Reminder: First-Ever Real-Time Presidential Response Round Today
Reminder: First-Ever Real-Time Presidential Response Round Today
Today at 9 am PT/noon ET, several 2008 presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson — will be attending the New Leadership on Health Care presidential forum in Las Vegas.
ThinkProgress will be covering the event live with exclusive streaming video of all the candidates.
Even better, we’ll be hosting what we think is the first-ever interactive candidate response round. As each candidate speaks, ThinkProgress readers will be able to react to their remarks and send in real-time follow-up questions. Did one candidate spark your interest? Did they say something controversial or just get their facts wrong? You’ll be able to ask the candidates follow-up questions as you watch them live. Every candidate will be asked a question from ThinkProgress readers.
Our health care system is in crisis. It’s the most critical domestic problem facing our country. We hope you’ll join us, and the 2008 presidential candidates, to talk about it on this morning.
(In order to watch the web stream on Saturday, you’ll need to download RealPlayer. If you don’t already have it, you can get it for free HERE.)
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Our lack of Health care has been a disgrace for this country. This is one issue that has overwhelming public support (65%) yet Congress has just sat on their collective butts.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:36 amview the slide presentation on overwhelming public support
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March 24th, 2007 at 12:49 amView slide presentation (Flash)
UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS NOW!!!!! THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS FIRST, THE RICH LATER!!!!!
March 24th, 2007 at 12:58 amI’ll be asleep, but can someone ask whether any of them will require pharmacies to carry and dispense legal drugs like Plan B/morning after? Too many are refusing to dispense them all over the country.
And also, Ask them what they will do about the fact that things like viagra are covered by insurance but birth control isn’t?
And about stem cells.
thanks!
March 24th, 2007 at 1:07 amChris Dodd for President!
Restore Habaes Corpus, restore the rule of law!
The Executive Branch should NEVER be above the law
I would also like to hear what these candidates have to say about Sustainability
We need another industrial revolution, one built upon sustainable development and local, community based economies
It doesn’t make ecological or economic sense for China to ship wheat to the Midwest and for us to ship wheat to China
We’re wasting energy and killing our planet, and I’m no “tree hugger” I’m a realist
Sustainability or death!
The choice isn’t ours, and this is far more important than global warming and tied together with it
March 24th, 2007 at 1:09 amI probably won’t be available tomorrow. I’m hoping someone will ask that if Bush is convicted of any crimes, do potential candidates plan to pardon him?
March 24th, 2007 at 1:24 amMore BS from TP with Hillary first and Obama next to last. I feel like I’m reading Fox.com. SHE”S A LOSER.
March 24th, 2007 at 2:41 amLily,
Of course George W. Bush will be pardoned.
We all know Jeb Bush will be our next president. The Bush dynasty will continue, and we should all count our blessings.
Remember, things could be worse. I know it’s hard to think in those terms but it’s true.
Some of us thought Richard Nixon was a baaaaaaaad president back in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Little did we know how bad things could get. Even back then, some people were saying, “Things could be worse.”
You know, they were so right.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF GEORGE W. BUSH. WELCOME TO OUR NIGHTMARE.
Well, at least George W. Bush hasn’t destroyed the “entire” planet. Thanks, George.
The good news: Only half of the planet is destroyed.
The bad news: George W. Bush has another 21 months in office.
John
March 24th, 2007 at 2:44 amI wont be on during the Q&A…so maybe someone can ask the candidates why it is that when I was rushed into emergency surgery (Burst appendix) with no insurance,after a 3 day stay I found myself $25,000 in debt. “Should life or death operations plunge us into what for some of us is lifelong debt?”
March 24th, 2007 at 2:57 amMore BS from TP with Hillary first and Obama next to last.
Comment by Bill Miller
I concur,put Hillary’s face back in the pack a-bit.
March 24th, 2007 at 2:59 amI wonder if this is a T/Podesta/Clinton machine trial balloon to see how Dodd fares next to Shrillary? Given how Bayh turned out to be dud which guy who so calculatingly won’t upstage he weakeness will they turn to next.
What a joke! For those of you like me who are onto this slow evolution of TP to a Shrillary blog, why don’t we all start counting situations like this and begin to register the number in the comments line.
Make sure you copy your postings though because it’s only a matter of time before they begin censoring like the Right blogs do.
GORE/OBAMA 2008 - the ONLY ticket
March 24th, 2007 at 3:05 am…emergency surgery (Burst appendix)…
Comment by Vance
Dude,I can sympathize,the appendix can be a biatch.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:08 amIn 2000 I had the same emergency,with 6 days in hospital,and a $16,000.ºº tab.
I concur,put Hillary’s face back in the pack a-bit.
Comment by troll alert —
Well, howdy Rach -er, um, I mean Troll Alert.
