What does Obama want in health bill

President Obama can not sell us out in the public option, he can not hope for a bipartisan bill by not supporting a public option, that is letting the 80% plus uninsured left flapping in the wind. NO NO NO We can do this. Mr. President

STAND UP FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED YOU, WHO ARE COUNTING ON YOU AND YOUR PROMISE, THAT THERE WILL BE AN AGGRESSIVE PUBLIC OPTION

. We voted those congressmen in but they do not work for us they are PAID for by the Lobbyist of the insurance companies who do not want a health care reform bill. BECAUSE they do not want a public option that guarantees US, the public, healthy competition, for their services...

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First lady' on Leno,

where he asked her whether POTUS would prefer world peace or White Sox in the World Series. A little laughter and a lot of poise. I love this First Lady, she has the strength and confidence the world admires. And she reminds me of Jackie Kennedy...

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Medicare and Public Option show similarities

I support a public option, 2 reasons, the biggest one being that it will give the insurance companies a whack on the back of their necks. They have gotten too big for their britches, and they just keep increasing our premiums. Have you seen the latest in their blotched thinking....Again it goes back to children being denied benefits because of weight, using pre existing conditions. I would be afraid for my grandsons trying to get covered. They have Osteogenesis Imperfecta, otherwise known as brittle or glass bones, they were born with it. Would an insurance company look at that as a pre existing condition.

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UPDATE: Rocky Mountain Health Plans to Cover Heavy Babies

[My Commentary: This is just one example of the bureaucracy that happens every day that denies Health Insurance to thousands of Americans, and now i have heard that the insurance companies have stabbed the white house in the back. Are we going to stand and take this I hope not,I do not know what to do, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.....]

Discovery of Flaw in System Leads to Policy Change
(GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.) – Today, Rocky Mountain Health Plans has made a company wide policy change and will now provide health plan coverage for healthy infants, regardless of their weight.
“A recent situation in which we denied coverage to a heavy, yet healthy, infant brought to our attention a flaw in our underwriting system for approving infants,” says Steve Erken Brack, president and CEO, Rocky Mountain Health Plans. “Because we are a small company dedicated to the people of Colorado, we are pleased to be in a position to act quickly. We have changed our policy, corrected our underwriting guidelines and are working to notify the parents of the infant who we earlier denied.”
The trend in health care has been for more and more families with small children to seek individual coverage for their children from health insurers. Rocky Mountain Health Plans has also been seeing this trend. Underwriting for this age group is a relatively new process.
“We are part of the Colorado community too and that includes healthy babies. Rocky Mountain has been serving this community for more than 35 years and our collaborative, community approach to health care is well documented. We are constantly working on new, innovative ways to deliver quality, affordable health plans that are designed for the people of Colorado.
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a "happy, adorable, big baby." denied health insurance for being overweight

Four-month-old Alex Lange is described as a "happy, adorable, big baby." Yet he can't get health insurance.

Rocky Mountain Health Plans refuses to cover little Alex because he's too large. Grand Junction's NBC11News.com reports.

Because of his size, Baby Alex was turned down for health insurance, his height and weight put him in the 99th percentile according to CDC guidelines.


Kelli [his mother] says it's ridiculous, "It's frustrating, it's very frustrating."

Dr. Speedie at Rocky Mountain Health Plans says all babies are evaluated for insurance the same way. "In children it's based on a combination of height and weight."

The health insurance reform legislation moving through Congress would end this practice of denying coverage based on "pre-existing conditions" -- in Alex's case, "obesity."
The Denver Post has more:

"I could understand if we could control what he's eating. But he's 4 months old. He's breast-feeding. We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," joked his frustrated father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction. "There is just something absurd about denying an infant."


Bernie and Kelli Lange tried to get insurance for their growing family with Rocky Mountain Health Plans when their current insurer raised their rates 40 percent after Alex was born. They filled out the paperwork and awaited approval, figuring their family is young and healthy. But the broker who was helping them find new insurance called Thursday with news that shocked them.

"'Your baby is too fat,' she told me," Bernie said.

UDPATE: Bernie, Kelli, and baby Alex will all appear on MSNBC's Ed Show on Monday evening.

Congressman Alan Grayson a Florida Democrat......Three Cheers

This Congressman from Florida I love He has fire in his belly, and he stands up to the Republicans. Now he is the only Democrat who has had the guts to speak up. Is he going to be the one who sets the rest of the Democrats straight?
I can say with pride that I am proud to be a Florida Dem, is there anybody out there who feels the same.

Let me know!

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Commentary on Health Care by Keith Olbermann

Last night Keith Olbermann did an hour commentary on the status of health care in the the United States of America. I am prayng that alot of people saw it and that they think about what he said. If you did not see it than watch it right here. Then take the time and think about what he has said. And then contact your so called congress person and let them know how you feel.

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Poll: Do you support a strong public health care option?

I am tired of all the gas bags in washington who we elected telling everybody that we do not want a public option. I believe the insurance companies are living high on the hog and dismissing health care that people are paying for , putting all that money in their fat back pockets and telling those who pay for their insurnace coverage to go tohell. they tell our doctors what they can do and what services we get. the government can not do not worse and would give those greedy b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, a run for their money. they the insurance companies dictate who lives and who dies, and who can have insurance and who can't. I went without insurance for a long time, now I have medicare, thank God. My children all work and still can't afford insurance for their families, that is not fair. that is morally wrong. insurance is a right for everyone in the united states of America. I am discussed with all the politicians, and those egotistical people who sit int he background and tell the legislators what they can do and not do and then pay them to vote they way they want them to, the worst part is the politicians do it. they are not looking after their constitutes they are looking out fore themselves. we should make them do without their precious health care for six months so they know what we go through.