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Friday, September 04, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news.
The Obama administration continues its push to drum up support for health reform. Vice President Biden is trying to tie the success of the stimulus to the need for a better health care system. And the White House circulated a memo that highlights opinion polls favorable to reform. But most of these polls also showed strong support for a public option, and the memo has omitted these numbers altogether. President Obama’s walk-back of his advocacy for a public option has House progressives concerned, and today he held a conference call with some of them to try to forge a compromise. It could be tough going; the single-payer advocate Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) says the public option will die if Obama doesn’t explicitly back it in his speech to Congress next week.
Meanwhile, moderate Democrats are holding their cards close to the chest. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) says that a public option would cause health care legislation to “implode” — but he doesn’t state his own stance on the issue or acknowledge his power to shift the debate. And Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued a statement after the first post-recess Gang of Six meeting (via teleconference) that revealed … absolutely nothing. But a source tells The New York Times that Baucus indicated he’ll propose legislation as soon as tomorrow.
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Comment posted September 7, 2009 @ 2:18 am
The corporations are a tough bunch and until the people figure it all out and unite against them politicians will continue to promise change and never have to back it up when it counts.. Your right, word is the White house is looking for a way to kick the issue to the next administration,, or the next republican congress,,, the new name being tossed around,, TRIGGER!!
Roy Rogers horse is the Obama's way out, I wonder if Rahm thought that up all by himself!
America !! America!! what happen to,, “WE WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN!!”
I have to say though,, this is a good argument for a permanent republican minority,, and now the people can get an idea why Republicans don't have to be smart,, the corporations own our government and unless the people start pouring blood into the streets Dems will fold every hand they're handed,,next we'll be keeping the tax cuts for the Insurance execs we save in the health care reform bill,,,,,,,,,and for the ultimate kick,, put the late Kennedy's name on it,, nice touch!
Americans now have a new kind of hope,, we hope that mastermind Glenn Beck doesn't demand the democrats start locking up all of us who signed a petition to get him off the national stage and replaced with the guy in the white hood that pulls his strings!!
Comment posted September 7, 2009 @ 11:34 am
And I say that, as a lifelong democrat, if this president backs off on a public option, I shall back off on him. If he backs down on this one, then I say the man is a fake.
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