These are the stories the President needs to tell.

Completely agree here. The messaging by the Obama admin has been on an intellectual level. That's great for a policy discussion, but not for a public opinion campaign.

The latest polling shows that 50% of Americans have severe misconceptions on the details of the plan, mostly from the garbage GOP talking points. That needs to be corrected.

 

anecdotal evidence is the weakest kind

 

Not in the court of public opinion. Since right wingers can't be bothered with truth and facts these days, fighting the barrage of misinformation with strong anecdotes such as these might actually be a much more practical strategy.

 

When one side of the debate ignores the empirical evidence and instead simply yells "SOCIALISM" at the top of their lungs, anecdotal evidence is apparently the only thing that will appeal.

 

sigh, maybe the democrats can find their version of Joe the Plumber for health care.

 

“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

The best story Obama has told so far

 

Prior to telling these stories, however, he needs to put together a comprehensive presentation explaining exactly how his plan would prevent these things from happening. The stories will be much more compelling if he can reference specific parts of the plan and describe how that will prevent these sorts of cases.

 

You are absolutely correct. I have excellent health insurance, probably in the top 5% of policies available, and I live in fear that I, or my loved ones, will require a major procedure and the insurance company will ferret out some error on a form, or unreported "pre-existing condition" to deny coverage.

These practices need to be well publicized because they are real and will resonate with people.

 

Maybe these are actual people going to an early grave because they can't afford to say alive in the United States, you stupid ****ing ****.

 

I agree with using people's emotions and fear to get something done.

signed.

 

I've yet to see anyone say anything about my propsal I stated earlier:

Universal "oh ****" coverage for everyone, but we all have a $5,000 deduct.

We pay for the small stuff out of our own pockets, and we're all covered for the nightmare stories posted above.

To me, it's the easiest way to compromise.

Thoughts?

 

...the difference being that these are actual people who actually died, not vanishing WMDs and vague allegations.

 

Now that I know that people won't die once we have universal healthcare I'm all for it.

 

This is just silly.

At least people won't die, when they could have been saved if they had the cash, simply because they had the bad luck to be born poor.

 

One of the core problems with our health insurance system is that, for the uninsured, we pay huge amounts because they don't get the little things taken care of. Those things become big things which then require much more expensive emergency solutions.

Preventative care has been shown over and over to be much cheaper than emergency care. Your solution would discourage people from getting the preventative care as well as to not deal with smaller things, letting them morph into much bigger problems.