Obama and Health Care: Time to Hit 'Reset' (Killing Deathcare™ would be 'bipartisan' - no?)

Yahoo ^ | 9/10/09 | Jane Sasseen

[Libloather]

Obama and Health Care: Time to Hit 'Reset'
By Jane Sasseen
Thursday September 10, 01:24 PM

Can he do it?

**SNIP**

The Public-Option Problem

But another question is who, if anyone, among his potential supporters Obama will be willing to anger. The two wings of the President's party are divided over the so-called "public option" for health care. Progressives in the House say they won't vote for a bill that doesn't include a public option -- that is, a government-backed competitor to private insurance -- while moderates in the Senate say including it will doom any bill there.

So far, the President has avoided signaling which side he will come down on. Liberal supporters like soon-to-be AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka have made clear they'll be watching Obama's speech to see how strongly the President affirms his support for the public option, while congressional Blue Dogs will look for a tamer proposal that signals his intent to ease their concerns about the program's costs and excess government involvement. They, like Republicans, will look for signals that he's willing to jettison the public option.

"No one knows yet what approach he will take. Does he signal he will settle for something smaller that will keep Republicans at the table, or does he throw down the gauntlet?" asks Jade West, the head of government affairs for the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, which had fought hard against the public option and higher taxes for business to pay for the plan. Either way, she adds, "it's an extremely risky choice for the President."

[Libloather]

Many more RATS are willing to vote against Deathcare™ than there are Republicans who will vote for it.

Bipartisanship all the way...

[sniper63]

"ProgressivesFACISTS in the House say they won't vote for a bill that doesn't include a public option"

There fixed it...I wish the bleatia would get the dang name correct once in a while.

[Rapscallion]

The Wall Street Journal points out that the Health bills will allow the entire medical profession, top to bottom, to unionize.

Like the post office, like the teachers, like the teamsters, like airport security, like auto workers....

Further bankrupting America

[danamco]

Health Care???

I should be called HEALTH SCARE!!!