilet, but this has to happen.
It’s time to move beyond the forces of good vs. the insurance industry and the teabaggers. There’s a lot of room for a rational debate on cost controls and preventative medicine within the framework of universal coverage. Beneath the yelling and fear-mongering, Republicans have a lot of valid points about interstate competition and malpractice litigation, so lets get that in the bill and move this thing forward.
Bad Egg John Shadegg (R-AZ) tries out his Jeff Foxworthy impression.
“That’s why I’m here three years after my past due date, maybe you can do it to.”
Heather Graham and Moveon.org for the public option.
Al Franken on a tear.
If you’re curious about who this woman is, just look at who’s paying her salary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute#Funding
(via leosoup)
