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Obama Today: The Public Option is Still on the Table (Organizing For America Forum on Health Care on C-SPAN)
Currently being broadcast live on C-SPANOrganizing For America Forum on Health Care
The rebroadcast can be found here if you miss the President's presentation:
Presidential Remarks to Organizing for America Forum (Archived)
This must be seen. Please recommend to allow everyone time to check this out.
~OGD~
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This is indeed important, comforting, inspiring, REQUIRED viewing. Thank you for posting about it, OGD. I was wondering if anyone would. Please, All. Recommend this post and spread the word.
We have a good President.
August 20, 2009 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Totally agree. I saw a good, comprehensive, well informed explanation of health insurance reform complete with the reiteration of the importance of a public option and, how that public option factors into the whole reform equation.
I'm also now able to give him the benefit of the doubt about why he said that the PO is just a part of health insurance reform and not the entirety of it: To say that the PO is the main part of health care is leading with the chin. They downplay it to stop the cries of "dats guvmint run helth care!!"
August 20, 2009 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Correct you are. As an active member of OFA, I was tied in to this particular strategy meeting via land line this afternoon and heard the President say that a public option is a necessary component of health care reform, though it is not the entirety of the overall legislation. He urged us to continue the fight for health care reform and unequivocally stated that we must not give up.
August 21, 2009 7:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Recommended of course. Obama doesn't talk to us like we're dining room tables, does he? (giggle).
August 20, 2009 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
"President Barack Obama on Thursday said his health secretary didn’t misspeak when she said that the administration doesn’t consider a government-run health insurance option the only way to reform the health care system."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26302.html
How many dining room tables does it take to understand someone speaking from both sides of this mouth?
August 20, 2009 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
His explanation of that was pretty good if you watched his OFA townhall thing, even though I still think it was a trial balloon.
August 20, 2009 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
"...the administration doesn’t consider a government-run health insurance option the only way to reform the health care system."
That is not ominous. So they are considering other options. Big deal! That's called being open-minded and willing to explore other possibilities. It doesn't mean they take those other options seriously.
August 21, 2009 12:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gregor: how do you square "open-minded", "willing to explore" and "they don't take other options seriously"?
Sounds like a bit of dining table language to me.
August 21, 2009 8:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
By taking them at their words. They admit there are other options. I will admit there are other politcal parties. It doesn't mean I'm going to vote for them. I listen to them, but I don't agree with them. Their remarks are politico-speak. It doesn't say anything.
August 21, 2009 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
That would explain a lot of what's wrong with Dem messaging - it contradicts itself exactly half of the time.
To follow your logic, for example, when people talk about Obamacare being a trojan horse for single-payer, they are accused of lying even though they tell the truth about his goals.
They distrust him when he says he supports single-payer but at the same time doesn't want government to take care healthcare in this country.
August 21, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
they are accused of lying even though they tell the truth about his goals.
There has been so much double-talk on this subject I do not think anyone knows what his goals really are. What I do know is what mine are, to achieve Single-payer healthcare because profit motives are in direct opposition to providing healthcare. Private healthcare is about finding s way to divert monies intended for someone's physical well-being to the financial well-being of shareholders. Period. I do not find the private participation of shareholders in the provision of my healthcare in any way constructive.
August 21, 2009 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmm... Believe Lalo and all that BS rhetoric? ... Or . . .
Simply watch and listen to what the President said:
From the presentation:
I think that pretty much sums up dealing with the anti-reform crowd
and specifically the rhetoric that has come from Lalo when one has to
cut through such nonsense as the absurd claim that Lalo made that this
reform will, "...enslave the entire population to the government."
Enough said?
Don't feed the troll and go to the C-SPAN video archive and watch and listen for yourself what the President has to say.
Don't rely on others when you can verify for yourself what is being said by the President.
Important Note: Don't overlook President Obama's call to
action... urging all "...supporters to act on their successes to date
by engaging the public, dismissing rumors and misinformation, and
telling the truth about proposed reforms."
~OGD~
August 21, 2009 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Policy is policy, and politics is politics.
Thanks for the link.
August 21, 2009 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmm... Believe Lalo and that rhetoric? ... Or . . .
Simply watch and listen to what the President said:
From the presentation:
I think that pretty much sums up dealing with the anti-reform crowd and specifically the rhetoric that has come from Lalo when one has to cut through such nonsense as the absurd claim that Lalo made that this reform will, "...enslave the entire population to the government." Enough said?
And then the President, speaking of individuals who have no insurance coverage, made this point at 25:30:
Go to the C-SPAN video archive and watch and listen for yourself for his explanation.
Don't rely on others when you can verify for yourself what is being said by the President.
Important Note: Don't overlook President Obama's call to action... urging all "...supporters to act on their successes to date by engaging the public, dismissing rumors and misinformation, and telling the truth about proposed reforms."
And thanks to all for moving this post up in the queue so as to provide others an opportunity to view this presentation.
~OGD~
August 21, 2009 3:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is so important OGD. Thanks for the link. Now we can SHOW others what was said and how, and in what spirit, it was said.
Very grateful.
August 21, 2009 1:55 PM | Reply | Permalink