{"article":{"id":229789,"heading":"Obama has lost &quot;single payer&quot;","author":"Resolved White","created":"2009-08-19 19:07:35","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:51","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:00:51","article":"<p>Obama is too weak to be President. <br><br> He&rsquo;ll be a one term president if he doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo; pull up his pants.&rdquo; <br><br> He&rsquo;s got a slick way of talking and walking but that&rsquo;s about all.  <br><br> What he says, he says like a professor, with great knowledge but without any force or consequence except in the debating arena. <br><br> He hasn&rsquo;t got the steel to take on the heavyweights in Health or The Middle East. <br><br> Next thing you know he&rsquo;ll be handing over The West Bank to Israel for a slave-labour colony and attacking Iran having spent his first year talking about settlements. <br><br> Obama indicated this weekend that he is not strong enough to force through a single payer health insurance plan. <br><br> The Health insurance industry has forced him to back down because they knew he was weak when he cut a secret deal with them. <br><br> The Huffington Post has obtained a memo that shows the White House cut a secret deal with PhRMA, to oppose any congressional efforts to use the government&rsquo;s leverage to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada and also agreed not to pursue Medicare rebates or shift some drugs from Medicare Part B to Medicare Part D, which would cost Big Pharma billions in reduced reimbursements. <br><br> In exchange, PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Association, the lobbying association for the drug companies, agreed to cut $80 billion in projected costs to taxpayers and senior citizens over ten years. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"He should go back to teaching.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2009\/08\/stephen_hemsley__s_gloat.jpg","filesize":"58.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2009\/08\/229789.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2009\/08\/stephen_hemsley__s_gloat.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2009\/08\/stephen_hemsley__s_gloat.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}