Obama Calls To Bloggers for Help

His healthcare system destruction bill is floundering. The masses are not bowing before him as grass bending to the wind, like he wants them to.

So the obvious solution is to be louder.

You want help from bloggers? Okay, I'm for healthcare payment reform. It should encompass the following changes:

Eliminate federal requirements for insrance coverages. If I *could* get a policy without substance abuse & mental counseling coverages, it would be cheaper, no?

Cap medical malpractice punitive damages awards to a lifetime's expected wages or some other non-half-billion dollar amount

Encourage private charitable caregivers with favorable regulatory and taxation legislation

Remove the federal requirement that hospitals see anyone with any complaint presenting to an Emergency Room

Then wait.

Specifically, don't compel (at gunpoint) healthy people to spend more than they can afford, on coverage for care they will not receive.

Also don't compel people (at gunpoint) to sign on to a more-expensive, lesser-quality government system.

He says this fundamental change to the way we spend 17% of all the money in our country MUST BE DONE NOW NOW NOW THIS MONTH!!!1!

Why? What's the big hurry?

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I can't help but recall the LAST TIME I said that about a major policy initiative that just HAD TO BE DONE NOW!!!1!

Hint: the problem was made worse than if they left it alone and we are now collectively on the hook for almost twenty three TRILLION dollars of what should have been private losses.