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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: thundley4 on February 25, 2010, 01:38:12 PM

Title: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
Post by: thundley4 on February 25, 2010, 01:38:12 PM

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For all the angst and anger, and after all the billable hours and airtime, President Obama's health care summit comes down to this: moving the polls just enough to make a difference.

That's what the White House hopes to gain, and what the Republican opposition fears. It's why the Blair House event is happening and why the GOP did not feel it could pull a boycott.

Right now, the consensus of polling finds the legislation mired at less than 40 percent approval. And as long as that number is "under water," it's too large a lift for nervous Democrats and too fat a target for triumphant Republicans.

So getting something done depends on making that something at least a little more popular than what Congress coughed up in 2009. Gaining even a handful of percentage points in the polls, say 5 to 10, is crucial to prospects for a bill this year.

And gaudy double-digit increases in private health insurance premiums, like the 39-percent boost announced by Anthem Blue Cross in California, give the overhaulers a fresh way to press their case.

  NPR (http://www.npr.org/watchingwashington/2010/02/health_care_summit_major_push.html)

It's NPR, so there are a few shots at the GOP.  Overall , it's truthful and I'll bet the MSM , water carriers for Obama will be out in full force claiming that Lord Zero schooled the Republicans.

Title: Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
Post by: BEG on February 25, 2010, 01:50:45 PM

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(http://crownbrown.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/profits.jpg)

Damn, you can't see it.  Click on this link to view it better:  LINK (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_otfwl2zc6Qc/SoMLoWBKM4I/AAAAAAAAK4g/wKdZyg5LxQ0/s1600-h/profits.bmp)

Title: Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
Post by: thundley4 on February 25, 2010, 02:10:24 PM

Quote from: BEG on February 25, 2010, 01:50:45 PM

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(http://crownbrown.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/profits.jpg)

Damn, you can't see it.  Click on this link to view it better:  LINK (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_otfwl2zc6Qc/SoMLoWBKM4I/AAAAAAAAK4g/wKdZyg5LxQ0/s1600-h/profits.bmp)

The only industry that has a lower profit percentage than the insurance industry is the American Auto industry.  :evillaugh:

Title: Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
Post by: zeitgeist on February 25, 2010, 03:01:15 PM

Chicken Noodle News coverage $ucks.  It is streamed on line which may be a better option.  I rate the whole debacle "Bread and Circuses" or trolling for sound bites.  It reminds me of the gambler who keeps going double or nothing hoping to win. 

Title: Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
Post by: rich_t on February 26, 2010, 09:39:24 AM

Quote from: zeitgeist on February 25, 2010, 03:01:15 PM

Chicken Noodle News coverage $ucks.  It is streamed on line which may be a better option.  I rate the whole debacle "Bread and Circuses" or trolling for sound bites.  It reminds me of the gambler who keeps going double or nothing hoping to win. 

That is exactly what it was IMO.  I watched some of it yesterday, and it was the "joke" I figured it would be.