Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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An American Disease

This article reminds us that Obama ran on a platform including health care reform:

Favilla | An American Disease
The authors, writing as Favilla for France's premier business paper, Les Echos, "After a state of grace, [President Obama] now must confront virulent opposition to his great plan to reform the American health care system. Yet, his goal is indisputable and was featured in the program for his candidacy: assuring health insurance coverage for the 46 million Americans who are excluded from it by the present system, a system obviously unworthy of a country that purports to be developed."
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  • 3 comments
valdary

valdary

August 26 2009, 18:58:44 UTC 11 years ago

Andy Parsons in 'Mock the Week'

"President Obama is trying to give millions of Americans free health care - This makes him unpopular in America"
valdary

valdary

August 26 2009, 19:17:14 UTC 11 years ago

I was just looking at your website.

I found many of the pages a little difficult to read because of the vertical bar down the centre of the text. I'm thinking that maybe it should be a right hand border that has come adrift. I'm viewing in Firefox on Hardy Heron Ubuntu.

Also many of the pages under the Culture section have broken links.

Otherwise it looks to be just the kind of website I like, one that has lots and lots of writing in it, and I will come back to it.
bemused_leftist

bemused_leftist

August 27 2009, 02:29:32 UTC 11 years ago

In the campaign Obama spoke strongly AGAINST a mandate. Saying people should be free to choose whether or not to carry insurance (appealing to rightwingers at that point). Hillary and Edwards chorused "But we'll give the poor people subsidies to buy theirs."

I think Obama compared their plans to Romney's and said people would be fined if they didn't get insurance, etc.