RALEIGH -- The president of the NAACP says too many North Carolina residents lack health insurance for people on Capitol Hill to delay passage of a health care overhaul bill until
2010.
Benjamin Todd Jealous spoke Thursday at a news conference in Raleigh with the Rev. William Barber, president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Jealous was responding to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's suggestion this week that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline to get a bill to President Obama. Jealous said the tens of millions of people who lack insurance coverage, many of whom are poor, black or both, can't wait any longer.
The House is poised to vote this weekend on its health care bill.
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Current health care for self employed
Do the nay-sayers know anyone self employed? Try starting your own business (Following your American dream). You'll soon realize that it costs as much as a mortgage payment ($750-$1500+ , monthly!!) per month to get decent health coverage. Insane. So then you say, I'm going to keep following that American dream and just go without coverage until I can afford it. Then you get hurt, or sick, without health coverage. You get stuck with a $10,000 bill for a broken leg. You get well but learned your lesson to be realistic and practical, the American Dream is no longer a reality (mostly due to health care system).
Anyone that has faced this reality of not being insured (since its not affordable in this current system) knows that we need a new way. Anyone who has not faced that reality, is lucky and deserves a voice. I get great health coverage from my employer and I don't want to see anything change with my coverage. However, it is REAL that the current system overall is broken. American is a laughingstock with our current system and it hurts and kills people in need. Not just lazy people either, just normal, hardworking Americans. All colors.
Please do your research before you fight this change that so many people are hoping for.
Who said chasing your dream was free?
YOU decided to be self-employed, so YOU incur the costs of chasing that dream.
It's no one else's responsibility except yours.
I've done my research. You will benefit from the Socialists "spreading the wealth," as your hero said. Most people won't. I know that I won't. 5 of 6 Americans are already covered, so why destroy a system that works for the vast majority?
I'm not a Republican, but they have several good proposals that address the very problem you describe, such as allowing business owners to form pools that create a larger group and lowers premiums.
Unfortunately, they can't even get their ideas out of committee, because the Socialists are bound and determined to ram a complete takeover down the throat of America.
BTW, have you ever read the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution?
you're all a bunch of smug, self-satisfied
well employed selfish louts!
Not everyone has had as much economic opportunity as you to sit on their well fed fat behinds and complain about others being "lazy"!
Not everyone has the mental capacity to handle the responsibilities of living in this somewhat complicated society. Background checks, lack of education, lack of car, lack of family connections, etc. can be show stoppers when it comes to getting a good job that you all have obviously had for many years supplying you with houses, cars, etc.
I know a guy who can't read and he works odd jobs to survive (I hire him sometimes). He works damn hard to get by. He' also diabetic. Why shouldn't he have decent health care just like the rest of you clowns?!!!
So your point is....
...that we have to carry life's losers?
Nah! I'll pass, Barney. We all write 90% of our life's screenplay. If I have a great job and you can't pass a background check, that says less about my skill than it does about your life-mismanagement.
Oh, I have no problem helping someone who is truly in need because of no fault of their own. But failing a background check? Not having an education? Not having a car?
Sorry. No sympathy for self-induced problems. Survival of the fittest applies to every species, including man.
Healthcare
He should have healthcare, but it is his responsibility to pay for it , not mine.
Really??
Background checks, lack of education, lack of car, lack of family connections
If you can't pass a background check, that means you did something you should not have done. In rare cases it may be due to a family member but that is usually only when going for a high security clearance. Lack of education? Public school through 12th grade is provided by the tax payers. After that the community colleges offer great programs at an affordable cost. Lack of car? I bet they use their money for a cell phone, big LCD Tv, Internet and smokes. Spend your money wisely. Lack of family connections? Stand on your own merit and make yourself standout from other applicants.
We are really tired of hearing excuses for not performing.
You'll have to go back in
You'll have to go back in time to LBJ and his democratic party to figure this one out. It started out as welfare for the lasy and free housing for the useless. S/F ROGER FLEMING
strange isn't it.
"Jealous said the tens of millions of people who lack insurance coverage, many of whom are poor, black or both, can't wait any longer."
Why doesn't the gov't investigate why there are so many poor blacks who are looking for handouts and not trying to better themselves instead of doling out quick money to them so this can continue.
never happen
That will never happen because it would be turned into a racist act by naacp, al and jessie.
PAY PAY PAY
Yes, how much are working, tax paying Americans, of all origins, required to pay to support others? How much should one pay? How much can one pay?
Let's just take health care for example. First, government sponsored medical care for those over 65. Fine. Then, those in poverty and in need. Okay. Now, everyone, even citizens of other countries. What?
Our country was not created as a welfare state. It did not prosper as a welfare state. A welfare state is not the idea of America that many living here today, of ALL ethnic backgrounds, envision. And, a welfare state is ultimately not sustainable, because eventually the liberals, who push welfare in all its forms the hardest, run out of other people's money.
Someday, and I'm afraid
Someday, and I'm afraid someday soon, those of us who work, and have worked for the past 20 or 30 years, will tire of the freeloading bums who do not choose to work because of laziness, or feeling that the gov't owes them. We will stop working, pay less and less taxes, and watch sadly as the whole system goes down the tubes.
Guess again, looters
A large number of successful Blacks are totally opposed to the current healthcare bill.
They, like most successful people are sick and tired of carrying the lazy and inept bums of society regardless of their color.
Pay your own way through life.
I don't
know who the good "Rev" talked to but every black person I know is against this bill. They like you and I are hard working people who think that goverment has overstepped its bounds. One person does not speak for the general population of this state.