Comments on: McCaskill on Health Care: “This Will Be A Fight And It Will Be An Ugly Fight”

By: MarkH

MarkH — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:21:06 +0000

There’s still time for Blue Dogs and Republicans to decide on their strategy. They can read polls as well as anybody and they know Americans want insurance with a public option. Though their base might be happy with a great big “NO”, the politicians might feel a little different. They also know the economics of our current situation is awful.

I’m betting nothing just yet, but I’m hopeful people will take a serious look at the House bill and go from there.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:17:53 +0000

It depends upon how much insurance a person/family wants. The public option defined in the House bill is ‘basic’. Most people will want more than that if they can afford it.

By: GaryLee

GaryLee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:06:03 +0000

Your health is not a commodity.
Your health is not a profit center.

By: Propagandee

Propagandee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:39:00 +0000

“There’s serious money made in health care in this country and all of that money is pushing back.”

Should be:

“There’s serious money made in the health care crisis in this country and all of that money is pushing back.”

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:07:26 +0000

empthwheel is upstairs!
They Fired Froomkin for THIS?!?

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:51:26 +0000

You must not have been payin’ attention in 07 or 08 in addition to forgetting the 60s.

One thing I learned in high school was to read the whole book, not just the parts I was interested in.

By: ART45

ART45 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:45:02 +0000

The Progressives today are much more passive (because of technology) than the rebels of the 1960s.

Take your choice. I don’t care.

But do I believe the Progressive movement today, as represented on blogs such as this, make a difference?

It’s a great place to chat and share thoughts.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:39:12 +0000

That is quite a start, isn’t it?

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:36:45 +0000

Tell that to the folks who benefitted from Civil Rights, Medicare, etc. Guess you’re one of those who have forgotten the ’60s.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:29:10 +0000

It’s the health insurance industry that is most in need of reform, sounder regulation and a cut back in its dominance of an industry that is manifestly not serving the interests of the Americans who pay for health insurance and the broader population desperate for health care. That includes old-line US industries, like automotive, that are still the staple of the economy adn which are handicapped because they pick-up health care costs that their European, Japanese, Korean and Chinese competitors do not.

For Congress to pay servile attention to the wants of woes of health insurers and their lobbyists is like structuring Al Capone’s prosecution by paying too much attention to his tax accountants and defense lawyers.