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I watched the town hall meeting last night with Obama and his health care pitch. I was actually impressed with ABC throwing very difficult questions at the President.
I gave Obama a D- on lasts night pitch.
Obama could not answer any of the Doctors questions directly. They were good questions about cost of care effecting how a Doctor would treat the patient. We all know any Gov. health plan is going to dictate the quality of care because of cost.
Obama had to know questions like that were coming and it almost seemed he was not prepared.
The question came up if there is a Gov. plan to compete with private. What is stopping employers from dropping their private and going on the Gov? Obama was like well we are going to put safe guards in to stop that. WOW I thought he would have thought that situation out but by his answer they have not thought that deep.
One question was how a private plan will be able to compete with a Gov. plan? Its estimated right now that an avg family would save $2,500 a year on a Gov. plan. He said that the private industry will have to compete for that business. I thought that was a good comeback but the network discount with any Gov. plan is going to be 21% lower than a private PPO. Private plan will not be able to compete.
Obama had one suggestion that I thought was really good. He wants to give loan forgiveness for any Doctor willing to practice a GP for a period of time. I sure that will cost a **** load but a good idea.
Anyone else watch this last night?
I gave Obama a D- on lasts night pitch.
Obama could not answer any of the Doctors questions directly. They were good questions about cost of care effecting how a Doctor would treat the patient. We all know any Gov. health plan is going to dictate the quality of care because of cost.
Obama had to know questions like that were coming and it almost seemed he was not prepared.
The question came up if there is a Gov. plan to compete with private. What is stopping employers from dropping their private and going on the Gov? Obama was like well we are going to put safe guards in to stop that. WOW I thought he would have thought that situation out but by his answer they have not thought that deep.
One question was how a private plan will be able to compete with a Gov. plan? Its estimated right now that an avg family would save $2,500 a year on a Gov. plan. He said that the private industry will have to compete for that business. I thought that was a good comeback but the network discount with any Gov. plan is going to be 21% lower than a private PPO. Private plan will not be able to compete.
Obama had one suggestion that I thought was really good. He wants to give loan forgiveness for any Doctor willing to practice a GP for a period of time. I sure that will cost a **** load but a good idea.
Anyone else watch this last night?
