Obama taking healthcare debate public

Submitted by bizgrrl on Tue, 2010/02/09 - 6:08am

Obama on Sunday invited GOP and Democratic leaders to discuss possible compromises in a half-day, televised gathering on Feb. 25.

"This is a clever tactic by the president to try to put the Republicans on the defensive"

Hah! The Republicans should be on the defensive. They are trying to block legislation that could make us an even greater country by helping citizens obtain what they want and need. Healthcare reform could make us more competitive in the global economy. Many of our businesses are being dragged down with health insurance costs and need to be separated from the liability. Health insurance, and thus healthcare, should not be tied to employment or state of residence. We should be able to move freely without this as a concern.

Let's carefully put the issue in front of the people to explore the big picture.

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Six Republican ideas in the

Submitted by EricLykins on Thu, 2010/02/11 - 5:37am.

Six Republican ideas in the bill, with links to bill text.

Just some cover for the Dem base

Submitted by Virgil Proudfoot on Thu, 2010/02/11 - 10:34am.

This is nothing more than some good-cop/bad-cop theatrics. Like Clinton before him, Obama needs to keep up the pretense of "fighting for the people" against the horrible Republicans. In fact, the Republicans are horrible, but also in fact, Obama is one of them.

Obama has no problem with the big Wall Street bonuses, even though they're paid for by the taxpayers. And he's fought to remove the public option and Medicare buy-in, the only decent, and popular, parts of healthcare reform, so now that whole initiative is dead. He's even promoting the creation of a bipartisan commission to "balance the budget," in reality a poorly disguised pretext for dismantling Social Security and Medicare, despite the rejection of the idea by the Senate.

As it turns out, he's not a stealth Muslim terrorist; he's a stealth Republican.