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Mon Aug-17-09 09:16 PM
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Obama administration gave up single payer |
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in a secret deal to get insurance company and republican support for health reform that would include a public option, according to Rachel and her guest whose name I forgot....because they didn't think single payer had a chance to pass.
I wonder if another secret is why Howard Dean wasn't made Sec Health - did the insurance companies say "No deal" if Dean was part of it? They knew HE wouldn't cave. If I were a crooked insurance CEO making millions, I for sure wouldn't want Dean having any negotiating power.
Dean said they should go ahead and pass the bill, because, "We're right and they're wrong." Later on they'll love it.
I love Dean. Wish he'd have his own program with his own format, style, and HONESTY.
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Mon Aug-17-09 09:18 PM
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1. Gave up? It was never on the table. |
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Obama ran his presidential campaign saying he did not support single payer.
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Mon Aug-17-09 09:19 PM
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2. If a deal to include option, but lobbyists killed it with the public, deal is off then. Push |
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Medicare, to at least get the public option.
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Mon Aug-17-09 09:27 PM
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3. They should have started with single payer and let the pugs and the |
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blue dogs deal them down to a strong public option. Instead they started with nothing to bargain with and now find themselves backing too far.
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Mon Aug-17-09 09:30 PM
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4. Have we not known all along that we consider the public option |
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our compromise position. No I did not know the specifics as described above. I knew early the progressive activists were pushing Single Payer. I learned that we could still push but I knew our only hope was the PO.
Thanks for the information.
Don't you just love the Republicans they are still acting as if the PO is Single Payer to scare people. Deals and handshakes mean nothing to them.
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Mon Aug-17-09 09:32 PM
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Mon Aug-17-09 10:12 PM
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Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 10:14 PM by fadedrose
On Rachel, Matt Taibi was on, and they both used the word "inexplicitly" referring to single payer not even being considered. The meeting in May that included ALL concerned parties, except not one person who was for single payer. Maybe President Obama was not for it publically or privately, but lots of other senators and reps were for it and nobody asked for their 2 cents, "inexplicitly."
Nobody knows why.
My subject in the OP is wrong; I should have said the Obama administration..
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Mon Aug-17-09 09:37 PM
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6. Thinking we'd get Single Payer right off the bat is as possible as... |
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...giving every person a chicken in every pot... and a pound of pot while you're at it.
Whining that we don't have Single Payer (which I personally support) on the first round of reasonable health care reform is like thinking that Billy Joel should personally sing "Happy Birthday" at everyone's birthday in America.
Gimme a friggin' break.
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Tue Aug-18-09 12:09 AM
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8. Obama: I want single payer All other parties: Right, you barely have to votes to rub togther on that |
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Are you here to crack jokes or are you serious?
YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE FROM AN UNREALISTIC STARTING POINT. YOU CAN START HIGH BUT YOU MUST START A PLAUSIBLE PLACE.
You believe that single payer is an outside possibility, something that you could come very close to cobbling enough votes for but would be just shy and that's FALSE. It was and is not anywhere near close enough to be an effective starting point. Who do you guys think Obama is negotiating with? I know he doesn't have anywhere near the votes, you know he doesn't have the vote, why is it so hard to see pharma, insurance, AMA, Republicans, AARP, and most certainly the blue dogs in his own caucus know he doesn't have anywhere close to enough votes even to dust Biden off.
YOU CAN'T BARGAIN WITH WHAT IT IS GENERALLY WELL KNOWN YOU DON'T HAVE. People can't be sooooooooooooooooooooooo stupid to not be able to process that. All we have as a real threat is that we can refuse to give on the option that nothing can pass, that it is more of us for it than the number within the caucus that are against it.
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:28 AM
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13. Well, Lyndon Johnson was able to hammer the 1967 voting rights act, and medicare, and |
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good grief, what good does it do to have the majority??
We will lose it next year.
To negotiate starting from a plausible place does not work with the GOP.
They are and will be obstructionist no matter the plan. They WILL NOT VOTE FOR IT, EVER.
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:59 AM
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18. LBJ had a ton of power from his years leading the Senate. |
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Obama has no pull with the Senate.
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Tue Aug-18-09 11:20 AM
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19. Pres. Johnson also had a nation that was recovering from |
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the trauma of assassination.
I don't ever want to have that "advantage" again.
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Tue Aug-18-09 12:13 AM
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9. That was Matt Taibbi and he was just speculating |
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And it doesn't really make sense because Obama never campaigned on single payer.
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:08 AM
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10. but Obama said all views would be aired, but he failed to mention |
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Edited on Tue Aug-18-09 10:08 AM by IndianaGreen
that Single Payer would be the view not aired.
We have been duped by a song and dance man from Chicago! I am regretting not supporting Hillary, at least we knew where she came from, and that she would fight without giving up an important bargaining position without firing a shot.
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:51 AM
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16. I am sympathetic, but |
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having Prez Clinton II wouldn't have been any better. Probably no worse, but certainly no better.
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:14 AM
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11. Pure speculation. It was never on the table to begin with because only |
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a few Senators in the Senate would ever vote for it.
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:23 AM
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12. Obama never ran on single payer.. if you voted for him for that, then you are an uninformed voter |
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:30 AM
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14. Of course he never ran on it. But hey, I'm calling him nevertheless to let him know |
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it is what I want.
After all, if he is so bent on hell to give the GOP a seat at the writing table, then why shouldn't I be at the table too????
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:58 AM
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17. That should be our campaign slogan in 2010: 'You are an uninformed voter' |
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When you voted for a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President in 06 and 08 thinking that you were going to get universal health care and jobs, you were an uninformed voter for we never promised you that. You were voting your hopes, while we were voting for our investment portfolios.
Do you know what happens to people when they think they have been conned? Anger comes to mind.
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Tue Aug-18-09 03:55 PM
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21. I never even knew what single payer meant till a month ago... |
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I voted for universal health care, but I sure didn't think it meant that the commercial insurance companies could force EVERYONE to buy a policy under a new govt reform bill - that is so ridiculous!!! That's what a co-op would be for.
Do they really think they can get away with this???
Maybe the progressives should start wearing guns taped to their calves when they go to a town meeting. I don't own a gun, never did, never will, but maybe it's time to buy a kevlar vest or something..just kidding before I get hell for this too.
The only other sensible thing to do is drop the whole idea of health reform, forget about it, and concentrate on finding homes for unwanted cats and dogs.
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Tue Aug-18-09 10:34 AM
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15. He should have called it Medicare For All |
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and the proposal should have been 3 pages long instead of 1,000. Then he should have gone on TV every night (since Big Insurance is running their fear ads every night) and told of the 14,000 people who had lost their health insurance THAT DAY. And the bankruptcies, underinsurance, etc.
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Tue Aug-18-09 12:19 PM
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20. I believe the guy Rachel was talking to was Matt Taibbi (sp?) |
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of Rolling Stone. This was his theory of how the deals were cut.
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