Comments on: Mike Ross’s District Supports a Public Option, Mike Ross Does Not http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:33:20 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: stritz44 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46957 stritz44 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:25:44 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46957 <p>Do you really think the moderate dems are going to lose their seats to pass this bill with a public option?</p> Do you really think the moderate dems are going to lose their seats to pass this bill with a public option?

]]> By: roxsteady http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46937 roxsteady Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:40:32 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46937 <p>Mike Ross was just taken down on the Rahcel Maddow show! Lets hope the fakeass media picks this up like they pick up fox news’ garbage! Let the bloodletting begin! Dead Man Walking!</p> Mike Ross was just taken down on the Rahcel Maddow show! Lets hope the fakeass media picks this up like they pick up fox news’ garbage! Let the bloodletting begin! Dead Man Walking!

]]> By: cinnamonape http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46904 cinnamonape Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:40:24 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46904 <p>Mike Ross didn’t do the heavy lifting to even keep Arkansas’ pissant little Health Care Coop alive.</p> <p><a href="http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=21b5985d-f069-4840-b1fa-d02b03eb5cbf" rel="nofollow">Arkansas Health Care Coop Goes Under</a></p> <p>THIS? is the model that Ross and Lincoln want for the nation? An underfunded, bunch of tiny local coops that have no power to pressure the insurance companies that’ll go bankrupt after 5 years?</p> <p>For a co-op to succeed it’d have to be government-sponsored (i.e. organizational help and funding) at the NATIONAL level, with real collective bargaining power…not some Fort Worth Retired Lima Bean Producers Health Care Cooperative and Quilting Club.</p> Mike Ross didn’t do the heavy lifting to even keep Arkansas’ pissant little Health Care Coop alive.

Arkansas Health Care Coop Goes Under

THIS? is the model that Ross and Lincoln want for the nation? An underfunded, bunch of tiny local coops that have no power to pressure the insurance companies that’ll go bankrupt after 5 years?

For a co-op to succeed it’d have to be government-sponsored (i.e. organizational help and funding) at the NATIONAL level, with real collective bargaining power…not some Fort Worth Retired Lima Bean Producers Health Care Cooperative and Quilting Club.

]]> By: cbl2 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46902 cbl2 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:06:07 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46902 <p>right on. 08 general election numbers in the district jumped 8 points from 00 and 04</p> right on. 08 general election numbers in the district jumped 8 points from 00 and 04

]]> By: roxsteady http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46901 roxsteady Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:20 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46901 <p>Actually, that poll was done by Nate Silver. The numbers were closely matched to dailykos’ Research 2000 poll. It’s spot on. Cue the commercial….Wanna see a dead man walkin? Take a look at Mike Ross!</p> Actually, that poll was done by Nate Silver. The numbers were closely matched to dailykos’ Research 2000 poll. It’s spot on. Cue the commercial….Wanna see a dead man walkin? Take a look at Mike Ross!

]]> By: RAMA http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46898 RAMA Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:34:04 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46898 <p>Anybody else find it interesting that a majority supported the “public option,” but the number significantly dropped when asked about what might arguably be roughly equivalent when Obama’s name–you know, the black guy in the White House–was used? I have a feeling that if a question about Obama’s health insurance reform proposal was formulated without using his name, it would probably get similar numbers to the public option question.</p> Anybody else find it interesting that a majority supported the “public option,” but the number significantly dropped when asked about what might arguably be roughly equivalent when Obama’s name–you know, the black guy in the White House–was used? I have a feeling that if a question about Obama’s health insurance reform proposal was formulated without using his name, it would probably get similar numbers to the public option question.

]]> By: Jon Walker http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46897 Jon Walker Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:25:45 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46897 <p>This was not a poll done my dailykos, this was a poll paid for by dailykos to be done by research 2000 which is a very respected polling company.</p> This was not a poll done my dailykos, this was a poll paid for by dailykos to be done by research 2000 which is a very respected polling company.

]]> By: stritz44 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46895 stritz44 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:18:35 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46895 <p>Yea Ok, Do you rally think anybody cares what type of poll the Daily KOS does? What did they do? Contact all Dems?</p> Yea Ok, Do you rally think anybody cares what type of poll the Daily KOS does? What did they do? Contact all Dems?

]]> By: Raven http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46894 Raven Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:12:57 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46894 <p>si</p> si

]]> By: demi http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46893 demi Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:02:43 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/21/mike-rosss-district-supports-a-public-option-mike-ross-does-not/#comment-46893 <p>I don’t know much about this Mike Ross guy either, but the photo creeps me out. Like a deer, on valum, in headlights.</p> I don’t know much about this Mike Ross guy either, but the photo creeps me out. Like a deer, on valum, in headlights.

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