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President Barack Obama is putting all of his political eggs in the basket of fixing health care.
For the third week in a row, he devoted his weekly online address to the nation on the topic he calls "the number one thing we can do for our nation's long-tern fiscal health."
On Wednesday, Obama will host a national online town hall forum on health care and will feature answers to questions solicited during his weekly address this week.
Those with questions were asked to submit a 20-30 second video to Youtube. Questioners can also submit queries via Twitter or Facebook.
Only time will tell whether people jump at the opportunity to ask questions of the president in the new mediums of Youtube, Twitter or Facebook. But no one can deny his willingness to engage people in unconventional ways to spread his message.
What do you want to know about the future of health care? Post your questions below.
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By: Ruby JacksonBrown on 6/30/2009 4:21PM
Majority of employers provide health care for their employees and their family. If you subsidized the employers's health care plan,and create more jobs for working class Americans, you will solve the health care problem, since majority of Americans are already on medicare.If you reduce restrictions for family to obtain health care coverage through medicare that is already providing adequate health-care for 35% to 55% of Americans (). What more can the people ask for?
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By: kcn9971 on 6/30/2009 6:43PM
Spoken like a true Obama prodigy. You guys have all the answers to health care... except how to pay for it!! Economics 101 says the only way Govt. can pay for it's projects is through higher taxes, budget cuts, print more money or borrow from China. With unemployment climbing to almost 12% medicare and social security will be greatly underfunded considering the fact that these programs are paid for through payroll(in other words, no jobs....no funding).And lets not mention the cost that illegal aliens already add on health care. The truth of the matter is Mr. Obama wants to fund his health care by having the American people pay a Carbon Tax, which will drastically increase gas prices and utility bills. This is a tax on the poor and working class and Mr. Obama should be ashamed of himself!!!
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By: Minerva on 7/12/2009 1:21AM
One way to cut our ever increasing healthcare costs is by closing our borders! I am tired of paying for those who are here illegally! Because neither side has done anything to stop the influx of illegals from entering our country, WE THE TAX PAYING CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA have been paying for it with our hard earned dollars, just to keep the system afloat! If you think for one minute that universal healthcare is going to solve all of our problems-THINK AGAIN! How about fining businesses that hire illegals and using that money towards healthcare? If these corrupt companies were willing to pay an honest wage, Americans would be happy to work in these so called "lower" positions. In turn, it would create the jobs that are so desperately needed-BY AND FOR LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS! Once you have an income, it opens the door for you to choose your own healthcare. If this bill were to pass, it would have a devastating affect on all of us. DON'T BE FOOLED BY OUR DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS OR BHO, WAKE UP AMERICA! THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE RIDE!
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By: Minerva on 7/12/2009 1:48AM
One way of bringing healthcare costs down would be to close the borders! Neither party has done enough to control the amount of illegal aliens that are crossing in to our country and depleting our resources! If the businesses that continuously hire them, and quite obviously not paying their fair share of taxes because of their illegal practices, were fined, we could use that money towards our healthcare. Once they decided to pay a fair wage to honest hardworking American LEGAL Citizens, they in turn would be able to pay for their own healthcare. Enough's enough! Universal healthcare would be disastrous for Americans. Don't fall for the well crafted speeches, do your own research. You will find that other nations with socialized medicine are finally realizing how devastating it is. People are literally dying as they wait for life saving operations. There's no such thing as a free ride, wake up America!
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