LOL POLITICO: "Barack Obama's health-care speech: What he said, what he meant"

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***Because I Couldn't Possibly Understand it Without the Politico Explaining to Me...

Barack Obama's health-care speech: What he said, what he meant.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday night tried to portray health care reform – potentially the most sweeping overhaul to American society in some 40 years – as something as nonthreatening as buying auto insurance.

Obama laid out his requirement that all Americans own health insurance, covering their doctor bills the way they would pay for a car accident. A government-run health insurance option would be akin to the way private colleges battle with state universities for students.

And a government takeover of health care? Hardly, said Obama. Only 5 percent of Americans would use the public option even if it existed.

But behind that rhetoric, Obama was laying out massive changes to the health insurance system that have raised concerns that one high-stakes speech to Congress seem unlikely to quiet – and highlighting divisions in his own party that seem certain to continue.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26969.html

Ooh, Ooh, If you click on "Auto Insurance" in the piece, you can save a lot of money!!!

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