last Tuesday President Obama met with 10 people at the White House. These are people who had written him letters about the health care law. The White House said it designed this little publicity stunt to remind people to sign up for insurance on healthcare.gov by the deadline date of Sunday, February 15. At his meeting the other day the President said that the people there were ``a pretty good representative sample of people whose lives have been impacted,'' as he said, ``in powerful ways.'' I will tell you, if President Obama really wanted a representative sample, he would have included some of the people his law has affected in alarming and expensive ways. What does the President have to say to those people? Why didn't he invite any of them to the White House for his photo-op? Here is what the New York Times wrote on Sunday, February 8. This is the Sunday Review, New York Times. The headline is ``Insured, but Not Covered: New policies have many Americans scrambling.'' Why isn't the President willing to talk to those people who are scrambling all across the country who may have insurance but are not covered? The story starts off by telling the story of one woman in New York City. Her name is Karen Pineman. She lost her existing health insurance policy because it didn't meet all the mandates President Obama said a health insurance policy had to include.…
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