President Barack Obama arrived in St. Louis on Wednesday in attempt to muster up more support for democrats' proposed health care bill. The Obama administration hoped to finalize a vote on the bill before the President leaves for Indonesia and Australia on March 18th. In a recent health care meeting with Republicans, the president emphasized that the administration would not start a bill from scratch, but work with the Senate version of the health care bill that they already had. The president reportedly intends to incorporate some of the Republican proposals for health care reform into Senate bill, such as eliminating fraud and waste.
The president claimed, according to on-going coverage by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, that he believes his plan for health care is a compromise between the proposals put for by both republicans and democrats. Despite the president's views that his approach to health care is a middle-of-the-road solution, many Missouri legislators disagreed. Among them were Rep. Todd Akin of Town and Country, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, and Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond, and Rep. Roy Blunt.
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What part of no doesn't Obama understand is something a lot of us are asking.
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Amir, I listed my sources at the bottom of my article. Perhaps you didn't know that's what those links were for. Maybe you should scroll down farther next time and read my article more carefully before you accuse people of plagarism.
The part that says no you can't because it is not in the interests of people outside the US for all Americans to have the right to health as a constitutionally-determined human right.
They, anti-American outsiders, are the only people who are saying no you can't, but they are learning that Americans have decided to determine their own future and no longer fear the threat from the unknown beyond the oceans because it not unknown anymore!!! Obama's bold resolve represents the brave new world which is modern America. Not the mean and terrified old kingdom, scared of its own shadow and living in darkness, fear and ignorance as a result. YES WE CAN!!
Rutherford, do you even know what you're saying in your post? Because, in general, it sounds very vague and accusatory. Tell me, who here has said they are against health care reform? No one.
In fact, I doubt most people are. I'm not. I want health care reform. But I want it done well, and done right.
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I don't think the current bill is a good bill. There are many better ways to reform health care than what is being offered to us. Why settle for a poor bill when we could craft an excellent one? The people who are saying "no" to the bill object to it because they don't think it is a good way to go about reform, not because they don't want reform. Think about that.
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