rssReport: Obama to Outline Health Care Requirements — Without a Public Option
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 at 8:57 am
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Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei report that the Obama administration is preparing to roll out a new strategy to advance its health care reform goals, and the president may give a speech as early as next week outlining the essential elements of a health care bill. Not among them, according to Allen and Vandehei, is a public option, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers — a preferred component of health care reform among liberals in Congress.
Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO.
Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess. And although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it himself, the officials said. [...]
Obama’s willingness to forgo the public option is sure to anger his party’s liberal base. But some administration officials welcome a showdown with liberal lawmakers if they argue they would rather have no health care law than an incremental one. The confrontation would allow Obama to show he is willing to stare down his own party to get things done.
“We have been saying all along that the most important part of this debate is not the public option, but rather ensuring choice and competition,” an aide said. “There are lots of different ways to get there.”
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said Monday a health care bill lacking a “strong public option” would not pass the House. Last month, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) suggested the exclusion of a public option from a health care bill would cost as many as 100 votes in the lower chamber. On Monday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) — one the Senate Finance Committee’s so-called “Gang of Six” senators negotiating a bipartisan compromise bill — said the public option is “not something on the table.”
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Comment posted September 2, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
Deal killer. No public option equals no competition, and if there are mandates, it's a license to print money for the insurance industry.
'Obama’s willingness to forgo the public option is sure to anger his party’s liberal base.'
But, it will make the Sunday pundits swoon over his “bipartisanship.”
Comment posted September 2, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
Leave Obama alone people he's a great president he will bring our country to a good standing soon.
Comment posted September 2, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Obama’s health-care promises are being exposed by the details of the actual legislation, and we WILL see costs rise. Support the goal of covering all individuals through private health insurance! http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/issues/ind…
Comment posted September 14, 2009 @ 9:46 pm
Obama is well on the way to bankrupting this country. None of his incentives are doing anything to fuel the economy as promised, the cash for clunkers program is in shambles, and the all this talk of healthcare reform is going to do nothing to lower our premiums. All it IS going to do is limit our choices, raise our cost and , depending on who you believe, will be giving illegal immigrants another freebie they are not entitled to have.
Americans need to wake up. There is no such thing as a “free-ride”. Its time to kick off all the free loaders and start making people “earn” what they receive. Im tired of my tax dollars being giving away to dead beats who dont contribute one cent to the system that helps them.
It is time for a new party and a new way of thinking in this country. Now is the time to form the “Commen Sense” Party and go back to basics. No more illegal immigrants, allowing companies to move their plants to Mexico or anywhere else, limits on how greedy docters, lawyers, oil companies, utilty companies etc. can be. How about starting there? Its time to duw away with the income tax system in this country. Its insane and out of control. You want to fix the economy how if you make less than $100,000 you pay NO TAXES and get back EVERYTHING you paid this year and next? Now THATS stimulus my friends!
Comment posted September 14, 2009 @ 9:48 pm
sorry i didnt spell check my post, I promise I know how to spell most the time.
Comment posted September 17, 2009 @ 9:53 pm
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