I didn’t think you’d stay away long.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:10 amGORE-OBAMA - Now that is the right ticket. We just need to get Al to run and hope Barack starts hitting her back hard. She’s not the leader we need right now and she doesn’t deserve to be President.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:11 amGORE/OBAMA 2008 - the ONLY ticket
Comment by Michael Lewis
Plus Patrick Fitzgerald/A.G..
March 24th, 2007 at 3:13 amFor those of you like me who are onto this slow evolution of TP to a Shrillary blog, why don’t we all start counting situations like this and begin to register the number in the comments line.
I like that idea! These gus have to be kept honest. Something the Clintons won’t restore in the WH. It’s time for a change of Presidents named Bush and Clinton! Seeing Hillary’s name next to the word healthcare makes me cringe. We need new leadership!
March 24th, 2007 at 3:16 amI didn’t think you’d stay away long.
Comment by Barfly
That’s because you don’t think,ya damned drunk.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:17 amFor the last time-I’M NOT RACHEL!
…and Patrick Fitzgerald /A.G.
Yes!
And Rubin back at Treasury and Browner at EPA. Just no Hillary!
March 24th, 2007 at 3:18 amJust say NO to Hillary!
March 24th, 2007 at 3:21 amI say Mike Tyson for President!
March 24th, 2007 at 3:23 amHe’s an honest Criminal!
Just no Hillary!
Comment by Lance A
No doubt;time for a change.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:29 amThat’s because you don’t think,ya damned drunk.
For the last time-I’M NOT RACHEL!
Comment by troll alert — March 24, 2007 @ 3:17 am
Testy? Take a pill.
I await your next decent into the mental maelstrom. This one should be good.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:36 amI await your next decent…
Comment by Barfly
Keep waiting,Assclown,have a drink while you’re at it-it’s on me.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:47 amI am looking forward to this. I’ve already downloaded to make sure I have no problems. This is going to be awesome. Health Care is one of the biggest concerns to us next to Iraq and I hope we get a lot of good information about where each candidate stands.
Obama Edwards 2008 ( IN THAT ORDER )
March 24th, 2007 at 5:15 am#6
More BS from TP with Hillary first and Obama next to last. I feel like I’m reading Fox.com. SHEâ€S A LOSER.
Comment by Bill Miller — March 24, 2007 @ 2:41 am
Look again - ever heard of alphabetical order? No conspiracy here.
March 24th, 2007 at 8:49 amI do not understand what Hillary and her husband think we are-they are practicing mendacious and crude politics. Let’s end this BUSH-CLINTON dynasty, we are more than 300million people. Democrats, choose Obama and Edward; they are the fresh and authentic people, who will provide a little breathing space to the million Americans. I thought Hillary ran one of the most failed healthcare system in the country before.
March 24th, 2007 at 8:53 amHow come I wasn’t invited, I like Vegas!! Tom 4 President , oh, that’s right to be taken seriously we’ll need 100 million dollars in our campaign fund..”for corporate bribes”…Why don’t we just institute the healthplan given to Congress that American taxpayers provide them with??
March 24th, 2007 at 9:24 amThey should all begin by thanking Karl Rove for turning a 90% approval president with the sympathies of the whole world into a universally loathed nit-wit with 29% approval.
Thanks Turdblossom, it could not have worked out better. It almost seems as if we had been paying you.
-GSD
March 24th, 2007 at 9:37 amMany people have commented on candidates’ placement of pictures. They are ranked in alphabetical order, by last name — both in the post and in the pictures.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:58 amReal Player only? Sorry I won’t attend. Too many privacy issues with that software.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:26 amCool technology enebled forum, more interactive more lively.
http://www.tekno-world.blogspot.com
March 24th, 2007 at 11:29 amWow- You mean that we may actually get to join the 21st century, sometime this century? Imagine that- And us being a leading world power, and everything!
March 24th, 2007 at 11:34 amThis forum is ridiculous.
The election is 21 months away; the Dem convention is 16 months away … it is totally ridiculous to be staging ‘candidate forums’ this far out from an election.
And there are undoubtedly candidates still to get into the nomination race!
There is a big mistake going on here, I think. With all these states now thinking about moving their presidential primaries and caucuses into January or February 2008, the contest could be over by March!
What is a presumptive presidential nominee going to do for seven months? Except receive a blistering assault from the radical Republicans that Jesus Christ, himself, could not survive.
