Public Option For Health Care On Life Support
October 2nd, 2009, 10:46 AM EDT
But it’s not totally dead. However, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (right) says:
“I can count,” Baucus said. “No one has been able to show me how they can count up to 60 votes with a public option in the bill.”
Supporters of the option disagreed and said they would have more success when the issue is taken up in the full Senate and in the House of Representatives, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed it will be in a final bill.
“The more the American people hear about the public option, the more they like it,” said Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, sponsor of one of the amendments. “We’re going to keep at this … until we succeed.”
““No one has been able to show me how they can count up to 60 votes with a public option in the bill.””
You take a page from the republikkkan playbook, and you snarl and get mean.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
He is probably right about 60 votes.
But never mind that.
They pushed the Bush Tax Cuts on a 50-vote.
I say we push this through, with public option intact, through a 50-vote ramrod.
No need to play ball with insurance companies that sell American families down the river for a higher profit margin.
Leave them flapping in the wind.
I have the filibusterer ready:
We just keep reading the report that Grayson was quoting from.
Just read it in every language and every footnote and every individual case one by one.
OldLefty Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
It’s funny that the Senate can’t get 60%, of the votes, but over 60% of the people favor a public option?
I guess will of the people can’t compete with the donations of the insurance industry.
EricG Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I guess will of the people can’t compete with the donations of the insurance industry.
That’s what’s wrong with Washington.
And it’s always funny to hear people suddenly come to this awareness on the right-wing.
It’s like they never heard the word “lobby” before Obama took office and now they all want to blame the broken system they supported when the GOP had the reign of things.
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I like the idea of putting it to a referendum.
I’d bet, once people get some non-biased facts, we would have more than 60% of a public option and probably hold around 60% in favor of skipping that nonsense and going straight for single-payer.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
CLEAR! ZZZZAP!
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
CLEAR! ZZZZAP!
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Poor wittle Democrats can’t get it done even though THEY CONTROL THE DAMN GOVERNMENT. It’s all Sarah Palin’s and Rush Limbaugh’s fault though, right? Keep telling yourselves that.
OldLefty Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Funny thing is, this is from Sept 30, On Oct 1, Reid said there WILL be a public option.
We need to wait to see what comes out of the Conference Committee.
But I think the REAL problem is, ‘Poor wittle American People, MOST of the Republicans and HALF the Democrats are bought and paid for by multi national corporations.
TDro319 Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
“THEY CONTROL THE DAMN GOVERNMENT.”
Actually, the corporations control the government. Our mere taxpayer pittance doesn’t match up to the payola the congresspeople are receiving from the megarich insurance companies.
Sarah Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Abortion is still legal, and the Republicans have controlled the top echelons of government plenty of times in the last 30 years.
TDRO’s right. American business runs the gov’t, because the gov’t can’t get it through its thick head that “What’s good for GM is good for the gov’t” helped lead to GM’s demise.
anonymouse Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
The “quote” is in error …
Former GM CEO, Charles Erwin Wilson, at his nomination hearing for SecDef in 1953: “… when asked if as secretary of defense he could make a decision adverse to the interests of General Motors, Wilson answered affirmatively but added that he could not conceive of such a situation “because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa.”"
The quote has been mangled over the years to mean something different than what Wilson said.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
This script almost reads like Baucus is employed by the insurance industry instead of Americans.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Pull the plug!!!!
placefield Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Pull the plug and bring on single payer.
goliath43 Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
As long as the government has no involvement
placefield Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Oh yes, evil government, can’t trust them for anything except controlling the most dangerous arsenal in the world. Give me a break.
OldLefty Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
“As long as the government has no involvement”
……………….
Not like Country Wide, Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros., BOA, AIG, Blackwater, KBR, Parsons Corp,….
You can count on them!
goliath43 Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Not sure what the point of that comment was. What has government healthcare have to do with controlling the most dangerous arsenal in the world.
OldLefty Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
The point of the comment was to point out how well the private sector does.
There is no issue here about “government healthcare” just government PAYMENT of healthcare.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Pardon the repetition, but:
Funny thing is, this Max Baucusguote is from Sept 30.
On Oct 1, Reid said there WILL be a public option.
We need to wait to see what comes out of the Conference Committee.
libpatriot Reply:
October 4th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
The REAL fights will begin then.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm