Health Insurance Caesar
By donar | Related entries in Barack, Cartoons, Health Care, Obama, Political Graffiti
This is an excerpt from Obama’s town hall meeting today in Cleveland, courtesy of the Washington Post…
If you have health insurance, the reform we’re proposing will give you more security. You just heard Rick’s story. Reform will keep the government out of your health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your coverage if you’re happy with it. So don’t let folks say that somehow we’re going to be forcing government-run health care. It’s just not true.
And it will keep the insurance companies out of your health care decisions, too…
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… by stopping insurers from cherry-picking who they cover and holding insurers to a higher standard for what they cover.
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OBAMA: You won’t have to worry about receiving a surprise bill in the mail, because we’ll limit the amount your insurance company can force you to pay out of your own pocket.
(APPLAUSE)
You won’t have to worry about preexisting conditions…
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… because never again will anyone in America be denied coverage because of a previous illness or injury.
(APPLAUSE)
You won’t have to worry about losing coverage if you lose or leave your job, because every American who needs insurance will have access to affordable plans through a health insurance exchange, a marketplace where insurance companies will compete to cover you, not to deny you coverage.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I watched some of the town hall meeting. In general I agree with BHO. Something has to be done or we are going to bankrupt the system. And our elected officials have to put the country first not a political party or a special interest group ! That has been going on for way too long. We can’t just keep milking the bell cow – she’s going dry !
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Is there a point here you’d like to make? I can read this transcript numerous places — including at the WaPo link you provided.
This place used to have discussion. And it was about politics.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Donar makes political cartoons, not discussion pieces. I assume he included the excerpt to provide context.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
thanks Rob. I provide links and transcripts to shed light on the research that went into the cartoon. I appreciate all comments positive and critical. Please consider the cartoon equal to post written and links and quotes just supporting material.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
frankly, i don’t get it. the cartoon is antithetical to the excerpt. is this trying to tell us this is how prez thinks it is now? is it making fun of that? because it pretty much is, if you have an HMO.
i mean, all this talk by the GOP about how the gov. will “get between you and your doctor” doesn’t really faze me because it’s the same way now, except instead of government bean counters it’s HMO bean counters.
as mentioned above, a little background would be useful.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Shouldn’t political cartoons — like, say, jokes — stand on their own? *shrug*
Of course, this comes on the heels of recent posts about the death of traditional journalism (tangentially related to politics… maybe), the music industry vs. Pandora (whatever that is), and a self-indulgent rave about Google’s still-in-limited-public-beta VOIP service.
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I may not agree with Donar on well… much of anything, but seriously how is the strip overly vague? There has to be room for readers to personalize it, but the theme comes across.
To me he’s pointing out that insurance companies already ration out healthcare, which begs the question what’s necessarily different about government usurping said authority?
July 24th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I never said the cartoon was vague. I got it. Meh.
But I think including the transcript excerpt gave context when none was really necessary and didn’t do anything to start discussion… a reasonable expectation when someone posts a large block of text on a medium ideally suited for discussion.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Fair enough. Normally I just include a link, but I’ll be more judicious with excerpts.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I’m with rob. The cartoon is fine but the poltics are bewildering. Perhaps someone can explain to me why they think it is an improvement to change the label on the sash of the thumbs down guy from “insurance” to “government bureaucrat”.
July 26th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Obama doesn’t know much about insurance plans. His quote that they will make sure insurers will limit what comes out of the consumer’s pocket…? Well, all major medical insurance plans already have an “out-of-pocket maximum”, and the standard is $10,000/yr. That’s what makes a major medical insurance plan a major medical insurance plan. Right now, enforcement of insurance is done at the state level…why isn’t this being discussed right now? How is Federal vs. State gonna work regarding reform? This is what I want to hear.