As predicted here and elsewhere, even a watered-down public option will disappear from sight. How ironic!! How sad. All the money the progressive left sent to Obama, all the money the unions and MoveOn.org lavished on lobbying and campaigning for a useless public option, all the rhetoric from this Administration -- it boils down to nothing in the end except a complete capitulation to the medical-industrial complex profiteers. Here is the story, hot off the press. The headline says it all:
Government health insurance option appears doomed
And what will that mean for progressives and for the Democratic administration and for those who pushed for the public option. Well, I expect Richard Kirsch and the folks at HCAN, Andy Stern and his minions at SEIU, and the entire AFL-CIO top leadership have the look of sheep that have just been stunned for the slaughter. No doubt they will put on some sort of brave face, even if their face has egg all over it. A sight for mirth -- if it didn't mean 45000 more annual deaths for another decade or two.
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Julie Zafiratos
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... if you think the public option is so useless why are you even upset at losing it? why don't we spend our energy working to save it instead of complaining about an unresponsive government that caves in to lobbyists? if they keep hearing from us and hearing from us and hearing from us perhaps the message will get through - and anyone who didn't support the public option needs to be voted out until we have weeded out all the weaklings like Lieberman.- never give up, never surrender =) |
allen lomax
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... The public option was always a ruse and it worked very well. If OFA and MoveOn to mention a few had stuck to the simple single payer message, I think the outcome would have been much different. Instead their support of a public option that never was to be anyway, weakened and confused the supporters. I for one am not sorry it didn't make it into the Senate bill. The PO in the house bill is useless and powerless. If it were to pass, it would fail. For starters it really isn't an option unless you have the option to participate. The house bill forbids all employers from participating and forbids anyone who have employer provided insurance from participating. The mandate to purchase insurance is a bad thing in both bills. |
Patricia Ann Walters
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... Both of these bills need to be scrapped and SP enacted. Since this won't happen ,we need to vote these people out of office. Every message I send to the president and members of congress ends with "I will vote only for those who support SP". They won't get all of this 'payola' money from the vested interests if they're no longer in office. I agree with the comment that we need to keep contacting these legislators - stay in their faces. Since education of the public is a key to our success, we need to keep finding ways to contact as many people as possible. The last figure I got was that members of congress had received over $422 million dollars this year alone from the insurance and drug industries.Congress shares in the spoils of the insurance and drug industry - BIG TIME.Thus, we have this big disconnect between what the public voted them in to do and what they are actually doing. |
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