I am not sure, when Roland Burris steps into the spotlight, that the Senate will actually do anything. The bill could die right on the floor.

Any bill that contains any individual mandate without a viable, robust public option SHOULD die on the floor.

Whether they can see the light and allow for the IM to cancel out the PO and only impose business practices regulations on the insurers is the next question.

How much fun would it be for them to take a step that everyone says they agree about–ending recision, preexisting conditions, lifetime caps and the like–without guaranteeing the insurers a captive customer base or without giving them serious competition! The insurers have endeared themselves to so many at this point they they might end up with their antitrust exemption lifted as well.

I am not sure, when Roland Burris steps into the spotlight, that the Senate will actually do anything. The bill could die right on the floor.

wow. since last winter i’ve expected that some faux po would be passed so that obama and the people who backed his approach to healthcare reform could have their “victory.” but as the months have passed, it looks more and more like i will be proven wrong.

I am not sure, when Roland Burris steps into the spotlight, that the Senate will actually do anything. The bill could die right on the floor.

Anyone who’s willing to actually prevent a shitty bill from becoming law by standing up for a good bill that would actually help the American people is a great person in my book.

Funny how a simple declarative statement (”I will join a GOP filibuster of the health care bill should it omit Public Option”) would so easily answer all our questions for Roland Burris, yet it’s the one statement he hasn’t made, thus garnering for himself continued attention.

“We are all Olympia Snowe!”

excellent, depressing analysis.

any senator could insist on a viable public insurance program – something, i will note, that is not contained within the HELP bill. but i expect that would mean moving the final bill further to the right in an effort to attract another R vote instead.

Still don’t know what is right: praise Burris or condemn him?

That’s sarcasm, btw.

Watch them, now, they will all pile in front of the microphones, cameras, and blogpens. This is what Jay-Rock was doing, scooping up lib-love, having seen Dodd get so much of it during FISA.

Funny how a simple declarative statement (“I will join a GOP filibuster of the health care bill should it omit Public Option”) would so easily answer all our questions for Roland Burris, yet it’s the one statement he hasn’t made, thus garnering for himself continued attention.

“We are all Olympia Snowe!”

Ok, now ya had yer 15 seconds of fame in the free world…go back under the bridge before ya catch yer death…the Emperor has yer cloths.