Obama offered to incorporate any number of GOP proposals in exchange for their support. The GOP refused:

right there in the Cabinet Room, the President put a proposal on the table, according to two people who were present. Obama said he was willing to curb malpractice awards, a move long sought by Republicans that is certain to bring strong opposition from the trial lawyers who fund the Democratic Party.

What, he wanted to know, did the Republicans have to offer in return?

Nothing, it turned out. Republicans were unprepared to make any concessions, if they had any to make.

And the Democrats, out of the kindness of their hearts still put together a health care reform plan that allowed the private insurance industry to exist. Did the Republicans rejoice and appreciate this concession? No, all we hear from the GOP is a bunch of petulant lip coming from a bunch of arrogant destructive crybabies.

Please, Mr. 2ndAmnmnt, pay attention to what is going on instead of using unawareness as a form of argumentation. The Republicans sold out the country on health reform because they weren’t willing to act in good faith. I think some kind of retaliation is in order.

But, he flew to Chicago for Valentines Day and waited three days to sign it. Couldn’t it have been posted over the weekend? I know his datenights are important though.

I thought they were going to post ALL bills online 72 hours prior to BO’s signature.
They didn’t do it with the stimulus because it was very last minute. I’m assuming the senate health care bill will be online because it should be done in the next week or so and debated for some time after. You can see other bills right at whitehouse.gov.

How exactly are you going to obtain insurance AFTER you have a problem? I do not think you understand how insurance works.

Thanks for posting my comments from yesterday’s show on your website.

We were asked to participate in the forum and though I was tentative to go, I’m glad I did and it was an interesting experience to talk to some of the doctors afterwards. They actually do make some interesting points making me further realize what a complicated problem we have on our hands.

There were multiple points that I wanted to make during the show but as you can imagine Glenn really concentrated on his agenda and often left conversations dangling (my roommate had that happen to him). I’m glad/lucky that I had the opportunity to at least say something at the end.
After my comment, he actually said, “congrats, you got the last word in.”
I thought they would edit my comment out so I was quite surprise to see it when the show aired yesterday.

About the public option, though I am pro-public option I do have quite a few reservations. And the points Republicans make in terms of how it could potentially be abused do need to be addressed. In addition, Will it lead to a single payer system and if so what challenges does that bring?

It just seems to me that the overt profitting by insurance companies is a common complaint by all and it needs to be addressed. Public option maybe an extreme way but it seems to me a plausible way of combatting this issue.

Boy, again with the slagging of Canadians for no particular reason. Didn’t they have a liberal government for, like the past 15 years or something? These whiners maintained public health care and failed to have their banking system collapse, their economy tank due to a folly-based housing bubble, haven’t invaded foreign countries for no reason, etc etc. If anything they should be smug and arrogant, but I don’t see that either. In fact, I don’t hear much of anything — they’re just quietly up there, with their cursed civil society and manageable social safety net.

And whiners? Jeez, look at the wailing from the right when a modest proposal for health care reform, which doesn’t even come to what other countries have.

That’s funny. I thought they had a veto-proof majority?

How many oppose a Public Option?

By 54 to 35% Americans oppose government run health care. The worst poll results are appearing as the Senate ended its most recent abortion, no pun intended.

Provisions in HR 3200 and the Baucus bill, specially its no preconditions clause makes it clear to anyone with just a little commonsense Washington doesn’t get it. They are lying about the cost, thanks to a slip by Senator Reid, that it is $2 trillion over the next ten years despite only being effective in 2013. That simple math shows is a three hundred billion annual program.

There is no way this thing is costed out correctly. In addition what about human behavior? In my case, with my wife we will be able to save $6300.00 a year!

Before you Liberals jump up and down this savings is due to our dropping of health insurance monthly premiums, accepting the “fine” and simply pay for preventive tests out of pocket until a major problem comes along and at that point purchase insurance. According to actuary tables I could land up saving almost $200,000.00 over the rest of my life.

Of course private firms under this plan will fold up quickly as millions move to take advantage of this loophole. A crisis will ensue and of course as Robbie the Ballet Dancer Emanuel states a crisis is something that shouldn’t be wasted.

Obama is much like Trudeau was for Canada. The Canadian “agent for change” destroyed the heart of that country. Elected in 1968, by 1980 it was over. Canadians became a nation of whiners. Only recently with more conservative governments has this trend began to turn a round. Obama is a cheshire cat, look beyond the smiley face, there is nothing. Trudeau used universal health care to gut the soul of a nation, after that the rate of cutting edge health research in that country fell by 80%. It will do the same here. Tens of billions of private sector health research annually will dry up throwing millions out of work. Millions with high incomes. These cutting edge jobs will land up in China, Indochina, or India.

I am a nurse who immigrated from Canada with 8 years experience in a BC hospital there, and three in America before moving into a new career.

Seeing both systems up close. As an RN, don’t let Obama do this!

Absolutely. The wimps have to learn that they were voted in and given majorities, large majorities, all over the place so that they could do something. And if their idea of doing something is caving every time it looks like someone might disagree with them maybe, and ignore what the majority of Americans have said repeatedly that they do want, a solid Public Option, well we certainly will throw them out and get someone in office who has a sense of ethics actually will do what they were elected to do.

… the general election. We do not want the “Public Option”

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Wait. What?