Obama to Field Internet Questions in Today's Health Care Townhall
Nancy Scola | July 1, 2009 - 11:47am | 3 comments | Email This!
Once again, President Barack Obama will be taking questions from the Internet. Saying "inaction is not an option," Obama announced through a YouTube video that the White House will today host one of their special-blend online townhalls that mixes together Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and live video streaming on White House Live. The special guest? The president himself. The subject? What Americans are wrestling with when it comes to health care costs, coverage, and choice. Obama will field some of the questions plucked by his staff from the more than 450 YouTube responses to his announcement, as well as Twitter and Facebook feeds. Health care staff will reportedly be on hand to field stumpers, and the White House promises to follow up with some of the questions that they don't get to today. The event starts at 1:15pm EDT, but head on over to Facebook now to watch as they set the stage and prepare for the event. It's not entirely clear that they're aware that the camera is already on.
The White House is promoting today's online town hall by posting some of the YouTube video responses smack dab in the middle of the WhiteHouse.gov home page. Is that you, top left?
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Well I really hope he doesn't
Well I really hope he doesn't get universal health care passed or the cap and trade it would be a disaster.
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A Huge National Concern.......
Health care is a huge national concern. There's a lot of talk about health care reform, and the industry does need it, especially since so many people that are only after the most basic of care have to get emergency cash loans to cover something as simple as a simple antibiotics script, and a full third of the nation is without health insurance. The lead researcher for the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, Elliot Fisher, a practitioner for over 20 years, has pointed out that areas that spend more on health care interestingly spend more on unnecessary procedures, and have higher mortality rates. So why do we need payday cash advances for health care that is worse when more expensive?
So the system we have now is so great? I don't think so...
The people against universal health care don't seem to understand that what we have NOW doesn't work. Many, many problems in the health care industry would be solved by universal health care. The sky-high medical costs we currently have are being directly passed on to employers who don't get cost-of-living raises--their raises are going to help pay for the company's health care plans. So they borrow money and go into debt.
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