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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (757760)	1/22/2007 6:19:40 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

When you say "make conservative talk radio illegal" I must admit I think that sounds like conservative talk radio's spin on something.....Not to defend the democrats, but what exactly is the proposal? I can't find any google references to it. We all have to take into account the source for our info.....if Al Franken says something, I take it with a grain of salt. If Sean Hannity says something, I take it with two grains.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (757760)	1/22/2007 6:24:06 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

I hope everyone realizes the bolded portion would be a tax increase on millions of Americans.... _____________________________________ Bush health care plan looks to states for action 42 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - States may have to roll back some or all of their laws that mandate health insurance cover under President George W. Bush's plan to reform health care, the White House said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT The White House and the Health and Human Services Department offered a few details of the plan to help cover some of the 47 million Americans without health insurance, which Bush plans to highlight in Tuesday's State of the Union speech. He also previewed it in his radio address on Saturday. Under the plan, states could subsidize health insurance premiums directly, they could establish high risk pools for the sickest people, and could help individuals and small businesses create their own insurance pools. "States that provide their citizens access to basic, private insurance at an affordable price would be eligible for funds under the Affordable Choices Initiative," the White House said in a statement. To get the federal money states would need to make health insurance affordable by such means as "reducing benefit or premium mandates," it said. Currently, each state has its own set of mandated conditions that health insurers must cover. For example, South Carolina has a law requiring insurers to pay for at least one night in the hospital for women who have just given birth. Requirements to cover mental health conditions are also legislated by states, although Congress has considered several federal approaches. Bush also proposes allowing people to buy health insurance offered only in other states. "The secretary of HHS would be able to redirect federal payments away from institutions (such as hospitals) and to needy individuals in eligible states. These grants would allow states to help low-income individuals purchase private health insurance," the White House statement added. States already work with the federal government under the Medicare, Medicaid and children's health insurance plans for the elderly, needy and the very young. Some groups have called for expanding these services, but Bush's plan emphasizes private insurance. Bush's plan would consider employer-provided health insurance to be taxable income but also allow a one-time general deduction, similar to the mortgage deduction. Some Democrats said they would oppose Bush's plan. "The President's so-called health care proposal won't help the uninsured, most of whom have limited incomes and are already in low tax brackets," said California Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, Chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. "But it will hurt middle-income Americans, whose employers will shift even more cost and risk to their employees," he added. Stark said he instead favored expanding Medicare.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (757760)	1/22/2007 6:34:23 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Why can't fair and balanced Fox News get something like this right before airing it the first time?? Seems like worth confirming... ______________________________ Obama Rep Calls FNC "Appallingly Irresponsible" For Madrassah References Fox News repeatedly pushed a right-wing magazine accusation that a young Barack Obama "attended a madrassah" and was raised as a Muslim last week, Howard Kurtz notes in today's WP. Obama's spokesman responds: "To publish this sort of trash without any documentation is surprising, but for Fox to repeat something so false, not once, but many times is appallingly irresponsible." Additionally, "Obama aides complained to Fox about what the campaign deemed inflammatory language" during the segments on Fox & Friends and The Big Story. Today at 6:10am, during Fox & Friends First, Steve Doocy said "we want to clarify something. On Friday of last week, we did the story from the Insight magazine where we talked about how they were quoting that Barack Obama, when he was a child growing up in Indonesia, had attended a madrassah. Mr. Obama's people called and they said that is absolutely false. They said the idea that Barack Obama went to a radical Muslim school is completely ridiculous." "We would love to have Barack Obama back on the show," Gretchen Carlson added...