Do you agree with the Democratic strategy to pass a healthcare bill THEN try to sell it to the public?
Question by c(^-v-*)o: Do you agree with the Democratic strategy to pass a healthcare bill THEN try to sell it to the public?
Wouldn’t people be WAY LESS skeptical of this bill if our alleged representatives could explain all the benefits BEFORE they vote on it?? (Or are these “benefits” simply too few and far between??)
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20100111_1501.php
ext on his checklist: “finish this health care bill successfully.” And after that? “Then we have to go out and sell it,” he said. “I think we can run on this. I think there is so much in here that has value to every American, and mostly to people who have insurance.”
In the conversation, Axelrod mentioned several other legislative initiatives that the White House hopes Congress will complete this year, including an energy bill. But asked what else Congress could pass before November that might significantly improve Democratic prospects, he cited only one other area: reform of financial regulation. “I wouldn’t put this on that order of magnitude [as health care] at all, but I think if we pass a financial reform that includes strong consumer provisions, reins in some of the worst excesses of the industry, I think that would be useful, would be helpful,” he said.
More important than new initiatives, he suggested, would be reframing the debate on what has already happened in Washington since Obama took office. On the one hand, he argued, the campaign will provide Democrats an opportunity to tout legislative successes, like bills strengthening federal regulation of tobacco and credit card companies, that have been almost completely eclipsed by the high-profile confrontations over the economy and health care.
On the other, he hinted, would be sharper efforts to compare the Democratic agenda with Republican priorities. While Republicans are hoping that voters will view the election as a referendum on Democratic performance, he said Democrats will work to frame the election more as a choice between the parties — and present an aggressive case against the GOP alternative.
Best answer:
Answer by Brother Obama
you best be checkin’ yourself, my brotha
I ain’t gon be readin’ all dat stuff…fo’ shizzle!
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Did the democrat controlled congress home ownership utopia create the housing bubble?
Question by Josey Wales: Did the democrat controlled congress residence ownership utopia generate the housing bubble?
QUOTE: “Lengthy-term pressure from Frank and his colleagues to expand property ownership connects government housing policies to both the housing bubble and the poor quality of the mortgages on which it is based”
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/13/housing-bubble-subprime-opinions-contributors_0216_peter_wallison_edward_pinto.html
Did the actual estate collapse trigger insurance and banks to fail, and then additional snowball into high unemployment?
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Very best answer:
Answer by Paul Grass®™℠
Yes sir Frank and Dodd practically single handedly produced the housing melt down by their inept legislative push for Fannie and Freddy to underwrite negative loans. They didn’t care as they got kick backs and sweet deals in carrying out so, and that is a reality
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Rep. Robert Wexler defends Homeowners Defense Act of 2007
This video was provided by CSPAN. Congressman Robert Wexler questions Phillip Swagel, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy for the Bush Administration at a House Financial Services Committee Hearing on September 5th, 2007. The topic: the Homeowners Defense Act of 2007, a piece of legislation aiming to reduce the burden of skyrocketing homeowners insurance rates on families due to hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Duration : 0:7:45
Categories: home insurance Tags: Congress, Democrats, homeowners insurance, Hurricanes, Robert Wexler, Wexler
Alan Grayson, AIG, and Insurance Experts: When do you say enough is enough?
This hearing on how the Federal government should oversee insurance took place in the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets. The hearing notice and witness statements are located here: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/hrcm051409.shtml
The witnesses were:
Mr. Baird Webel, Specialist in Financial Economics, Congressional Research Service;
Ms. Patricia Guinn, Managing Director, Global Risk and Financial Services Business, Towers Perrin;
Mr. J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation of America;
Mr. Martin F. Grace, James S. Kemper Professor, Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University
Mr. Scott Harrington, Alan B. Miller Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Duration : 0:6:42
Categories: house insuranse Tags: Alan, committee, Congress, finance, financial, Grayson, house, Orlando, politics, regulator, Risk, Services, systemic
Paul Ryan: What Washington Doesn’t Want You To Know
October 27, 2009
Mr. Speaker, Wisconsinites might want to know that just recently our Blue Cross-Blue Shield program announced that people in their 20s under this health care bill will see a 199% increase in their health insurance premiums. People in their 40s will see a 122% increase in their health insurance premiums. People in their 50s will see a dramatic double-digit increase in their health insurance premiums. 214,000 Wisconsinites might want to know that their Medicare Advantage plan that they enjoy will be either dramatically more expensive or will go away completely. The American taxpayer might want to know that government estimators are telling us that this bill will cost $1-2 trillion in a new health care entitlement, which will surely add more deficit and debt to future generations. The shame of all of this, Mr. Speaker, is that we could fix whats broken in health care without breaking whats working in health care. Republicans have offered 40 different pieces of legislation in an attempt to get bipartisan compromise, to make sure that the uninsured get insured, that people with preexisting conditions get health care, and that we do this without breaking the bank, without raising taxes, creating new debt, new deficits, and new entitlements.
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Duration : 0:1:22
Categories: house insuranse Tags: Budget, Congress, Health Care, Paul Ryan, wisconsin
Rep. Bilirakis Discusses Homeowners Insurance Bill (HR 3355)
WASHINGTON (8 Nov.) — U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), today discussed the homeowners’ insurance crisis faced by many Floridians, and the need for a national catastrophe fund to address the skyrocketing cost of insurance in disaster prone areas.
Duration : 0:1:52
Categories: homeowners insurance Tags: Bilirakis, Congress, Disaster, fl09, floor, florida, fund, insurance, speech
Weekly Address: Taking the Insurance Companies on Down the Stretch
As the health insurance reform debate enters into its final stages in Congress, the President denounces the desperate and deceptive last-ditch efforts of the health insurance companies to derail it. October 17, 2009. (Public Domain)
Duration : 0:6:6
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