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You would think he believes himself to be Chuck Norris or something, like he could karate kick it back to life!

Do you think people want to hear any more on the failed Democratic healthcare plan?

It is the economy stupid, get some Republican Conservatives to show you how to fix it!

If one is objective, it is very difficult to find one accomplishment of Obama's presidency thus far.

American want a Public Option and we want it NOW! Stop the Republican lies!

OBOZO is out still trying to SELL his package.

No matter how you wrap it, and what kind of bow you put on it, if it stinks, it stinks.

OBOZO, Pelosi, Reid, Schummer, Frank need to shut up and let the reasonalbe people (from both parties) try ti form a plan that works, or at least makes (agreed to) improvements.

The majority of doctors do not support the public option. The AMA is fuzzy on the details of their support which they only gave when bought off by the promise that medicare reimbursement would increase. Wonder where that $230 billion will come from?

This public option is going to be forced on the people.By the way, no one said there was an "impending" takeover. It will be gradual but it will happen and BO knows that. His words are as misleading as those he complains about. Force it on the people and lose the congress and whitehouse. That you can bet on.

There is one problem with the White House touting the AMA's support of a "public option" .... only 17% of doctors in the US are members. I wonder what the opinion of the OTHER 83% of doctors are regarding the so-called "public option"??

Maybe before the White House makes a blanket statement ... they could do a little more research??

The AMA represents less than 17% of all doctors, and I have talked to doctor who are members and to some that are not.

And you know what?

I have not been able to find 1, single, solitary doctor that supports Obamacare; not 1.

The AMA obviously doesn't represent all of their doctors.

I wonder what percent of those 17% actually support Obamacare.

Like I said, I couldn find 1.

Based on a survey of 2007 62 percent of all bankruptcies caused by medical debt

for republicans party we need health care reform

Are you all get it ?

My doctor in livid about getting a public option - his words - 'the current system is unsustainable and if it fails, it fails for all of us'.

The Obama Propaganda Fest continues.

According to Wikipedia the AMA membership is only 15% ot the total number of practicing physicians. Why didn't the white house invite doctors with opposing views?

Nothing but a photo op.

Pass the health care reform w/ public option.
and guys go and watch Michael Moor's 'Capitalism Love story'

Obama is the one who is misleading. Doctors overwhelmingly oppose Obama's plan.

Smoke Screens and more LIES, Obama why not try the truth for once. Obama has made it nothing but LIES Obama equals LIES.

Time to IMPEACH Obama on misuse of Tax Dollars.

Drs favor a public option by over 65% and more than 10% want a single payor system. Stand up democrats and get this done with a public option, we do not need another huge transfer of wealth from the middle class to a big industry; or the wealthy. It's time they did their part after making 425% profit in the last decade.

The health insurance industry needs to support its customers rather than itself. Granted business needs to make a profit as well to survive but excess is excess and wrong. It is unfortunate that neither Congressional Republicans nor many Doctors understand this. As a working class American I have health insurance but it is close to being unaffordable. The premiums rise, the co-pays get larger, coverage reduces, and I keep paying more because the alternative is worse. I also see a definite need to cover those that don't have insurance because either they lost coverage due to the economic situation or were never offered by their employer. Their medical needs are passed on to me as unregulated costs.

How can we, as Americans, call our society advanced, caring, and supportive of all, if one of the basics human needs cannot be met or is controlled by big business. Please stop the lies, misinformation, and half-truths.

Mr. Obama, remember when you claimed that the AMA supported you and then you read their letter and their letter outlined the republican’s ideas. Why don’t you start there being that all those ideas will contribute to reducing the cost of health care, and best of all, the ideas are FREE. Just remember, no matter what happens you can’t let the privet sector run loose, you still need to regulate them to prevent greed and corruption.

Both of my daughters work in hospitals, the doctors are very outspoken against this type health insurance reform. The AMA has given some limited support but remember, only 11% of doctors belong to or support the views of the AMA.

Great plan senators. Most americans are pleased with what we have and we want no government interference. Obama, listen to the public, no government public option!!!!!!!!

What a joke! We have american soldiers being executed in afghanistan and our president is setting up a staged doctor meeting in the rose garden? Health care reform is dead, the last nail in the coffin was when Obama thought he could go to Denmark and tell the world they the Olympics are going to be held in Chicago. How did that turn out? and that was supposed to be a shoe in! Obama is all talk, and we as a nation are painfully finding that out. Foreclosure's are at an all time high, our national debt is at an all time high, our taxes are at an all time high, troops in two countries being killed with no plan or strategy of how to win or pull them out, and with all of that Obama wants to take your health care away and force you to take the government plan or pay a tax. What a mistake america has made.

