The Public Option? It's your choice lady: Tapioca OR the green Jello
Posted on 09/02/2009 2:00:54 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott remembers the last time health reform was on the national agenda. "I was there in '93 and '94 and watched the process, so I've seen this movie before," he said, referring to the failed effort during Bill Clinton's presidency. "I didn't like the ending, and I want this one to have a different ending." In his first town-hall meeting on the current health-care effort, McDermott, D-Seattle, expressed anger over what he views as scare tactics from foes of any health-care reform.
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I'll bet Whack left radical Baghdad Jim is quite content too!
No reason to get angry sir. Simply and logically explain the process to the voters who will come around to it if it makes sense.
Isn’t he still paying the legal fees for disseminating the content of a private phone conversation that was illegally intercepted by some commie school teachers? I guess it’s a good thing he has free govt health care. Libs don’t have a problem with wire tapping when they’re doing it.
“...in other news, the sun came up today”
McDermott backs Gulags for Conservatives.
So what?
Another arguement for term limits.
“I was there in ‘93 and ‘94 and watched the process, so I’ve seen this movie before,” he said, referring to the failed effort during Bill Clinton’s presidency. “I didn’t like the ending, and I want this one to have a different ending.”
“McDermott said he is supporting President Obama’s push for a “public option” — a government health plan that would compete with private insurance companies — in whatever plan is finally approved.”
“McDermott responded that as a federal employee, he has a Blue Cross plan with which he is quite content and that he anticipates sticking with the plan until his time in Congress ends.”
He wants the movie to have a different ending even while clinging fast to the provision most likely to make the health plan derail. Ironically, he is perfectly happy with his PRIVATE health insurance plan, one of roughly 300 different PRIVATE plans offered to federal employees, including members of Congress and their staffs.
For 50 years, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program has NEVER offered a “public plan option” to its members and everyone in Congress seemed perfectly content with this (else they surely had the power to insist on a public plan to be included in the choices offered).
Yet when it comes to designing a model for everyone else, suddenly a public plan becomes an absolute necessity? It’s quite obvious the public option is a means to an end: obtaining the single payer health system that McDermott and many others REALLY prefer through a gradual process of attrition rather than through a straight up-and-down vote in Congress that would sink like a stone (and also happens to be opposed by the vast majority of the public).
It reflects the arrogant elitist opinion that the public is too stupid to know what it really wants so the elites have to figure out a way to give it to them for their own good.
“”I was there in ‘93 and ‘94 and watched the process,””
Why must they all remind us of how long they’ve been at the pig trough???? Sure hope 2010 will show them that none of them will ever be able to make that claim again.
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