WASHINGTON - Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Barack Obama's administration signaled Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system.More:
The administration, mindful of steadfast Republican opposition to a government insurer in addition to Medicaid and Medicare, has previously indicated that it could accept nonprofit insurance cooperatives as an alternative, and the Senate Finance Committee appears to be forming a bipartisan consensus around the idea of nonprofit insurance cooperatives. The health care industry prefers that format, even though many liberal Democrats have argued that cooperatives would not have as much sway over the prices Americans pay for health care.
Without going anywhere to check on this, I will wager that across the Wingnutosphere, they are proclaiming this as a huge victory.
And they should. Giving up on a public option means that this purported health care bill is now the Health Insurance Corporation Protection Act of 2009.
Sixty votes in the Senate. 257 votes in the House. And the Democrats come up with one lame excuse after another as to why they cannot do squat, that is, when they even bother to come up with excuses. They couldn't agree to step out of the path of an oncoming train. Fucking Democrats in Congress wouldn't take a walk in the rain without drowning. I hope none of them are allowed to play with sharp objects.
The Obama Administration has to be "mindful of Republican opposition"? Oh, bull-fucking-shit! With that sort of majority, the Bush Administration would have seated card-carrying Fascists on the courts, mandated that a quarter of all of the course time in biology classes be devoted to the teaching of creationism, and sex before marriage would have been a capital offense.
Great choice we have: Either the American Taliban party or the VW-Full-of-Clowns party.
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i couldnt have said it any better
meet the new boss, same as the old boss
I was pretty damn disappointed when he appointed Sibelius, rather than Dean, to HHS.
I don't friggin' like Zero, but Dean would have gotten shit done, as he gives no fuck if the thinks the cause is right.
Cranky, which is probably why he didn't appoint Dean. Either Obama or Emanuel despise Dean, which explains why he was purged from the DNC before the ink was dry on the newspaper stories about the election.
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