President Obama To Address Joint Session of Congress
A joint session of Congress has invited President Obama to speak on Health Care…
The invitation has been issued and now President Obama will put on his presidential trappings and speak to a joint session of Congress which will be broadcast to the American people on Wednesday, September 9.
The invitation issued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:
“Our nation is closer than ever to achieving health insurance reform that will lower costs, retain choice, improve quality and expand coverage. We are committed to reaching this goal. We would like to invite you to address a Joint Session of the Congress on Wednesday, September 9 on health insurance reform. Thank you for considering this invitation to speak to the Congress and the nation.”
Sounds like the President will use the quickest means at his disposal (Congress returns to Washington on the 8th) to try and stop the downhill slide of his popularity and the voices rising up across America to halt the Health Care bill. Seizing the moment will enable the President to try and sell Congress on his agenda to bring “change” to health care reform. Yet, the same Obama rhetoric will be there and the same old bill will still be waiting in the wings. A health care that is government run will be a change but not for the better. Any time the government gets involved in a program that costs taxpayers not only more money but costs our freedom of choice is a failure waiting to happen.
Universal Health Care is not good for the American people. Government run health care is going to end up the same way Medicare and Medicade is headed…an antiquated system facing bankruptcy.
The American people should be given the opportunity to choose their health care coverage. For those who are happy with their coverage, let them continue with their present plan. For those who want a “hand out” and refuse to pay the cost of insurance – they should not expect a free ride of government entitlements. My family pays for our health insurance and they should too. Americans paying for employer issued health care pay their portion…it is a condition of acting responsibly. Those who refuse coverage at their work place should either enroll in the plan or face the consequences of no insurance. At the present time, there are clinics and programs that furnish health care as well as hospitals that treat uninsured patients. These clinics and hospitals should be reimbursed for this care and not be saddled with the cost. There is no such thing as “free” coverage. The costs of health rises across the board and is passed on to the American taxpayers.
There are those Americans who simply cannot afford insurance coverage due to many reasons and those needing coverage should have access to good health treatment. The government needs to work on these areas and meet the challenges they present.
We need to exclude those in our country that break our immigration laws. No free ride for law breakers. At the present time, illegal immigrants receive better “free” care than our own citizens.
There is Medicare to cover our senior adult population and the government should do more to maintain high quality health care for those who have paid in to the Social Security program and deserve their benefits.
Medicaid is for those who are mentally or physically disabled and for those who fall below the poverty level. Medicaid coverage should provide the same high quality of health care as updated Medicare.
Now, more than ever, we need to let our voices be heard that we do not want Universal Health Care. We do want our representatives to hear our objections and then represent the people and their wishes; not blindly vote on a bill that most of the representatives haven’t even read themselves…let alone pretend to understand it.
Get vocal. Contact your representatives, fill out polls showing your displeasure with the president, join a Tea Party near you. Just let your voice be heard. Keep up the pressure and let our government know that they are to be a government of the people and for the people, not a government of dictatorship that forgets who it answers to.
FAR Editor
President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on health care reform in prime time on Wednesday, Sept. 9, a senior official tells POLITICO (Click on Politico for additional information).
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