I think this ‘way too early’ stuff is going to backlash. If this keeps up, I would predict that candidate fatigue will cause voters to look for alternatives — I predict more third and independent party candidates than ever in 2008 because of this ‘never-ending campaigning’ strategy.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:42 am#32- I’m torn. On the one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, this may get some people who have never been involved in politics before to muster some interest. Regardless, it’s out of MY hands and in the hands of the consumer, interest-type organizations who will undoubtably handle these affairs for promo and profit. All I can do is keep my focus and not deviate from what I know is right for me.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:50 amEarthside, I agree with your post, I’m tired of it already and it’s just starting…Remind’s me of the shopping push for the holiday’s….Last year it started for the christmas push on holloween, suspect it will start after easter this year….I’ve had enough already…..Blessings
March 24th, 2007 at 11:52 amPolitics is/has become big business. Maybe if Bush were impeached, the drive for early campaigning wouldn’t be so early. The drive seems relentless and frantic and is something that turns me off, frankly. It’s like war drums.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:59 amI missed Edwards!! :( Will there be a link to access later?
March 24th, 2007 at 1:18 pmOh - and thanks for sponsoring this forum.
No one here has spoken about mental health care except
March 24th, 2007 at 2:38 pmGov. Richardson. No one at all has talked about children with serious mental health care problems involved in the Justice System. What would any of these presidential hopefuls have to say on this issue? What would you do to protect seriously mentally ill children from going to prison for crimes where almost no treatment exists, and to ensure they go to real treatment facilities, where they will be treated, NOT PUNISHED for their crimes, as in the case very close to my heart, of Kip Kinkel of Springfield, Oregon who was sentenced at age 15, to 112 years in prison without any chance of parole, for crimes committed while extremely mentally ill from Schizophrenia, and acting on irresitable “COMMAND AND CONTROL VOICES” which allowed him “NO CHOICE” in his actions. Should he not be in a Hospital where he would receive REAL TREATMENT instead of almost ENDLESS PUNISHMENT IN PRISON?Many, many children who are seriously mentally ill end up in prisons where they are PUNISHED, NOT TREATED! What response do any of these presidential hopefuls have to this type of mental health care of our children? I haven’t heard any one address these questions in this forum. Is anyone here fit to be president when they totally ignore this very, very serious problem which is a problem of JUSTICE, HEALTH CARE AND COMPASSION? Makes one wonder!!
KUCINICH IS THE ONLY PERSON I COULD SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT, WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF JOHN EDWARDS!
March 24th, 2007 at 2:52 pmHaving Health Insurance is no quarantee your medical needs will be served “Underinsured†or prey to policies written to benefit insurance companies? …
March 24th, 2007 at 6:59 pmDespite having health insurance, BS of California denied medically necessary therapies for our 8 year old son. We pursued an independent review with the Department of Managed Health Care in Sacramento and despite providing letters of medical necessity and 85+ pages of documentation, the “contracted†state reviewer agreed with BS of California and they are no longer obligated to pay for our son’s therapy. Unfortunately, our family is at the mercy of whatever insurance policy my husband’s employer can obtain. With our son’s pre-existing condition we cannot secure insurance on our own. This issue is more complex, as it is not a matter of being underinsured, but rather we are subject to policies written so broad that the insurers can rationalize many procedures as not medically necessary; even if the insurer’s decision runs contrary to medical reports and documentation provided from physicians at renowned medical establishments, Children’s Hospital Oakland and Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. If our legislators are proposing health care for all, let’s “insure†that all parties involved, namely insurance companies, are working in good faith to provide these services and are not hiding behind their cleverly written policies.
I agree that a basic set of health services, basic defineable by a broadly representative concensus building process, should be provided to all persons without regard to ability to pay. It would be OK to allow an option of an employer group upping the offering to it’s employees, but the minimum should be avaiable to all.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:09 pmI also agree with the person who says a high priorityshould be placed in making our economy energy self-sustainable. Raise the price of gas much higher through taxes and use the money to advance sustainability. That is as big of priority as health care. For if we don’t solve the petroleum problem we won’t be able to have health care or any caring services. We will be in economic crisis.
Third priority, get the war mongers out of office, get the liars out of office the fascist out of office.
I could not be at the computer Saturday. Can we delete the whining about “real player” so we can read some actual facts? Would be nice to review the posts that were ABOUT the event itself. Pretty please? I am a doctor in favor of national health care (probably the only one) and am curious of the FACTS of the event. Delte the trash…please. Thank you in advance…
March 26th, 2007 at 10:23 amAter Hillary spoke, the busses from the SEIU pulled up to pick people up. Half the auditorium left. It wasn’t because they only wanted to hear the first four. It was because SEIU had busses leaving to take the people back home. I wonder why they cut off at Dodd. Do you think SEIU wants to keep its members from hearing the comments of Kucinich and Dodd? Those who stayed for the whole speech- maybe 200 people, were very impressed with Kucinich and said ,â€He is the only one who had anything to say.†I was passing out flyers on him while people were in the auditorium, and those who saw Kucinich came to me to ask for a flyer after hearing him. THey were “very impresssed†they told me.
Comment by Mary Jacobs — March 25, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
I can also confirm this Post.
Robert R.
March 26th, 2007 at 1:22 pm