Weekly Address: Taking the Insurance Companies on Down the Stretch


As the health insurance reform debate enters into its final stages in Congress, the President denounces the desperate and deceptive last-ditch efforts of the health insurance companies to derail it. October 17, 2009. (Public Domain)

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25 Responses to Weekly Address: Taking the Insurance Companies on Down the Stretch

  1. paukus09 says:

    obama administraion= failure

  2. cjgilc says:

    lame duck pres

  3. dalecapelouto says:

    Pay attention to FERA EESA, he is not talking about health care insurance…he is talking about INSURANCE COMPANIES PERIOD LIKE FNF, GS REPUBLIC TITLE FIRMS ETC. THAT WE WERE BAILING OUT LAST YEAR FOR FILING CLIAMS AGAINST THE GOVT.
    ALOHA KA KO! AKAKA AND INOYA MAHALO. NO MORE CORPORATE GREED! BANKING EXECS SHOULD BE HELD TO THE SAME ACCOUNTABILITY WITH MY TAX DOLLAR! I HOPE YOU ALL FEEL THE SAME. OTHERWISE THROW SOME MORE MONEY AT AIG…THEY STILL NEED 30B TO COVER COMMISSIONS FROM 2008LOL

  4. movnrat says:

    Allow open competition! TORT reform will save billions of dollars a year! Stop! Think! I dont buy a new lawnmower when the blade needs to be sharpened. Your reform bill will eventually eliminate private insurance, unless you are rich. I dont want my government trying to insure everyone. Let the market open to all states! Thats competition! Let employers choose the plan that works best for them and thier employees. You are making a huge mistake Mr. President!

  5. jonavis says:

    I speak for myself, and the other million americans that voted for Obama.. which, as you ca see.. was and is majority.

  6. soicuw says:

    speak for yourself, not several million people.

    United we fail, divided and as individuals we prosper

  7. harveyforte says:

    Hey you morons clinging to your guns and your religion. Lord Obama has won. Get over it.

  8. jonavis says:

    America is with you Obama.

  9. jonavis says:

    well, I dont specifically mean the actual war, I mean the psycoligical war. There are many paranoical diferences that “politics” have created between us. Its not about whats really good for americans anymore, its turned into a “whats good for republicans” or “whats good for democrats” or even worse, “whats good for my status quo”. Nothing to directly do with the troops.
    Try to see things objectivally, how can all americans be covered? I just want to insist on the fact that this is NOT comunism

  10. pandabead says:

    Things Gerald Celente is predicting for 2010. Another large terrorist attack. A revolution. The dollar goes into the tank, police state maybe marshall law. food shortages, power costs skyrocket. no jobs at all or growth. by 2012 he states may succeed fromt he union and become an insolvent country. Like the change yet?

  11. pandabead says:

    Oba Mao is our leader. Follow him, worship him, AH ah ah. We follow our leader oba mao. Oba Mao we are communists give us everything we worship you. Oba mao we love you. Oba Mao those who oppose you are non believers, Oba mao, we shall round up those who decent and we shall reeducate them Oba Mao. And if they won’t submit we shall eliminate Oba Mao. No drink the Koolaid Oba Mao.

  12. MrSpike1966 says:

    Still no mention of HR676 Senator Conyers’ single payer bill

  13. davidpark68 says:

    nobody, that’s why I still have them.

    No internet? why? there would be more incentive because of greater profit.

    did you even read what I wrote about Religious indoctrination? do you take meds for your ADD? LOL

  14. davidpark68 says:

    when that fails free market capitalism starts back up (Black Markets)
    this & other “crazy” talk can be found on the lew rockwell site, cato institute & Mises Institute for starters.

  15. davidpark68 says:

    what I believe is in the original way the country was set up, look at your paycheck, double your state tax (don’t actually know what the tax would be) & remove the rest, could you live with the Balance? could you afford medical insurance? could you support a charity? send your children to private school? plan a retirement? this isn’t far fetched, we’ve been slowly slipping into government dependence since you guys been around – last stop is full on socialism.

  16. davidpark68 says:

    each state has it’s own constitution. so back to the question, under the way our government is set up the county or city would take a vote for the library, if passed the library would be built & taxes would be layed. same thing for health care, schools, playgrounds etc if the state was a socialist state then you get the works & pay high taxes, or get nothing & pay nothing. but we are so far from a constitutional government ……..

  17. davidpark68 says:

    the things that a local or state government couldn’t handle. it was decided we would have a constitutional republic meaning Your rights are bottom up, your rights start with you & you give away some of those rights to your local government so they can provide basic needs like police, fire, etc & lay taxes for them. in the rest of the world rights start with the government & end with the people. what we ended up with is a Big Bloated Federal Government that strips the states of their rights…

  18. davidpark68 says:

    LOL, first off, your talking about a library, a library is state funded. so something got lost in translation. all government is not bad. a constitutional federal government is bound in what it can do by the constitution for a reason. the framers wanted state sovereignty, the federal government was to Protect inalienable rights, deliver mail, provide a military, settle disputes between states, prosecute federal crime, deal with piracy. etc ………

  19. exNYinTX says:

    It’s hard to take it seriously when the ideas don’t make any sense. Who wants encyclopedias? Really??

    Ok so who’s building the ball park? And paying for maintenance, salaries, utilities, etc.

    If things were your way, there’d be no internet. How could there be.

    All I got out of the private school discussion is exactly what I expected. Religious indoctrination is fine because you approve of it, any other kind is no good. And if someone doesn’t believe, then they can leave.

  20. exNYinTX says:

    I’m thinking your views are pretty twisted without my help.

    So you’re saying a town of 30,000 people would be able to build a 2 or 3 million dollar library with only part of the people paying?

    And then what’s it a country club? If you didn’t pay you can’t use it. Same thing with rec centers I guess?

    Is that really what you all believe?

  21. davidpark68 says:

    kids now a days don’t want to read about dead guys in funny wigs, they’ve been socialized. they’ll wait for the movie, they actually made a movie of John Adams! yay

  22. davidpark68 says:

    now, now, your going to have to take this a little more seriously then that if you want to play. on the bright side, you haven’t cussed once during this conversation. we covered schools, private schools. the freedom of choice & market competition.Youth centers? their called ball parks for me, for you? you can finance them with your saved tax dollars if you want. Who wants Encyclopedias.

  23. davidpark68 says:

    Art, Music….. anything that you would find in the libraries today. why would you try to twist my personal views? do you understand that if we were not taxed something like a library would not go unfunded. there are way too many people that use the library that would give up cash for that cause. some other social programs not so much.

    I’m hopeful we don’t. the government is not built for efficiency, only effectiveness. they don’t care how much of our money they throw at a problem.

  24. davidpark68 says:

    I went to catholic school, there were a few that were not catholic in my class. during “Religion” they left the class & were tutored in another subject. I am not a religious person but I respect a persons choice if they are. Personally I view the bible as a set of rules to keep the people under control with the threat of the eye in the sky. do you believe we should be teaching our children to worshiping a president or teaching perspective based on party lines?

  25. exNYinTX says:

    No drama books in your new library got it. What about history, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, etc? And will there be any staff? Any librarians or clerks? Any public restrooms, because if so, they’ll need someone to clean them or will we all just bring our own Ajax to the library?

    I’m hopeful we get public healthcare. Maybe they’ll also do away with the limit on medicare taxes, so everybody pays medicare taxes up to the full amount of income. Rather than only the first $90,000.

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