Report: Public Option Dropped In U.S. Senate
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The public health option has been dropped in Senate negotiations after conservatives like Joe Lieberman promised to block any health care reform if the public option was included.
9:21pm Some reports now have Harry Reid saying the public option isn’t dead. We’ll see.
8:43pm Jeffrey Young of The Hill reports:
Reid summarized: “We have a deal!” What is it? “Not telling!”
Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available.
This feels like it was inevitable. You’ve got blockage from Lieberman and possibly other conservadems, plus unless something passes now it won’t ever pass (next year is an election year).
Seems like the trade is an expansion of Medicare instead of a public option….
Tom Harkin told reporters he didn’t like the agreement but would support it to the hilt in an attempt to pass healthcare legislation.
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So the only tangible reform to the system for people under 55 (and this is assuming Medicare actually is expanded, and not just completely destroyed to satisfy Lieberman’s disgusting ego) is that I’m going to be forced to buy insurance, whether or not I can afford it, and whether or not I have any reason to trust any insurance company.
Wow, I’m real fucking happy I voted for these idiots. Real glad I voted for the “Change” candidate who started this whole thing talking about not wanting to rock the boat. Real glad Single Payer was never even on the table, because look at what bountiful glory we have in its stead: The compulsion to buy into a broken system. Thank you, entire goddam democratic party. Thank every fucking inch out of you.
Wow, who saw this coming…ME!
We don’t need the Republicans to kick our asses. We do just find doing it to ourselves.
*sigh*
The Democrats are making it very clear that they don’t won’t to be in power, and President Obama is also making it clear that he only wants to be a one term president.
Emphatically so. Hey, know what a great idea is? At the same time that the opposite party is gaining steam with insane rhetoric that whips them into righteous fervors, lets convince our base not to bother voting for us ever again because what fucking good are we?
Jesus Christ. Fuck every last one of them.
Jesus Christ.
This is why I am not now, nor have I ever been a registered Democrat.
They are spineless chickenshits afraid of their own goddamn shadow with no conviction.
They are spineless chickenshits afraid of their own goddamn shadow with no conviction.
For real. In 2010 I’m voting for Zombie Huey Long.
At least the Zombie Party stands firm in their convictions…BRAINS!!
I just heard on the radio Reid saying that reports the ‘public option had been negotiated away’ weren’t true. You know, whatever that’s worth.
Until someone in democratic leadership says “We’re sticking with the public option, the choice that 3 of 4 americans demand, come hell or high water”, saying “we havent surrendered it YET” is not going to be all that comforting.
Democratic leadership?
Umm, what’s that? Never heard of that before.
How could I recognize such a sight?
The silly Chicken Littles around here are running around screeching about the sky falling …
… based entirely upon a rumor from a less than reliable source.
Take it easy and wait for a fact or tow why doncha?
If the Dems really truly did drop the public option, fuck them forever and fucking fuck Joe Lieberman with a rusty chainsaw.
I’m done, if public option fails. President Sarah Palin? Speaker of the House Glenn Beck? Fuck yes. Bring it. Run America over the guardrails because you people don’t deserve to have a country.
Huh? When did AP become an unreliable source?
Hell no! I say just nuke the place.
It’s not dead. It’s restin’.
This is goddamn ridiculous.
Harry Reid always loses like the Brooklyn Brawler in old WWE
If you like sausage or respect the law you should not watch either being made.
Nah. Its pining for the FJords
Lovely Plan, this health care reform, lovely plan, beautiful plumage. I mean of course we had to nail it to the perch. If we didnt it would have been too robust, muscled right up to the bars and voom! Socialism.
Read the article. All of their sources that say anything remotely indicating that the public option was “dropped” are anonymous. They have attributed quotes saying is hasn’t been dropped.
Yet they write a headline and lead in paragraph pushing the anonymous information ONLY.
Yup – definitely unreliable if you are looking for good non biased writing!.
Put a fork in the Democratic Party, it’s done. It couldn’t pass gas with 90 votes in the Senate unless it tacked on a rider allowing people to carry guns in abortion clinics.
Over the past few months, I’ve reached the conclusion that the Senate shouldn’t even exist. It’s designed as a check by the rich and powerful against the majority, and James Madison even said as much — at least in England they’re honest enough to call their version the House of Lords.
Which is not to say I have any kind words for the House, either.
I don’t think the po is dead. It’s a Medicare buy- in for those 55-64.