Government-mandated and run health care will destroy the USA.

My family is full of doctors and they all agree that a plan without a public option is just a giveaway to the big insurance companies. I have yet to speak with a single MD who is not in support of a strong public option in the mold of Medicare (which, BTW, is run more smoothly and efficiently than ill informed naysayers think).

For all those who haven't a clue how some (the biggies) operate...think about this....IF you have a plan with say Humana, which is one of the biggest, read your plan carefully....does it say that you have to get a second opinion for everything? And then you may not have a choice of doctors OR hospitals, especially if you are a member of an HMO.....HMO, basically is a micro-managed health care system where you don't have a lot of choice unless you can afford to go outside the HMO's system.

The change you voted for "Hope is not a plan" , next president please

PATHETIC & pitiful attempt @ misleading the public as to which way the medical professionals are leaning on health care.

I wonder if Obama has read the bill. Death panels are still in the bill, though in another form. Subsidized abortion is still there as well. Dems are going to get to end life at both ends of the life-cycle.

The AMA comprises less than 17 percent of MDs in the US. The VAST majority of Doctors are opposed to Bozo's illgotten schemes! Let's focus on the Economy and threats abroad, Barry!!! Not more deficit spending to grow Government and your political career rooted in Socialism!

yes we need helath care reform my wifes insurance is gone up by 15% this year we just got a bill i guess insurance companies are now making people pay for the expenses they put to stall the reform.and they dont want to cover cancer treatment and other exisiting sickness well done repulicans now the insurance companies will screw all the amercian people

You are doing a great job MR PRESIDENT

Obama/Hillary 2012

What a desperate act from a losing president. The latest Rassmusen Reports Poll show only 33% of americans support Obama's healthcare reform bill! If these so called "death panels" are not true then why did congress drop it from the reform bill???? The people of america are reflective of the people of the world, in that they don't like Obama telling them what they have to do, which is obvious considering Chicago got the lowest number of votes for an american host city candidate in Olympic history! Obama needs to start listening to the majority of americans on what they want done for health care reform, and not the minority ghetto population. Of course people in the ghetto's want free healthcare, but the majority works for their health care and they don't want to see more of their paycheck taken away to pay for people who don't work hard and their health care.

Rally a doctor? I'd like to see that one. Obama and his lectures – those who can't do, teach and those who can't lead, lecture.

Please, people come on ENOUGH, let's all get down to business and start helping this President clean up this mess, and help get this INS deal pass and move forward. This stall, bad mouthing, fear mongering, and comments of hate has to stop.

If you don't have notthing good and positive to say or help this Admin. to support the matter please keep it to yourself, we american don't need the negative stuff.
Let's come together in this country for once in a life time.
Obama/Biden for the next eight years

Wow. One doctor from each state. What depth of support.....

Barack Obama the idiot that messed up the World Banking system.

The soner this idiot is out of office. The sooner the world can get back on track

Again Obama pretends that the problems from getting reform passed center around false and crazy claims by opponents.
Health care reform is not being held up because of fears about death panels. It is in limbo because the Democrats are split over the public option. Death panels are not part of that argument. The Blue Dogs are opposed to the public option and any reform that comes with a price tag in the trillion dollar range. Liberal Democrats won't support a bill with out the public option. They aren't fighting over death panels.
As for the government takeover issue. The House is still crafting a new bill, the Senate Finance bill is done, but not yet posted. So we can't tell if either of these is a government takeover. If either looks like the House HR3200 bill, they will represent a government takeover. The HR3200 bill gives the government broad control over what private insurance must cover in addition to control over their premiums, deductibles and copays. There would be no other way to describe it other than government takeover of private insurance.

I volunteer to serve on a panel of physicians to help write this bill. There's a thought. Doctors writing health care legislation? Who knows, maybe next Teachers helping write education reform and lawyers drafting new laws, precedent's, bills......Oh wait, we already have lawyers doing all three plus. No wonder, whose idea was that?

Obama says one thing but the bills coming out of the Senate and the house say something else. Does he think people are just making up these comments??? He probably hasn't even read the bills.
He is still campaigning.

Obama trying to wear everybody out on his grab for control of our health care now so he can hand it over to his SEIU masters. Perhaps the SEIU has bought off the AMA just like it has AARP and don't forget the masterpiece they gave us in ACORN.

Thank you, Mr President.

Please keep on reminding the Senate and Congress that we Americans want the same health care coverage choices that THEY get. It's not fair and it's hypocritical for Senators and Congress to vote Public Option down.

