Posts Tagged ‘Public Option’
(From BigHollywood)
by Gary Graham
Nancy Pelosi, having renamed the Public Option, the ‘Consumer Option,’ triumphantly trotted out this morning the Hose version of the Health Care Reform Bill, now called The Affordable American Health Care Bill. (“Affordable” – what does that mean, exactly? Affordable to whom?) But then Steny Hoyer proclaimed the process of crafting the bill the most open, transparent process he’s seen in over thirty years in Congress. (Really??) And finally, the President followed up on Teleprompters to announce that finally we have a bill that will cover the 36 million uninsured, not cost the taxpayers anything extra, improve the quality of our health-care system, and bring down the costs of health care. Speaker Pelosi assured us that this bill represents the principles of “…opportunity, choice, competition, and innovation.”
How can you tell when they’re lying? Their lips are moving.
From the Harlingen Tea Party (HTP):
One of our members, Dixie, has suggested that we take up the challenge that Mr. Zamora suggested at our meeting last Tuesday, and WRITE SNAILMAIL LETTERS to our elected reps, all at the same time.
She suggests that everyone jot their own thoughts about the HealtCare proposals, and mail them all over this weekend, so they will all flood their mail about the time the Congress begins taking up the HealthCare again.
A list of those addresses is on the RGVTP website, click on Harlingen logo, and then “Elected Officials” link.
(From Investor’s Business Daily)
Health Care: A beleaguered White House apparently has abandoned its government-run option. Even so, ObamaCare will still be a thousand-page, trillion-dollar step toward socialized medicine.
President Bill Clinton and his erstwhile adviser Dick Morris liked to “triangulate.” Top Obama political aide David Axelrod told Politico that the president’s post-August recess strategy on health care will be to “synthesize and harmonize.”
The administration intends to drop the controversial “public option” to rival private employer plans. Independent health care experts have warned that the artificially low premiums and other enticements a government plan would offer could lead to tens of millions of customers lost for private insurers — and thus the collapse of the health insurance industry.
The president’s liberal base won’t like the concession. But the key point in the Politico report is that “some administration officials welcome a showdown with liberal lawmakers if they argue they would rather have no health care law than an incremental one.”
