Listen to the people.
In a Research 2000 poll conducted last weekend, 52 percent of Indiana residents said they favored the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan like Medicare. Another 42 percent opposed the idea.
Health Care News
Hey Evan Bayh, Indiana Backs The Public Option
October 29th, 2009
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Blue Cross: Oppose The Public Option, By The Way We’re Increasing Your Rates
October 28th, 2009
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Insurance companies are so amazingly stupid, its criminal they have so much sway over our health.
Princess Snowe Upset Final Health Care Bill Not More Useless
October 27th, 2009
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Olympia Snowe is upset that the healthcare bill doesn’t have the watered down “trigger” version of the public option. In the final analysis, when a bill is passed we’re always going to have to wonder what could have been if the White House and the Senate didn’t spend so much flipping time coming up with [...]
Opt Out It Is
October 26th, 2009
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We have a health care bill in the senate, after eons of delay.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) announced Monday that he will seek to bring a health-care bill to the Senate floor that includes a government insurance plan, a major reversal from just two weeks ago, when Reid was leaning against the idea.
He also [...]
Report: Reid Bill Done, Includes Opt-Out Public Option
October 26th, 2009
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So says NBC News
Per NBC’s Mike Viqueira, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill ready and will send it to the Congressional Budget Office today for an evaluation of costs, according to a top aide. The measure will include a public option with the “opt out,” whereby states could individually decide to [...]
Lack Of Health Insurance Never Killed Anyone. Except This Guy.
October 23rd, 2009
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And thousands more.
In 2003, William Koehler of Pittsburgh, Pa. lost his job as an electronics technician. He lost his health insurance, too, but he’d been lucky enough to have the defibrillator battery in his heart changed just the previous year. No insurer would cover him except for one company which refused to cover anything related [...]
Oooh, Harry Reid Is “Leaning”
October 22nd, 2009
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Harry Reid is “leaning” to support the public option in the health care bill. Of course its far past time for he and the president to quit “leaning” towards things and crap if they’re gonna crap.
The clock is ticking.
Harry Reid Can’t Ever Seem To Do His Job Right
October 22nd, 2009
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This is a continued embarrasment. God willing we can get the actual health care bill passed, but the Reid track record does not make me optimistic. Its as if Harry Reid is a simple spectator in the stands rather than – theoretically – a major player in the game.
Insurance Industry Calls Rape A Pre-Existing Conditition
October 22nd, 2009
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When people – particularly conservatives and blue dog Dems – wail about the poor, put upon insurance companies, this is the kind of bull they’re defending.
Hudson Institute’s Diana Furchtgott-Roth Gets Pwned By Sen. Al Franken
October 22nd, 2009
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Majority Supports Public Option In New Poll
October 19th, 2009
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By 57%. Give the people what they want.
Americans remain sharply divided about both the overall health care package and President Obama’s leadership on the issue, reflecting the intense partisan battle that has raged for months over the administration’s top legislative priority. But majorities now back two key and controversial provisions: both the so-called public option [...]
ObamaCare; Just Like Vietnam!
October 18th, 2009
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That’s the idiotic conclusion drawn by former regular commenter Jay Tea back at his old digs, Wizbang. He concludes that somehow people paying in to support universal care is just like a draft. That’s right. A few cents on your pay stub is just like slogging through the swap in the ‘Nam. Jeez.
Video: Pro Public Option Med Student Pwns Glenn Beck
October 16th, 2009
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He makes the case really easily in a way you never see on Fox News, and Beck ends the show… QUICK!
“Read The Bill” Redux
October 8th, 2009
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GOP tries to delay health care reform again by trying to change finance committee procedure so they can “read the bill”. Jesus.
Ron Clark Academy Kids Sing About Health Care Reform, Righties Stew
October 7th, 2009
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Conservative bloggers like Instapundit and Real Clear Politics are trying their darndest to make this video into something it isn’t. These are the same kids who sang about McCain vs. Obama last summer, and they don’t advocate one way or the other. Fun stuff.
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Blanche Lincoln & The Rigging Of The Game
October 4th, 2009
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The NY Times writes up the role Sen. Blanche Lincoln will have in the upcoming health care bill. Of course the problem is that Lincoln is up for re-election in a red state, and despite all the evidence that people in Arkansas support a public option – she keeps voting against one.
Republicans too often react [...]
Our Fate In Harry Reid’s Hands. God Help Us.
October 3rd, 2009
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At best I feel we can hope for epic failure.
A week ago, Reid called a compromise idea to delay the public option decision for several years a ‘pretty doggone good idea.’ By midweek, his top lieutenants adamantly pushed for the public option approved earlier by the health committee, forcing the leader to backtrack. ‘We are [...]
Alan Grayson Talks Health Care On The Situation Room
September 30th, 2009
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This is what you do. You don’t kowtow to the “journalists” and conservatives begging for an ethics panel or whining about incivility when a Dem speaks up.
