Dems: Don't push health care too far left
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"Still, both groups raised concerns over the controversial proposal to create a public insurance plan that competes with the private insurance market."
"The groups agree that the public plan can't be based on Medicare rules, that it must pay for itself and operate under the same rules that private plans do. The principles are similar to a public plan option rolled out by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)."
This is a total disaster! These moderate Dems are killing real health care reform while the media is all only talking about releasing photo's or a beauty queen!!!. these guys are all bought off and only care about not inflicting pain on the insurance companies!!! The media is ignoring the most impostant issue on the table!
This is a wake up call to all of us!!!! All of this talk about tourture is a smoke screen. The only one in the media talking about this on the air is Ed Schultz! He talks about it every single day but Keith and Rachal only keep on focusing on Torture and keep trying to punish bush even though he is already gone.
To tell you the truth, I dont care about the past torture. It doesnt affect my life. Health car reform will affect everyone in America once this firestorm of publicity goes by, we will be left with the crap plan like in Mass where you are mandated to buy insurance from insurance companies, and they will have no liits on what they can charge!
This is a joke and Obama should be embarrased.
What is with Obama? Did this guy run on healthcare or what?
I know he is all smiles because he is riding high with a 60% approvel rating but I can promise you this, if he doesnt have a real public option in his healthcare bill, and not that Baloney compromise by Schumner, or the baloney one that looks like the mandate in mass, I swear that his approvel rating will be in the 40's by christmas.
I am getting really frustrated by what I am seeing behind the scenes. He said that this was going to be an open process, and the entire thing has been behind closed doors with a bunch of people on the finace board. Where are the doctors, nurses, and insurance talking and discussing the issues companies on C-span like he promised all camapn long. Everyone ws supposed to be at the table, but single payer was totally left out!
Why is single payer being left of the loop completley. I know single payer is not going to happen, (Even though everyone with a brain knows it should) but if they were at the table as a real extreme liberal left wing point of view, then the public option he is pushing looks like a huge compromise! As it is now, the public medicare option is the extreme option, and when you compromise that, you get the piece of crap Massachusets plan that is a bullshit mandate with the insurance companies. This is NOT CHANGE! Not the change I voted for, or worked for on the campaign. This is more of the same fucking broken system like he is doing with the banks!!!
Hell, I could have got this plan from McCain!!!!
Bullshit healthcare plan, blow it with the middle clas on jobs, and oh yeah, we changed out minds on not closing Guantanamo, and staying in Afganistan for the next 10 years!
helllo, thats how you really lose elections...
Guy, what are they doing...they actually have a chance to change the country..he is at 66%!!!! 66%!!!!!! I know he needs the votes to get the health care package he wants, and there are the f**king a**holes who wont get on board in the senate because the banks own them like Durbin said. We all know this. we arent stupid!!!
But Obama is missing the entire point. The reason the people have Obama at 66% and congress at 40% is because we dont think he is like them. He isnt supposed to sell us out. he is supposed to make the change happen, not just cave to the special interests!!!
Let the senators fear for thier jobs. Obama!!!! Go out and sell your healthcare public option!!!! Go have town hall meeting in every moderate democratic senators state and tell the people that if they want it, it is there for the taking!!! Have him talk about it all the time. Explain what he wants. A plan just like medicare that if you want it, you buy in. The people will LOVE HIM!!!
All they have to have him say is, hey does that sound go to you? It sounds good to me. Go call your senators and tell them that you wont stand for anything less or you are going to vote them out!!! Its there for you. This is out time!!!!
The people will flood those standing in the way with calls.
If he doesnt get this passed with a real public plan, I cant support him anymore. He will have lost a great opportunity to change the country! A once in a generation chance!!
If he doesnt get it passed with apublic medicare option, people wont listen to his speeches as close and they will think he is a phoney!!!
Its time for us to wake up and get back to the passion we had on the campaign! We are going to have to push him to do the right thing!!!
We have to take the country back and not accept anything less then a public option!!!