Obama Health Care Event: New Concern Over White House PR Breakdown

Never before had I worried about healthcare. When my husband got laid off 4 months ago...we would have had to pay $600+ for our cobra but Obama made it so the Company paid for most of it so we only have to pay less than $200 for the same medical/dental. Also, with these new policies coming into effect, we won't have to pay anything (copays or anything) for mammograms or colonoscopys. Our children are grown now and have their own insurance. Although I never thought I would benefit from any of these services....I am glad they are there for me now. Thank you Obama.

Nancy-Ann Parle scored the comprehensive policy proposal. The reason her "in-house score" did not match the reality, as legislated by the Senate is because we are not allowing inter-state competition. Instead of taking something simple, the repeal of an Anti-Trust Exemption and adding in a permanent (or 5 year) doc fix which expires on 11/30/10, both democrats and republican are attempting to add extraneous material. While I personally agree with adding Tort Reform, from a timeliness perspective, it might drag it out another year, which is comprehensive bi-lateral dithering by many, many Senators.

Oh dear. I am not American and I don't live in the U.S. I am a Brit based in Latin America. You may all be disappointed with Obama but no one can defy gravity. He inherited a catastrophic situation and although everything has not miraculously come right overnight he has done a pretty good job with the terrible hand he was dealt. He probably won't survive for a 2nd turn but you guys will realize within 10 years or so how incredibly lucky you were to have him at this point in history. He is the best possible president at the worst possible time and he will burn for that. That's politics. The spavined and diluted health care bill that finally limped out of Washington, although pretty weak by European standards is a huge improvement on what you had before. It is an absolute tragedy that the citizizens of the most 'advanced' country of the early 21st century should have any doubts about helping the weakest members of society when they fall ill. What is this dog eat dog mentality? The only way we humans can evolve together is by helping each other. Get smart - forget the altruism. By helping the weakest you are helping yourself. Whay is that so difficult to understand?

Their problem is not PR it is reality! I got my new premium bill, up 23% and lousy. Then they suddenly offer TriCare to retired reservists who could not get health insurance until age sixty. The premium is going up to $1,020.38 a month. What happened to reduced costs? You may be "giving" benefits to us but we cannot afford them. Are we going to then be penalized by the IRS. Reality sucks!

Such wonderful stories about how the cost has gone down or was eliminated. Sorry people, you just can't get something for nothing! Someone has to pay for all of this! In the above story it says he will reduce the DEFICIT. That is the amount of money we spend as opposed to what we have. Spend more than you have=DEFICIT. He has no plan to reduce our DEBT. This only adds to the Nations DEBT.China already owns 1 TRILLION dollars of our debt!We owe them that much! They don't have to conquer us with tanks, they will just demand payment and they will get the DEED to this country in a BANKRUPTCY COURT! Get ready to learn Chinese!

Obama is history. He lost any credibility he had. He is now desperate. One by one his staff is jumping ship. Yet he still doesn't get it. Now he has recruited his wife to campagain for the democrats. Like she is more believable than he is. Instead of taking on the pharmacutical companies and insurance companies he chose to force health care on all americans at their expense.

the dems say what a good bill this is and how much money it will save us.the reps will say that it will cost much more and take the country broke.someone is not telling the truth about this healthcare bill.seems like our politicans are more intrested in protecting there jobs than thay are protecting the people in this country

Rarely have so many political strategists been so wrong about something so big. But when it comes to the health care bill, everyone from former President Bill Clinton on down whiffed on some of the more significant predictions. Democrats would run aggressively on the legislation? Nope. Voters would forget about the sausage-making aspects of the legislative process? Doesn’t seem that way, as the process contributed to the sense that the bill was deeply flawed. And Clinton’s own promise to jittery Democrats that their poll numbers would skyrocket after the bill finally passed also didn’t pan out, as the party is fighting for its life in the midterms. “I’m telling you, I don’t care how low they drive support for this with misinformation. The minute the president signs the health care reform bill, approval will go up, because Americans are inherently optimistic.” — Bill Clinton at the Netroots Nation convention in August 2009. We tried to tell ya...TRIED TO TELL YA....Now even Politico takes a notice...some just wont learn,Right,Jill?

People need to realize that without health care reform, more and more people will die. The GOP wants to stop the health care reform bill because their backers, the insurance companies, want it stopped. The main reason the Tea Baggers are out in force was because of the health care reform agenda in the first place. The problem with the GOP and the Tea Baggers is that the same ones are backing them both....the insurance industry. They have fought the health agenda from the start and will do anything to stop it....even take health care away from the children(as their recent plans demonstrate).

Mr. President instead of visiting a wealthy VA suburb why not travel over to Ward 8 in the District. There are people who need help more than any other people around. Oh, I forgot they are so poor there are no businesses there, or reataurants, etc.