Comments on: Pelosi Believes She Has The Votes For Robust Public Option

By: letsgetitdone

letsgetitdone — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:27:10 +0000

Right. Here's a diary on exactly those points.

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:55:43 +0000

She said that if House Democrats pass the public option liberals support, they could ultimately have the more centrist version of the provision when the final bill is hashed out in conference with senators, according to some of those in attendance

Well duh! Who does she think we are, The Simpsons?

And what are we to extrapolate from this other than she plans on capitulation? This is Pelosi looking for her own Snowe job!

By: GDC707

GDC707 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:30:33 +0000

You see it, North Carolina. Sharp post.

By: GDC707

GDC707 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:28:35 +0000

So you saw Bill Moyers last week too!

By: marcos

marcos — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:44:37 +0000

Repeat after me: deficit hawks oppose a public option because it would save tens of billions of dollars to both the treasury and individuals and would provide such attractive coverage that people would abandon the private insurers in droves.

The more you talk mandate the higher the support for a public option becomes “

What Wall Street genius did they have to go to in order to figure out that opaque political instrument?

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:42:21 +0000

Pelosi’s press briefing…
The American People support the public option “62-31 they support a public option”

Pelosi “they (Americans) know if they are mandated to buy health insurance they don’t want to have to buy it from the same old insurance companies who have not served them well. We are saying rather than force them to buy health insurance from the insurance industry let’s give them the freedom to to do that if they wish or to have a public option. The more you talk mandate the higher the support for a public option becomes “

By: alank

alank — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:09:41 +0000

I expect it depends on what week it is what the votes are and for what.

By: Zorba66

Zorba66 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:44:48 +0000

Yes, I would really like to know this, as well. I’d also like to know how much the health care industry pays their executives (even the so-called “non-profits”). As far as I can tell, they should all be called the “Health Denial Industry,” because that’s what they do.

By: eagleye

eagleye — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:41:55 +0000

Funny, I don’t remember such a long, drawn out process when our Congressional representatives decided to fund the war in Iraq, or when they decided to devote trillion$s to bailing out the banks. Nobody was worrying about the fact that those initiatives weren’t “deficit neutral.” But heaven forbid that we the people should get decent fucking healthcare….

By: fuckno

fuckno — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:41:27 +0000

They’re Democrats – in the end, after ObamaRahma shakes them down, they’ll ‘all’ cave.

The best chance may be to drive Obama’s ‘favorables’ down. Start finally laying the blame where it belongs.