Healthcare Summit:Small Setting Public TV Debate Helps Approval Rating
By Susan Thompson on February 26, 2010, 7:22 amPresident Barack Obama decided that he would hold a Health Care Summit to discuss the topic of health care with top leaders from the Republican and Democrat parties. The summit was held at Blair House on February 25, 2010. The summit had its critics but opening up the summit and allowing it to be televised really boosted approval ratings.
Is The Health Care Summit Just Talk
Many legislators at the Health Care Summit are just making the same speeches and discussing the same issues that have been discussed by both Democrats and Republicans in the last few months. Many Republicans have stated that they want the President to scrap his entire health care and start over with a clean sheet of paper. President Obama has decided that he wants to hear what ideas Republicans and Democrats have to fix the health care problems in the United States. More than thirty million people of our three hundred million people population are uninsured. With a tumultuous job mark and an increasing unemployment rate, this figure will most likely increase during this calendar year. Action needs to be taken to make sure that the health of the country improves.
Bipartisanship Is What The Viewers Want To See
Many Americans have complained that the political climate has been too partisan. The climate is always whoever controls the Senate and the House holds call of the cards politically. When addressing an important issue that impacts everyday Americans, it is refreshing to viewers to actually see politicians on both sides of the aisle getting together to discuss an issue. This shows that President Obama wants television viewers to see the discussion and not do all of the negotiations behind closed doors. Americans want their president to be willing to think outside of the box and negotiate with other politicians.
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What was the point? The ‘meaning’ of bi-partisan compromise is for the Republicans to give in and go along. This administration is all about the show, this was to show how hard he is trying to include other ideas, even if there was never an intention of using them.
A big gamble, but also pure genius. I honestly don’t know what Americans these Republicans are speaking for, but they’re certainly out of touch with me and most middle class families who genuinely need and deserve affordable healthcare and yesterday proved it beyond a reasonable doubt. So unless you are just brain-dead or brainwashed by ‘Fox and Friends’ you will understand that this is necessary and the president and congress need to move forward with this. As it is it will take 2-3 years to implement after the bill is signed. It may not be perfect, but it is certainly better than anything the Republicans have brought to the table.
Boosted his approval ratings???? Not according to the any real poll.Ounce again Obama proved himself to be a thin skinned,arrogant infant.
When you can’t answer a question tell McCain the campain is over and when your questioned about fairness in the time just remind everyone your the president.
The problem was this: It was just hype. The President himself undermined the “bipartisan” aspect when: First, he said he would entertain Republican Ideas, but they better give him the same effect as the currently dead legislation that is hated by more Americans than love it. Secondly, he made changes to that, apparently in response to the first criticism, was basically a road-map to do an end run (that might be illegal, and most certainly will result in numerous legal challenges) around the possible fillibuster in the Sentate that his signature program would entail.
Note this: I am in agreement with the Liberal Media in one respect. I want Obama to OWN this, since he has botched this so badly, starting with his first back room deal with PHARMA back before it even had a chance to beecome as partisan as it became under the misdirection of Pelosi, Reid and even Obama. It is his SIGNATURE program, and his recent actions have made it even more so!
I expect him to get a temporary bounce from this dog and pony show that will last less than 5 days until the truth of what this was all about sinks into the minds of many Americans. Then, he will drop even further in the polls. One thing to note is that early on, even when his policies were unpopular, Obama retained personal populartity that was higher. Lately we have seen some cases where his personal popularity was a bit lower than his job approval rating. For the Liberals, the message should be clear: His Mojo is not going to be enough to get it done for them. He is losing it! Socialism will have to wait!
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Susan, get a grip on reality and get your head out of the sand, the summit has had the opposite effect on Obama.
(Healthcare reform) How do you reform healthcare? Ask yourself this, OK for starts,
why is healthcare so high? Well I think there is a simple way to do a real healthcare reform, and that is #1 put a cap on how much a single family can be charged for healthcare in the first place.
#2 A big blow below the belt in healthcare is frivolous lawsuits, and that is why you need to reform Americans, well now it looks like that would be a lost cause, why? Because you can’t beat all those lawyers that feed on our healthcare until that cap is so high not even the largest of all corporations can afford to buy Healthcare benefits for their employees.
If you ignore the real problem, and try to battle it from another area by just making large corporations do all the work, it can’t work.
How easy is it for a large Corporation to start outsoursing? That is why we are loosing
jobs in the millions, you raise the bar too high, they say OK fine we will start outsoursing out jobs.
It’s time to tackle the real problems, and act like real Americans that care about what makes
a true clean running healthcare system.
Think about it, do it, and stop trying to make a bigger joke of our healthcare then it already is.
I think Obama has not been truthful from the start. The man does not tell the truth about anything. LETS VOTE HIM OUT IN 3 YEARS.
just have to say that Jason if ya want a hand out go work harder or go somewhere else. It is the independents like me who wanted something different…and ended up with something much worse. Work hard or go some where else
I can not believe that any American could possible stomach the absolute low point that this health care garbage debate. I thought that Obama talking down to people that he needs help shows that he has not gotten past his nassicistic pluralism that he picked up in the 60′s. It seems that Obama suffers greatly from Boomeritis. He thinks that he is in a post conventional thought process, when in fact he is in a pre convnetional thought process and can only understand that he is right and there is no other way. That is the point of view of a CHILD.
I was an Obama supporter, and work in the health care insurance field. I trusted that Obama would reform the industry, without costing me my job, but he is too tied to the public health option to let it go. How do you support your President when he says you work for the Evil Empire? As much as the financial industry took us for a ride, they still realized they couldn’t replace the system in toto. What makes President Obama and the Democrats that they can wish the health insurance industry away, when they couldn’t do it with the financial industry? My point is increasingly with the Republicans (who I think are “stalling” not moving the game forward): FIX the system you have, first, then see what happens.