Congressman Eric Cantor tried to shy away from the ONE QUESTION that Vanden Heuvel asked, "Isn't your insurance a government plan?"
Yes, he enjoys the luxury as every member of congress up to the President of the United States, an affordable, massive, one of the best in the country, public plan. Cantor enjoys the PUBLIC OPTION, that we the tax payers provide to him and his family. It is paid by us.
This is another prime example of why we must fight and push for a solid public option. This is another example of when money runs through congress, they FORGET about us and think ONLY of them. Cantor could not even answer Vanden Heuvel's question.
This says it all for me. Anyone fighting AGAINST the public option is bought and paid for by the insurance companies, HMO, PHARMA, lobbyists.
Plain and simple.
Now this from former Senator Daschle:
In an attempt at bipartisanship, three former majority leaders of the U.S. Senate, Tom Daschle, Howard Baker, and Bob Dole, offered their solution today to the biggest obstacle to achieving health care reform -- a public option.
"While I feel very strongly that consumers should have the choice of a national, Medicare-like plan, my colleagues do not. . . But we were concerned that the ongoing health reform debate is beginning to show signs of fracture on the public plan issue, so in order to advance the process of developing bipartisan legislation and to move it forward, it's time to find consensus here," Daschle said.
"We've come too far and gained too much momentum for our efforts to fail over disagreements on one single issue," he said.
In a blow to President Obama and many of his Democratic allies in the health care fight, the plan recommends that there be no federal public option, but rather state or regional public-sponsored networks that would compete with private health plans, according to the summary released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center. read more here.....
OBAMA, YOU BETTER NOT LISTEN TO THIS.
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