Let's go team!

"The Speech of his Life - Again" on 'health care insurance reform'? Ha; nothing the man says could ever even establish that, at the time the DNC Certified to state elections officials his Constitutional eligibility to hold the D Nomination for POTUS to get his name printed on the general election ballot, the party had first ascertained whether he is a Natural Born Citizen! MODEL COMPLAINT OF ELECTION FRAUD TO STATE A'sG

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

If he comes out and lays out a plan and treats us like adults,he has a chance. If he comes out with his pom-poms and cheerleader outfit,healthcare reform(public option) is lost.

Hi Eric,

Here is my Health care solution. My innovative approach deserves your attention.

Health Care For The Rest of Us

Health care, a major element of our economic heartbeat is stressed! My Loose Penny Program, a capital injection, will start to repair our muscle, but mission critical diplomacy is required.

The president needs to bring our fast foods, supermarkets; Target and Wal-Mart CEO's to the Rose Garden, to ink the deal. Barack Obama went to Cairo. He can meet with KFC. Our pocket change can make the critical health care diff rinse.

Every chain must participate in our Loose Pennies Program, regardless the size of their enterprise. Our purpose: an additional two-cents in their cash registers. For every item registered we want two pennies extra, tacked as patriotic gratuity.

This is not a government mandate. A patron can refuse to pay the voluntary two cents. Burger, fries and a drink total six extra cents, pennies off the pavement. Regardless what we purchase at the market; we are only pitching in some loose change out of pocket. 40 items at the supermarket could easily add up to $150. Does 80 cents inhibit your generosity?

A worker chosen by the workers to represent them can meet with the managers to approve the total pennies for everything out the door the week before, dividing that total by everyone's hours worked.

Then we include up to $2 dollars extra for every hour in the worker's paychecks. We could deduct 5 % for a medical mal-practice pool, but employers are exempted from matching, so sticker prices won't be raised to cover any additional cost of doing business. Fast food chains and supermarkets won't be harnessed by charges from our two-pennies program!

The worker's pay raise doesn't come out of management's pocket, but work place production will increase. When someone quits, the crew might ask the boss leave them to pick up the slack, so they earn more money!

The overage, beyond $2 dollars hourly extra in every pay, goes to interest bearing medical savings accounts, with the worker's name on his or her portion. President Obama can ask everyone on the low end of the economic chain to divide their bounty, or he can order the take home half in cash, with the balance going to grow their medical savings accounts.

The medical savings account, as a health care solution beats health insurance! Insurance companies are dedicated to making money, not protecting the sick from financial disaster. When an insurance company cancels your policy because you have an expensive disease, they don't refund your premium. But with a Health Assurance Savings Account, when you quit or get fired from the job, your medical savings account goes with you!

After a year behind the fast food counter, a 40-hour per week worker could have more than two grand in their Health Assurance account. Ten million uninsured people at the bottom of our economic food chain might not have health care insurance but all would carry Health Assurance. In the event they don't feel right they have access to medical care, and a second opinion, because the money to pay is there! When it's your money, wasteful procedures evaporate.

This works for the medical professional. You agree to the fee, the doctor swipes your card and the money is deducted from your Health Assurance account. The insurance company is out of the mix.

This proposed over-the-counter voluntary two-cent gratuity, $344 dollars monthly is transferred to the working not so rich by management, without bureaucracy. Government bureaus are out of the mix.

In all the dry cleaners add a nickel to every shirt pressed, a dime for every dry cleaned piece. In all the family operated dry cleaners, medical savings accounts will replace the worker's share of their family's health insurance.

This 2 cents extra covers 90% of all the minimum and lower wage jobs in USA, juicing the recovery by pumping the bottom of our economic chain, enriching the people most likely to purchase consumable goods with their money! Those in a low echelon hourly job, working 40 hours a week will have $80 extra weekly in his or her pay envelope, the diff rinse between a life scraping by and getting ahead; the advantage of $76 after a 5% set aside for a medical mal-practice pool, or $40 in their pay with minimum $36 earmarked for Health Assurance savings.

