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Democrats Quietly Craft 'Public Option' Compromise Behind Closed Doors

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Utter hooey. Right now the States can create their own socialized medicine if they want to, and Massachusetts has already disastrously done so. But nobody else has done so, because they don't want to.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-03 00:53|| 2009-10-03 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Moose, both Oregon and Tennessee tried versions of a 'public option' and later backed off. Have someone from Tennessee tell you about 'TennCare' sometime ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-03 10:25|| 2009-10-03 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 The true goal is single-payer, federally-run health care, which would provide uniform health care for ALL. Power, ego, and naivete are behind it. To a lot of (most?) people it sounds good - getting the greedy and rich companies and people out of the picture just HAS to be an improvement! (Never mind the inability of the government to run anything very well, and nobody can run anything that big very well.) The biggest danger is one seldom mentioned - without those greedy capitalists taking big risks trying to get filthy rich on the backs of the poor and sick, there will be virtually no further advancement in medicine (and a slow degradation from the present level.) But won't government research grants be more efficient at such developments??? Yeah, right - anyone with experience in the government research grant industry knows it is the most 'hidebound conservative' means possible for developing new ideas (it generates research papers a lot faster than research.) Advances in innovation come fastest under free & greedy capitalism and on the battlefield; nothing else comes close.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-03 11:30|| 2009-10-03 11:30|| Front Page Top

#4 And don't think people have forgotten about you sorry sons of bitches.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-10-03 12:24|| 2009-10-03 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 If Snowe job votes for this, she should be kicked out of the Senate Republican caucus and stripped of her committee assignments and seniority.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-10-03 12:48|| 2009-10-03 12:48|| Front Page Top

#6 This National Healthcare fiasco all costs money and the United States of America does not have the funds

Nimble Spemble - You are getting Kinky with Sen Snowe - stripped of her committee assignments indeed !

Posted by Neville Thrineng4301 2009-10-03 17:24|| 2009-10-03 17:24|| Front Page Top

#7 The true goal is single-payer, federally-run health care, which would provide uniform health care for ALL the proles - does not apply to Congresscritters and other "elites."

Fixed that for ya', Glenmore.

No extra charge.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-03 20:01|| 2009-10-03 20:01|| Front Page Top

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