Everybody is missing the most interesting thing about this clip: Obama never thanked Harry Reid, which is a pretty glaring omission given that he thanked Sebelius and “staffers in Congress.” What’s up with that? Was it just an oversight?

So we all get free health care now? Huh? What’s going on?

“We did not fear our future, we shaped it.”

History will look back on those words when we go the way of Greece.

No doubt our very Union is on the verge of crumbling, now. Thank the lucky stars that Glenn Beck will make millions of dollars watching it happen! Hey, for every door that closes…..

Harry Reid is not in the House of Representatives, and Obama did give a shout out to the Senate when they passed their HCR bill.

You know what the absolutely most hilarious part about this is? All of you are in one way or another going to enjoy the benefits gained from this bill, whether it is due to your children getting extended age coverage, removal of preexisting conditions, curbing of rates jacking up, cheaper insurance prices in general…even though you’re saying you hate this bill, you don’t mean it because you’ll never want to see it repealed. Ever.

AnonymousFinch says:
March 22, 2010 at 12:17 am
Everybody is missing the most interesting thing about this clip: Obama never thanked Harry Reid
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I thought you were supposed to be a lawyer. And you don’t even know Reid is in the Senate and not in the House.

“This Is What Change Looks Like”, we will all be saying this on November 2nd.

If the individual mandate survives SCOTUS, it will be the end of this republic as we know it. There will be no limits on the power of Congress to rule our lives.

If it doesn’t, every member of Congress that voted in favor should be impeached for failing to defend the Constitution of the United States.

The most important part of the vote last night was the bipartisan support AGAINST it. Sad day in the history of the United States when congress ignores the will of the people and gives them the middle finger, which is exactly what Pelosi, Hoyer, Stupak et al did. For shame.

The bill could have been much better if we hadn’t wasted a year trying to compromise with Republicans, adopting over seventy Republican amendments via voice votes and chasing “moderates” in the Senate, all for naught.

We should have gone reconciliation from the start since it ended up being demonized as a solely Democratic bill anyway. Hopefully they’ve learned their lesson that Republicans are only there to obstruct, even when it comes to legislation they’ve supported in the past and in some cases created.

@TfT Perhaps you should read Frum’s summation
http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo

“At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.”

The republicans made a strategic decision that they would not support any bill from the get go—from the mouth of a Republican insider.

@m

We will also enjoy higher taxes, a drop-off in the quality of care, and a system already working poorly due to government involvement getting more government control. Medicaid denies more coverage than the private insurers (roughly 3% vs. 6%) and their reimbursement rate to hospitals is so poor they cause pricing to be elevated to compensate. Already an increasing number of doctors refuse Medicad patients because of the trouble that comes from that system, and companies like Walgreens are adopting similar refusals for the same reason. But hey, now we can say we are just like the Europeans, so it’s all good.

The taste of victory! By the way, there is NO FREE HEALTHCARE! As I stated yesterday on this site, the poor have Medicaid, the rich have the money to buy health insurance. This bill makes it possible for the middle class to now buy insurance through subsidies. Got it? Once again the GOP gets it asses handed to them!

m says:
March 22, 2010 at 2:47 am
You know what the absolutely most hilarious part about this is? All of you are in one way or another going to enjoy the benefits gained from this bill…..

Quite the opposite, My care will decline, my small town doctor of 25 years will close up shop, my costs will go through the roof, the IRS will have an even larger role in my life now, it goes on and on and none of it is positive. All this to buy insurance for 30 million people. Not a f%cking thing to actually lower the cost of medical care or procedures, just buying poor people an insurance policy. Brilliant, just f&cking brilliant.

This is not health “care” reform, it’s health insurance premium payment redistribution.

@martinishark: I already told you this about medicaid, the reason for that report card rating is because providers request services that are not covered by the program. Its not hard to figure out that when you request a service that is not covered you are going to get a denial. Also they send their requests in multiple times repeatidly..so instead of issuing one approval and case closed, we have to issue 1 approval and multiple denial letters because the service was already approved.

But you know the cool thing when you get denied coverage with Medicaid? You get an administrative hearing if you so request. In my state our decisions for denials/terminations are upheld 98% of the time.

*gasp* wait that means the government could actually be doing something correctly from time to time…so that must not be true.

If I have to pay higher taxes so people who are not able to have access to health insurance can get that access, I’m down for it. We live in the greatest nation on Earth and we should take pride in knowing that we will be saving lives of fellow Americans with the passage of this bill.

@timzank And if none of that actually happens? Then what?

Here are my questions for the liberals doing a victory lap today:

1. What government program has ever worked as planned?

2. What government program has ever come in at or under budget?

3. What government program has ever gone into effect without unintended negative consequences?

4. If Obamacare doesn’t work as planned, comes in significantly over budget, and has unintended negative consequences, at what point will you admit that it has failed?

marcus.lewis says:
March 22, 2010 at 8:57 am
@timzank And if none of that actually happens? Then what?

Then I’ll publicly kiss Obama’s ass on live tv. Feel free to archive this for future reference.

Even if that proves out marcus, what of the lack of reimbursement that drags the system, and the doctors and pharmacies that opt out? The requirements placed on insurers (accepting pre-existing, restricted denials, ect.) will raise premiums, requiring more govt. intervention. Joe Biden last week stated directly their plan is to take over the insurance industry. Obama has said for years his primary objective is a single-payer system. Everything they plan on will jack up costs, while they sell this as a cost-saving plan. Nothing about this bill fixes problems, it simply expands an already dyfunctional system.