Support a Public Option and you support Americans

Just how many doctors from each state? Answer 1
50 Doctors does not make a majority.

The Bacus bill's method for motivating people to buy coverage is worthless. With the current bill, people in the individual space would be STUPID to purchase insurance until after they get sick. In addition, it literally motivates businesses to eliminate their coverage, dumping millions into the broken individual market. Far from a gift for insurers, this bill will drive most out of business. The largest distortion in the debate is not the death panel frop- it is the line that this reform will "make coverage more affordable." It will for those receiving government assistance, but for the other 85% expect for your premiums to go up substantially. That is, until your employer dumps your coverage...

Just another photo op for Obama – he needs to get some work done instead of going on TV every day.

Only 20% of doctors belong to AMA. So Obama got a few Dr's to show up so they could get their face on TV – big deal. They don't represent the majority of Dr's views on health care in the country and sure don't represent the views of my Dr's.

For President Obama who openly claimed to be "a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan" is a hypocrite to rail about "misleading warnings" about an impending government takeover of the health care system. That's the problem with promising everybody what they want to hear; eventually you get tangled up in your own words. I guess it depends on somehow separating single payer from government takeover by some convoluted logic.

Doctors who don’t support public option should be getting into some other profitable business. People’s health is not for sale. If people’s well being in not the first and most important think on a doctor’s mind, then I wouldn’t want him to be my doctor.

Everything in Politics is Political Theatre. If we do get any kind of public option will be determined by how this will be politically advantadeous for all involved. Universal healthcare is dead in these waters because that would significantly hurt those who pay off our politicians so handsomely. It is We The people who will always pay for everything until we RISE Up and Say No More!

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More misinformation spin from Obama.
Last week I saw reported on several news channels and also in my newspaper hundreds of doctors protesting the current health care reform bills. The doctors protesting believe that the current direction the reform is going would be harmful to patients and doctors.
When Obama says that doctors wouldn't support a reform agenda if they believed it would lead to government interference in the doctor-patient relationship, he's right, there were hundreds last week protesting at the capital that do not support reform that interfers in the doctor-patient relationsship.
Of course only doctors that are on record supporting Obamacare were invited to his little staged press stunt. I would call it misinformation when Obama tries to pretend that all doctors support his Obamacare.

Okay, let's get a couple of things straight –

1.) A USA government run public option DOES NOT EQUAL a Takeover as has been insinuated (ex.: USPS – The government run Postal Service is an option, not a TAKEOVER – The USPS competes with the likes of UPS, FEDEX, etc. The key word here is 'COMPETITION' and NOT 'TAKEOVER' !! Example # 2 – Government run public schools – Have they put the Private Schools out of business? NO, I DON'T THINK SO !!) A Universal Healthcare Public Option WILL NOT PUT the privatized GREEDY Insurance Industry Out of Business !!

2.) The GOP calls the liberal Democratic strategy SOCIALIST – Well guess what? Socialism DOES NOT EQUAL Communism !! Don't believe me? Look the definitions up via Google. For those that are 100% against Socialism – May I recommend we STRIP those individuals of not only healthcare reform, but STRIP them of Social Security benefits, public school for their children, Medicare / Medicaid Benefits, etc. The Democratic agenda may appear as socialist, however, the GOP agenda is FACIST – Hey GOP – 'Die Quickly' !!

The President has gotten further than any other President on this issue at great cost to his political career. In my opinion that shows he really cares about this issue and if he succeeds he will be remembered for providing a crucial safety net in our society. On the other hand I wish he would be a bit more aggressive and match the vitriol of the Conservatives with the facts that favor reform. Getting the doctors on board is one way but maybe he should have them holding signs and marching on Washington in support of reform. Will Fox news cover that rally?

This is all Bush's fault. Dick Caney too. Obama inherited this mess so we will have to wait until Obama is out of office before anything gets done. When you hear excuses it only means that nothing will get fixed. I thought Obama ran for president knowning that Bush has been in office for 8 years. I don't want to hear anymore excuses from Obama. I want him to do his job.

Speaking of 'distortions', if illegal aliens aren't to be covered then why did democrats vote against proof of citizenship as a requirement and why are some Democrats working the cost of covering them?

What?!?! Doctors want health care reform...socialists, all of 'em!

what a down-right silly spectacle. Surprised they all didnt have the big silver disc headbands.

Wow, a big expensive giveaway to the insurance industry containing no real reform. Thanks, congress critters. Your corporate masters are pleased. Have a nice day!