Here at the Orange Juice! blog, you’ll find a good cross section of viewpoints surrounding the current Health Care Reform Bill that is being worked on by our representatives and will eventually be signed by our president, Barack Obama. Most recently, blogger Terry Crowley has covered the emerging drama of escalated angry confrontations in town hall meetings. I find the people with money bursting from their pockets and willing to spend that money on Health Care Public Relations to defeat any measure of the bill to be most interesting. Their names are hardly familiar and their names are most familiar, but what are THEY doing in the business of health care and behind the scenes with their PR firms taking whacks at stopping the bill? Dick Armey, Rick Scott, Thomas Scully and more….. Take a look at their incestuous relationships in the health industry, what amount of money they are willing to spend, and just why they want to deny ordinary americans fair health care coverage at the above video. Here is the original Link
These people and their coroporations have been enjoying obscene profits at the cost of household bankruptcies when Americans get sick and cannot pay the hospital bills. These guys NEED to stay in control and they will do anything to snatch fair health care coverage for ALL AMERICANS away from true reform.
Do not be scared my friends! Keep asking your questions. Keep going to meetings! Keep informed and remember, most of the answers can be found if you will only FOLLOW THE MONEY.
rachel maddow is their a blip on the screen . this report might as well come from , media matters ,and daily kos . has anyone ever watch a mslsd show with overbite and her . its a one hour of anti conservative bashing .
Not-so-great-one,
You did absolutely nothing…zero…nada…no, you did even LESS than nothing to dispute even a single fact in that report.
Greatone,
Rachel is indeed a progressive. I find her investigative reporting to be of interest b/c it is rarely covered elsewhere on tv.
Which conservatives are you referring to? This piece was focused on industry PR firms with HUGE budgets to sway public opinion to vote against their interests. Many of those firms are lead by criminals and frauds. You might want to take a moment and view the video to understand the underlying players.
anon, #2
You point out something important. This health care bill is really monumental and of vital importance to the success and prosperity of our country. We need to get this right. I don’t understand why a person like greatone wants to justs obstruct the conversation. they added NO piece of useful information to the discussions.
We cannot afford mindless idiocy to hijack this important decision in the works. The health care bill IS going thru. We need to have it constructed right so we don’t get screwed by the same people who have been screwing up health care and bankrupting people and who have been kicking people off their plans when they actually DO get sick.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Step it up, greatone! Bring information, not just some whining.
maddow a progressive keep going a little further left . like way left . on this health care mess . when you have folks like pelosi calling the people astro turf . specter ahhh we dont have time to read the bill . someone at those protest rallies called it the best when she said to one of the senators is pelosi /reid going to be on this plan too . so as far as info no to hillary care or obama care I DONT WANT THIS TURNING INTO canada health care .
Not-so-great-one,
Nice try, but we’re still waiting for your substantive rebuttal to Maddow’s report.
It’s time to step up with something more than partisan cliche’s.
yeah keeep going to the meetings and protest and get called a nazi , obstructor, part of a grass root movement , or as that no good gralafalo said , racist .
oh and as far as a rebuttal if it comes from MSLSD , maddow , overbite , matthews , NO THANKS
“oh and as far as a rebuttal if it comes from MSLSD , maddow , overbite , matthews , NO THANKS”
This says all that needs to be said about the “great” one.
post 9 and your anwser ? that is all we need to know form MR BLANK .
not-so-great-one,
Well obviously I agree with the thrust of Maddow’s report. Duh. Do you need me to post a transcript of it?
if it comes from maddow . it might as well as come from . keith o , pelosi . reid ,baggala , dont waste your time . OH AND BY THE WAY did you happened to see last nights grades on nobama from the people who voted on cnn not to good .like johnny c once said garbage in garbage out .
What is important i for Americans to look at what is going on in other countries that have National Health Care.
I am not rich by any means, but if the decision is paying for it here or get it free in Ireland i will pay for it here.
I Don’t know how old you are Red, but i have always listened to the elders because they have gained wisdom in their years, and if they smell a rat, its a rat!.
They also know who, is holding all those Free health care cards now, they dont want to pay for more loser’s and neither do I!.
It is plainly unfair to ask the hard workers to pay for the losers Health Insurance!. It is not American!. Go down the European path and your country as it is will be no more, and you will be living the lives the Europeans live, a high price and no life!
No objective arguments against the President’s health care draft are presented by the opposition.
A decision by the GOP has been made to defeat any plan the President presents.
The Republican party is using those disgusted with a Black president as tools to derail the President’s plan.
The GOP has conceded they can not defeat him in any other way.
The GOP’s strategy is is that if you defeat the health care plan you will defeat the President come next elections.
The GOP has no interest in assisting in the plan, no interest in the health of the nation only interest in political gain.
The far right fringe will over look possible benefit to their neighbors because they detest the nation beign led by a African American and a Democrat. The hate is that large.
This is why far right bloggers do not debate specifics and concentrate on generalities and factless horror projections. It is why they disrupt townhall meetings intended to educate the public on the positives of the President’s plan.
Senior citizens are targets for manipulation by many sources – criminal to political. This is what you see at townhall meetings.
Calling townhall protests grassroots is simply dishonest.
I am Republican by the way. The well being of by neighbor supercedes political affiliation.
How do Americans feel about increases of bureaucratic involvement in their healthcare? How educated is the average citizen on Obama’s Health Care Reform when considering there are members of Congress signing bills they haven’t bothered to read? Coming from the perspective of a 29-year-old woman who has turned a blind cheek to politics almost my entire life, I feel it is safe to say most of us are allowing extreme transformations to occur to our nation without doing any investigation, or even caring for that matter. With the brief amount of time I’ve invested over this past week into where the Reform is headed, I stand in opposition.
Am I on board with a total overhaul of reform on healthcare? Yes. Do I feel that a socialized healthcare plan will benefit our nation? NO! I watched the news clip posted on this page. I understand that the people behind the anti-reform movement are not exactly the sort of people a person should trust. Their attitudes and action plans involve an interest only in the increase of revenue to their practices at the expense of us. I understand that, and these practices are the sort of behavior that needs reformation. I feel the way this newscast has portrayed opposition to the plan is a political scheme of false dilemma and personal ad hominem. I do not appreciate being made to feel an idiot for my choice to disagree with socialized healthcare. The plan, if passed, will be the first domino to fall in the total collapse of our economy.
I was in love with idea that a new, fresh perspective was about to enter the The White House with the election of our President. Had I known he was a Socialist, I would’ve been standing in opposition all along.
If people want free health care, quit your job and go on medicaid. We all know how wonderful Los Angeles County-Medical Center is. It’s government funded. Go go go……
Can’t wait for Congress to give us free auto insurance.