Millions of uninsured not so rich people building Medical Assurance Accounts will directly benefit from this voluntary deal. We gain from tipping our pennies to working folks, as these millions of uninsured won't be crowding emergency clinics for care, which we all pay for.

Emergency health care is infected by the actuarial projections of how many uninsured people might use an emergency room walk-in for care during the course of any year.

Working people in min-wage jobs with Health Assurance accounts cover their access on a need-to-be seen basis. In addition to medical savings accounts, the two cents gratis could save a million mortgages, a contribution to neighborhood health as deserted house disease devalues the whole street.

For the rest of our uncovered citizenry, doctors and dentists must be given the volunteer opportunity to do tax deductible charity work, treating them. A charity patient is anyone without insurance. The plan: doctors do $50,000 in charitable medical services and deduct the 50 large off the top of their federal tax. Then, after all the deductions, the doctors take an additional half off their bottom line; twenty-five thousand or half, whichever is greater.

The hallmark of Obama's campaign for president was "change" beyond a changing of the guard.

Medical professionals could perform $100,000 in charity and deduct $50,000 off their tax and because they only owed $49,000 in taxes, earn a one thousand dollar income tax credit.

This health care approach cost effectively makes sense.

Doctors won't be at the mercy of an insurance companies,' take it or leave it payment. Those who cannot afford the premiums, with pre-assurance from their family physician, will cancel their outrageous insurance policies.

Every doctor will have a waiting list of patients waiting to be classified as charity. Doctors will have more patients, their work incentive, freedom of income tax.

Isn't this one-line change in our tax code easier to digest than a thousand page med-reform vaccination, a stick-it-to-us hatched by a scam congress? Would the insurance company's shills show up at town hall meetings screaming, "It's a communist plot! Down with their two cents extra for medical savings accounts?"

Every doctor and dentist will have a sign on the door: "No insurance? I'm here."

These ideas will enrich our economy from the bottom up, possibly save a million mortgages, and insure access to health care services for many, if not all the millions of uninsured people, whilst leaving the greedy insurance companies out.

But your on-the-take congress, salted with insurance money, won't allow it.

The long-term solution to our health care prob limb is free medical education for doctors, dentists, and all related personal, our goal one hundred thousand doctors graduated every year until we have one family doctor for every thousand people. A national marijuana tax could fund this program. Politishinz are good at identifying issues, but those who finance their campaigns govern the solutions.

In that light, the above proposed change in our tax code, encouraging doctors and dentists to treat the uninsured as a deductible charity, could not pass either House of the current congress in a million years without a public outcry first.

I am the unknown poet, a long-time candidate for president, roasting in the sun.

Once upon a time our Fourth Estate was independent, standing watch, reporting true. Today's corporate approach to politics locks out the unknowns who seek public office, a primary reason there aren't any candidates. You announce, "I'm a candidate." The editor's don't ask, "What are your ideas?" But, "Show us twenty million dollars." And without access to buckets of ducats, the access to broadcast speech, to present their platforms is also blocked. Blog in the bog, dog.

We need to renew our politics, starting with the reestablishment of our First Amendment Right to televised political speech. Upon this essay, I am requesting e quill time of our television networks, to give my response to president Obama's health care speech to the congress, which the networks intend on playing live.

I will take this issue to the highest court.

The following web address will create a download from my web site of a word file devoted to the fact that Barack Obama is wearing eye shadow. It has 8 still shots and youtube links.

http://michaleslevinson.com/Eyeshadow2.0.docx

michaelslevinson dot commie
jacklegsjumpingup@earthlink.net

Oh how whimsical is the media and their fantasy of big, showy finishing strokes. Every debate during the election was supposed to be "it," the big confrontation where one or the other candidate struck the decisive blow and emerged as the presumptive President Elect. It seems to surprise you people every time something like that fails to happen, because you live in a world of stories, not one of reality. It's all about twisting reality into your own narrative, because a narrative is more exciting than a sober assessment of what's really going to happen. Obama is going to give a speech, and whether it's great or not so great, it will not make or break is Presidency.

