Comments on: It’s Harry Reid’s Choice: Reconciliation = Majority Rule

By: EricLightborn

EricLightborn — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:53 +0000

Senator Reid, it is important to impress that I support reconciliation not as a matter of due course but as pertaining to the current circumstances. The Republican filibuster must not be allowed to further mire the process and they surely intend to continue to pander to anti-government fears using misinformation tactics. Reconciliation is needed, we cannot proceed without a public option.

I’m in!

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:50:58 +0000

Wrong! It will allow the Senate to pass a bill by a simple majority; the Republicans used this when George W. was in office and they were in control of Congress. This nation cannot aford to be dictated by individuals and corporations with a lot of money that they like to speard around to get their own way thereby creating a dictatorship.

By: djfourmoney

djfourmoney — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:08:44 +0000

F being civil, this isn’t the time or place for it.

I still say we can get Single Payer done, its simple. You can get simple majorities in both houses to back Medicare For All, lowering the age of Medicare to ZERO. Increase funding, eliminate waste and fraud, especially FRAUD, you hear that United Health!

What is the point of having 60 votes in the Senate? Everybody that doesn’t want to vote for the PO, I say screw them, make it even more progressive and then primary their butts in 2010.

Look its a long hard road, but we need a Marshall Plan for the country and it starts with passing serious health care reform not this paper tiger…

By: rxbusa

rxbusa — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:51:58 +0000

I just signed but couldn’t write anything that sounded even close to civil.

By: DrZen

DrZen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:07:14 +0000

I’m sure Sen. Reid is delighted to have “progressives” twisting his arm to pass the weakest possible PO. He’d be glad to pass it. The insurance industry will continue to gorge itself and he gets to bask in the triumph of passing “health reform”. Obama gets his second term on the same basis, and because nothing starts up till after he gets in, someone else has to pay the price for how much it sucks.

Huge pity you didn’t push and keep pushing for single payer, and then “compromise” to a strong PO. That’s how the other side does it. Starting from your knees is no way to stand up for yourself.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:52:32 +0000

Not that Thomas Friedman would ever admit his own complicity in all those happenings.

By: nightheat

nightheat — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:50:26 +0000

Thomas Friedman on Charlie Rose a few days ago put all of this into perspective for me. Our government is paralyzed from solving problems through corruption, the money, and a huge section of our population uniformed or just complacent to it all. America is circling down the drain….

By: marcopolo

marcopolo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:39:01 +0000

There’s something profoundly misanthropic about this whole process. I think these Congressmen and women resent their constituents. Anything that might’ve done some good was sacrificed on the altar of corporate welfare. Corporations count de facto for more than individuals. Teabaggers overlook: We have freedom. The corporations get prerogatives.

By: emerson

emerson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:00:40 +0000

signed and submitted. Howard Dean also now saying reconciliation is the last chance to get any kind of health bill that means anything passed.

By: selise

selise — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:42:38 +0000

gutting state regulations is another big one. from jon: AHIP Asks; Baucus Delivers

The for profit health insurance industry must be so happy. They can finally sell health insurance in any state, while avoiding covering health conditions the voters of those states decided should be covered. In states with good strong minimum benefits rules, health insurance companies will just choose to only offer “national plans” avoiding state law. In affect Baucus would completely strip the states of their power to decide what minimum benefits health insurance plans must cover. More customers, less regulations, less local oversight, few options to Americans to address lack coverage problems. It sounds like an all around big winner for the for profit health insurance companies.