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Fmr. Obama Speechwriter: 'I Lost My Health Insurance' -- By: NRO Staff
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wendy Button, a former health-care speechwriter for Barack Obama, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Mayor Tom Menino of Boston, says that she no longer has health insurance.
In a Politics Daily essay, Button details her struggle:
For the first time in my life, I am without health insurance and it is a terrible feeling. In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points, op-eds, and debate prep material on the topic at different times for John Edwards, Barack ...
Return of the PUMA.
INSTAPUTZ —
Expect this horribly written piece by Wendy Button to get lots of play today. (The Corner's already highlighting it.) It's unclear what exactly she means to say, but I think Button believes that the Obama administration should hold off on the health care push because she, Wendy Button, doesn't like her Massachusetts health care. Or something. At any rate, she recommends that "Congress and the president" actually take former Gov. Sarah Palin's advice and "look north to the future." Who knew that would ever make ...
Universal Health Care Mecca
Jules Crittenden —
... universal health care advocate. The premiums in Massachusetts are too high, and the much-lauded system is a financial trainwreck that is dragging down the state budget and driving up my taxes. Former Edwards/Clinton/Kerry/Obama speechwriter Wendy Button explains her dilemma, and what appears to be a really bad run of health luck. The career shiller for tax-and-spenders still wants universal health care, but looks at what’s happening in DC today and warns, “Hold on to your wallet.” Politics Daily . It’s the sound of a liberal getting mugged. It’s not her first ...
Speechwriter for Obama, Edwards can’t get health insurance in Massachusetts
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... For ObamaCare advocates, Massachusetts is the Nirvana of government-managed health insurance. The state adopted everything they have pushed on a national level: individual mandates, guaranteed issue, universal coverage, and more. Unfortunately, former Obama and John Edwards speechwriter Wendy Button has discovered that all of this government intervention comes at a cost — one that directly hits her pocketbook: In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points, op-eds, and debate prep material on the topic at ...
Remainders: Nobel
Ben Smith's Blog —
Gamblers made some money on Obama's longshot Nobel win.
Obama tweets that he's humbled.
Aides thought ABC was joking.
Iran and Burma probably knew what he was talking about.
Jeb praises his education plans.
Hillary will be out of town for the Afghan debates.
Wendy Button moves to Mass., and can't afford health insurance.
A Kansas high school class of '40 recalls Obama's grandmother and another classmate.
Aravosis prepares for disappointment.
Euro ...
Insurance Industry Audit Says Insurance Premiums will Increase Faster with Senate Baucus Bill
Wizbang —
... the cost of the average single coverage is $4,600 today and could be expected to increase to: $5,800 in 2013 under current law and to $6,400 if these provisions are implemented. $6,900 in 2016 under current law and to $7,900 if these provisions are implemented. $8,200 in 2019 under current law and to $9,700 if these provisions are implemented. These increases are in line with what Wendy Button, former speech writer for Barack Obama, John Edwards, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton, experienced when she moved from Washington DC to Massachusetts : Since I care more about my ...
Mugged by reality, health care edition
SCSUScholars —
Growing up is hard to do, but Wendy Button does it well: In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points, op-eds, and debate prep material on the topic at different times for John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. Now, I'm paying attention because I'm a citizen up the creek without a paddle. Throughout my life, I have been very lucky because my insurance has always been there whenever I had a crisis. When my 10-speed hit a patch of leftover winter sand, and I went flying into a ...
Mugged by reality, health care edition
True North - Pointing Minnesota in the Right Direction —
Growing up is hard to do, but Wendy Button does it well:
In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points, op-eds, and debate prep material on the topic at different times for John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. Now, I'm paying attention because I'm a citizen up the creek without a paddle.
Morning Briefs: Stuff You May Have Read Somewhere Else
Moonbattery —
... Item Number Two: An Obama speechwriter moves to Massachusetts, a state with "universal health care," and finds out she can't afford insurance. Turns out that individual mandates and the requirement that insurance cover everything for everybody make insurance super-expensive (exactly what some of us are warning will happen with ObamaCare.) It's like the saying goes, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free." ...
Repeating Failure
Southern Appeal —
... by Health Affairs noted that in addition to Washington and New York, the individual insurance markets in Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont “deteriorated” after the enactment of guaranteed issue. Individual insurance became significantly more expensive and there was no significant decrease in the number of uninsured. Similarly, when one former Obama speechwriter moved from D.C. to Massachusetts, she found herself unable to afford insurance due to the horrendously high premiums : In D.C., I had a policy with a national company, an HMO, and ...
