Ed Schultz Takes Jonathan Alter Over Health Care Bill Public Option (VIDEO)
The Ed Show’s Ed Schultz took on President Obama Tuesday for not showing support for the public option. Schultz pointed to an email sent out by Organizing for America, asking supporters of health care reform to send money. The email, like the president’s speech to Senators on Sunday, did not mention the public option. Schultz accused Obama of allowing a handful of Democrats to shape health care reform and permitting a “watered down, whatever-the-hell-it-is public option” to move forward.
Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter stepped forward to defend the president and the health care bill. Alter argued that Schultz was misrepresenting the totality of the billl, telling Schultz that, “You have to deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be.”
Alter accused Schultz of making it sound like the whole bill was the public option and argued that the bill offers tremendous reforms like “ending discrimination against sick people…insuring more than 30 million additional Americans… all kinds of preventative care.” Read more
Health Care Reform Bill Text
So what does the health care reform bill actually say? Where can I find the
health care reform bill text? The reform bill is 1017 pages long and it would not be wise to post them all here. I will however link you to the online PDF containing the said bill.Before giving you the link, check out specific hot topics about the bill below:
Health Care Bill Page 58
Health Care Reform Bills
Obamacare Page 838
You can check out the bill either here or here.
Health Care Reform Bill The Promise
Health Care Reform Bill’s ‘Death Fortune’s Shawn Tully has read hr 3200 (and the companion Senate bill) and after 2,000 pages he’s discovered the hidden truth’s in the bill.
NEW YORK (Fortune) — In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans — and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform.A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Health committee, contradict the President’s assurances. To be sure, it isn’t easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.
If you prize choosing your own cardiologist or urologist under your company’s Preferred Provider Organization plan (PPO), if your employer rewards your non-smoking, healthy lifestyle with reduced premiums, if you love the bargain Health Savings Account (HSA) that insures you just for the essentials, or if you simply take comfort in the freedom to spend your own money for a policy that covers the newest drugs and diagnostic tests — you may be shocked to learn that you could lose all of those good things under the rules proposed in the two bills that herald a health-care revolution.
In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage — including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money — but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can’t have. It’s a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.
He then details the 5 health care freedoms you’ll loose under Obama care. Read more