Congress and both major parties have been far more generous with big banks and corporations than with the people who supposedly elected them. They are far more generous with themselves than with the people who elected them. They don't seem too bothered by this, but they should be.

I am against any "reform" that mandates every individual to buy private health insurance or be fined. It is a huge bonanza for the insurance companies, and will be a huge rip off for the consumers.

And no, I don't trust the Dems on this any more than the Republicans. They're all crooked, and they should all go down together if something like that passes.

The creepy fathomless pathetic-ness of Mr. Alterman's pontificating reasonableness tinct with faintly veiled snide makes me wish, as they would say in a sprightly manner in medieval times, that he would re-eat his own vomit.

We have waited 40 or more dismal years of a sickening Great Sucking of wealth and health from We The dear Sheeple for the tycoons of Wall-Street-run Wealthcare. We've already been "building for the future" for decades. We lost single payer (with no leveraged return). Public option is already the half loaf, the crumb. Public option is the baby and the bath water.

Shame on the lilylivers and Nevilles. Shame, Mr. Alterman. You'll be ready in another 16 years for the next baby step, will you? Fie!

I guess the Peter Pan Party is bound and determined to tax us into 20% unemployment rate?

At least the stock market is closed. Every time this goober talks, the market dives: DIVE DIVE DIVE. You'd think he was Captain of a Submarine.

I was watching one day and the Dow was up about 200 points when he started yapping. By time he was done, it was down 200 points. The guy really instills confidence. Somebody has to tell him that he already IS President, and the speachifying is getting really old. We're not buying any of it, it's the same old: Blahhdy blah blah blah, we inherited a blahhdy blah blah blah was worse than the blahdy blah blah blah......damn, these people must think we're Democrats or something.

Poor man, "the president has only himself, the odd policy wonk and the netroots to make his case for him." Only himself? He's the President of the United States, for heaven's sake. He's got a whole White House machine, he's got rafts of economists, he's got mainstream newspapers, he's got free access to tv networks and town halls, he's got a majority in the Senate and the House. He's got people parsing every word of his 28 speeches specifically on health care and 131 others which also mention health care. It's not like he's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."

This president is in love with making speeches. Enough already, start governing.

President Obama just called the gNOp's liars to their faces. I hope it burns them up.

Oliver, what the heck is wrong with your mind. So what if Obama wears eyeshadow? Are you freaking nuts? Lots of people wear eyeshadow to be placed on tv to make them look better. Or even to prevent light glares. Also people, men and women in movies wear make up. You might not know it, but most white people on tv has on make up, with out it, they all look like walking death. Makeup is a must for white people and is a choice for black people. Simply because we are not palefaces. All races are people of color except white people. Especially reheads who look sick and look like they're about to faint all the time. Male and female talkshow host wear make up, news reporters wear make up and the list goes on. Are you jealous? You want to wear make up. Go ahead. But I bet your reason will not be the same as all of theirs. You know why? Because you probably want a dress and panty hose to go along with it. Don't be ashamed. If you're that way do not try to bust on Obama for it. He didn't choose your preference for you. I don't care if you are the unknown poet, a long-time candidate for president, (which I seriously doubt) roasting in the sun. And no one cares if you take this issue to the highest court. But all I call you for right now is to keep roasting until you dry out. You're not scaring anyone. You just revealed more of your private life. That's all you've done. Like Sarah Palin, you're just another big mouth, just not sure whose is bigger. Now if you're to Obama's speech that he is giving right now, I say you've just learn a whole lot that you had no ide that was going on. And i know you have learned quite a bit tonight that you never knew was going on. So Oliver, my dear, tear up your ideas on the letter you wrote earlier, because it's not gonna happen. Sorry, but Obama has spoken. Lord help you, God know you need it. Have a good night. Go get your nerves together. Next time you write here, think very well before you speak. Then you won't look as dumb as Sarah. So sorry, come back when you lear a little something.

With that very succinct and eloquent address, the President did to the Republicans what the Road Runner does to the coyote in every episode.

Beep, beep.

BOOOM!! (that's the sound of the GOP imploding on itself)