Dem Senator: Public option is dead »
Posted By pc25 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
If Barack Obama hoped to rescue his vision of a health-care system overhaul with his wan effort in the New York Times, a key member of the Senate Democratic Caucus threw a bucket of cold water on those hopes this morning. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) told a television audience that the pursuit of a public option for coverage was a “wasted effort” that would kill any hope of passage in the upper chamber.
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pc253 months, 2 weeks ago
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Obama’s key Cabinet member agrees:
: “Look, the fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the U.S. Senate for the public option, there never have been,” Conrad said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.”
“So to continue to chase that rabbit is, I think, a wasted effort,” Conrad said.
His comments followed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s remark that a public option is “not the essential element” to ensure competition in the health insurance market. Sebelius made the remark on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
A public option is included in legislation moving through the House, and is backed by liberals, who would feel betrayed if it is not a part of a final bill. They see a public insurance plan as critical to ensure that private insurance companies offer coverage and lower costs. -
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Klarissa3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Insurance companies can sell in any state (competition)
All medical expenses, including insurance, can be taken off of your gross income for tax purposes
Congress will pass a law capping malpractice suits.
Social Security, Medicare, the post office, Asghanistan, freddie, fannie, and the deficit need to be addressed before we can add more to the pile.-
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MeaJen303 months, 2 weeks ago
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Can we also add that insurers cannot use the "pre-existing condition" excuse anymore? That they must accept ALL.
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Could we also say that they cannot rescind insurance unless there is fraud?
And you forgot the economy, Medicaid, and the VA hospital system to your mix of what needs to be worked on first before we add more to the pile.
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pc253 months, 2 weeks ago
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sweet the way you misquoted everything........he said it was a wasted EFFORT........that therearen't the votes for it in the senate.......he is making the rounds of all the cable news outlets this afternoon repeating the same message.
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pc253 months, 2 weeks ago
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rimbaud3 months, 2 weeks ago
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We need a co-op that is as big as the whole country! What insurance company would not offer better rates when the population of potential subscribers is the whole country. Maybe a base premium for all, and then discounts for healthy lifestyle choices and participation in regular screening and preventive care. Put that in your actuarial and underwriting computer and tell me what is the premium sweet spot your insurance company can offer the cooperative.
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injest3 months, 2 weeks ago
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The Public option, AKA single-payer is dead. You can thank Obama’s lying about his goals, no one bought it.
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Calling honest decent Americans NAZIS cuz they don’t agree with you? That’s just plain stupid.
Sending out Union goons to beat up those honest decent Americans you call NAZIS, dumb, rank amateur, really.
When 66%, a super majority of Independents would prefer Obama does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with health care, you have NOT just lost control of the message, you have lost all credibility.
At this point, barring something major, Obama is a one-term lame duck.
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slate3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Just think. when the mid terms come up and these Dems have opponents that will use those words against them in the election.
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It's not wise to show your arrogance and cal those that could potentially vote for you names. It also makes the moderates go against you.
Turning off the moderates (the ones that make or break elections) is unwise.
But everything has it's price and seeing these Dems arrogance and abject loathing of the 'SUBJECTS' is priceless. -
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Georgia503 months, 1 week ago
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In defense of Obama, let me say that I appreciate his overwhelming concern for all those Americans without health care. Compassion that drove him to vacation at Martha's Vineyard with his family, forced him to let Michele fly the girls home from Africa via the UK so they could make a stop for fish and chips, blow half a mil terrorizing the people of Manhattan with a faux-to op with AF1, visit the Grand Canyon, and model $600 butt-ugly sneakers in front of homeless people.
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What a guy. If he were a Republican and did all that, every screeching mind-numbed hyena in there would have long since pulled every hair out of his/her head.
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injest3 months, 2 weeks ago
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“Not only should the public option be shelved, but the entire Obamacare hoax should be sunk.”
It has been. 54% of All Americans want Obama to do NOTHING AT ALL concerning health care.
Thirty-five percent (35%) of American voters say passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress would be better than not passing any health care reform legislation this year.
However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress this year would be the better option…
Among those not affiliated with either major party, 23% would like the Congressional reform to pass while 66% would rather the legislators take no action.
Hint to Obama bots this is America telling ya “just say no to Obama care” -
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david_nwpa3 months, 2 weeks ago
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They can go through it line by line in the same fashion that Congress went through the PATRIOT Act. Why bother arguing this point, most of Congress on both right and left has been bought and sold by big corporations (insurance, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, etc.).
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injest3 months, 2 weeks ago
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"unscrupulous HMOs and big pharma"
Engineer, apparently you didn’t get the update "Demon list" from Obama.
"Big pharma" struck a backroom deal with Obama so they are no longer of the “Demon list”
“A new coalition on Thursday launched $12 million in television ads to support President Barack Obama’s health reform plan, in the opening wave of a planned tens of millions of dollars this fall.
The new group, funded largely by the pharmaceutical industry, is called Americans for Stable Quality Care. It includes some odd bedfellows: the American Medical Association, FamiliesUSA, the Federation of American Hospitals, PhRMA and SEIU, the service employees’ union.” -
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injest3 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Obama will ram the public option bill down the repugs throat. Enough is enough. Trying to reason with the for-profit insurance companies and their bought and paid for blue-dogs does not work."
hefaa1, The Dems have 60 votes in the Senate, that’s a “Super majority, and they have 2 Ind that vote with the Dems.
The Repubs are a non-factor in getting anything passed thru the Senate.
If Obama can’t get a bill thru the Senate the problem is squarely on Obama’s shoulders and none other.
hefaa1, The Dems have 59% of the votes in the House.
The Repubs are a non-factor in getting anything passed thru the House.
If Obama can’t get a bill thru the House, the problem is squarely on Obama’s shoulders and none other.
Trying to deflect blame from Obama to anyone else is Disrespectful to Obama.
Seriously your treating the man as a boy.
Now, can Obama have a “hissy fit” like you want and cram the public option bill down the Americans throat, yes he can! It will guaranty the Dems lose both chambers of Congress in 2010 and Obama will lose to a blank sheet of paper in 2012! -
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injest3 months, 2 weeks ago
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“They can go through it line by line in the same fashion that Congress went through the PATRIOT Act.”
That would have been much better than physically locking out 47% of the peoples Representatives. That tends to tick them off.
Heck the PATRIOT Act was just addendums to the 1996 terror act.
Edumakat yur self en lok it up!
S. 390 was introduced February 10, 1995 by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware, and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania. H.R. 896 was introduced the same day in the House by Rep. Charles Schumer, D-New York, and Rep. Dicks. -
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